Category: The Green CFO

In the last weeks there has been important news in the green CFO arena. For instance, in the European Union, the Directive 2022/2464 of the European Parliament was approved.

Finance departments are working hard to integrate sustainability into their daily operations. FDmagazine chronicled the experiences of Proximus, Sandoz Industrial and NTT DATA.

When I started my own Green CFO journey, back in 2017, one of the main questions I was asking myself was: Is my passion for sustainability really connected to my professional finance career? Well, I recognize I found some setbacks on that journey.

CFOs are in the optimal position to lead the transition to sustainability. CFOs face several ESG challenges and NTT DATA can help tackle them to embrace a sustainable future

In my previous article we reviewed the green trends by industry. While companies are working hard to catch those trends or even creating new ones, they are still devoted to meeting their own corporate sustainability targets.

In my sixth article, and seizing the chance we are celebrating that we are halfway through the year, I believe it is a good moment for self-reflection: as a finance professional, how important is having a better understanding about the sustainability world?

This is my fifth article of the series “The Green CFO” and so far, I must say I am pleased for the response of the readers. Yet, I still perceive some skepticism among some of my finance colleagues. As I titled this article, a green CFO is above all a CFO.

Climate tech can be defined as technologies that are explicitly focused on reducing GHG emissions, or addressing the impacts of global warming. In the last times, the level of climate tech start-ups has been increasing not only in number of deals but also in deal size, as you can see in the below charts.

In the previous article, we reviewed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to get familiar with them while connecting the targets with the ESG framework.