Sustainability audits are reinforced with the new IAASB manual, International Standard on Sustainability Assurance.
Approved law that creates the carbon credits market in Brazil, regulated and voluntary together. It will be years before its full implementation. How about getting an idea about prices?
Apr 22, 20232 min readEarth Day. News from The Netherlands: one bad (earlier Overshoot Day), one good (drop in emissions)Netherlands. One bad and one good news. Today Earth Day. (The bad) Last 12 April 2023 was the Dutch Overshoot Day, the day when the Dutch...
Apr 21, 20232 min readAudit and ESGIntersting article from the portal ESG Investor. About the audit function, also of ultimate relevance to ESG issues. Despite the constant...
Apr 20, 20232 min readCOSO: Effective Internal Control Over Sustainability ReportingLast March 30 the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released a study with supplemental guidance for...
Apr 18, 20232 min readG-7 ministers and the climate fight: 8 important documents from last weekendLast weekend, 15 & 16 April in in Sapporo Japan, the group of seven richest nations of the World (G7) was brought together for their...
Apr 13, 20232 min readMIT: Carbon neutrality soon to become as important as profitabilityMIT Technology Review Insights just published its 2023 Green Future Index, their third annual comparative ranking of 76 nations (which...
Apr 11, 20231 min readNew law in Brazil on the use of rainwaterBrazil, water and sanitation. Enacted last April 5 law that obliges sanitation concessionaires to prevent water wastage. The norm also...
Apr 5, 20231 min readIBGC: Carbon Market and Governance AgendaToday's post is about the "Carbon Market and Governance Agenda Course", the first on this topic being organized by the IBGC, the...
Mar 31, 20231 min readMckinsey and "Nature in Balance": What companies can do to restore natural capitalOn Wednesday, March 29, Carbon Credit Markets attended a webinar from McKinsey titled "Nature in Balance". Slides were so interesting...
Mar 28, 20231 min readArticle 6 Implementation Partnership of the Paris Agreement: 1st Authorization Working Group Article 6 of the Paris Agreement basically clarifies how international carbon markets should evolve, essentially supporting the transfer...
Mar 27, 20231 min readPwC Canada: growing emphasis on non-financial ESG factors in M&AThe new report released last February 27 starts: "Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are transforming the way deals are...