Unique ESG Considerations for the Waste Industry

Unique ESG Considerations for the Waste Industry

The benefits of incorporating sustainability and ESG early and throughout an entire waste management project, such as the development of a new landfill, can have a big impact. Read this post to learn more about sector-specific ESG reporting and materiality for the waste industry.

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3-Step Strategy For Setting GHG Reduction Targets

3-Step Strategy For Setting GHG Reduction Targets

How can your company send a message to your customers and investors about your commitment to sustainability? One common way is to establish GHG reduction goals relative to a GHG baseline inventory. Read this post for our 3-step strategy for setting your GHG targets.

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How to Conduct a Global Life Cycle GHG Analysis to Benefit Investors

How to Conduct a Global Life Cycle GHG Analysis to Benefit Investors

Public sentiment is critical to the approval of any project, so don’t let misinformed perceptions judge its viability. Read this post to learn how a life cycle analysis can potentially convey the positive impacts of a project and alleviate the pressure investors often feel when trying to get stakeholder support for their project.

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How to Conduct Your Materiality Analysis Right While Maximizing Its Benefit

How to Conduct Your Materiality Analysis Right While Maximizing Its Benefit

Materiality analysis is the cornerstone of sustainability reporting. Defining what is important/material is perhaps the single most important step during your sustainability reporting process and rightly warrants a significant level of attention. Read this post for tips that will help you gain the most out of your process – both for you and your company.

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Update: 2020 CDP Disclosure Deadline Approaching

Update: 2020 CDP Disclosure Deadline Approaching

The extended summer 2020 CDP submission deadline for Climate Change, Water and Forestry disclosures is quickly approaching. KERAMIDA can review your draft 2020 disclosures and provide recommendations in time for the new submission deadline.

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SEC Urged to Establish ESG-Based Disclosure Framework

SEC Urged to Establish ESG-Based Disclosure Framework

The SEC has long been contemplating whether ESG disclosures should be included in its disclosure protocol for public companies. The Investor Advisory Committee recently provided five explicit recommendations for the SEC’s consideration regarding why and how the Commission should update its reporting requirements for companies to include material, decision-useful, ESG factors. Read this post to learn about their recommendations.

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BlackRock Demands Corporate Response to Climate Change

BlackRock Demands Corporate Response to Climate Change

With BlackRock’s $7.4 trillion in assets at stake, BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, has essentially demanded that companies make a purposeful commitment to confront climate change, or BlackRock will no longer invest in them. Given the current state of the world, how does ESG really factor in and what does this mean for companies?

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Benefits of Sustainability Reporting for Your Company: Doing Well by Doing Good

Benefits of Sustainability Reporting for Your Company: Doing Well by Doing Good

How can sustainability reporting help your company? In this post, we’ll discuss some of the many benefits that sustainability reporting can bring and the real value that companies can expect to get from publishing a sustainability report.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard - What You Need To Know

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard - What You Need To Know

The California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is designed to reduce GHG emissions in the transportation sector, which is responsible for about 50 percent of GHG emissions. Read this post to learn how California’s LCFS works, how to generate credits, verification requirements, and more.

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Get More Money for Less Emissions: California’s Food Production Investment Program

Get More Money for Less Emissions: California’s Food Production Investment Program

DEADLINE UPDATE: The Food Production Investment Program (FPIP) helps California food processors cut greenhouse gas emissions and save energy. Awardees include dairies, food, wineries, and other processing facilities. Round 1 applications are due December 4 - read this post for eligibility requirements and how to apply.

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Who’s Driving Sustainability in the Electric Power Sector?

Who’s Driving Sustainability in the Electric Power Sector?

In Part 2 of our series on Sustainability in the Electric Power Industry, we explore how Electric Power companies engage with their investors, their customers, and their suppliers on Sustainability issues and what are the key motivators for change.

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Sustainability for Electric Utility Suppliers: EUISSCA & The Sustainability Project

Sustainability for Electric Utility Suppliers: EUISSCA & The Sustainability Project

In Part 1 of our series on Sustainability in the Electric Power Industry, we discuss how suppliers to the utility industry can benchmark and communicate their sustainability efforts in a way that resonates with and is valued by the customer, and how the EUISSCA and The Sustainability Project can help.

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Indiana Clean Air Project Grant Opportunity From $10M in VW Funding

Indiana Clean Air Project Grant Opportunity From $10M in VW Funding

The Indiana Volkswagen Mitigation Trust Program is offering a grant opportunity for diesel vehicle and equipment replacement and repower projects with the goal of improving air quality across Indiana. Applications are due June 17 - read this post for eligibility requirements and how to apply.

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Circular Economy Benefits for the Metals Industry

Circular Economy Benefits for the Metals Industry

As businesses are starting to consider and implement more sustainable and socially responsible methods of operation, viable and cost-effective models of circularity are beginning to manifest. Read this post to gain a fundamental understanding of circularity and how facilities in the metals industry can benefit most.

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