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Blog: Here Comes the G20
Aron Cramer, President and CEO
All eyes are on London this week for the G20 Summit. In a column that ran in 27 countries on Monday, U.S. President Obama has called for "a new kind of global economic cooperation." Unfortunately, last week’s comments from Czech Prime Minister Topolanek on U.S. policy being the "way to hell," and from Brazilian President Lula on white, blue-eyed bankers” as the source of our current problems don’t sound like global cooperation to me. Read more →
Blog: Field Notes: Helping Guide GHG Protocol’s “Scope 3”
Ryan Schuchard, Manager, Climate and Energy
As BSR goes to press with “Looking for Signs Along the Road to Copenhagen,” the debate about whose emissions are whose and what constitutes progress is heating up. It is going to get hotter, because it looks more likely that the WTO will enforce prospective border measures on carbon. Read more →
Report: Measuring Corporate Impact on Ecosystems: A Comprehensive Review of New Tools
Linda Hwang, Former Manager, Research; Sissel Waage, Director, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Kit Armstrong, Senior Advisor, BSR
Learn how to integrate new ecosystem services into your corporate planning and daily decision-making. This report on ecosystem services—the collective benefits provided by a community of animals and plants interacting with one another and with their physical environment, such as clean water and pollination of plants—allows you to compare the various tools that measure and assess the value of ecosystem services. Read more
Report: Offsetting Emissions: A Business Brief on the Voluntary Carbon Market (Second Edition)
Sissel Waage, Director, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
This business brief is intended for companies that are considering the purchase of voluntary offsets for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It offers clear steps that guide early assessments and enable corporate decision makers to become educated consumers within voluntary carbon markets. Read more
Report: The New Markets for Environmental Services: A Corporate Manager's Resource Guide to Trading in Air, Climate, Water and Biodiversity Assets
Sissel Waage, Director, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
The natural environment provides society with essential services—such as clean air and reliable flows of clean water—which are increasingly being valued in financial terms. Environmental markets— some regulatory and others voluntary—are now trading credits as well as derivatives. Regulatory environmental markets are operating in Europe, the U.S., Australia and other countries around the world. Voluntary markets and business-to-business “payments for environmental services” (PES) deals are also underway, in both industrialized and developing countries. These markets and transactions are sending price signals about environmental values. The result is that businesses can place a financial value not only on environmental compliance, but also increasingly on voluntary actions. Read more
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