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Clear definitions of the sustainability, climate, and ESG terms that matter most — from CBAM and CSRD to SBTi and PCAF. Written by Semtrio's advisory team.
A biodiversity footprint is a quantified assessment of an organisation's impacts on biodiversity across its operations and value chain, expressed in metrics that support comparison, target-setting and disclosure.
A biodiversity strategy is an organisation's plan for assessing, reducing and managing its impacts and dependencies on nature and ecosystems across its operations and value chain.
CBAM is a European Union mechanism that prices the carbon content of certain goods imported from outside the EU, requiring non-EU producers to provide verified embedded emissions data and EU importers to purchase carbon certificates equivalent to the carbon cost that would have applied under the EU Emissions Trading System.
A carbon credit is a tradable instrument representing one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent that a project has reduced, avoided or removed from the atmosphere, verified against a recognised standard and issued into a registry.
CDP is a global non-profit organization that operates the world's largest environmental disclosure system — through which companies, cities, and regions report their environmental data on climate change, water security, and forests — with scores from D to A used by over 740 financial institutions and procurement organizations to assess environmental performance, risk exposure, and management quality.
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