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British International Investment has committed $33 million to GreenCell Mobility as India accelerates the shift from diesel fleets to zero emission public transport. The financing forms part of an $89...
London Rolls Out National Home Upgrade Strategy The UK government has unveiled a fifteen billion pound Warm Homes Plan that aims to retrofit millions of homes with insulation, solar panels,...
• Total committed capital now $460 million toward a $500 million target for Asia focused climate investments• Blended finance structure mobilizes private capital into renewable energy, battery storage, efficiency and...
Europe’s push toward decentralized energy gained fresh momentum as Cloover secured $22 million in Series A equity and a $1.2 billion debt facility to expand its AI-driven operating system for...
Masdar has signed a collaboration agreement with Emirates Utilities Development Company (EUDC), Etihad Water and Electricity’s development arm, and the Republic of Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy to explore a gigascale...
Schneider Electric has launched Resource Advisor+, a new energy and sustainability intelligence platform designed to consolidate fragmented tools into a single operational ecosystem for emissions, energy, supply chain sustainability, climate...
PepsiCo and Yara are advancing a collaboration that targets emissions reductions across one of the most complex segments of the food value chain: fertilizer production and on-farm nutrient management. The...
Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team reported a year of rapid sustainability gains across the 2025 season, both on and off the track, as the sport intensifies efforts to cut...
Paris Confronts AI’s Environmental Paradox At the Adopt AI Summit in late November, UNESCO used a packed mainstage session to press governments, companies, and UN bodies to confront the growing...
Italy’s public lighting infrastructure is moving into the capital markets era. UniCredit closed a €73 million green project financing for Teike, the country’s third largest independent pure play in public...
• Singapore launches new ecosystem to accelerate high integrity blue carbon credit development and biomass measurement capabilities across Asia.• WWF and EDB partnership strengthens measurement, reporting and verification capacity while...
The Joint Bank Reporting Committee has published its 2026 Work Programme together with a set of ESG recommendations that target greater alignment in how European banks define, classify and report...
Bentley Motors has appointed Max Harris Jones as Sustainability and Community Communications Manager, a newly elevated role tied directly to the company’s Beyond100 strategy and wider push to position itself...
The International Chamber of Commerce and Carbon Measures have named the first cohort of experts to a new Technical Expert Panel on Carbon Accounting. Their mandate is to design a...
The European Commission is preparing a legal proposal that would require governments across the bloc to purchase green technologies with minimum Made in Europe content. The objective is to reinforce...
• United States proposes new international governance body to oversee Gaza reconstruction and ceasefire enforcement• Permanent Board of Peace seats priced at $1 billion, raising geopolitical and diplomatic questions over...
• Nearly 15 GW of new solar, wind and storage capacity deployed in 2025, moving MENA into an exponential growth phase• Project pipeline reaches 202 GW across renewables, hydrogen and...
Google has signed three long term power purchase agreements with Clearway Energy Group totaling 1.2 gigawatts of carbon free capacity to serve the company’s expanding US data center footprint across...
Rio Tinto and Amazon Web Services have begun a bilateral collaboration that connects industrial mining innovation to the expanding needs of U.S. data centres for critical minerals produced with lower...
• Specialist impact investor raises more than $100 million from European and U.S. institutions• Strategy introduces liquidity and exit pathways for impact investors across developed and emerging markets• Emerging markets...
The United Arab Emirates moved to deepen its global water diplomacy agenda during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2026, convening government, finance, agrifood and civil society leaders to accelerate cooperation ahead...
• Two major Gulf lenders back Oman’s first combined solar and storage facility• Project anchors Vision 2040 plans to source 30 percent of electricity from renewables by 2030• 500MW of...
• Multi-year offtake that sources crop residues for durable carbon removal across India’s cotton belt• More than 2 million tonnes of projected carbon dioxide removals over a 15-year project life•...
Paris Review With Industry Stakes L’Oréal unveiled the first 13 startups and SMEs chosen for L’AcceleratOR, its new sustainable innovation initiative endowed with €100 million over five years. Converted at...
Rolls Royce has appointed former bp Chief Sustainability Officer Ivanka Mamic as Global Head of Government Relations and Chief Sustainability Officer. The new post places sustainability and government engagement within...
New analysis finds rising competition for wood fibre, tightening regulation, and climate disruption are increasing cost and supply risks for paper, packaging, and textile industries Canopy and Finance Earth outline...
EBay has released its first climate transition plan with a net zero target for 2045, outlining how the global e-commerce platform intends to curb emissions across operations, logistics and supply...
UAE climate investment platform ALTERRA and Spanish lender BBVA are preparing to launch a $1.2 billion co investment vehicle that will back climate aligned assets across global markets. The new...
The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry honoured private sector companies awarded its Sustainability Label during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2026, reinforcing the emirate’s effort to anchor ESG performance...
Sustainability drives profitability in US and Canadian companies, according to new research released by the Center for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE). The organization’s 2026 Annual Research shows that structured sustainability...
Microsoft has agreed to purchase two million tonnes of nature based carbon removal credits from Rubicon Carbon sourced from Kijani Forestry’s smallholder reforestation project in Northern Uganda. Deliveries will run...
The European Securities and Markets Authority has issued its second thematic note on sustainability related claims, expanding scrutiny of how asset managers and other market actors communicate environmental, social, and...
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week opened its 2026 edition with a call for energy security, AI enabled industrial strategy and long term investment as computational demand grows and climate goals tighten....
Moeve and Galp announced they have entered non binding negotiations to explore a potential downstream combination aimed at creating two new European energy platforms anchored in the Iberian Peninsula. The...
• Zambia and Zimbabwe will each contribute $220M to shore up the bankability of the $4.2B Batoka Gorge hydropower project• The 2,400 MW plant would provide 1,200 MW to each...
• Joint venture targets 3.1 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity for the United Kingdom, enough to power roughly three million homes.• Total capital outlay for the two Norfolk Vanguard...
Emirates NBD launched its first blue green bond with a $1 billion dual tranche issuance that drew strong interest from international investors and added a new regional scale to marine...
1PointFive, the carbon capture subsidiary of Occidental, has reached an agreement with Bain & Company for the purchase of 9,000 tons of direct air capture carbon removal credits over three...
A New Model For AI Infrastructure Siting Microsoft announced a national Community-First AI Infrastructure initiative to govern the next wave of AI datacenter construction in the United States, pledging to...
• $100 million Series C financing led by Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture of BlackRock and Temasek• Investment pushes osapiens to unicorn status, building on Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Armira...
• First U.S. soil carbon firm to deliver 1.9 million tons of verified removals, with more than 1.5 million tons already retired by corporate buyers• $40 million paid directly to...
Denmark based renewable energy major Ørsted has appointed Anders Johannes Enghild as its new Head of Global Sustainability. The leadership change arrives at a pivotal moment for the company as...
Sustainable fuels technology company Aether Fuels has raised $15 million in convertible note financing to accelerate development of its first commercial scale sustainable aviation fuel facility, a project that puts...
• $200 million strategic capital commitment from Deutsche Bank to Aspen Power• Financing aimed at accelerating U.S. distributed solar, storage, and community energy deployment• Backed by Carlyle, Aspen targets rapid...
A federal judge has cleared Danish developer Orsted to restart work on its nearly completed Revolution Wind project after the Trump administration suspended construction last month. The decision injects legal...
Sustainability may continue to be politically contested in 2026. But, if 2025 proved anything, it was that companies will continue to work on sustainability because it delivers business value. 2026...
Financing Breakthrough for First Italian Solar Assets Zelestra closed financial signing for its first Italian renewables projects, a 6.5 MWdc solar plant in Ginosa in Puglia and a 9.5 MWdc...
Egypt signed a combined USD 1.8 billion in renewable energy agreements with Norway’s Scatec and China’s Sungrow, a package officials described as central to efforts to expand domestic clean power...
The future of American data infrastructure took a decisive turn this week as TerraPower and Meta unveiled a commercial agreement to deploy as many as eight Natrium advanced nuclear power...
• Deal combines RegTech platforms with advisory expertise in worker rights and remediation• Acquisition positioned for compliance with due diligence regulations including EU CSDDD• Enhanced capabilities for companies facing heightened...
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