Jim Giles
Jim Giles is Vice President, Editor-at-Large at Trellis Group. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Economist, Guardian, Nature and other publications. He was the co-founder of Matter, an award-winning investigative publication that was acquired by Medium in 2013. In 2017, he was a graduate of the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University. He’s also worked as a strategic consultant for several high-impact organizations, including the European Climate Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
GM’s pioneering emissions goal looks out of reach. What can it do?
The automaker was once all-in on electric vehicles. Then the economics and politics changed, leaving its new CSO with an increasingly common leadership challenge. Read More
How the new land-sector carbon accounting rules will impact your company
After five years of discussion, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol has finalized its standards — with one important exception. Read More
Stripe, Shopify and Google accelerate progress toward zero-emissions lime
Reversing the emissions equation for lime could turn the hard-to-abate industry into a carbon removal powerhouse. Read More
Amazon, eBay and Etsy help put Tesla trucks on the road
A new “book and claim” system aggregates demand from buyers willing to pay a premium for zero-emission freight. Read More
Why switching to a better supply-chain model can cause emissions estimates to spike
Widely used models focus on emission factors from one country, obscuring the impact of carbon-intensive overseas manufacturing. Read More
Biodiversity VC fund focuses on seaweed, fungi and invasive species
Superorganism is targeting technologies that lessen the impact of polluting industries. Read More
How the maker of Grape-Nuts and Weetabix upped its sustainability game
Post Holdings’ subsidiaries use different strategies to contribute to the company’s top-level emission goals. Read More
Amazon enters the matrix to pinpoint supply-chain emissions
The tech giant generated more granular data by adapting a tool used to study connections between business sectors. Read More
Apple and Shell are among buyers from latest carbon credit project ruled as flawed
Verra rejected four projects that generated more than 4 million credits due to issues around the authenticity of approval documents. Read More
It’s time we all come to grips with today’s emissions-reduction reality
There is an undeniable gap between the emissions cuts that companies say are possible and the scale of the change they're being asked to deliver. Read More
