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This article explores the potential pitfalls for energy companies in applying scenario analysis, in particular the discounting of extreme scenarios and availability or stability bias.

This paper focuses on two technological developments which could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping – slow steaming and wind propulsion.

This thought-leadership paper summarizes the TCFD recommendations and industry reactions.

Many businesses are grappling with the TCFD implications, particularly in terms of identifying relevant internal systems, metrics, and disclosure strategies. South Pole surveyed corporates on their drivers, preparedness and plans for TCFD disclosure. The results provide insights into the current state of play.

Many businesses are grappling with TCFD implications, particularly in terms of identifying relevant internal systems, metrics, and disclosure strategies. South Pole surveyed corporates on their drivers, preparedness and plans for TCFD disclosure. The results provide insights into the current state of play.

With investors in France required to release reporting on the requirements of Article 173, Beyond Ratings has decided to take a closer look at how asset owners and asset managers have responded to this reporting requirement for the sovereign asset class.

Trucost and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have developed a tool for investors to assess the potential internalized costs and environmental risks of their investments in the aluminum sector.

Summary of and commentary upon responses to TCFD Guidance from financial regulators, issuers, institutional investors, credit rating agencies, and voluntary sustainability reporting frameworks. The responses from financial regulators indicate that they largely favor international regulatory alignment.

Morphological analysis allows any number of dimensions to be retained when framing future conditions, and techniques within morphological analysis determine which combinations of those dimensions represent plausible futures. However, even a relatively low number of dimensions in future conditions can lead to hundreds or even thousands of plausible future scenarios. Creating highly diverse but conceivable visions of the future in which to explore decision-making, exploratory futures techniques rely on the selection of a small number of plausible scenarios from the larger set. In this paper we describe a new method for finding maximally diverse sets containing a small number of plausible scenarios from a multi-dimensional morphological analysis. It is based on a mathematical optimization of diversity that is robust to the uncertainty in the framing of future factors and states and in what stakeholders might consider diverse combinations of those factors and states. We also describe implementation of the method as a software tool and its performance in recent exploratory scenario development by CGIAR and partners for regional environmental change, food security and livelihoods.

Scenarios are widely used for long-term climate and energy analysis. However, in the great majority of studies with a handful of scenarios or scenario categories, both scenario developers and users capture only a subset of future uncertainties.

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.

The Ceres Roadmap presents 20 expectations in the areas of governance, stakeholder engagement, disclosure, and performance that companies should seek to meet by 2020 in order to transform into truly sustainable enterprises.