We live in the era of tangible climate impacts on our way of life, on our economy and on our society. Given that the climate change is a pressing topic, the speed of innovation in the sustainability sector has picked up its pace. One of the fastest growing areas within the sustainability sector is data […]
Nowadays, we are all constantly surrounded with the news and pledges regarding global warming, carbon footprint, climate change, biodiversity, ESG, recycling etc. The popularity of these terms is gaining on importance even in comparison with global news such as the release of the new 📲iPhone 13 . Given the rising importance of these topics, businesses should […]
With the latest technological advances and regulatory pressures all aiming in the direction of a fast global energy transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies, it is becoming apparent that some form of carbon pricing must be introduced into the economy. The discussed forms are the following: Carbon Tax: the government sets a price that […]
The French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) together with the French Central Bank (Banque de France) conducted a voluntary climate stress testing pilot exercise from July 2020 to April 2021. It stress-tested 9 banking and 15 insurance groups in France over the following hypothesis: 30-year long-term horizon covering the 2020–2050 period with a combination […]
From October 31st till November 12th, Glasgow will be the centre of the world for climate change mitigation. All the representatives of 195 signatory countries of the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) which was signed in the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 will be present there to discuss and review how are we doing in […]
Carbon is the most abundant substance in the world. In the recent years, we could have seen a similar abundance of corporate pledges of becoming carbon neutral or even climate positive by 2030–2040–2050, frequently with the help of voluntary Carbon Offsets, also referred to as Carbon Credits. Although Europe has been so far going in […]
The Global warming is indisputably the key topic of the 21st century which is impacting all of us. However, the common understanding across the globe of the key levers that are either increasing or reducing the amount of Green House Gases in the atmosphere remains scarce. What is not helping to improve the common understanding […]
