As the chief information security officer of a large, publicly traded tech company, Drew Simonis has been keeping a close eye on the SEC’s proposed rules to require reporting of major cyberattacks. Simonis, who works at Juniper Networks, has some serious concerns shared by many executives in U.S. private industry.Continue Reading
Environmental, social, and governance has become one of the biggest buzzwords in corporate America, transcending industries and markets. But up until this year, many investment managers, funds, and corporate boards have focused on the environmental, or the E, of ESG. The pivotal social movements and continued impact of Covid-19 overContinue Reading
The Environment and Sustainable Development 5 Minute Fix is a snapshot of need-to-know news on a range of ESD issues nationally. This edition focuses on the latest in climate change, waste, energy, sustainable development, planning and environmental protection. Climate change Commonwealth: New biomethane and end-of-life tyres fuel types included inContinue Reading
One farmer dogged pipeline surveyors as they traversed his southwestern Iowa fields, peppering them with unwelcome questions about their proposed project. Another cornered Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds at a fundraising event. A third painted “No Carbon Pipeline” on a semi-trailer and parked it at the intersection of two county roads. TheseContinue Reading
Expectations of the purpose of business, as well as how companies operate and deliver is evolving. The Forum understands the challenges they face and supports progress on convergent sustainability reporting standards. The lack of a universal sustainability reporting standard poses an obstacle to measuring the sustainability of business and tacklingContinue Reading
Citizens In Action Southern Africa in partnership with Media Centre Masvingo held a journalist training on environment and climate change reporting in Masvingo urban at Charles Austin Theatre on the 6th of June 2022 as part of commemorating the World Environment day that was celebrated the previous day under theContinue Reading
This Story’s Impact 4 million readers per year 200K social reach Last June, Aaron Flansburg felt the temperature spike and knew what that meant for his canola crop. A fifth-generation grower in Washington State, Flansburg times his canola planting to bloom in the cool weeks of early summer. But lastContinue Reading
While scavenging through a compost heap at a Leipzig cemetery, Christian Sonnendecker and his research team found seven enzymes they had never seen before. They were hunting for proteins that would eat PET plastic — the most highly produced plastic in the world. It is commonly used for bottled water andContinue Reading
While scavenging through a compost heap at a Leipzig cemetery, Christian Sonnendecker and his research team found seven enzymes they had never seen before. They were hunting for proteins that would eat PET plastic — the most highly produced plastic in the world. It is commonly used for bottled waterContinue Reading
While reporting of climate-related financial risks has dominated the news following the proposed rulemaking by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), momentum is building toward a standardized reporting framework for sustainability disclosure related to companies’ interface with nature. In November 2021, we spotlighted an increasing focus from investors andContinue Reading
