Mark Carney’s TCFD represents another step towards standardizing climate transparency in markets, but most companies continue to miss the nuance of what stakeholders are really looking for. Although the number of UK companies disclosing with TCFD quadrupled between 2017 and 2020, only 35% of companies......
The air we breathe in the UK could be cleaner. The WHO thinks the UK has the 59th most polluted air in the world – but this still leads to around 40,000 premature deaths every year. As COVID-19 hits transport, work and business across the world, it would be......
Businesses can spend months deciding how to start reporting their emissions. The path to success is not obvious at first. In the first reporting attempt, lots of effort is invested in low-value work which should be avoided: creating bespoke spreadsheets, poor project management and irrelevant......
The internet is one of the fastest growing users of energy on Earth. It’s quite hard to estimate its size, but some place it at around 3-5% of the entire world’s energy use. This would be more than the entire aviation sector. A good amount of any CO2 footprint......
The least surprising result of COVID-19 was growth in ecommerce sales. Households stuck in lockdown brought a huge jump in online sales. It’s been a discussion point for environmentalists whether ecommerce is better for the planet. The central argument is that buying online in a bulk van......