Alexander Schmidt

Feb 12, 2024 | time.com | Alexander Schmidt |Lisa Nho |Kalen Goodluck |Isabella Akker

Apple versus Microsoft, Pepsi versus Coca-Cola, Adidas versus Nike: are these rivalries slowing down substantive action on climate? Approximately half of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly traded companies have pledged to reduce their climate footprints. These promises are important, but insufficient on their own. Despite these commitments, global greenhouse gas emissions rose by about 1.1% in 2023, reaching a record high.

Nov 16, 2023 | imd.org | Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff |Alexander Schmidt |Mark J Greeven

 The recent adoption of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) is a watershed moment in public policy efforts to address the challenge of climate change. The reporting obligations of the ESRS aim to provide normalized transparency to both companies’ full value-chain emissions and also to their efforts to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. It is a recognition that commercial activities are at the heart of carbon emissions.