The business case for corporate social impact January 30, 2024 | Sponsored What it takes to sustain a business over time has radically changed. No longer is it enough to deliver value to customers and turn a profit. Now, companies need to ensure their impact on people and the planet is positive if they want to attract talent, be a top consumer choice, and access funds from [...]
Data: The lifejacket that keeps ESG afloat January 29, 2024 | Sponsored If the year is 1983 and you find yourself in Fiji looking at a notice asking you to reuse your hotel towels for the sake of the environment, then your name is probably Jay Westerveld and you’re about to come up with the term “greenwashing”. Mr. Westerveld was lodging in a beach resort undergoing large, [...]
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Are The Fortune 500 Afraid Of The Dark? Metrikus Is Back With Dark January To Get Companies To Go #LightsOut January 25, 2024 | Sponsored It definitely feels like that when you look up at the skyline of the City of London well after office hours. All these towering skyscrapers are lit up with absolutely no one in. And while the legend of the occasional graduate banker burning the midnight oil and napping in sleep pods may well be the [...]
Mandatory TCFD Reporting – Deadline Approaching January 24, 2024 | Sponsored TCFD reporting is a mandatory reporting requirement – UK investment management firms with over £5bn AUM must publish their first product-level TCFD report by 30 June 2024, while those with over £50bn AUM are already expected to produce quarterly reports. What must this report include? Scope 1, 2 & 3 greenhouse gas emissions; Carbon footprint [...]
Government ‘cannot currently’ tell if £22bn subsidy for biomass plants is genuinely green – watchdog January 24, 2024 The Drax plant in North Yorkshire is the country's primary user of biomass
Explainer-in-brief: The Doomsday Clock is the closest it’s ever been to midnight – but what does this mean? January 23, 2024 The Doomsday Clock time is the closest it has ever been to midnight, but what does this mean and who sets it?
Comeback kid: Embattled energy trust seeks to restore London listing after delayed results January 23, 2024 The Asian Energy Impact trust is seeking to restore its London listing after publishing delayed annual and interim results, following months of controversy around the trust. In April, the trust’s shares were suspended after an issue was identified with its 2022 annual results, leading to ‘material uncertainty’ over the fair value of some of its [...]
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Are you asking the right questions about your building’s energy usage? January 22, 2024 | Sponsored Businesses are finally asking the question – ‘how much energy are we using, and how can it be reduced?’. It seems the energy crisis, however you view it, did have one upside. I say ‘finally’ because I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Having spent 30 years in building services, selling energy saving control systems for [...]