Climate Insights

The recently published EU VSME standard serves SMEs for their voluntary ESG reporting under CSRD and is also becoming relevant for bigger companies in the context of the Omnibus initiative. Which data points are essentiell and which ones should be added for efficient and beneficial reporting?

We live in a world with highly interconnected global trade and supply chains. To fully grasp our consumption-based Climate Footprints embedded emissions of imports should be taken into account. What is consumption-based accounting and how do we apply it in our payment-based calculations?

For more than 10,000 years, humanity has been living in extraordinarily stable climate conditions. Now our impact on the climate is threatening this stability. What can we do about it?

To understand our impact on the climate, let's look at the fundamental ideas behind the concept of the climate footprint. Here, we talk about what exactly the term means and why we prefer it over 'carbon footprint'. And we discuss why we should care about making the climate footprint of everything more visible.