CSO Futures Weekly

CSO Futures Weekly: Supply chain efforts begin to bear fruit

Scope 3 strategy tips from CSOs, progress for Ball Corporation and H&M, Lego's DAC deal and more...

Melodie Michel

28 March 2024

Operations & Finance

H&M improves data accuracy – and adds nearly 2 million tonnes of emissions to estimates

H&M has applied these calculation changes to historical results, including its 2019 baseline.

Melodie Michel

28 March 2024

Operations & Finance

Ball Corporation cut Scope 3 emissions for the first time in 2023 – by almost 29%

“Not that we will achieve this every year, a few things went our way!”

Melodie Michel

25 March 2024

Sustainability Reports

Volkswagen sees carbon footprint jump despite vehicle intensity gains

Volkswagen managed to lower vehicle carbon intensity in 2023 – but commercial growth outweighed these emissions gains.

Melodie Michel

13 March 2024

Sustainability Reports

SAP reports increase in absolute emissions as cloud revenue spikes

Emissions from cloud hyperscalers' power use jumped by 45,500 tonnes, reaching 128,800 tonnes – more than 27% of SAP’s overall carbon footprint.

Melodie Michel

05 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

Policy & Standards

Australia’s latest climate disclosure draft offers partial protection against litigation

The country is jumping on the climate regulation bandwagon and making sustainability reporting an obligation for companies.

Melodie Michel

15 January 2024

Scope 3

Procurement leaders feel ‘best guess’ Scope 3 reporting puts them at risk of unintentional greenwashing

For most supply chain managers, the inability to accurately measure supplier emissions “makes it hard to turn words into action”.

Melodie Michel

15 January 2024

Policy & Standards

Biodiversity disclosures have doubled among US-listed companies

Companies may also hope to offset some of their biodiversity impacts through nature-based carbon credits – but co-benefits are not guaranteed.

Melodie Michel

10 January 2024

Policy & Standards

In France, corporate directors can now go to jail for not complying with CSRD

France is the first country to transpose the directive into national law, and has set a high bar in terms of penalties for non-compliance.

Melodie Michel

02 January 2024