Meet Taylor Dillon, our Associate Partner based in Nevada, United States. She enjoys being part of a team where collaborative efforts can solve even our clients' seemingly impossible sustainability challenges. ”Collaboration is a way of life at ERM – there’s genuine trust and connection across the organization because we all share a common purpose.” Learn more about Taylor’s career path and who her biggest supporters are below.
In September ERM held a CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) Implementation masterclass webinar in. In the session, ERM experts Johann Weicht, Samir Menon, Victoria Cross, and Onur Durmus provided real examples and practical tips to help organizations navigate the complexities of CSRD with ease and effectiveness. The webinar offered: - Tips on how to efficiently manage CSRD programs efficiently streamlining operations, technology, and teams. 💫 - Actionable insights into how to effectively align sustainability with existing EHS practices, a crucial step for accelerated CSRD implementation. ✅ - Learning how to use CSRD programs to maximize future value to your business. 💻 - Guidance on communicating sustainability achievements and challenges within the broader context of sustainability reporting. 📰 If you are interested in career in CSRD at ERM you can access the recording here and gain a greater insight into what we do.
How has this year’s Climate Week NYC shaped the global business sustainability agenda? Find the answer in the latest episode of our podcast “Sustainable Connections,“ where host Mark Lee talks to ERM leaders and experts across climate markets, social performance, and nature. They also discuss implications and expectations for the upcoming United Nations hashtag#COP16 biodiversity and hashtag#COP29 climate change conferences later this year. Find the episode below.
Sometimes, the main obstacle to implementing sustainable practices in business operations is simply a lack of knowledge about where to begin. That’s exactly why Booking.com decided to partner with UN Tourism with the goal of helping accommodation providers overcome this challenge. As a result, Booking.com collaborated with ERM to create a series of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to educate hospitality industry professionals on key sustainability topics, such as local community engagement, energy management and greenhouse gases, food management, and water management. These joint efforts to make the travel industry more sustainable were recently awarded at The Corporate Engagement Awards 2024 in the category of Best Sustainability Program. Learn more about the steps Booking.com took and how ERM helped to achieve their goal in our most recent case study below.
As a provider of essential materials to 95% of all manufactured goods worldwide, the chemical industry is increasingly aware of its significant impact and dependencies on nature. This also comes with a growing need to collect and interpret nature data and turn it into actionable decisions that create tangible opportunities and improve companies’ relationship with nature. To advance nature strategies, the chemical industry needs to address data gaps within its operations and value chain. Key areas to monitor and reduce impacts include land use, climate change, water ecosystems, and ecotoxicity. For aquatic impacts, focus on wetland conversion and land use in catchments. Explore the topic further below. #ChemicalIndustry #Nature #WorldAgriTech
The main takeaway from Climate Week NYC for Jules Peck, ERM’s Consulting Partner for Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change, was that companies must urgently rethink their climate policy engagement strategies. Many companies acknowledge that both regulators and investors increasingly look for alignment of corporate policy engagement with their climate goals. However, many companies still send mixed messages. Recent research by InfluenceMap assessed 300 global companies. While 93 % made net zero claims, 58% were unsupportive or lobbied against climate policies to achieve it. With current global climate policies steering us toward a 2.7-degree Celsius increase —far from the 1.5-degree Paris target —it’s crucial for companies to adopt smarter, more strategic approaches in their interactions with policymakers. Companies need to learn how to build effective coalitions and foster the creation of innovative public-private climate policies. Additional climate policies are unavoidable. However, by being positively involved, companies can ensure these policies better align with corporate realities and help them decarbonize while maintaining their competitive edge. So, it’s time for companies to step up and revamp their climate policy engagements. Get more insights from the ERM team straight from Climate Week NYC: www.erm.com/climate-week/ #ClimateWeekNYC #Policies #CorporateSustainability
How has this year’s Climate Week NYC shaped the global business sustainability agenda? Find the answer in the latest episode of our podcast “Sustainable Connections,“ where host Mark Lee talks to ERM leaders and experts across climate markets, social performance, and nature. They also discuss implications and expectations for the upcoming United Nations #COP16 biodiversity and #COP29 climate change conferences later this year. Find the episode below.
You can’t negotiate with science. The world just experienced the warmest 12 months in 125,000 years, and the economic damage caused by weather-related disasters is soaring. Climate Week NYC has been a helpful reality check highlighting the need to step up and convert sustainability goals into on-the-ground implementation. Tom Reichert, ERM’s CEO, and Sabine Hoefnagel, ERM’s Global Leader of Sustainability and Risk, explain that companies need to develop two things: a clear and crisp transition plan and, equally important, a compelling narrative for all their stakeholders, illustrating how the company will deliver value and become more resilient through decarbonizing the business. The weeks and months after Climate Week NYC will be crucial for continuing the discussions and taking the next steps—it’s time for us to make progress together.
Scientists warn almost daily that climate change is accelerating. We can see and feel its impact all around us, so the arrival of Climate Week NYC is a good reminder that companies must step up and convert sustainability goals into action. Renewables are critical to meeting our climate goals, and the deadlines for those goals are coming up fast. By 2030, in less than six years, we need renewable energy to go from about 30% of global electricity generation to 60%. Todd Hall, ERM’s Global Lead for Renewables, shared his thoughts on the topic during Climate Week NYC. "Even though renewable energy is growing very fast - each year breaking the growth record set the prior year - the question remains; how can we go even faster?”
The rallying cry of this year’s Climate Week NYC captures it well: It’s time. For companies, this means it’s time to step up and switch from setting sustainability goals to implementing them. It won’t be easy, but it’s the best way to address climate challenges and seize the vast commercial opportunities the transition to the low-carbon economy will bring. Susan Angyal, ERM’s Regional CEO in North America, hopes that Climate Week NYC will trigger a broad shift from cautious to bold thinking, as we all need to work harder to secure our collective prosperity and well-being.
