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This guidance provides clear instructions on calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from freight transport operations.

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the most up-to-date, comprehensive and relevant analysis of our changing climate. This document is the second in a series that will synthesize the most pertinent findings of AR5 for specific economic and business sectors.

This document provides guidance for the monitoring and targeting of energy consumption to help organizations control and manage its energy use.

This review paper sets the scene on the subject of how predicted changes in climate will impact on the performance of buildings around the world. It discusses the relationship between climate change and buildings and the emerging body of knowledge on the subject.

The CDSB Climate Change Reporting Framework (CCRF) is a voluntary reporting framework designed to elicit climate change-related information to investors in mainstream financial reports. Created in line with the objectives of financial reporting and rules on non-financial reporting, it filters out what is required to understand how climate change affects financial performance and value creation.

The UK Stewardship Code sets out the principles of effective stewardship by investors. The Code assists institutional investors to better exercise their stewardship responsibilities. Institutional investors’ activities include decision-making on matters such as allocating assets, awarding investment mandates, designing investment strategies, and buying or selling specific securities.

"The UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance serve as a global framework for the insurance industry to address environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities. The purpose of the PSI Initiative is to better understand, prevent and reduce environmental, social and governance risks, and better manage opportunities to provide quality and reliable risk protection. "

This report identifies seven fundamental principles for enhancing the risk disclosures of banks. These principles provide a firm foundation for developing high-quality, transparent disclosures that clearly communicate banks’ business models and the key risks that arise from them.

The objective of this study is to analyze the origins and characteristics of the carbon and water footprints in order to understand their similarities and differences and to derive lessons on how society and business can adequately build on the two concepts. It compares the two concepts from a methodological point of view and discusses response mechanisms that have been developed, with the hope that experiences in one field might be able to benefit the other

This framework allows companies to assess their entire value chain emissions impact and identify where to focus emission reduction activities.

This paper defines the need to integrate energy use further into water resource management, and identify opportunities for the water sector to understand and describe more effectively its role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

McKinsey experts discuss the challenges and opportunities of meeting demand for energy, materials and food, water, as 3 billion consumers are added to the middle class in the next 20 years. This includes the risk of climate and ecosystem changes.