95%. That’s how certainthe hundreds of scientists who contribute to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which released the first chapter of its fifth assessment on global warming this morning, are that human beings are the “dominant cause of observed warming” that’s been ...
Sustainability practices enhance the financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Spain. We gathered data from 2012 to 2022 using Internet Archive tools to investigate the impact of new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information on SMEs’ financial performance. ES...
Covid-19 and social justice movements amplified investors’ focus on ESG issues and metrics. The IPCC’slatest reporthas put it front and center, and underscores the need for companies to disclose their environmental performance. Regulators are moving toward mandatory climate disclosure. The Swiss go...
first is to ask whether the company’s projected emissions are in line with its required sectordecarbonizationpathway under a well below 2 °C scenario, regionally adjusted where needed. The second is to find out if the company has verified credible targets for achieving its emission-reduction ...
which can undermine the concept of the budget as a neutral and credible instrument of government policy. Bird et al. [8] develop an explicit framework that focuses on institutional and governance processes and includes standards in the overall policy environment, institutional architecture, and the ...
Warmers often hide behind peer review. One thing readers should note, is that there are no credible peer reviewed scientific articles that determine accurately how much of the modern era warming is from mankind and how much is from nature. No one knows for sure, it remains a guess. While ...
Unfortunately, it is not easy to predict the future but steps can be taken to understand the possibilities. Take the time to look ahead and get a good understanding of future energy costs and availability to build solid scenarios for the management team using credible, 10 year energy market ou...
Climate change is already impacting the environment and our society through the occurrence of extreme weather and climate events (IPCC, 2021). Understanding these impacts and adapting to both current climate variability and future climate change is of great importance to decision makers. To support mi...
Much is at stake, and humanity must be very cautious about the temptation for denial, dismissal, or idolatrous hope for some technological breakthrough—especially in light of credible causes for concern. It is not at all surprising that the toll of this production and consumption boom on ...
Investing in our planet, particularly its ecosystems, is urgently needed to stay within the 1.5°C climate target, according tothe latest IPCC report. “There is no Planet B!” This is a popular saying by environmental activists when it comes to the deteriorating health of the natural world....