Failure to transition will generate significant and widespread economic and financial risks. An economic forecast from Swiss Re, one of the world's largest reinsurers, projects a loss in global gross domestic product (GDP) of between 4.2 and 18.1 percentage points by mid-century, depending on different warming scenario ...

ESG and SDG cannot be used interchangeably to identify the sustainability of companies and their contribution to social development and the planet, although they are complementary.  Where sustainable investors aim to invest in companies that contribute to sustainable development, there is disagreement on how best to me ...

Quá trình chuyển đổi sang tương lai công bằng, kiên cường và net zero là không thể nếu không có các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ, được gọi là SMEs. Họ là động lực của nền kinh tế ngày nay và là xương sống của chuỗi cung ứng toàn cầu, chiếm khoảng 90% tổng số doanh nghiệp và khoảng 70% việc làm trên toàn thế giới. Các doanh ...

The oft-repeated and rarely challenged view that energy solutions to address climate change are expensive and uneconomical has long thwarted public support for even the most sensible measures – despite the evidence that the damage caused by climate change is far more costly.  Those who oppose climate action point to th ...

In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development, which set out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 targets and 231 unique indicators as a significant initiative towards global socioeconomic sustainability.  Governments commonly use construction as the principal means for the pol ...

The latest Global Carbon Budget 2024 report, published in the journal Earth System Science Data, shows that global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels will reach a record level in 2024.  Caused by fossil fuels from combustion engines of all kinds and agriculture, the global carbon budget increased by 0.8 percent compared t ...

Der jüngste Bericht „Global Carbon Budget 2024“, der in dem Fachjournal Earth System Science Data erschienen ist, zeigt, dass die weltweiten CO2-Emissionen aus fossilen Brennstoffen im 2024 ein Rekordniveau erreichen werden.  Verursacht durch fossile Brennstoffe aus Verbrennungsmotoren aller Art und der Landwirtschaft, ...

Greenwashing-Verurteilungen können zu hohen Geldstrafen für Banken führen.  Unter den üblichen Verdächtigen wird die Deutsche Bank-Tochter DWS des Greenwashings im Zusammenhang mit „grünen“ Investitionen beschuldigt, während den meisten Banken vorgeworfen werden kann, dass sie keine angemessene Due-Diligence-Prüfung du ...

Circular economy strategies can be achieved using such financial instruments as green bonds, green loans, sustainability-linked loans and circular leasing.  Sustainability-linked finance calls for innovative business models and financing that integrates circularity in discrete development projects and for general corpo ...

A circular community promotes an equitable transition to sustainability across the urban space through multiple city functions and departments in cross-sectoral collaboration with research institutions, local businesses, and community residents.  In a circular economy, existing materials that were once used in a produc ...

CO₂ emissions from burning wood to generate heat can be 150% higher per unit of energy produced than from natural gas and 30% higher than from coal.  Harvesting trees for heat releases carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise have remained sequestered in the forest and forgoes increasing carbon capture as the tr ...

Nuclear energy is propagated by science, companies, and governments as a source of clean energy source, as opposed to CO₂-producing plants.  However, the effects nuclear energy has on the environment pose serious threats that cannot be ignored or greenwashed.  The principal environmental and safety concerns are CO₂ emi ...

Private finance is essential for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  To mobilize the finance and harness capital flows for sustainable development and investing, the investment community must make sense of the SDGs.  For this, a global benchmarking tool, SDG rating harmonization, a globally adopted taxon ...

Our current economic system can be considered a “linear economy”, built on a model of extracting raw materials from nature, turning them into products, and then discarding them as waste.  Currently, only 7.2% of used materials are cycled back into our economies after use.  This has a significant burden on the environme ...

We need to change the way we think about climate change in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement. Energy efficiency and switching to renewable energy is only half the story. It is vital, but would only address 55% of global emissions. To reach net-zero, we a ...