Seven Tips for Your CDP Climate Change Response
Tips Every required question in the questionnaire is scored for Disclosure, which means that unanswered questions will receive a score of zero out of the maximum number of points available for that question or set of questions. Furthermore, if you aren’t awarded Disclosure points for a question, you won’t be eligible to receive points in […]
Sustainability is an Executive Issue
Many companies have a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or sustainability program. However, many do not make the most of it. Sustainability is often approached as an add on to “normal” business and as such the impact of their sustainability initiatives is often limited. Corporate sustainability should be pursued strategically and holistically, and not as a […]
Nine Things to Look for in Sustainability in 2020
s we move into the new decade of the 2020’s, many companies are drafting budgets and setting goals for the coming year and the coming decade. From our close watch on all things sustainable – our client work, our speaking engagements, and major publications, we begin to see things emerge as key issues and subjects […]
What Is the TCFD and Why Is It Important?
he Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, better known as the TCFD, is an initiative launched in December 2015 by the FSB (Financial Stability Board), an international body founded, with support from G20 members, to promote international financial stability. The purpose of the TCFD is “to help identify the information needed by investors, lenders, and […]
What Are SBTs and Why Does Your Company Need One?
cience-based targets (SBTs) are corporate climate goals aligned with the latest scientific consensus and the Paris Agreement on climate change. In place of arbitrary goals such as “25% less emissions by 2025,” SBTs provide a meaningful and comprehensible rationale: What will it take to achieve the Paris target, and what is the “fair” contribution my […]
Navigating the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire
CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, is an international nonprofit that provides a platform for companies to disclose, measure and manage their environmental data. CDP works with investors, companies, cities, governments, and policymakers to drive transparency and action on environmental impacts. Their primary tools for this process are three annual questionnaires: climate change, […]
Calculating Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions: An Overview
he science is clear – greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere are warming the planet and in turn causing an alarming and destructive trend in weather events. Organizations of all kinds, particularly businesses, are being called on to calculate their own greenhouse gas emissions and take steps to eliminate them. What are Greenhouse Gas Emission […]
20 Years Sustainserv – A conversation with the founding partners
What is the Future of Energy and Climate?
s part of a consortium, we have made significant contributions to the new study by the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO). The study includes basic concepts for describing disruptive developments in energy systems. The 3i mindset, which stands for inversion, innovation and integration, seeks to find sustainable structures for energy and the climate. The […]
Climate change in reporting practices at selected medium-sized and family-owned companies
Summary Sustainserv Zurich, and the auditing and tax consulting firm Dr. Kleeberg & Partner GmbH, Munich, jointly examined the sustainability reporting practices of selected medium-sized and family-owned companies in Bavaria. In each case, they used the most recent reports issued, which were published on April 1, 2020 or June 1, 2021. In terms of the […]
