A shorter version of this piece was originally posted on LinkedIn โ this is the fuller version, with more detail on the study’s findings and the global regulatory picture. More than half of major U.S. corporations quietly revise their reported emissions after the fact โ and when they do, the errors overwhelmingly go in oneContinue reading “Corporate Climate Data Has a Trust Problem”
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We are at the doorsteps of 2030, the year designated to reduce the global temperature increase to 1.5ยฐC, and the picture is gloomy. Finance is a critical ingredient to saving our planet. And it seems to be in short supply. According to the IMF,ย the Asia-Pacific region faces a climate financing shortfall of at least $800Continue reading “๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ง๐๐: ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ”
Financed Emissions
Banks play a dual role. At one end, they finance decarbonisation; at the other, they finance emissions through loans and investments. Thus, financed emissions are the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to the investment and lending activities of financial institutions like investment managers, banks and insurers. It’s the carbon footprint of a firm’s investments orContinue reading “Financed Emissions”
