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We just completed our 25thAnnual Wall Street Green Summit this week in New York. Despite all the negative press on renewables and ESG, the bottom line is sustainability is alive and...
Mandatory Reporting Is Changing The Structure Of Sustainability Disclosure The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is already reshaping how companies disclose environmental and social performance, even before the regulation...
AstraZeneca, supply chain intelligence platform Secaro, and sustainability consultancy ERM have launched a new initiative designed to accelerate decarbonisation of industrial heat across global supply chains, a major but often...
Renewable energy investor Octopus Energy Generation has expanded its capital commitment to natural asset developer Cultivo to $100 million, deepening a partnership designed to scale grasslands restoration and carbon removal...
India is weighing whether to soften proposed penalties on wind and solar power producers that fail to meet tighter grid-supply commitments, following warnings from developers that the new rules could...
Strong Consumer Demand Drives Record Results The LEGO Group reported record financial performance in 2025, buoyed by strong consumer demand, a growing product portfolio, and continued investment in sustainability initiatives....
The 704 megawatt Revolution Wind offshore project has begun delivering electricity to the New England grid, adding a major new source of renewable power to a region facing rising energy...
In this week’s ESG News Week In Review, climate and energy policy debates intensified as governments reassessed transition strategies. A senior EU official warned Europe’s nuclear phase-down may have been...
The Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) has launched a five point Renewables Action Plan urging governments to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and storage in response to renewed global energy...
RGREEN INVEST has closed its fifth INFRAGREEN infrastructure strategy with more than €900 million ($980 million), positioning the fund to accelerate investment in renewable power, energy storage, and electrification projects...
AIRMO, a space technology startup building an advanced greenhouse gas monitoring system that combines airborne and satellite sensing, has raised €5 million ($5.4 million) in seed funding to accelerate global...
Finance Leaders Move To Address Fashion’s Supply-Chain Emissions Global fashion brands must rapidly scale financing for supply-chain decarbonisation or risk exposing their businesses to rising climate disruption, regulatory pressure and...
EU-Backed Climate Fund Deploys Capital Into India’s Biogas Infrastructure Climate Fund Managers has committed $32.2 million to finance the construction of a commercial-scale waste-to-biogas facility in northern India, targeting one...
DP World Expands Carbon Inset Strategy Across Europe Global logistics operator DP World is expanding its supply chain decarbonization strategy in Europe with the launch of a carbon inset trial...
Paraguay Emerges as Green Hydrogen Hub for Fertiliser Production The European Investment Bank’s development arm, EIB Global, has committed up to $95 million in financing for a green hydrogen fertiliser...
Alliance Expands Framework To Focus On Real-Economy Transitions Institutional investors representing more than $9 trillion in assets are sharpening their approach to climate alignment. The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA)...
Aon plc has appointed veteran sustainable investment leader Sindhu Krishna as partner and head of sustainability for its UK Investment Consulting business, reinforcing the firm’s push to expand climate and...
Net Zero Costs Reframed In New Economic Analysis A new analysis from the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) concludes that the economic cost of reaching Net Zero by 2050 may...
Shell’s Emissions Remain Largely Unchanged Shell reported that its greenhouse gas emissions remained broadly stable in 2025 at around 1.1 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent, according to the company’s...
Peru’s environmental certification authority has approved the environmental impact study for Buenaventura’s planned Trapiche copper project, clearing a major regulatory hurdle for the $3.4 billion development in the country’s mineral-rich...
Asset manager Galvanize has closed a $370 million real estate fund designed to turn building decarbonization into a direct driver of property value, targeting commercial assets where energy upgrades can...
The European Commission has approved $283 million (€260 million) in Belgian state aid to support a large-scale carbon capture and storage project designed to decarbonize heavy industry in Antwerp, one...
Global Capital Moves Into Water Resilience Technologies Emerald Technology Ventures has reached €100 million ($108 million) for its Global Water Fund II, bringing new capital from Temasek and the Grundfos...
Rolls-Royce SMR and nuclear technology developer Equilibrion have launched a joint assessment to examine how small modular reactors could power large-scale production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, a step aimed at...
Clean iron technology company Electra has secured a $30 million venture debt facility from JP Morgan as it prepares to move toward its first commercial-scale production facility. The financing strengthens...
European companies are largely choosing to continue sustainability reporting even after regulatory changes removed many from mandatory disclosure requirements under the EU’s Omnibus simplification package. A new study by enterprise...
• €1.3 billion raised toward a €2 billion target for the CI Green Credit Fund II• Institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, insurers and pension funds anchor the fund• First...
Every year, ESG and sustainability become more complex. New regulations, climate risks, and technological innovations are reshaping the field faster than most professionals can keep up. One of the best...
CDP, the global non-profit behind the world’s largest independent environmental disclosure platform, has partnered with Google.org to develop an artificial intelligence tool designed to help cities, states, and regional governments...
Mantle8, a European natural hydrogen exploration company, has secured €2.06 million ($2.2 million) from the European Union’s Just Transition Fund to accelerate development of its natural hydrogen technology platform. The...
A new cross industry framework designed to define what constitutes a genuine net zero carbon building has formally launched in the UK, offering the property sector its first unified benchmark...
Europe’s retreat from nuclear energy over the past three decades was a “strategic mistake,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday, arguing that the shift has left the...
A German technology start-up is moving to expand Europe’s control over artificial intelligence infrastructure with plans to build a major new data centre that could double the country’s domestically operated...
Bridges Fund Management is expanding its climate investment capabilities with the addition of a specialist climate technology team from HSBC Asset Management, deepening its focus on financing companies that accelerate...
U.S. Approves First Commercial Advanced Reactor Construction The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a construction permit for TerraPower’s Natrium reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming, clearing the way for what could...
Corporate Demand Drives Next Phase of Carbon Procurement Climate software platform Watershed has opened its 2026 Carbon Request for Proposals (RFP), expanding a procurement mechanism designed to connect corporate buyers...
In this week’s ESG News Week In Review, regulators tightened climate disclosure and financial risk oversight as governments recalibrated transition policy. Singapore introduced climate transition risk rules for banks and...
A coalition of major global companies has committed $100 million to accelerate efforts to reduce superpollutants, a category of powerful greenhouse gases responsible for roughly half of the warming the...
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a new suite of ESG scores and sustainability analytics aimed at improving transparency, comparability and analytical depth for financial institutions navigating rapidly evolving...
Envision Energy has secured a $600 million equivalent sustainability-linked syndicated term loan, marking the largest non-project offshore financing in the company’s history and highlighting continued global lender appetite for climate-aligned...
Denmark has launched its first domestic flight route partially powered by sustainable aviation fuel produced from used cooking oil, marking a practical step in the country’s effort to decarbonize aviation...
HSBC has appointed sustainable finance veteran Denise Odaro as Head of Sustainable Finance and Transition for Europe and the Americas, placing a seasoned ESG and capital markets strategist at the...
China has released the draft outline of its 15th Five-Year Plan, laying out the country’s economic and energy strategy from 2026 to 2030. The blueprint emphasizes massive expansion of renewable...
Ingka Group, the largest retailer behind the IKEA brand, is transforming an existing wind farm in Portugal into a hybrid renewable energy hub by adding solar generation to the site,...
L’Oréal Groupe has entered a multi-year partnership with clean chemicals startup Dioxycle to transform captured carbon emissions into sustainable packaging materials, marking a significant step toward decarbonizing plastics used across...
Schroders Greencoat is moving deeper into the intersection of clean energy and digital infrastructure, launching a dedicated platform designed to support the surging power demands of artificial intelligence and hyperscale...
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...
ENGIE has completed and received regulatory approval for the Assú Sol photovoltaic complex, its largest operational solar facility worldwide, marking a major addition to Brazil’s renewable energy capacity. Located in...
Google.org is launching a $30 million Impact Challenge focused on AI for Science, aimed at accelerating breakthroughs in human health and climate systems. The global open call seeks to equip...
First Abu Dhabi Bank Misr (FABMISR) has launched the “Green Schools for a Sustainable Future” initiative, a public school sustainability pilot developed with Egypt’s Ministry of Education and Technical Education...
• $100 billion direct investment to build renewable powered hyperscale AI data centres by 2035• Expected to catalyse an additional $150 billion across manufacturing, cloud services and digital infrastructure• Integrated...
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