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The Lloyd’s of London insurance market is in discussions with the U.S. government’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) over a plan to provide political risk insurance and financial guarantees for...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has approved a new Green Economy Transition Strategy covering the period from 2026 to 2030, setting a more ambitious direction for climate finance...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued new supervisory guidelines directing banks, insurers and asset managers to embed climate transition planning into their core risk management practices. The guidance...
International law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has become a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), reinforcing its commitment to sustainable business practices and alignment with globally recognized...
Google has pledged at least $50 million through 2030 to eliminate some of the most powerful greenhouse gases warming the planet, joining a new corporate coalition focused on rapidly cutting...
LEGO Expands Carbon Removal Procurement Strategy The LEGO Group is expanding its carbon removal portfolio with a new DKK 18 million ($2.6 million) procurement round that deepens its partnership with...
• Svante acquires Carbon Alpha, adding the North Star BECCS project designed to capture up to 140,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually in Saskatchewan.• The project combines carbon capture, pipeline transport,...
Carlsberg Group has launched an updated version of its global Environmental, Social and Governance strategy, Brewing Tomorrow, raising its climate ambitions while adapting its sustainability roadmap to reflect a significantly...
The Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) has launched a consultation on a national roadmap that would introduce mandatory sustainability reporting for major listed companies, aligning the country’s disclosure framework with...
China has released a new five-year economic decarbonisation plan that seeks to reduce emissions intensity while maintaining energy security in the world’s second-largest economy. The strategy, unveiled Thursday, commits the...
The European Investment Bank has pledged more than €1 billion ($1.1 billion) to expand renewable energy infrastructure across Sub-Saharan Africa, strengthening international financing behind Mission 300, a global initiative aimed...
The European Commission has unveiled the Industrial Accelerator Act, a sweeping legislative proposal designed to boost demand for low carbon technologies produced in Europe while reinforcing the region’s industrial base...
Boeing has entered a multi-year agreement with carbon removal platform Carbonfuture to secure at least 40,000 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removal credits, strengthening the aerospace manufacturer’s strategy to address...
California regulators have set August 10, 2026 as the first deadline for large companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions under sweeping climate transparency rules that could reshape corporate reporting across...
Leadership Shift At A Critical Moment For Corporate ESG KPMG International has appointed Gauthier Acket as Head of Global ESG, placing a nearly three-decade veteran of the firm at the...
A Sports Tournament Reframes Sustainability Standards LIV Golf Indianapolis delivered one of the strongest environmental performances of the 2025 season, achieving an 84% waste diversion rate and setting the operational...
South African financiers are developing a 2 billion rand ($122 million) conservation bond designed to fund ecological restoration projects that protect the country’s most critical water catchments. The five year...
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), Norges Bank Investment Management, and Brookfield have launched Northview Energy, a privately held renewable energy platform built around contracted, utility-scale wind and solar assets...
Nike has appointed Cimarron Nix as its new Chief Sustainability Officer, placing a longtime supply chain and labor standards executive at the center of the company’s global ESG strategy. The...
EcoVadis is moving beyond scorecards. The Paris based sustainability ratings provider has launched a dedicated peer-to-peer Community platform for suppliers that have received an EcoVadis Rating, creating what may become...
Norway Positions Itself As Europe’s CO2 Storage Hub Northern Lights, owned equally by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell, is the world’s first CO2 transport and storage project open to third party...
In Europe’s largest power market, battery storage is becoming as strategic as generation itself. TotalEnergies has agreed to sell a 50% stake in a portfolio of 11 battery storage projects...
Spanish energy company Moeve has approved more than €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in investment for the first phase of its Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, taking a decisive step in Europe’s...
Standard Chartered has released a comprehensive Transition Plan that places climate considerations at the centre of its financing, governance and client engagement strategy, sharpening its pathway to net zero while...
From Brussels to Washington and Tokyo, sustainability regulation is moving from voluntary frameworks to enforceable mandates. Against that backdrop, Datamaran has introduced a standalone Regulatory Monitoring solution aimed at helping...
Brussels saw an unusually blunt intervention this week as Italy’s Industry Minister Adolfo Urso called for the European Union to suspend its Emissions Trading System until a comprehensive reform is...
Air Liquide and Holcim have signed a strategic agreement to deploy a large scale carbon capture solution at Holcim’s near zero cement plant, pushing one of Europe’s most emissions-intensive sectors...
Zelestra has advanced construction of its 27.5 MWdc Klevenow solar project, strengthening its position in one of Europe’s most competitive renewable power markets. The project, located in northeastern Germany, was...
London has formally embedded the global sustainability reporting baseline into its domestic framework, publishing final versions of UK Sustainability Reporting Standards S1 and S2 and opening the door to mandatory...
In the municipality of La Esperanza, Norte de Santander, a 26.4 MWp solar plant that only began dispatching electricity in August 2025 is already changing hands. Climate Fund Managers and...
Iberdrola has returned to the capital markets with a €600 million ($700 Million) green hybrid bond, refinancing an existing instrument due for repurchase at the end of April and locking...
Atlas Renewable Energy has secured a $3 billion corporate refinancing covering its portfolio of solar and storage assets across Latin America, in what is expected to be the largest transaction...
MN8 Energy has signed a long term power purchase agreement with Meta for the full output of its 80 megawatt Walker Solar Project, marking the first agreement between the two...
The LEGO Group is widening its carbon removal portfolio with an additional DKK 18 million ($2.6 million) investment across four projects, deepening its engagement with both nature based and engineered...
A Market Design Moves Into Operation The UN carbon market established under the Paris Agreement has approved its first issuance of credits, formally shifting the long-negotiated Article 6.4 mechanism from...
Istanbul Anchors Cross-Border Sustainable Finance Push Garanti BBVA has extended €13 million, equivalent to approximately $14.1 million, to UNO, one of Türkiye’s leading bread manufacturers, to modernize its production infrastructure...
Schneider Electric has closed its five year Schneider Sustainability Impact 2021–2025 program with an overall score of 8.86 out of 10, capping a cycle that embedded climate, social and governance...
Brussels is considering legislation that could reshape Europe’s electric vehicle transition by targeting one of the market’s most influential buyers: large corporate fleets. New analysis from Transport & Environment (T&E)...
Ireland has unveiled a national plan to shift its economy away from the traditional take make waste model, positioning circularity as a core pillar of climate policy, industrial competitiveness and...
The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative relaunched Wednesday with more than 250 signatories, marking the return of one of the world’s most influential climate finance alliances after a year...
Deutsche Telekom has reached climate neutrality across its own operations worldwide, becoming the first company in Germany’s D ax 40 index to achieve net zero emissions for Scope 1 and...
A Strategic Bet on Distributed Energy DWS, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank, has acquired Portuguese renewable energy community platform Cleanwatts in a transaction backed by a €150 million...
BBVA mobilized €134 billion ($145 Billion) in sustainable business in 2025, a 44 percent increase from the prior year and the highest annual figure in the bank’s history. The acceleration...
Mars, Incorporated has signed a long-term renewable electricity agreement securing the majority output of the newly commissioned Kölvallen Wind Farm in Sweden, marking one of the company’s largest clean energy...
In the next phase of ESG, the advantage is shifting from who tells the best sustainability story to who can prove outcomes with decision-grade evidence. Purposefy has published a new...
Global Food Security Meets Climate Risk The National Geographic Society and PepsiCo have awarded five new research grants to scientists conducting on farm trials designed to strengthen soil resilience and...
The Hashgraph Group, a Swiss based Web3 and AI technology engineering firm within the Hedera ecosystem, has launched TrackTrace, an enterprise platform designed to help companies comply with the European...
Spain’s regional government has awarded ACCIONA the contract to develop and operate what will become the largest public EV charging hub within Madrid’s M-30 ring road, placing high capacity electric...
Mitsui & Co. Project Solutions have signed a long term virtual power purchase agreement with NIKE Japan Group to supply renewable energy attributes generated from domestic solar power projects. The...
European Union member states have given final approval to scale back landmark corporate sustainability rules, narrowing the scope of supply chain due diligence and reporting obligations after sustained pressure from...
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