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London-based Lightrock has launched Accelerate7 after the final close of a $500 million fund aimed at businesses advancing United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7. The fund will back growth-stage companies...
Fervo Energy entered the public markets this week with a $1.89 billion initial public offering, placing next-generation geothermal power in front of investors at a time of rising energy demand,...
Extreme weather is no longer a distant climate scenario for boards, investors and city leaders. It is already cutting into production, shutting down operations and damaging assets across the global...
China’s clean technology manufacturers are pulling back from the United States as tax policy, geopolitics and compliance risk reshape the investment case for US factories. According to Bloomberg, Jinko Solar...
Nairobi is positioning itself at the centre of Africa’s aviation decarbonisation push after Kenya Airways and Rubis Energy Kenya signed an agreement to develop what they describe as the continent’s...
New York and Menlo Park are pushing deeper into America’s clean power market, as DESRI and Meta expand one of the country’s larger corporate renewable energy procurement partnerships. DESRI, a...
Ford Motor Co. has formally launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary that will manufacture battery energy storage systems for utilities, data centers, and large industrial and commercial users. The...
Chicago-based S2G Investments has closed a $1 billion growth-stage fund aimed at scaling companies across three systems that sit at the center of the global economy: food and agriculture, energy,...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving to unwind one of the Biden administration’s most contested ESG rules, setting up a formal retreat from federal climate-risk disclosure requirements for public...
Sweden is preparing a more active state role in the race to scale sustainable aviation and maritime fuels, after a government inquiry delivered a national action plan for domestic production...
Germany’s cabinet agreed on Wednesday to replace one of the country’s most disputed climate laws, as Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government seeks to revive construction, calm household concerns, and reset investor...
Cocoa Supply Chains Face a Compliance Test Abidjan is heading into a critical trade deadline with a cocoa supply chain that still has major blind spots. Only 48% of Ivory...
BBVA Moves Toward Full Renewable Power Madrid is becoming the center of a sharper operational climate push inside BBVA, as the bank moves from near-total renewable electricity coverage to a...
France based Mantle8 has raised €31 million in Series A funding to test whether natural hydrogen can move from scientific promise to commercial production. The round was led by Sandwater...
The European Central Bank is pushing supervised banks to sharpen their climate and nature-related risk management, as physical damage, transition policy and ecosystem loss move deeper into financial risk models....
New Zealand’s government plans to change climate law to stop courts from finding companies liable in private cases for harm linked to greenhouse gas emissions. Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said...
Indonesia is preparing one of the world’s largest land rehabilitation efforts, with plans to restore 12 million hectares of degraded land and potentially connect new tree-planting projects to carbon offset...
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has issued a new round of assessment decisions that sharpen the line between eligible carbon credits and credits still facing integrity concerns....
Verra has secured approval from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market for two methodologies that meet the Core Carbon Principles, giving buyers another route into credits backed by...
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