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.
New framework goes beyond emissions to score corporate climate action
How would your company rate on the Climate Contribution Framework? Read More
How a focus on stock indexes can boost your company’s sustainability efforts
Sustainability teams can collaborate with colleagues in finance to target membership of ESG indexes. Read More
Autodesk, EY and Salesforce top this carbon credits leaderboard. Here’s what you can learn from them
A survey by independent rater Calyx Global identified the three companies as leading large buyers. Read More
Why greenwashing studies create a catch-22 for companies
A framework for measuring the hard-to-define practice is proving useful to scientists. Others are no so sure. Read More
PwC says more companies are on track to hit emissions goals
But though the data points to progress, conclusions are compromised by a lack of agreement over what constitutes acceptable ambition. Read More
Have your say on the WWF’s ambitious effort to overhaul global food systems
The Codex Planetarius would create minimum environmental standards for food exports. Read More
After SBTi reset, some wonder if targets are still science-aligned
The old rules required some companies to commit to unrealistically steep emissions cuts. But do the new rules break with IPCC recommendations on a 1.5-degree future? Read More
Leading carbon credit registries expand into supply-chain decarbonization
The new options should make it easier for companies to reduce Scope 3 emissions. Read More
How to navigate all those certifications in the voluntary carbon market
An unregulated field has become a crowded one. Read More
Exxon-backed Carbon Measures signs up climate nonprofits as advisors
Advisors from Resources for the Future and Microsoft are now working with Carbon Measures. Read More
