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Jim Giles

San Francisco

Vice President, Net Zero at Trellis

Conference Chair, VERGE Carbon. Former lives: CEO @Timeline_Now, @Medium ed & co-founder @ReadMatter.

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  • 2 weeks ago | trellis.net | Jim Giles

    A new AI-powered study of more than 8,500 listed companies has revealed a “profound” lack of disclosure and governance around climate-related lobbying. One result of the secrecy, argue the report’s authors, is that companies often lobby in a way that undermines their own climate strategies. The report, produced by climate-tech non-profit Danu Insight, used natural-language processing and AI to examine around 250,000 annual reports, disclosure statements, web pages and other documents.

  • 2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Jim Giles

    A new AI-powered study of more than 8,500 listed companies has revealed a “profound” lack of disclosure and governance around climate-related lobbying. One result of the secrecy, argue the report’s authors, is that companies often lobby in a way that undermines their own climate strategies. The report, produced by climate-tech non-profit Danu Insight, used natural-language processing and AI to examine around 250,000 annual reports, disclosure statements, web pages and other documents.

  • 3 weeks ago | trellis.net | Jim Giles

    Around 20 employees have been let go by Pachama, a carbon markets company that has won business from Salesforce, Boston Consulting Group and others by providing tools that can identify and monitor high-quality nature-based credits. Pachama’s cuts are the latest in a voluntary carbon market that has been roiled by wider economic uncertainty and anti-ESG sentiment. Pachama was founded in 2018 by Diego Saez Gil, an entrepreneur with a background in the travel industry.

  • 3 weeks ago | buff.ly | Jim Giles

    Around 20 employees have been let go by Pachama, a carbon markets company that has won business from Salesforce, Boston Consulting Group and others by providing tools that can identify and monitor high-quality nature-based credits. Pachama’s cuts are the latest in a voluntary carbon market that has been roiled by wider economic uncertainty and anti-ESG sentiment.

  • 3 weeks ago | trellis.net | Jim Giles

    Key pillars of the climate strategies of five major food system companies have been criticized in a deep analysis by two leading European non-profits. The five companies — Danone, JBS, Mars, Nestlé and PepsiCo — were studied by the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch.

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