Carbon and Beyond: The ESG and Sustainability Trends Shaping Business Today

These days stakeholders are asking more and more about how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors impact business, and companies are responding by issuing ESG reports and making public commitments to positively impact society and the environment. As regulators around the world move to make ESG disclosures mandatory, organizations are challenged to move from declarations to demonstration — and quickly.

In this series sponsored by FigBytes, we’ll take a closer look at how organizations can bridge the gap between ESG strategy and execution, gain better insights from their data, achieve reporting efficiencies, and offer transparent engagement to their stakeholders.

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With Harmonized Sustainability Reporting Requirements on the Horizon, Companies Must Prepare Now or Be Left Scrambling
Global sustainability reporting is finally on the brink of unifying around a set of disclosure requirements for climate and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

Corporate Responsibility

Climate Change: How Collaboration Can Transform Ambition Into Action
Business leaders across the globe increasingly understand that time is of the essence to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

AI & Technology

Simplifying the Path to Net-Zero With Technology
The world needs to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by almost half this decade to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius as recommended by climate scientists, the United Nation warns.

Environment

Engaging With SMEs Can Unlock Critical Scope 3 Emissions Data
For large companies intent on gathering the full scope of greenhouse gas emissions data to meet their climate goals, working together with suppliers is the only way to assess the crucial Scope 3 emissions.

Corporate Responsibility

Don’t Believe the Hype on EHS: It’s Not Just Another Name for ESG
There’s a lot of confusion in the sustainability market right now, and I think a lot of it has to do with acronym overload. GRI? TCFD? CSRD? It’s a lot to keep track of, even for specialists.

Corporate Responsibility

To Act on Climate Change, Today’s Companies Must Be Water Stewards
As a trio of water experts recently observed in the Harvard Business Review, water is often a hidden climate risk for companies.

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