Three sectors that produce the food and materials that are fundamental to humanity’s survival are being supported, to take accountability for their impacts, following the publication ...

Oil prices edge higher ahead of G7 talks on new Russian sanctions Oil prices traded higher on Monday in a volatile session as investors waited for ...

Rutgers Scientist Develops Antimicrobial, Plant-Based Food Wrap Designed to Replace Plastic Seeking to produce environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic food wrap and containers, a Rutgers scientist ...

Worldwide Spending on ESG Business Services Is Forecast to Reach $158 Billion in 2025, According to IDC A new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates ...

Initiative launched to rank corporate climate claims using carbon offsets A consultation for a global standard to assess companies’ claims about progress towards internal climate targets ...

Trump Policies Sent U.S. Tumbling in a Climate Ranking For four years under President Donald J. Trump, the United States all but stopped trying to combat climate ...

Egypt on track to host next COP27 on climate change Egypt, host of the next United Nations summit on climate change, will push countries to make ...

More CEOs consider sustainability to be a top challenge, study says A growing number of chief executives consider sustainability one of the biggest challenges to act ...

Climate change: ‘Fifty-fifty chance’ of breaching 1.5C warming limit The likelihood of crossing a key global warming threshold has risen significantly, according to a new analysis. ...

How Exposed Is Your Supply Chain to Climate Risks? Climate change is posing major challenges to supply chains. This article assesses the climate-related risks of 12,000 ...

Earth Day marked by protests around the world Earth Day has been characterised by protests around the globe by, among others, climate activists. https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/earth-day-marked-by-protests-around-the-idUSRTS799Y9   Climate ...

Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years, say scientists Solar-powered electronics are one step closer to becoming an everyday part of our ...

Russia-Ukraine war worsens fertiliser crunch, risking food supplies Higher fertiliser prices are making the world’s food supply more expensive and less abundant, as farmers skimp on nutrients ...

UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees A new flagship UN report on climate change indicates that harmful carbon ...

Climate change: ‘Madness’ to turn to fossil fuels because of Ukraine war In his first major speech on climate and energy since COP26, the UN Secretary ...

The IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) Foundation and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have just announced a collaboration agreement under which their respective standard setting boards – ...

The S.E.C. moves closer to enacting a sweeping climate disclosure rule The Securities and Exchange Commission has said for the first time that public companies must ...

Australian court overturns ruling requiring mine approvals to weigh climate harm An Australian court on Tuesday overturned a groundbreaking ruling from last year that required the ...

This is the second of 40 planned GRI Sector Standards which will set reporting expectations on the sustainability issues that matter most. Coal has been prioritised ...

In Focus: International Women’s Day This International Women’s Day, 8 March, join UN Women and the world in coming together under the theme “Gender equality today for ...

The environmental costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine As Russian forces stepped up their assault on Ukrainian cities Thursday, escalating a long-simmering conflict into a full-scale ...

EU draft law would require firms to check suppliers for human rights, environmental ethics The European Commission will unveil on Wednesday a proposal, called Corporate Sustainability ...

Scientific Meeting Focuses on Impacts, Adaptation, Vulnerability to Climate Change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, has begun a two-week meeting to consider a report ...

By Eelco van der Enden, CEO of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Last month saw the annual letter to CEOs from BlackRock’s Larry Fink land in our inboxes. ...