By Felicia Line, Space Program Co-ordinator for Latin America, Ecometrica Avocados have sky rocketed in popularity in recent years, with vegans all over the world preaching their nutritious value in terms of vitamins, minerals and mono-unsaturated (healthy!) fats,...

  What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Can humanity rid itself of poverty, hunger, inhibit climate change and bring about gender equality in the next 11 years? 193 governments of the world aim to achieve such a feat. The United Nations Sustainable...

Click to enlarge. You can find details of Ecometrica's SECR Reporting service here. BEIS (the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) has just published the new Environmental Reporting Guidance to accompany the SECR Regulations, that...

This morning, CDP have released further details around their 2018 score release and 2019 timeline.   2018 Data and Scores 2018 public responses are now available on the CDP website 2018 scores will be made available to companies, investors and requesting...

Society as a whole is starting to realise that water is becoming a larger, or perhaps our largest, sustainability problem. While previously it was the lack of water that was perceived as the problem, in the last few years we have clearly noticed problems with water...

First published by Geoconnexion   Tropical forests represent a vital resource, underpinning the livelihoods of billions of people, storing and cycling large amounts of carbon dioxide and water and hosting a large proportion of global biodiversity. Recent research...

The CDP disclosure cycle is over for another year, but how much did you feel the heat in 2018?   Ecometrica is one of the best partners you can hope to have for your 2019 CDP disclosure cycle. As well as being the only CDP Gold Software Partner for Water, Forests...

The UK Government has announced its plans for the new Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regulations to take effect in 2019. The new mandatory reporting framework will replace the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC EES) and extend the scope of the existing...

The development of non-market valuation studies and forest protection policies in Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya and Mexico. Monitoring and protection are essential for the conservation and governance of national forest resources and all the benefits that...

The UK's first spaceport will be in Scotland after the government announced that a remote stretch of land on the north coast will be the home of vertical launches. Rockets and satellites will be sent up from the A'Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, which the UK Space...

Ecometrica and George Washington University collaboration gives students top tools for carbon footprint management     Montreal, Edinburgh, June 2018: A new generation of US graduate students will tackle global corporate greenhouse gas emissions using state...

  Welcome to Part Two of our TCFD thought leader blog. Today's Sustainability professionals are asked to do more with less. Their mandate is to cut expenses and eliminate resources, yet still deliver high-quality products that achieve big returns. In Part One, we...

  Today's Sustainability professionals are asked to do more with less. Their mandate is to cut expenses and eliminate resources, yet still deliver high-quality products that achieve big returns. Teams deal with large variability in data types  (water, energy,...

Welcome to part two of our guide to help spring clean your Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting process. In part one, we explored the challenges that CR professionals face around data gathering, data accuracy and repetitive spreadsheet tasks. In this second,...

  It has taken until April this year, but spring has finally sprung - and with springtime comes spring cleaning. Spring cleaning means decluttering, organizing and can leave us feeling refreshed and motivated. Going paperless and reducing waste, focusing on...

Guidance and scoring methodology covers all questions for CDP's climate change, water and forest programmes CDP has released the guidance and scoring methodology for all questions, including general and sector-specific, across its climate change, water and forests...