Sustainable finance 30 Oct 2024

Target-setting for financial institutions: 3 key updates you need to know

Luke Chater 5 Min Reading Time
There is significant activity in the target-setting landscape for financial institutions, as framework developers look to improve methodologies, address industry feedback and expand coverage from the public markets to the private markets. Although setting climate-related targets can be both complex and strategically critical, expectations from regulatory bodies and framework developers are clear: structured, time-bound and science-aligned ...
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Carbon Market 24 Oct 2024

Navigating Carbon Markets: 4 Key Questions from SE Advisory Services’s Climate Week NYC Panel

Liz Post 6 Min Reading Time
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) has seen significant growth in recent years, including a rising number of projects and methodologies. With this progress comes the critical opportunity to strengthen the integrity and transparency of the market, ensuring its long-term success. At this year’s Climate Week NYC, SE Advisory Services hosted an event for industry experts ...
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Carbon Credits 14 Oct 2024

Carbon offsetting projects up close: Rethinking voluntary carbon offsetting’s true value with Director of Sustainability at Philips  

Isabel Fernández de la Fuente 11 Min Reading Time
Philips, is the first health technology company to have its entire value chain emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). It integrates voluntary carbon offsetting as a strategic complement to its comprehensive decarbonisation efforts.  In April 2024, Director of Sustainability at Philips, Alexandros Theodoropoulos, conducted field visits to three carbon offsetting ...
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Climate Action 9 Oct 2024

SE Advisory Services’s Highlights from Climate Week NYC 2024

Liz Post 4 Min Reading Time
Two weeks ago, the largest annual climate event in the United States took place in New York City: Climate Week NYC, organized by The Climate Group. Coinciding with the UN General Assembly (UNGA), this event brought together business leaders, policymakers, government representatives, academics, tech professionals, activists, and change-makers, from across the globe to discuss one ...
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Carbon Offsetting 10 Sep 2024

Improved cookstove projects: Fighting climate change and empowering women in Kenya 

Aurélie Soulier 8 Min Reading Time
According to the Clean Cooking Alliance, 25% of the world’s population relies on polluting open fires and inefficient fuels such as charcoal, wood, and kerosene for cooking. This puts considerable stress on forest resources and leads to approximately 3.2 million deaths annually, particularly among women and children, due to exposure to smoke ...
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Biodiversity 5 Sep 2024

Developing a Biodiversity Strategy: Five Key Points to Get Started

Sabrina Capon and Jeanne Barreyre 7 Min Reading Time
Increasingly, regulatory and voluntary reporting frameworks encourage companies to consider their impacts on biodiversity and dependencies on nature. Sabrina Capon, Biodiversity Manager, and Jeanne Barreyre, Senior Research Consultant in Nature-Based Solutions and Biodiversity, answer the most frequently asked questions about developing a biodiversity strategy.
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climate data analytics 4 Sep 2024

SE Advisory Services’s Climate Data Analytics team releases its ecodev-app in open source to facilitate website development in Python

Thomas Epelbaum 2 Min Reading Time
In line with its recent contributions to the open source world, SE Advisory Services is making its ecodev-app (and its associated documentation) available to all developers wishing to create complete and secure web applications in Python.  What is ecodev-app? Ecodev-app is the culmination of over a year’s work by Thomas Epelbaum, Olivier Gabriel, Amaury Salles, ...
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Climate Action 26 Aug 2024

Mexico Carbon Forum 2024: Pioneering Climate Action in Latin America

Vittoria Zaniboni Morán 5 Min Reading Time
Last week, SE Advisory Services Business Development Executive for the Americas, Vittoria Zaniboni Morán, attended the Mexico Carbon Forum 2024 in León, Guanajuato. She described it as ‘the most comprehensive forum I have ever participated in.’ This year’s event centered on advancing the Latin America climate agenda by bringing together key decision-makers and stakeholders from ...
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Climate Change 13 Aug 2024

Will AI be helpful or harmful in the fight against climate change? 

Dorian Kodelja 4 Min Reading Time
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and the proliferation of user-friendly software libraries have led to AI applications across various sectors, including healthcare, finance and marketing. These advancements have enabled the automation of complex processes. However, the substantial computing power and vast datasets required to train these models raise both ecological and social concerns. Moreover, ...
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