After a quarter-century of nonprofit status, disclosure platform CDP will join the private sector later this year under a deal that will see a private equity firm assume majority ownership. The agreement, announced last week, will also see the creation of the CDP Foundation, a nonprofit that will continue to develop new disclosure methods. Coming […]
A pioneering carbon removal initiative has announced a second funding infusion and added Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI service, to its list of members. Frontier was launched in 2022 with a commitment from Google, Stripe and others to spend $1 billion on carbon removal by 2030. Since then, members have signed contracts worth almost $700 […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. The first half of 2026 has been challenging for those working in supply chains. Geopolitical shocks, ongoing tariff wars, the continuing dismantling of U.S. climate policy and the effects of climate-driven events have piled up in ways that […]
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published the consultation draft of a new, independently verifiable standard for corporations that make net-zero emissions commitments. The ISO Net Zero Aligned Organizations Standard (ISO 14060) started life as loose guidelines shaped by more than 1,200 stakeholders from civil society and the corporate world, including Amazon, FedEx,Google, Intel, […]
“Can climate be funny?” asks Stuart Goldsmith before answering his own question. “Can grief be funny? Can war be funny? These are all the things that comics have spoken about since there have been comics.” So, why not make the climate crisis funny? That’s the challenge of the two guests that my co-host, Solitaire Townsend, […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. Modern chief sustainability officers are tasked with decarbonizing scopes 1 and 2 and operational Scope 3 supply chains. While they’re making progress, sustainability teams remain siloed from corporate financial architecture. This creates a glaring “exposure gap”: While a […]
The Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi’s) net-zero standard overhaul redefines how companies should approach electricity decarbonization, but it’s more flexible than the strict carbon accounting rules proposed by the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. The new approach to Scope 2 — which covers purchased electricity — marks a major departure from the current standard, under which companies […]
Employees of Microsoft and Shopify will soon be able to use a novel approach to lowering business-travel emissions thanks to the opening of a pioneering facility that uses renewable energy to transform carbon dioxide and water into low-carbon jet fuel. The facility, in Moses Lake, Washington, is operated by Twelve, a startup that spent the […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. Autonomous vehicles, or AVs, are ushering in a new era of mobility in cities across the country. If you’ve used a driverless taxi in a big congested city like New York or San Francisco, you’ll know that they’re […]
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off and brands activate around a highly visible cultural moment, new GlobeScan data points to an important strategic opportunity: Soccer fans are not only highly engaged audiences, but are also more inclined than the general public to adopt sustainable shopping behaviors that align closely with the kinds of […]