Global professional services firm KPMG announced today the launch of the KPMG ESG Academy, aimed at delivering learning to businesses on a wide range of ESG topics and disciplines and support their sustainability initiatives. Courses featured in the digital academy include content and lectures developed by ESG specialists from leading universities in collaboration with KPMG sustainability subject matter professionals, across…
Carbon credit streaming company Carbon Streaming announced an agreement with Microsoft, providing the tech giant with up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal credits per year from the Waverly Biochar project in Waverly, Virginia. Biochar, or biological charcoal, is produced by heating biomass, such as forest residue, wood or crop waste, in the absence of oxygen, creating a stable…
European carbon measurement, reporting and reduction software provider Plan A announced that it has raised $27 million, with proceeds from the financing aimed at growing its team and expanding its platform’s capabilities. Founded in 2017, Plan A provides corporate carbon accounting, decarbonization, and ESG reporting software. The company’s Sustainability Platform automatically maps data across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 emissions,…
IBM announced the integration of natural language processing (NLP) in its ESG data collection, analysis and reporting platform IBM Envizi ESG Suite, significantly enhancing the solution’s ability to capture, calculate and analyze organizations’ Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The new features come as companies globally face increasing regulatory pressure to report on their Scope 3 emissions, or those originating…