The acronym ESG is short for environmental, social and governance. ESG is a process of quantifying an organisation’s commitment to social and environmental factors. It uses specific metrics related to the intangible assets of an organisation that are applied to…

In our last blog, we referred to the alphabet soup of organisations involved in ESG. An organisation’s name that kept cropping up though, was the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Currently, its TCFD recommendations are being adopted by…

Introduction to TCFD and Its Importance in ESG Reporting Global Adoption of TCFD: A Worldwide Movement In 2015, at the inauguration of the Paris Agreement, the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) was created by the Financial Stability Board…

Understanding Net Zero and Its Challenges

Sustainable procurement policy – a carbon focus

A smooth transition to Net Zero requires a strategic plan In the recently released report styled “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” of the Working II of the IPCC, one of the conclusions was that “multiple climate hazards will…

Introduction: This blog is written to inform readers of the state-of-play of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The content, in-the-main is sobering. However, in following blogs we will write about what SMEs can do in their day-to-day operations…

The Conference of the Parties number 26 (COP26) ended with a number of new pledges and targets made. We touched on some of these in our last blog and they included a phase-down of coal and the Global Methane Pledge.

Conference of the Parties number 26 - Review After a series of tense huddles and more than 24 hours into overtime, the gavel went down on a climate deal in Glasgow, UK at 7:41 pm on Saturday. World leaders adopted…