Policy & Standards

Investors call for global ISSB adoption by 2025

Over 40% of the world’s 4,000 largest listed firms still did not disclose their Scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2022.

Melodie Michel

27 May 2024

Operations & Finance

Big business urged to set business travel targets as emissions inch towards pre-Covid 19 levels

Accenture's business travel emissions grew by 47% between 2022 and 2023.

Melodie Michel

12 March 2024

CSO Futures Weekly

CSO Futures Weekly: SEC adopts weakened climate disclosures

SEC adopts climate disclosure rule, Unilever addresses trade associations misaligned on climate, and SAP emissions grow along with its cloud business...

Melodie Michel

07 March 2024

Sustainability Reports

SAP reports increase in absolute emissions as cloud revenue spikes

Emissions from cloud hyperscalers' power use jumped by 45,500 tonnes, reaching 128,800 tonnes – more than 27% of SAP’s overall carbon footprint.

Melodie Michel

05 March 2024

Guest article

Collaboration around Scope 3 mitigation is crucial to meet shared climate goals

"Addressing Scope 1 and 2 emissions without Scope 3 reflects short-term thinking..."

Melodie Michel

28 February 2024

Data and Technology

Drop in business travel emissions shows company policies are changing

World's biggest corporate flyers have cut emissions by a total of 51%.

Melodie Michel

18 December 2023

Policy & Standards

Companies worth US$1 trillion call for fossil fuels phase-out as oil and gas firms scale back climate ambition

Pressure to phase out fossil fuels is mounting ahead of COP28.

Melodie Michel

24 October 2023

News and Interviews

CSO Futures Weekly

A host of new appointments; fresh pressure from Deutsche Bank; Chief Sustainability Officer insights and data and more in our inaugural newsletter.

Melodie Michel

19 October 2023

People & Culture

SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid on carbon accounting, hyperscaler transparency, and a “war” on how companies make decisions

The German software heavyweight is putting sustainability at the heart of both its own business and its value proposition for customers. Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid says the company needs to be an industry role model if it wants to “gain the credibility to act as an enabler”.

Edward Targett

17 October 2023