By Jim Giles Updated July 16, 2026 In the evolving landscape of corporate sustainability, the traditional focus on "net-zero" promises is facing a reckoning. For years, investors and stakeholders have relied on binary metrics—tracking carbon footprints and setting distant, often opaque, emissions targets. However, a new reporting mechanism, the Climate…
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. For decades, the carbon credit market has been haunted by a singular, persistent specter: the risk of reversal. The logic of carbon sequestration is deceptively simple—remove CO2 from the atmosphere and lock…
For two decades, the corporate world has operated under a quiet, almost comforting assumption: that the escalating frequency of climate disasters—the scorched earth of wildfires, the devastating surge of floods, and the unrelenting march of extreme weather—would eventually act as a "great awakening." The theory was that once the physical…
The dust has settled on Trellis Impact 26, but the echoes of the event continue to reverberate across the corporate sustainability landscape. In the weeks following the conference, a distinct shift in the collective consciousness of industry leaders has become apparent. If the last decade of corporate environmental, social, and…
In the evolving landscape of corporate strategy, the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) is undergoing a profound transformation. No longer confined to the periphery of corporate social responsibility or internal greening initiatives, sustainability leadership has moved squarely into the boardroom’s risk management core. According to the 8th biennial…
In the complex ecosystem of global manufacturing, the most significant hurdle to achieving net-zero goals is often not internal operations, but the "Scope 3" challenge—the opaque, difficult-to-track emissions generated by an organization’s vast network of suppliers. For data storage giant Western Digital, the process of collecting this carbon data had…
The "speed to power" race—the frantic, capital-intensive pursuit of AI dominance—has officially collided with the hard reality of thermodynamics. As Amazon, Google, and Microsoft accelerate their expansion into the next generation of generative AI, they are funneling approximately $750 billion into data center infrastructure across 2025 and 2026. However, this…
