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Which mechanisms explain the damage that has been caused to the planet? On what basis can businesses make strategic decisions in a rapidly changing world? How can scenario-based analysis be a powerful tool in helping businesses to perform well in the medium and long term? The deterioration of the planet challenges the limits of a societal model built around the mass energy consumption responsible for global warming. Making the right strategic decisions in a rapidly changing world that finds itself under duress is a real challenge for decision-makers. Scenario-based analysis and physical flow approach is a powerful tool that can help them adapt to this new state of play, and it is this approach that this report introduces.

Provides guidance to companies on how to set, validate and report on science-based targets for GHG emissions and sectoral decarbonisation towards the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.

This guidance document is published by WRI and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation. Indian businesses have reported a need for targeted guidance on how to implement carbon pricing in the Indian context. To address this challenge, this primer provides a seven-step approach for developing and implementing an internal carbon pricing scheme.

This report by CDP discusses trends in carbon pricing usage including how companies use it and how it supports integration of climate risk into business planning.

Increased attention on GHG emissions and reporting by global capital markets (e.g., investors, insurers, credit rating agencies, financial regulators) will require organizations to adopt a low-emissions mindset and enable a cultural shift towards lowering carbon footprints.

Learn how your organization can establish an appropriate GHG emissions management system, and benefit with improved efficiencies, cost savings, and capitalizing on increasing demand for low-carbon products and services.

This white paper identifies key pieces of information that state energy policymakers and U.S. companies and investors should know about one another, and it offers a “deeper dive” on a series of energy policy topics — including clean energy policies, financing mechanisms, and corporate sustainability approaches — on which both state and company/investor representatives can find common ground.

This report sets out scenarios for the power sector in 2030 as an input to the committee's advice on the fifth carbon budget. The fifth carbon budget sets a limit on UK emissions of greenhouse gases over the period 2028 to 2032. The scenarios discussed in this paper set out possible futures for the UK power sector, and are not intended to set out a prescriptive path.

Moody's Climate Week Briefing will take place in New York on Thursday, September 27, 2018, for the third year. The event is free to attend but registration for this event is required. Hosted by Moody’s Investors Service in partnership with the Climate Bond Initiative (CBI), the Climate Week Briefing 2018 will focus on the risks that the climate change poses on corporations and governments, and the role of the green bond market in promoting a low carbon economy. Senior executives from the industry and Moody’s senior analysts will hold lively discussions on the following: • The credit risks corporate sectors face as a result of carbon transition. • The impact of physical climate risks on public finance issuers. • How municipalities are incorporating green infrastructure and sustainability projects into critical programs.

The paper describes the Sectoral Decarbonization Approach (SDA), a sector-based target-setting methodology for companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the latest scientific scenario that would limit global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

This report provides a lens through which the long-term financial impacts of climate change for a portfolio of companies may be measured. Whilst significant change is underway as sectors prepare to transition to a lower-carbon economy, a long-term quantitative risk approach is required to effectively measure the preparedness of individual companies and the rate-of-transition of sectors as a whole.

The webinar looks at how companies can use the TCFD recommendations to maximise the opportunities associated with the low-carbon transition.

This decision support toolkit is designed to assist stakeholders involved in the development of microgrids to streamline the identification process towards best available solutions. By using a range of scenarios, the current draft toolkit outlines technology options and sustainable business models relevant to each of the scenarios.