Financial quantification: applying return and cash-flow methods
Introduction: always model the counterfactual To compete for capital, sustainability must be framed in the same quantitative language as any other business investment: return, risk (…)
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Financial quantification: discount rate and the financing greenium
Our previous article, Financial quantification: navigating the greenium and revenue management, explored how businesses are able to capture a price premium in sustainable products and services. In capital markets, the concept plays (…)
Financial quantification: navigating the greenium and revenue management
This article discusses the “greenium” in the context of pricing of sustainable products and services, both consumer and B2B, compared to conventional options. In a (…)
Introduction: Financial quantification of sustainability
Articulating sustainability matters in financial terms, specifically through quantitative measures, to ensure that business value drivers and their effects on EBITDA and Enterprise Value (EV) are clearly understood within this framework.
Financial quantification: leveraging the (inter)dependencies of sustainable investments
Translating sustainability initiatives into financial terms is nuanced. Their impacts unfold across multiple dimensions of the business and over varying time horizons, making attribution and (…)
Integrating climate with financials: Climate as an overlay to financial planning
3/4 of the largest companies globally now report sustainability information with financial disclosures in annual or integrated reports, and roughly 85% of them use double materiality, or (…)
Weaving climate considerations into corporate operations
Headline stats: 1/3 Only one-third of companies disclosing to the CDP have implemented climate scenario analysis 50% 50% of Scopes 1 and 2 emissions reduction can be reached at net (…)
Sustainability as a Driver for Sustainable Growth
At Trane Technologies, sustainability isn’t a feature—it’s our growth strategy. As our Chair and CEO, Dave Regnery, stated in our 2024 Sustainability Report, “Our ability (…)
Unlocking finance for food system transformation: why metrics matter
In 2023, it was reported that only 4% of global climate finance goes to agrifood systems despite the system being responsible for nearly a third (…)
WBCSD Public Statement in support of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) strongly urges European Union (EU) Member States to support the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in (…)