US boosting climate action, Germany and Australia follow. In a late July surprise action by senators (and the activists tirelessly nudging them), the Inflation Reduction Act puts the US back on track with the Paris Agreement Accords. The most ambitious boost to climate action in U.S. history, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed the U.S. Senate on […]
Top 5 Sustainability Trends in 2022 2021 was a breakthrough year for sustainability and climate action, and 2022 promises to hold much in store for organization´s progress on sustainability. Record numbers of companies set decarbonization targets, including more than 2,200 companies taking action via the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). In November, COP26 brought together global […]
Over the first two weeks of November, while world leaders gathered in Glasgow, thousands of activists took to the streets around the world and hundreds of articles, social media posts and opinion pieces were written about COP26 and the future of our planet. What is the key takeaway of COP26? COP´s results are rather perceived […]
The number of companies changing their business models to become more sustainable as well as the number of investors shifting their portfolios to companies with sustainability embedded in their actions is rapidly growing. The problem up to now was however not a clear definition of sustainable financing. That is why the European Union introduced in […]
Similarly as in the world, there are more and more examples of climate-responsible business operations in the Czech Republic. Companies opt for carbon neutrality and are starting to change their business strategies with towards a greater sustainability. The growing number of working positive examples also proves that sustainability is not only a cost at the […]
Microsoft to lead corporate efforts to become carbon neutral by its new commitment to boost its sustainability efforts. Microsoft executives announced plans for the company to become carbon negative by 2030, and then by 2050 to remove all the carbon from the environment that Microsoft has emitted directly or through electrical consumption since it was […]
In December 2019, the European Union had declared its commitment that by 2050 there would be no net greenhouse gas emissions from the entire continent, known as the Green Deal. That was before the pandemic halted daily life and shattered economies across the world, which certainly will test Europe´s Green Deal commitment. There is no […]
A new analysis released by World Meteorological Organization links extreme weather events to climate change. According to WMO s annual State of the Global Climate report, released in March 2020. temperatures in 2019 were on average 1.1ºC above pre-industrial levels and a projected 22 million people were displaced by extreme weather in 2019, up from […]
Jeff Bezos unveiled a fund to help climate scientists and activists, an escalation of his philanthropic efforts. Just about month after hundreds of Amazon employees criticized what they saw as the company’s weak commitment to tackling the climate issue, the world´s richest man unveiled his philanthropic initiative. On his Instagram account he accompanied the launch of […]
