This protocol provides a consistent framework for companies and organizations across North America to measure and publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions.
Industry Group: Financial, Materials and Buildings
Research / Insights - 2016
This report outlines the global ecosystem of initiatives focused on overcoming obstacles to investment in sustainable infrastructure, and how to use them to address the sustainable investment funding gap.
Industry Group: Financial, Materials and Buildings
Research / Insights - 2016
This paper focuses on the imperative for sustainable infrastructure (SI) in Latin America and the Caribbean and around the world. The paper includes three calls to action: convene the conveners, internal alignment for success, and external collaboration for success.
This report explores what impedes corporate efforts and identifies how companies can blend creativity and pragmatism to look beyond predictable and controllable risks to complex uncertainties that have the potential to generate more than mere volatility in corporate earnings.
GRI 201 addresses the topic of economic performance. This includes the economic value generated and distributed (EVG&D) by an organization, its defined benefit plan obligations, the financial assistance it receives from any government, and the financial implications of climate change.
Author: Entreprises pour l'environment, Institute for Climate Economics
Industry Group: All Industry Groups
Guidance / Tool - 2016
This guidance document aims to inform a number of private and public sector actors on how to implement a carbon price and on what can be expected in the future.
This guidance document maps the current options for investors seeking to disclose on the climate goal alignment and/or transition risk associated with their financial portfolios. It analyzes climate goal alignment and transition risk metrics, as well as proxies for reporting with regard to both objectives.
Author: International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association
Industry Group: Oil and Gas
Guidance / Tool - 2016
This reporting framework is designed to help oil and gas companies to publicly disclose climate change-related information in a simple, straightforward and transparent manner, that offers a broad coverage of the issues and provides a consistent reporting methodology.
Author: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Industry Group: All Industry Groups
Guidance / Tool - 2016
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.
This paper introduces the work of the ETC, which seeks to identify what needs to be done to transition to a low-carbon economy, identify the priorities for an efficient acceleration of energy transitions, list decisions that could lock in high-carbon energy infrastructure that should be avoided, and discuss how transition costs can be reduced.
This paper is a collaborative initiative by Mercer and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) which seeks to educate pension fund fiduciaries on the financial and legal challenges climate change presents, and equip them with the information and tools to respond.
This code sets standards of good practice in relation to board leadership, remuneration, accountability and relations to shareholders for companies in the UK. Companies with a Premium Listing of equity shares in the UK are required to disclose their compliance with the code.