Biodiversity deserves its own sovereign assessment tool
The topic of biodiversity is sufficiently important and complex that it deserves its own version of the Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks (ASCOR) project, according to an expert working on the sovereign climate risk assessment tool.
Staying focused: sovereign climate assessment tool resists mission creep
The ground-breaking ASCOR project refuses to allow the number of indicators to 'explode' out of control, as it strives to keep the tool practicable, LSE's Antonina Scheer tells Ahren Lester
IIGCC to step up pressure on banks to demonstrate action on net zero
A group representing investors with €65 trillion ($70 trillion) in assets under management has published a set of expectations for banks, as they push for more details on how banks will act on pledges to achieve net zero emissions.
TPI reveals food companies not aligned with 1.5°C
The medium-term greenhouse gas emissions targets of food producer giants Kraft Heinz and Mondelez are not aligned with a pathway...
Gap growing between climate leaders and laggards in heavy industry
The steel sector is pulling ahead of its peers in climate target-setting and alignment, Adam Matthews writes
TPI publishes carbon scores for electric utilities
74% of airline companies not aligned to 1.5°C, says TPI
TPI launches high-emitting decarbonisation pathways
The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) has published decarbonisation pathways to 2050 for 10 high-emitting sectors in energy, transport and industrials, in a single report it says will enable comparison of progress between sectors.