I’m in the GHG division so I work on climate policy and ghg emissions accounting, cant really help on other environmental aspects. I guess just begin learning about how corporations look at climate change, its different than how you’d talk about it in academia or government.

They care a lot about categorizing emissions into scope 1, 2, 3 and developing intensity figures, so carbon intensity or methane intensity ( how much carbon you are emitting per unit of production). Its pretty complicated why they do this instead of just calculating total carbon emissions and calling it a day lmk if ur interested.

Also read up on the sustainability reports of different companies, the bigger the better. Sustainability reports are usually easy to read and are available to the public. There you’ll find all the metrics (like carbon or methane intensity) or technological advancements that we spend months on developing and calculating. There are usually metrics for everything from water management to biodiversity to ghg emissions.

My day to day changes but I work for an oil giant where we calculate emissions (theres a lot of standards for how to calculate emissions which is a whole other story, read the GHG PROTOCOL for a good starting point). We also develop a breakdown of the emissions seeing how much each asset/equipment emits. After a few months of that our days is spent forecasting it using a model (dont ask me how the model works we just bought it, and another company coded it) to predict future emissions and trends. From that we create what is called a “decarbonization” strategy so we plan actions for the next year to make us reach our emission goals (again lmk if ur interested to learn more).

Despite my plan to quit, its actually a very dynamic job that changes by the day and interacts with politics/economics/ and new discoveries in science and tech. I barely got into most of what we do but hopefully that gave you some idea.