Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
Our vision is a future where sustainable business is business as usual.
HM King Charles III established A4S in 2004, when he was HRH The Prince of Wales, to work with the finance and accounting community to:
• Inspire finance leaders to adopt sustainable and resilient business models
• Transform financial decision making to reflect the opportunities and risks posed by the climate crisis and other environmental and social issues
• Scale up action to transition to a sustainable economy
A4S has three global networks:
• Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Leadership Network - CFOs from leading organizations seeking to transform finance and accounting
• Accounting Bodies Network - members comprise approximately two-thirds of the world’s accountants
• Asset Owners Network - Pension Fund Chairs who integrate sustainability into investment decision making
See our website for more details: www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/index.html
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Every COP meeting has been a complete failure looking at the data. An expensive failure of elitists charging their COP vacations to the taxpayers. Absolutely disgusting to think these people are held in high regard.
Very interresting solution to work from a bottom-up approach to understand the emission impct of end products. However im thinking from a practical perspective isn't one of the problems that alot of the suppliers are really small and dont have the capacity or the finncial means to cover this?
heat pumps taking over gas furnaces is awesome.
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I must say.... This is the most insightful clip I've watched all my career. So accurate and enlightening. Thank you so much. I'm grateful.
Fabulous conversation A4S - CFO Conversations are hosting a series of Roundtables this year to help, inspire and educate the finance community about how we find nature based solutions. As you rightly say, we need business leaders and finance professionals to help find solutions to these global challenges.
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I would love to receive the presentation deck you are using, would you mind sharing it? thank you.
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Can you provide the link for the PPT used in the webinar?
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Innovative and interesting business idea!
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Any focus on mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions is a mistake for Canada, which emits only 1.6% of world emissions. As I describe here, we should focus on local adaptation measures where there are local problems: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5ef28FriMu-Zco.html
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Excellent presentation by Manav and his teammates. Hopefully this thing is viewed by some big companies in US and they can follow this process. Well done team kudos for the whole team
Seems to be an interesting concept. All the best 👍
1) By reflecting away 30% of ISR the albedo, which would not exist w/o the atmosphere, makes the earth cooler than it would be without the atmosphere like that reflective panel set on the dash. Remove the atmosphere/GHGs and the earth becomes much like the moon, a 0.1 albedo, 20% more kJ/h, hot^3 on the lit side, cold^3 on the dark. Nikolov, Kramm (U of AK) and UCLA Diviner mission all tacitly agree. 2) the GHG up/down welling, “trapping”/”back” radiating/delaying, 100 % efficient, perpetual warming loop requires "extra" energy which it gets from 3) the terrestrial surface radiating that "extra" energy as a near ideal .95 emissivity black body which 4) it cannot do because of the non-radiative heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules. 1+2+3+4 = 0 Greenhouse Effect + 0 Greenhouse gas warming + 0 man caused climate change. All science backed up by experiment, the gold standard of classical science. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicholas-schroeder-55934820_climatechange-greenhouse-co2-activity-6749812735246254080-bc6K Version 1.0 012821 Princes
-- By 2025 66% of people will live in water stressed areas -- 47% of global thermal power plant capacity is threatened by water shortages -- 30% of planned hydro projects are threatened by water stress -- Solar & wind are 3% of energy use -- 4% of mammals are wild - Electricity is 20% of global energy use in 2020 and will be 24% by 2040 - 100% renewable electricity in 2020 = 20% of global energy use - 100% renewable electricity in 2040 = 24% of global energy use -- If 30% of energy use is electricity by 2050 then -- 100% renewable electricity in 2050 = 30% of energy use -- We have to stop burning 50% of everything in 10 yrs to delay runaway mass extinction - Earth heating = 400,000 Hiroshima nukes per day says James Hansen - Earth is already 1.5 °C hotter than 1750 based on historical and proxy data - Earth heating jumped a 50 yr old trendline ( 0.18 °C /decade ) in the last 5 years -- 1971 - 2018 global heat forcing averaged 0.47 watts/m² -- 2010 - 2018 global heat forcing averaged 0.87 watts/m² ( up 46% ) -- It's getting too hot too fast for solar, wind, batteries and hydrogen to cool earth - 30% of energy from algae would require land the size of Argentina -- In 1992 fossil fuels were 91% of energy -- in 2021 fossils are some 83% -- 1992 - 2021 energy demand rose 50%, -- greenhouse gases rose 46% -- Petrochemical demand grew 7X human population rate 1998 - 2018 -- Solar & wind are < 3% of global energy use in 2020 - Wind turbine plans for 2030 = 800 million tons of coal says Vaclav Smil - Wind turbine demand for rare earth production will grow up to 26X by 2040 - The market for magnet rare earth oxides will increase 5X by 2030 - EVs will fuel a 275% increase in demand for rare earths by 2025 - Supply chain threats are up while demand exceeds supplies before 2030 - If batteries were 60% more efficient we would use 60X more of them - Over 60 yrs jets are 68% more efficient flying 60X more passengers - 2.63 billion air trips were taken in 2010 - 4.4 billion trips in 2018 - 8 billion trips /year were planned for 2050 - We cut 10 billion trees /yr and plant 5 billion - Net tree loss is as high as a football field every 3 seconds - Trees grow faster die younger in heat fire flood & drought - Euros burn imported trees, seed oils for renewable electricity - Euros burn recycled plastic & paper for recycled electricity - Yanks pump fresh water underground for gas to charge EVs in a megadrought - Fracking and conventional enhanced oil and gas both use lots of water - By 2035 US farms will lose up to 8X the soil of the Dust Bowl - Wetland loss is greater than tree loss - Inland sea & lake levels will drop globally - ofen dramatically - 40% of Amazon rainforests don’t know their ass is grass yet - Cooling demand will grow 3X by 2050 = US EU Japan electricty use -- The protective ozone blanket high up over your head never stopped depleting -- An illegal shipment of CFCs in China worth $2 is worth $20 in Europe - 4% of mammals are wild by weight - 96% of mammals are livestock and human - With 23 billion chickens on earth, if one sneezes we all get the flu - 40% of insect species are threatened with extinction by 2050 - Battery & Bio-energy extraction destroys native land water & wildlife - Batteries and hydrogen won’t affect climate thresholds in time to matter Global energy expert Vaclav Smil says: - North Euro offshore wind turbines work 30% of the time - North Euro onshore wind turbines work 22% of the time - One of those offshore Texas would work 35% of the time - North Euro solar panels work 11% of the time - 2030 wind demands = 800 million tons of coal -- With solar & wind @ 3% of energy it's academic Green Energy Harms Native Freedom Land Water & Wildlife - Europe get over 50% of its renewable energy burning trees & seed oils - Europe burns 80% of global wood pellets for renewable electricity - Europe burns 40% of its recycled plastic & paper for electricity - Europe burns 65% of its palm oil for bio-energy - Dams destroy river wildlife up and down the rivers - Shipping trees and palm oil overseas for green energy is criminal - Europe’s carbon credit cap & trade system is old and corrupt - Europe’s global carbon fund is rife with corruption Support James Hansen’s monthly private carbon dividends - 100% to you 0% to governments & corporations - That’s why both governments and corporations hate it - That’s why both socialists and capitalists hate it - This is where scales of efficiency actually pay off Monthly Private Dividends = Real Climate Justice ( not the academic kind ) 26 Nobel Prize winning economists support James Hansen’s monthly dividends, including: 3,589 U.S. Economists, 4 Former Chairs of the Federal Reserve and ALL 15 Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Adviser WATER National Soil Erosion Rates on Track to Repeat Dust Bowl-era Losses Eight Times Over - UCS 2020 Expect More Mega-Droughts - Science Daily 2020 Fresh Water Per Person Plunges 20% In 20 Yrs - FAO 2020 By 2025 66% of people will live in water stressed areas - Nat Geo 2020 4 billion people live one month per year in water shressed areas - Sci Adv 2016 1.9 billion people at risk from mountain water shortages - Guardian 2019 50% of Global Thermal Electric Capacity Threatened By Water Shortages - WRI 2017 30% of planned hydro projects threatened by water stress - WWF 2020 Climate change: US megadrought ‘already under way’ - BBC 2020 Water use for fracking has risen by up to 770% since 2011 - Science Daily 2018 44% of Coal Plants Risk Global Water Shortage - Unearthed 2016
The A4S Essential Guide to Engaging the Board and Executive Management will be published next year. Stay tuned by signing up to the A4S newsletter: www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/newsletter-sign-up.html
Use TCFD to get the attention of the board. The A4S Top Tips for Finance Teams for Implementing TCFD capture the practical approaches tried and tested by early adopters. www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/activities/tcfd/tcfd-guidance.html We have also published a number of case studies on how finance teams support scenario analysis. www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/activities/tcfd/tcfd-insights.html
A4S and Chapter Zero are both partners of the Goal 13 Impact Platform to accelerate progress in the climate transition. We welcome organizations to join the platform: www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/knowledge-hub/reports/goal-13-impact-platform-emerging-themes.html
The A4S Essential Guide to Finance Culture talks about how to align leadership and raise awareness across the business on sustainability issues, and support the culture change that’s necessary. www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/knowledge-hub/guides/finance-culture.html
The A4S Essential Guide to Managing Future Uncertainty is a practical guide to introduce finance and risk professionals to the potential business impacts of macro environmental and social trends. It gives examples of how to overcome some of the uncertainty about the impact climate change and other sustainability issues, so that you can communicate effectively with the board and management and make better business decisions. www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/knowledge-hub/guides/managing-future-uncertainty.html
The A4S Essential Guide to Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting provides guidance to finance teams to develop an embedded strategy to enhance long term stakeholder value. The guide also covers the governance practices to support this. www.accountingforsustainability.org/en/knowledge-hub/guides/strategic-planning.html
Speakers and useful links: Philip Witherington, Chief Financial Officer, Manulife Financial Corporation www.manulife.com/en/about/sustainability.html Stephanie Bertels, Director of Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability and Founder and Executive Director of the Embedding Project embeddingproject.org Julie Baddeley, Chair of the Steering Committee, Chapter Zero www.chapterzero.org.uk
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Ahhh I didn't realize a few things here! Great video and thanks for sharing.
The lady showed up third looks so charming! and sweet!
Equity crowdfunding is the way of future. It has already transformed 1st world economies, and is the path forward to support upcoming startups in developing countries.
Very interesting and informative .. keep up with the amazing work and looking forward for more
Comprehensive presentation. 👍👍
This is fantastic!! you have my vote!!