Discussion over AI and climate tends to cluster around two duelling opinions: Advocates hail the technology’s potential to accelerate progress toward net zero, while skeptics warn of a leap in emissions caused by the energy needed to power it. Researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) have weighed the two options and come down […]
The voluntary carbon market has been in a slump. Amid a wave of negative press, the volume of credits traded has declined for three consecutive years, according to Ecosystem Marketplace, an information source for environmental markets. Prices have followed suit: After more than doubling between 2020 and 2022, the average cost of a carbon credit […]
We would never downplay the importance of sustainability science and policy, but come the dog days might we suggest foregoing white papers in favor of breezier, if similarly slanted, fiction? We view it as the ideal way to recharge and reflect on the values that drive sustainability professionals. And with that in mind, Trellis presents […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Here’s a counterintuitive truth: just as sustainability reports became ubiquitous — 90 percent of S&P 500 companies publish detailed ESG disclosures — they also became controversial. The anti-ESG backlash has turned what seemed like straightforward progress in companies reporting on […]
The Two Steps Forward podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and other platforms — and, of course, via Trellis. Episodes publish every other Tuesday. How does a corporate sustainability professional meet the moment? That’s one of the questions we posed to Unilever’s chief sustainability and corporate affairs officer, Rebecca Marmot, in a live-on-stage […]
Banks and other financiers award only 2 percent of funding to the circular economy. As a result, innovations with the biggest potential to transform the global economy, reduce risks and slash emissions are left on the table, according to the first Circularity Gap Report Finance, released June 30. Moreover, only 4.7 percent of circular funding […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. It’s a conundrum that’s been around since the earliest days of corporate ESG: If a company wants to hire a chief sustainability officer, what’s the better decision? Find someone with strong knowledge of the business and profit-and-loss experience? Or find […]
Whose responsibility is it anyway? That’s the question many young consumers in five European markets are weighing in on when it comes to promoting and wearing more sustainable fashion. Trellis data partner GlobeScan recently partnered with European fashion platform Zalando to explore how Gen Z and Millennial consumers view sustainability in fashion. The findings reveal a […]
Google remains committed to its “intentionally ambitious” pledge to achieve net zero by 2030 — even though the company’s overall greenhouse gas emissions have increased dramatically since its 2019 baseline year. Google’s emissions reduction strategy, which it says was validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in February, calls for a 50 percent cut […]
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)), which develops and maintains standards that more than 14,000 companies worldwide use to disclose emissions and other environmental updates, is revising its widely used climate change and energy standards. The modifications announced June 26 require companies to share more information about how their strategies to address climate change and the […]