More and more companies are developing corporate climate strategies and setting climate targets. For many organizations, risk is the central focus of these discussions as many wonder how to best mitigate the potential impacts of a changing climate and transitioning economy. Yet the upside of risk and uncertainty is opportunity. As climate-leading organizations are discovering, […]
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How to Leverage Data and AI to Scale Climate Resilience
May 23, 2023 Companies around the world are increasingly facing pressures to address their climate risks and opportunities through robust and well-integrated strategies. But many struggle to understand how they’re doing in the context of the shift toward a low-carbon economy. Technology, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) have the power to support companies when it comes […]
Beyond a Net-Zero Target: Why Climate Management Matters
As the climate transition accelerates, more companies are setting ambitious targets to zero out their emissions. While some are choosing to do this voluntarily, others are doing this in response to investor and regulatory pressures, which are mounting as awareness of climate-related physical and transition risks have grown. However, just because companies have set net-zero […]
Emissions Reporting is About More Than Numbers
International climate action must be guided by clear, credible data. When it comes to climate mitigation targets, this means accurate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting and verification. There’s a lot more to producing high-quality emissions disclosures than crunching numbers, however. Organizations have to set up policies and processes for gathering emissions data from across business […]
Closing the ‘Say-Do’ Climate Gap
Companies are touting their climate credentials in increasing numbers, with many disclosing plans that show their commitments to a green, climate-safe world. In its recent status report, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) — the world’s premier climate reporting framework — found that around half of the 1,400 companies it reviewed included information […]
Climate Action Plans: Setting Goals and Overcoming Obstacles
October 18th, 2022 Companies big and small are considering how to take climate action. However, many do not know where to start, or what climate goals to target. Others may know what actions to take, but are unclear on the practices and processes they should put in place to implement them. This is why setting […]
How Financial Firms Can Navigate Climate Tipping Points
Climate risks will not obey a steady and predictable pattern as the world heats up. Beyond certain temperature thresholds, abrupt shifts in the climate system could occur with far-reaching consequences for the planet, the global economy, and human civilization itself. These “climate tipping points” (CTPs) complicate the climate risk management calculus. As the relationship between […]
Has the backlash against financed emissions begun?
Climate finance tastemakers are pushing for financial institutions to put real-economy emissions reductions at the heart of their net-zero strategies “Financed emissions” are no longer in vogue. Last year, they were all the rage. The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), launched in April 2021, bounds its members together with a shared commitment to transition all the emissions […]
Manifest Climate has been selected to join Unreasonable CHANGE, a new strategic collaboration between Accenture and Unreasonable, to support entrepreneurs building solutions to global sustainability challenges.
Unreasonable CHANGE is a three-year strategic collaboration, built on the shared belief that supporting social entrepreneurs innovating for a sustainable future, is not only a moral imperative but also an unprecedented business opportunity. Together, Accenture and Unreasonable believe that the level of systemic change we need to create a sustainable future is only possible through […]
Here’s how to run asset-level climate physical risk assessments
A recent academic paper proposes a five-step methodology for measuring how climate impacts to physical assets can inflict losses on financial institutions Climate physical risks are all over the headlines. On Monday, data released by the nonprofit First Street Foundation showed that half of all addresses in the lower 48 US states are exposed to wildfire […]