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HOW HARD IT WILL BE FOR BIDEN: President
Joe Biden’s new pledge for the U.S. to cut its economy-wide emissions 50% to 52% by 2030
unveiled at his climate summit this morning means largely eliminating coal from electricity, reducing natural gas use significantly, and definitely no new gas plants without carbon capture, according to various recent analyses we’ve reviewed.
We’d also have to increase clean energy sources to more than double today’s share.
Met dank overgenomen van Europese Commissie (EC), gepubliceerd op woensdag 21 april 2021.
Revision: why was there a need to review the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD)?
The reporting rules introduced by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive established important principles for certain large companies to report sustainability information on an annual basis. It introduced a ‘double materiality perspective , meaning that companies have to report about how sustainability issues affect their business and about their own impact on people and the environment.
There is ample evidence, however, that the information that companies report is not sufficient. Reports often omit information that investors and other stakeholders think is important. Reported information can be hard to compare from company to company, and users of the information are often unsure whether they can trust it.
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US Secretary Of The Treasury Janet L. Yellenâs Remarks To the Institute Of International Finance Date
21/04/2021
I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the runup to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant.
Of course, we know what the trajectory has been ever since. Over the past 30 years, the incidence of natural disasters has dramatically increased and the actual and future potential cost to the economy has skyrocketed. We are now in a situation where climate change is an existential risk to our future economy and way of life. If left unaddressed, climate change will leave us grappling with fundamental questions like: What are the consequences for our coastal cities and communities? What will happen to our farmers and cost of food after droughts and flooding decimate farmland? How will families,
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As corporate sustainability goes mainstream, ESG reporting is being embraced beyond early adopters exuding good citizenship. Investors, markets and regulators are picking up on the value of environmental, social and governance data, which is being integrated more often into financial disclosures. People have realized that sustainability disclosure and sustainability information has significant value, said Janine Guillot, CEO of the standards-setter SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board).
Soon, more companies will be forced to divulge environmental and social data, whether due to new laws and regulations, investor demands or simply to remain relevant and competitive, experts shared at the GreenFin 21 virtual event Tuesday.