AI Model Efficiency

One member asks, “Have members seen good sources that compare the efficiency of different AI models and have they used any of these benchmarks?” Read More

Double Materiality Quandary

One member asks, “We are about mid-way through our first double materiality assessment and are struggling with the process and the thought of having to do this every year. I believe that the results will be insightful but the process seems so convoluted. We are using a consulting partner, but have not been impressed with their processes, materials, or guidance and are considering developing our own methods in the future. Do members have any resources, consultant recommendations, or tech solutions that they can share? Have there been any positive experiences or learnings with double materiality that anyone would be willing to share?” Read More

Travel Management

One member asks, “How are members working with the travel management companies to drive reductions in business travel emissions via dashboarding, in tool communications or other avenues?” Read More

AI Models

One member asks, “Have members seen good sources that compare the efficiency of different AI models and have they used any of these benchmarks?” Read More

Supplier Engagement Goals

One member asks, “We had been considering a supplier engagement goal for our next set of sustainability goals but given the current environment, are revisiting this. Curious if other members have or are setting supplier engagement/supplier emission reduction goals through 2030. Are any companies dialing up or down their scope 3 targets in the next couple years? What is driving this?” Read More

Sanctions Compliance

One member asks, “if there are best practices on how to ensure compliance with the sanctions that are imposed on third countries. This is asked within the framework of Directive (UE) 2024/1226 which requires that EU Member States sanction companies that do not respect sanctions (mainly export restrictions to list of countries such as Russia, Iran etc).” Read More

AI Principles

One member asks, “Can you please add a question in your newsletter to see if there are any companies that have external facing AI principles and if they’d be willing to share?” Read More

Disaster Relief Organizations

One member asks, “Our Community Impact team has been thinking through opportunities to expand our support of disaster relief organizations outside of traditional “disaster response” 501c3s such as the American Red Cross, to also include organizations focused on community/climate resiliency. We wanted to see if other Trellis members had recommendations on 501c3s to support which orient their organizations more towards proactively helping communities prepare for natural disasters and climate-related events.” Read More

Employee Surveys

One member asks, “We are considering including a short set of questions in our employee survey regarding sustainability engagement (e.g., awareness, desire, and knowledge). Would anyone be willing to share the questions from their survey and any input on how useful or effective such measurements are?” Read More

Employee Education and Greenwashing

One member asks, “We’re looking into sustainability training materials for 1) sustainability managers at each of our companies and 2) broader employee base. Before we develop custom trainings, I was wondering if the network has good experience with any off-the-shelf training providers (e.g., AXA climate school, UNGC, others?). I would especially be interested in any firms that can provide 80% existing content and 20% opportunity to customize with company-specific content.” Read More