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. ...

Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022 The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor, conducted by NewClimate Institute in collaboration with Carbon Market Watch, assesses the climate strategies of 25 major global ...

Climate change: Key crops face major shifts as world warms The parts of the world suitable for growing coffee, cashews and avocados will change dramatically as ...

Harvard professor Michael Porter and Mark R. Kramer argue that the capitalist system is, under siege. Business is increasingly viewed as a major cause of social, ...

Is the ESG disclosure landscape congested? Are sustainability reporting plans by the EU and IFRS competing or do they serve different purposes? What’s GRI’s vision for ...

EXCLUSIVE Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi to unveil 2030 EV plan this week Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co and Mitsubishi Motors Corp plan to triple their investment to ...

Deciding which metrics to use when reporting on sustainability performance can be overwhelming. Some companies report only their greenhouse gas emissions while others publish glossy reports ...

Plastic crisis needs binding treaty, report says Pollution from plastics is a global emergency in need of a robust UN treaty, according to a report by ...

A new study shows that four-in-five companies assessed now include a commitment in their sustainability reports to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but fewer than half ...

Biden administration to scrap Trump plan for wider Alaska oil drilling Anchorage, Alaska, 10 January: The Biden administration announced on Monday that it is going to ...

German government split over EU plans to label gas as sustainable Germany’s new government has criticised European Commission’s proposal to classify nuclear energy as a sustainable ...

What are the strategies and practical solutions that businesses and institutions can implement globally, to make sure that water – the most precious resource on Earth ...

As 2021 draws to a close, Eric Hespenheide, GRI’s Interim CEO, explores how global sustainability reporting evolved in 2021. He also looks ahead to what the ...

World Future Energy Summit 2022 focuses on business with the energy of the future and sustainability Abu Dhabi, 20 December: The World Future Energy Summit will ...

The exact link between tornadoes and climate change is hard to draw. Here’s why Scientists know that warm weather is a key ingredient in tornadoes and ...

2021’s weather disasters brought home the reality of climate change From punishing heat in North America to record-breaking floods in Europe and Asia, this year’s weather ...

Amazon’s Black Friday greeted by climate activists, strikes in Europe Climate activists targeted 15 Amazon depots across Europe on “Black Friday”, with the world’s biggest e-commerce ...

Sustainability and environment leaders offer actionable takeaways to realise climate-positive targets The AVEVA PI World conference, part of a series of AVEVA initiatives to support an ...

Here’s what world leaders agreed to — and what they didn’t — at the U.N. climate summit World leaders signed off on a new climate change agreement ...

‘The power is in us, not the leaders’: Meet the youth activists fighting for climate action at COP26 As world leaders met in Glasgow for the ...

COP26: The issues that stand in the way of progress World leaders meet in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit, to make ambitious cuts in warming ...

Good news – continued ease of use The good news is that the presentation of the GRI Standards has not changed. This means that existing users ...

, to enable complete disclosure on complex transparency demands facing the sector and help companies show  accountability for their impacts and how they are transitioning to ...