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COP29 in Baku: Building towards climate transition

By Sabine Hoefnagel, James Stacey

08 November 2024

Fast-Track CSRD Compliance: Best practices on how to manage CSRD implementation

By Onur Durmus, Victoria Cross, Johann Weicht

04 September 2024

The race to decarbonize steel in the energy transition

By Silvian Baltac, Ignacio Rabsiun Aramburu, Tom Butler, Yamini Panchaksharam

07 November 2024

COP16: Two critical weeks for nature in Colombia

By Matt Haddon

30 October 2024

Sustainability Trends Quarterly Outlook - October 2024

By Lauren Kwok, Dia Rizakos, Andrew Angle, Jacco Kroon

29 October 2024

The Nature Tech Revolution: The tools to move from ‘do no harm’ to ‘nature-positive'

By ERM, Salesforce, NatureMetrics, Planet

24 October 2024

The Future of Water Resilience in the U.S.

By ERM Sustainability Institute, J.P. Morgan

28 October 2024

CEO Message: Navigating the messy middle – 5 takeaways from Climate Week NYC

By Tom Reichert

30 September 2024

Sustainability Trends Quarterly Outlook - October 2024

By Lauren Kwok, Dia Rizakos, Andrew Angle, Jacco Kroon

29 October 2024

Paint it Green: Strategies for Detecting and Combatting Greenwashing in ESG Ratings

By Alexandra Walker, Hélène Gaudin

01 August 2024

Moving transition from plans to action: A transition planning primer

By Gordon Darling, Max Crawford, Jacco Kroon

14 November 2024

Report

Rising to the Energy Challenge in Asia

By Juliet Carter

07 November 2024

Report

The Future of Water Resilience in the U.S.

By ERM Sustainability Institute, J.P. Morgan

28 October 2024

Report

The nature tech revolution: The tools to move

By ERM, Salesforce, NatureMetrics, Planet

24 October 2024

Blog

CSRD’s Chemical Pollution Disclosure Requirements are Catching Companies Off-guard

By Susan Angyal, Linda-Jean Cockcroft, Ramesh Narasimhan

10 October 2024

Report

Embedding Just Transition into Corporate Climate Action Strategies

By Alexandra Guaqueta, Sabrina Genter

20 September 2024

Blog

Ahead of the climate curve

By Max Crawford, Paul Simpson

20 September 2024

Report

Renewables Conundrums: Building Benefit

By Andrew Angle

17 September 2024

Report

The New Disclosure Landscape: Comparing sustainability standards and regulations

By Catherine Osborn, Justin Nelson

16 September 2024

Blog

From Mandate to Mastery: Delivering on financial quantification requirements

By James Hubbard, Ed Beech, Kay Downey, Becky Nibbs

09 September 2024

Blog

Navigating climate-related financial risk

By James Hubbard, Ed Beech, Kay Downey, Becky Nibbs

02 September 2024

Blog

Navigating multiple truths - to successfully transform, companies need to be at ease with ambiguity

By Andrew Angle, Jacco Kroon, Maren Steinkemper

19 August 2024

Blog

Paint it Green: Strategies for Detecting and Combatting Greenwashing in ESG Ratings

By Alexandra Walker, Hélène Gaudin

01 August 2024

Report

Breaking Chains, Building Sustainably: Overcoming supply chain barriers

By Ed Struzik, Dia Rizakos, Katie Langemeier

25 July 2024

Report

How to unlock wind and solar energy potential in Latin America and Africa

By Christopher Hope, Eliza Topliff, Prasiddhi Shrestha, Rose Kilonzo

23 July 2024

Report

The Global Regulations Radar

By Aiste Brackley, Ramesh Narasimhan, Justin Nelson

11 July 2024

Report

NCS for the Voluntary Carbon Market - An Investor Guide for Companies and Financial Institutions

By ERM Sustainability Institute, ERM, Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, Forest Investor Club

27 June 2024

Report

2024 Sustainability Leaders Survey

Findings from the 2024 Sustainability Leaders survey reinforce the urgency of climate action and point to the proliferation of legislation promoting sustainability across the globe, while simultaneously noting significant backlash against the ESG agenda.

25 June 2024

Article

Responsible Mining of Critical Minerals - Gaining Stakeholder Confidence with Integrated Compliance, Assurance, and Certification

By Glenn Keays, Judy Fedorowick, Susan Lasecki-Coiro, Ramesh Narasimhan

12 June 2024

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Sustainable connections podcast

ERM's Sustainable Connections podcast explores how business can innovate and collaborate to catalyze systemic action.

Listen to podcasts

Episode 24: Developing hydrogen ecosystems featuring HYCAP and MorGen Energy

Episode 23: Navigating nature tech solutions for business featuring the NatureTech Alliance

Episode 22: How to sell sustainability to business leaders featuring John Elkington

Episode 21: What Climate Week NYC meant for business

Episode 20: How mining can accelerate the energy transition featuring Rio Tinto

Episode 19: Scaling climate investment featuring General Atlantic

Episode 18: US renewable energy procurement featuring CEBA

Episode 17: SEC climate disclosure featuring Steptoe

Episode 16: Closing the nature data gap featuring Planet

Episode 15: How to scale the hydrogen economy featuring the Clean Hydrogen Partnership

Episode 14: Understanding nature disclosure featuring TNFD

Episode 13: Aligning sustainability and financial reporting featuring IFRS Foundation

Episode 12: Tripling renewable energy by 2030 featuring the Global Renewables Alliance

Episode 11: Sustainable seafood featuring Thai Union

Episode 10: Engaging with investors on ESG issues featuring Vale

Episode 9: The business case for ESG featuring KKR

Episode 8: Accelerating private market impact investment featuring Ardian

Episode 7: Building nature into business strategy featuring Salesforce

Episode Six: Understanding ESG ratings featuring CDP and CDPQ

Episode Five: Engaging with indigenous communities featuring Affinity North and Stratos

Episode Four: Managing the US energy transition featuring American Electric Power

Episode Three: Aligning finance portfolios with the Paris Agreement featuring J.P. Morgan

Episode Two: Finding the ways that work over five decades of environmental action and progress featuring the Environmental Defense Fund

Episode One: Natural climate solutions and the importance of collaboration featuring Bayer Crop Science and WBCSD

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