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Ten years ago, HP Inc. pledged to match 100 percent of its global electricity with renewables by 2025, as part of an early wave of corporate commitments inspired by the Climate Group's RE100 campaign. In May, the tech company extended its self-imposed dea

The number of U.S. companies with climate targets peaked in 2022 and has fallen since, according to a newly released database compiled by Harvard University researchers. Estimates of corporate climate action often report growth in the number of companies

Carbon markets have transformed over the past five years, with updated standards and rigorous due diligence frameworks giving sustainability leaders much more confidence in project design. Still, signing an agreement to buy an invisible good in the future

As corporate sustainability matures, some long-time leaders are leaving the profession, while others are tackling a broader set of responsibilities following reorganizations or layoffs. The Trellis Executive Moves tracker chronicles high-profile transitio

The sustainability team at Royal Mail, Britain's primary postal service, is testing a tool that uses artificial intelligence to estimate the potential carbon emissions that might be generated by new vendor contracts. It took Emma Bayliss-Chan, head of cli

Healthcare company Novo Nordisk is among 14 companies that this week disclosed science-based pledges or projects that address nature-related environmental concerns such as biodiversity, freshwater quality or ocean protections. Novo Nordisk's new commitmen

The world's largest issuer of voluntary carbon market credits is gearing up to launch a registry for an emerging type of credit that's used to decarbonize supply chains. Verra announced this week that project developers can begin the process of applying t

The opinions expressed by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Companies often try to buy relatively new carbon credits, sometimes those no more than five years old. Many also want to match the "credit vintage" - the year the r

Target has become the latest major company to downgrade its emission goals. The retailer, which operates more than 2,000 stores across the United States, said this week it is now targeting net zero by 2050, up to a decade later than previously planned. It

The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Planning business initiatives to comply with sustainability regulations like extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a lot like personal finance: complex, an