January 21 2021 by Hank Boerner – Chair & Chief Strategist – G&A Institute Countries around the world are tuning in to the TCFD and exploring ways to guide the business sector to report on ever more important climate related disclosures. Embracing of the Task Force recommendations is a key policy move by governments around […]
Original Document: August 2017 – published in G&A’s “To the Point” Management Briefing Platform Republished on Sustainability Update – October 2, 2019 by Hank Boerner – Chair and Chief Strategist – G&A Institute The Work of the TCFD Will Affect Your Company’s Important Financial Disclosure & Filings. And Your Relationship With […]
A Brief Checklist of the Discussion for You This Week… by Hank Boerner – Chair and Chief Strategist, G&A Institute The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 (30 years ago!) to provide a “clear scientific view of the […]
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) was launched in 2021 to help provide a framework for organizations to report and act on their nature-related risks and opportunities. TNFD was modeled after the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which was created in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) as a framework for […]
By Christina Carlton, Senior Sustainability Analyst – G&A Institute The demand for corporate sustainability information rises each year, with companies fielding increasingly frequent and detailed requests from customers, employees, investors, and regulators. The latest trends report by G&A Institute, published in September, shows that most Russell 1000® companies are meeting that demand. Compiling thousands of […]
Background After the results of the 2024 presidential election in the U.S., the climate community is expressing trepidation around a second Trump presidency, weighing what it could mean for climate action in the U.S. at the federal and state level, as well as corporate action and transparency on climate change. While the U.S. has not […]
The month of September is always busy in New York City, with gridlock spreading across Manhattan when the General Assembly of the United Nations brings leaders of close to 200 sovereign entities to UN headquarters for plenary sessions and many side sessions. In addition, since 2009 the international nonprofit Climate Group has organized Climate Week […]
As our loyal newsletter readers know, G&A Institute has been doing annual research on sustainability reporting trends for well over a decade. We recently released our 13th annual edition of Sustainability Report in Focus, tracking the publication of sustainability reports by the largest U.S. publicly traded companies in the S&P 500® Index and the Russell […]
by Lauren Snyder, Ph.D., Sustainability Analyst at G&A Institute “Global Citizen Festival NYC” featured big-name musical artists to cap the 14th annual Climate Week NYC, a week of multi-stakeholder events focused on climate change in New York City. Climate Week NYC brought together leaders, decision-makers and activists from government, civil society, and the private sector […]
By Lauryn Power, G&A Institute Analyst-Intern Overview: The chemical sector faces the third-highest number of environmental and social risks of all sectors, based on a 2020 analysis published by S&P Global. In the U.S., the chemical sector generates around $758 billion annually, contributing 25% of the U.S. GDP and providing many raw materials for industries […]
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