PGS
This scope 3 category includes all upstream emissions from the production of products purchased or acquired by the company, not otherwise covered in categories 2-8.
What is Category 1: Purchased Goods and Services
The earth is comprised of this percentage of water
What is 71%
These organizations were instrumental in the development of the GHG Protocol
Who are the WRI and WBCSD
(points awarded for identifying one or both)
This regulation, impacting 50k companies worldwide, requires disclosure of non-financial information related to ESG issues and is predicated on double materiality.
What is the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
Sustain.Life achieved this certification in 2023, which designates businesses that meet hte highest standards of verified environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
What is B Corporation
This seaweed mass stretching across the Atlantic is caused by agricultural runoff from the Amazon
What is the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt
Sustain.Life's new PGS tool leverages corporate data from this dataset to provide users with revenue-based allocated emissions from suppliers
What is CDP
Global warming potential (GWP) of methane and nitrous oxides are updated in this report every 7 years
What is the IPCC Assessment Report
This term represents the value average emissions associated with a specific activity
What is an emissions factor
This framework underpins most global climate disclosure rules, and has been officially incorporated into the ISSB standards
What is TCFD
Sustain.Life is a certified software provider for these two organizations
What are CDP and GRI
(must say both)
CDP's reporting cycle for 2024 has been shifted to this opening and closing dates (2 distinct dates).
This calculation method requires the reporting company to collect product level cradle-to-gate GHG inventory data directly from goods or service providers
What is the supplier-specific method
Global temperatures have already increased by this amount from preindustrial levels
What is 1.2 degrees C
This GHG, released from landfills, oil and gas extraction, and agriculture, is approximately 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of its global warming potential (GWP)
What is methane
The proposed SEC ruling is based on this type of materiality
What is financial materiality
Sustain.Life's organizational emissions in 2023
What is 587 MT CO2e
This well-established method develops strategic plans that are more flexible or robust to a range of plausible future states.
What is scenario analysis
This allocation method involves calculating an emissions/$ spend intensity metric
What is revenue-based allocation
A decade ago, the IPCC estimated we were on track for 4-5 degrees C of warming since pre-industrial levels. Today, with current policies, we are on track for this amount of warming by the end of the century
What is 2.7 degrees C
These emissions, which come from combusting non fossil fuel sources, like biomass, are reported separately from carbon inventories.
What are biogenic emissions
Three stock exchanges based in this country recently released sustainability reporting guidelines for listed companies anchored on TCFD, with mandatory reporting beginning as early as 2026
What is China
Sustain.Life is more than three quarter if the way towards this milestone number of episodes of "The Week in Sustainability" podcast.
What is 100
A statement provided by an auditor affirming that the information reported in materially correct
What is reasonable assurance.
Bonus points for defining limited assurance: a statement provided by an auditor affirming they are not aware of any material modification that should be made.
These two methods of calculating scope 3 category 1 PGS emissions rely on industry average data.
What are average-date method and spend-based method.
This technology accelerates reactions between carbon dioxide (CO2) and certain minerals, removing CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently storing it
What is mineralization carbon dioxide removal
Under business travel this concept accounts for emissions that occur at different levels of the atmosphere.
What is radiative forcing
Companies outside the EU will now have until this year to report to CSRD
What is 2026
Sustain.Life customers managed this much CO2e in our platform through the end of 2023
What is 1.5 M MT CO2e
This color hydrogen is produced mainly from natural gas, and creates carbon dioxide as a by product.
What is blue hydrogen
This spend based database includes commodity level emission factors that reflect global supply chains at the regional level
What is Exiobase
According to NOAA measurements, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 has increased from this number in 1750 to this number in 2023 (expressed in ppm)
What is 280 ppm and 424
GHGP Scope 3 Corporate Standard standard technically requires corporates to include in their scope 3 inventory the upstream emissions of their suppliers from these 3 activities.
What are: materials, transport and waste.
Changes in policy, regulations, insurance costs, and consumer demand are examples of this kind of risk as defined by TCFD.
What is transitional risk
Sustain.Life has had this many investor calls for our series A raise
What is 70!
According to NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, the US experienced this many climate disasters in 2023, totaling this much damage (in dollars)
What is 28 and $92.9 billion