Tag: climate change
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Climate Funds
Climate Funds Dedicated to addressing challenges associated with climate change, climate funds represent financial resources designed specifically for projects, initiatives, and activities that contribute to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. These funds play a pivotal role in mobilizing resources to combat the impacts of climate change, steering us towards a more sustainable and low-carbon…
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Climate Clocks
Climate Clocks The Climate Clock counts down the critical deadline for achieving zero emissions (referred to as our “deadline”) but also charts our progress along the vital solution paths (referred to as “lifelines”). It draws its power from a collective force of scientists, artists, educators and activists from all over the world. The next seven…
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Climate Change
Climate Change Climate change refers to the long-term variations observed in weather conditions due to the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. These variations include changes in temperature, precipitation, wind patterns and other aspects of the climate system. Although natural processes, such as the solar cycle or massive volcanic eruptions, can contribute to these changes, human…
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Climate Action Tracker (CAT)
Climate Action Tracker (CAT) The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific body dedicated to monitoring and evaluating governments’ decarbonization initiatives in alignment with the Paris Agreement’s objectives; to restrict global temperature increases to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to limit the rise to 1.5°C by the end of this century.…
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Carbon pricing
Carbon pricing Carbon pricing is an instrument that captures the external costs of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—the costs of emissions that the public pays for, such as damage to crops, health care costs from heat waves and droughts, and loss of property from flooding and sea level rise—and ties them to their sources through a…
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Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint As stated by Mike Berners-Lee, author of The Carbon Footprint of Everything, a carbon footprint is the “total sum of all the greenhouse gas emissions that had to take place in order for a product to be produced or for an activity to take place”. Each of these activities and products has its…
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Double Materiality
Double Materiality Materiality holds significant importance within sustainability reporting, signifying the prioritization of certain issues by an organization and its stakeholders over others. Previously, materiality assessments focused solely on the company’s impact on external factors such as the environment. However, the evolving recognition of the interconnectedness between a company’s actions and broader societal challenges has…