Tag: Ceres

New Guidance Outlines Best Practices for Municipal Bond Issuers Facing Growing Climate Threats

Stuart Mitchell

As municipalities and other public entities face rising costs from storms, fires, and extreme weather events, Ceres recently released new guidance on how state and local governments can integrate resilience planning with climate risk disclosure to address these challenges.   The report, “Leading with Transparency: A Guide to Strengthening Climate Disclosure and Resilience in the Municipal Bond Market” provides a comprehensive framework for how public sector organizations can better inform investors on their climate risks and plans to address these risks.   The report also highlights best practices from leading U.S. municipalities…

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Ceres to highlight advanced solutions to monitor supply chain deforestation

Stuart Mitchell

In a crucial year for deforestation action, Ceres is highlighting innovative ways companies can use technology to reduce the climate and nature risks facing their businesses from forest loss and degradation in their supply chain. Much attention will be on forests this year, with COP30 taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation set to go into effect, and many of the world’s largest companies having ambitious no-deforestation pledges tied to 2025.   As Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber writes in Forbes.com,  “Deforestation has the potential…

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Ceres celebrates the 2025 BICEP Award winners for leading on corporate clean energy advocacy

Stuart Mitchell

Last month, business leaders took to Capitol Hill to take part in one of the most important clean energy policy advocacy events in a generation. LEAD on a Clean Economy 2025 focused squarely on defending the federal policy that has unleashed so much economic growth through clean energy investment: the tax credits that are helping America rebuild its manufacturing base, meet surging electricity demand, and ensure its leadership in the global competition to command the industries of the 21st century.  Ceres wrote: In dozens of meetings with Republican Congressional offices,…

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New report outlines opportunities for food companies to address agricultural methane pollution

Stuart Mitchell

As extreme weather events impact farm productivity and animal health and disrupt supply chains, a new Ceres’ report outlines the significant opportunities for food companies to drive innovation, build resilience, and create a more sustainable and profitable industry.  Ceres’ report, Unlocking Opportunity: Addressing Livestock Methane to Build Resilient Food Systems, highlights the financial case for corporate action on agricultural pollution, including a first-of-its-kind analysis of food companies’ exposure to methane risks based on their position within the industry. This analysis also contains recommendations for sub-industries and more than a dozen…

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Ceres urges protection of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres issued the following statement in response to the introduction of companion legislation introduced yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives that would repeal provisions of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP), introduced in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.  “The Methane Emissions Reduction Program benefits and strengthens the U.S. energy industry. By reducing waste, bringing more gas to the marketplace, and maintaining access to global markets that are seeking transparency on methane pollution, the program increases competitiveness for U.S. oil and gas producers,” said Andrew Logan, senior director, Ceres. “If…

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