Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. There is a growing need for companies to adopt carbon ...

Is it possible to do well while doing good? Environmental, social and governance (ESG) describes a set of business performance metrics that are focused on environmental sustainability and ethical ...

On October 28, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) issued a stark synthesis report showing that current global pledges reduce emissions by just 2.6% — a fraction of the ...

With the SEC’s disclosure proposal comment period recently ending and likely climate-related disclosure regulation coming soon, it is imperative that companies begin to not only understand how to ...

No discussion of sustainability reporting would be complete without a mention of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. During an AICPA webcast earlier this week, the co-author of recently finalized ...

Sweeping new climate disclosure laws, such as California’s SB 253, are compelling some U.S. meat and poultry companies to ...

Only 32% of global high tech companies include scope 3 emissions as part of broader net-zero targets, Accenture research found. Scope 3 emissions for high tech companies are 24 times greater than ...

Apple "strongly believes" that companies' corporate climate emissions disclosures should include the emissions that come from their supply chain, or what's called Scope 3 emissions. Mike Foulkes, ...

As the clock rapidly counts down towards ambitious national and international climate targets, there is a growing understanding that action is needed imminently — before it’s too late to make a ...

Scope 3 carbon emissions, which make up the majority of an organization’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, are the result of indirect activities that occur in a company’s supply chain. Because they’re ...

The logistics industry is at a crossroads when it comes to tracking and reporting on Scope 3 carbon emissions. Cutting emissions across the global supply chain, most agree, would benefit the ...