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At the Future of the North Seas Summit in Hamburg, European leaders agreed to drive a new generation of hybrid offshore projects designed to link dozens of gigawatts of wind...
Equinix will allocate more than S$9 million ($7 million) through 2028 to accelerate clean energy research and policy development in Singapore, positioning digital infrastructure and data center energy demand as...
• Allianz acquires 20.25 percent minority stake in îles d’Yeu et Noirmoutier offshore wind farm.• First power delivered in June 2025 with full commissioning expected in Q1 2026.• Investment reflects...
• TD Bank has signed a ten-year offtake agreement for 44,000 tons of durable carbon removals from Charm beginning in 2029• Charm is preparing to scale pyrolysis-based carbon removal operations...
Mantle8 is expanding its leadership bench as natural hydrogen moves from scientific curiosity toward a potential clean energy market with geopolitical stakes. The deep tech geoscience company has appointed industry...
• First engineered carbon removal supplier to deliver half a million Puro.earth certified certificates with thousand year permanence• One of the largest operational CCS projects linked to ethanol production, achieving...
Isometric has certified a new protocol for carbon dioxide removal via Improved Forest Management, widening the pool of credible nature-based carbon removal options and laying out requirements for verification, ecological...
• Reinforces Wolters Kluwer’s growth ambitions in cloud-based and AI-enabled corporate performance and ESG software• Leadership transition comes as CP & ESG division prepares for 2025 organic growth aligned with...
Air Liquide launched 2025 with expanded low carbon electricity procurement at industrial scale, initiating multi year PPAs totaling 3 TWh per year to support its decarbonization roadmap and customers’ emissions...
At the start of 2026, corporate climate action reached a new threshold as the Science Based Targets initiative confirmed 10,000 companies now have validated emissions targets aligned with pathways to...
Zanskar, an emerging leader in AI-enabled geothermal exploration, has raised $115 million in Series C funding to accelerate development of a multi gigawatt geothermal pipeline and begin constructing power plants...
• ENGIE to invest roughly $90 million to build a new biomethane plant in Northern England• 60 GWh of annual biomethane contracted to PepsiCo through a 10 year BPA structure•...
EY has appointed Dr. Velislava Ivanova as its Americas Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Strategy and Markets Leader for Climate Change and Sustainability Services. The move reflects intensifying client demand...
Renewables Seize the Lead Wind and solar generated more electricity in the European Union than fossil fuels in 2025 for the first time on record, according to new data published...
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...
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