People & Culture

AVEVA sustainability head Lisa Wee on green software principles and radical value chain collaboration

"How do we make sure that the software is fit for purpose for the energy transition?"

Melodie Michel

21 March 2024

CSO Futures Weekly

CSO Futures Weekly: Data, sustainability and imperfection

Sage's sustainability lead on 'an imperfect system', AI and data management, China's new reporting requirements and more in this issue...

Melodie Michel

15 February 2024

Operations & Finance

Corporates broke new clean energy purchasing records in 2023

Since 2008, companies have announced power purchase agreements for 198 GW of renewable energy.

Melodie Michel

14 February 2024

Operations & Finance

US$2 trillion a year needed to meet 2030 renewable energy goal

The world is on track to invest US$6.6 trillion in renewables and grids from 2024 to 2030, leaving a funding gap of just over US$5 trillion.

Melodie Michel

13 February 2024

Renewable energy

Europe broke new renewable energy records in 2023

For several countries, 2023 was the year when renewable energy consumption surpassed fossil fuels for the first time.

Melodie Michel

03 January 2024

People & Culture

What will Chief Sustainability Officers focus on in 2024?

CSO Futures dives into the sustainability themes that are likely to draw the most attention next year.

Melodie Michel

21 December 2023

COP28

COP28 and energy: Can renewables pledge counter lack of fossil fuel ambition?

For companies and their CSOs who had been calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels, the oil and gas decarbonisation charter announced on Saturday will likely be disappointing.

Melodie Michel

04 December 2023

COP28

The three F’s of COP28 - Part 2: Finance

COP28 policy incentives to mobilise private climate funding would be welcome as companies still struggle to balance short-term priorities with long-term sustainability goals.

Melodie Michel

24 November 2023

Data and Technology

Climate action ‘woefully off track’, says new report ahead of COP28

"Meeting our climate goals means closing down coal power seven times faster and gas power more than ten times faster than today."

Melodie Michel

14 November 2023

Operations & Finance

COP28 groups call for $10 trillion of renewable energy investment amid historic wind losses

Renewable companies have suffered from rising costs and policy uncertainty.

Melodie Michel

30 October 2023