Category: Environmental
Finance Sector Moves Toward a Nature Transition Model Paris and Oslo are moving biodiversity further into the investment mainstream as BNP Paribas Asset Management joins Storebrand Asset Management to lead...
AI moves into Europe’s packaging compliance race GreenDot and osapiens have formed a strategic partnership to launch an AI-powered compliance platform for Extended Producer Responsibility reporting across Europe, as companies...
Ecobank Opens New Route for Nature Finance in Africa Ecobank has launched a $450 million Nature Bond on the London Stock Exchange, creating a new financing channel for Africa’s natural...
Waymo Looks Beyond the Road for Battery Value California and Texas are becoming the first testbeds for a new second-life battery model linking autonomous mobility, renewable energy, and grid resilience....
Uganda Puts Climate Action At The Center Of World Environment Day Kampala is placing climate action at the center of World Environment Day 2026, using the global observance to push...
AI’s Resource Footprint Is Expanding Beyond Carbon United Nations researchers are warning that the global race to scale artificial intelligence is creating a wider environmental burden than carbon reporting alone...
Neoenergia Advances Forest Restoration in Bahia Neoenergia, Iberdrola’s Brazilian subsidiary, has secured €14.8 million in financing from Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development to support a large-scale Atlantic...
Google Expands Water Commitments As Data Center Growth Faces Scrutiny Google is expanding its water stewardship commitments as the rapid growth of data centers places new pressure on local infrastructure,...
Carbon Removal Buyers Face A New Sourcing Test Carbon Direct has released a global sourcing guide for agricultural biomass used in carbon dioxide removal projects, as demand for high-durability removals...
Elemental Impact has launched a new investment initiative with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to test clean energy and materials technologies inside one of the world’s fastest-growing infrastructure markets. The...
Colombia Opens Door To Large-Scale Geothermal Exploration Bogotá has cleared a key environmental step for Colombia’s first large-scale geothermal exploration project, giving state oil company Ecopetrol and its partners a...
Bangladesh Opens New Carbon Market Pathway for Smallholder Farmers Bangladesh has issued its first agroforestry carbon credits under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard. The move gives smallholder farmers direct access to...
Google DeepMind Targets APAC Climate Risk With AI Accelerator Singapore becomes the launch point for Google DeepMind’s new Asia Pacific accelerator, as the region faces rising environmental pressure and uneven...
Singapore-listed City Developments Limited has secured a $300 million multi-currency sustainability-linked loan from DBS Bank. The deal links corporate finance more directly to nature, climate resilience and sustainable urban development....
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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Sandoz Moves Climate Targets Into Validated Territory Sandoz has secured validation from the Science Based Targets initiative for its greenhouse gas reduction targets, placing the global affordable medicines company under...
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