Writing on ESG & sustainability reporting, climate policy and human migration, and data & reporting practice. https://firatbarca.com/blog/ Firat Barca 2026-07-28T12:33:00.000Z https://firatbarca.com/blog/from-guesswork-to-audit-trails/ 2026-07-28T12:33:00.000Z

ESG reporting struggled for years, not because the numbers were impossible to calculate, but because organizations relied too heavily on guesswork and lacked the audit trails to trace the data back to its source.

https://firatbarca.com/blog/why-i-took-an-online-financial-management-course/ 2026-07-21T09:30:00.000Z

I didn't train as a financier — my degree was in political science. But the deeper I went into sustainability, the more I needed the language of the balance sheet. So I took an online course to brush up on it.

https://firatbarca.com/blog/beyond-net-zero-carbon-removal/ 2026-07-13T09:00:00.000Z

Net zero has been the corporate climate gold standard, but it may be a milestone, not the finish line. A look at carbon removal, the technologies behind it, and how businesses are starting to build it into strategy.

https://firatbarca.com/blog/eu-ai-act-esg-sustainability/ 2026-07-05T00:00:00.000Z

The EU AI Act looks like a tech regulation, and ESG looks like a sustainability one, but they meet at the same place: governance, transparency, and the ability to prove how a number or a decision was made.

https://firatbarca.com/blog/ai-in-esg-reporting-assistant-not-author/ 2026-06-28T00:43:00.000Z

Where AI genuinely speeds up sustainability reporting — and where it quietly creates risk. A practical rule: AI can touch the inputs, but a human owns the output.

https://firatbarca.com/blog/esg-data-quality/ 2026-06-28T00:42:00.000Z

Regulations like CSRD raise the bar, but the real battle is reconciliation, validation, and audit-ready trails — a view from inside a 90-country reporting cycle.