ESG/ClimateTech

A collection of 23 posts

Enterprise IT

Bridging the climate change and flood risk visibility gap

An "extraordinarily difficult" but critical challenge, says Fathom.

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Tech firms without sustainability data have a target on their backs

Firms are "increasingly and competitively focussed" on sustainability...

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Microsoft’s cloud emissions API wins praise as rivals lag on disclosure

Emissions data important enough now that some companies are abandoning suppliers...

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Goldman Sachs' SEC fine shows ESG data, greenwash risks persist

Asset managers are playing fast and loose...

Enterprise IT

Workday invests in pulsESG as regulators ramp up ESG pressure

The venture capital arm of ERP company Workday has invested in startup pulsESG -- as major software companies continue to buy or build their way into carbon accounting and ESG reporting software. Workday follows Accenture in backing pulsESG – which launched in October 2021 with $8.5 million in seed funding.

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AWS's new carbon footprint tool criticised

Welcomed, but users damn it with faint praise...

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Expect to hear a lot more about XBRL. Here's why

"Probably the single thing that will help with information flow"

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Red Hat joins Goldman, Allianz, AWS on Linux Foundation's OS-Climate -- pledges 8 engineers.

Red Hat will build an enterprise-grade data ingestion platform for...

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity as a critical ESG framework category

JPMorgan: "All evidence points to continued interest across the board"

Enterprise IT

ESG is not an environmental issue: it's a data sourcing and governance one

"The devil is in the detail – and the key to cracking it lurks in metadata."

Enterprise IT

Bjørn Sibbern, Nasdaq's President of European Markets, on ESG, Brexit, and expanding...

"ESG, Europe is a few years ahead of the US on ESG, but when it comes to the cloud..."

ESG/ClimateTech

Satellite data that tracks how much water plants use. A man named “Pythagoras”. A small Greek tech startup. And the United Nations.

Using geospatial data and advanced modelling to tackle land degradation

Enterprise IT

"ERP for carbon data" startup Persefoni raises $9.7m, eyes "largest regulatory compliance software market since Sarbanes Oxley"

Startup lands PE firm TPG as a customer

Cloud

Should estimating the power consumption of AWS EC2 instances really be quite this hard?

Understanding the power consumption of cloud resources is crucial to tracking emissions...

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SFDR looks beyond the balance sheet, through greenwashing. Data strategies must change.

"Sustainability reporting needs to evolve, and fast."

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GCP's energy use tool is a welcome step, but there's much work to do on cloud emissions.

You could choose to run batch jobs in a lower carbon region

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Geospatial data and powerful algorithms are transforming flood risk modelling, but investors need to be careful.

"The use of climate models in the financial sector must be cautious and nuanced"

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Goldman Sachs will add carbon accounting of client portfolios to its investing application.

Goldman Sachs is planning to add carbon accounting of client portfolios to the bank's investing application, Marquee -- which lets finance professionals access Goldman's technology platform via browser, or programmatically via APIs -- CEO David Solomon said today, as demand grows across the investment community for

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Understanding ESG and sustainability measurement: from data to IT.

"Consider an IT architecture that supports ‘multiple versions of the truth’"

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How bio-acoustics and Artificial Intelligence are helping to save the world’s rainforests

"Species that are typically quiet send alarm calls and species that are typically vocal go quiet"

Enterprise IT

A major new ESG report casts light on a complex market: Our digested read.

"Providers not only have an issue with timeliness, but also with accuracy and reliability"

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One to watch #2: Carbon management startup Persefoni.

"Like GDPR in 2017. People know they need to comply, but not how..."

ESG/ClimateTech

Climate risk data is a hot mess. These open source pioneers want to set things straight.

"This is a thorny problem that we have to solve"