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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has agreed to acquire Ørsted’s European onshore renewables business, transferring a portfolio of more than 800 MW of operating and under-construction capacity alongside a multi-gigawatt development pipeline...
An interview with Catherine Cormier, Chief Product Officer at Assent Global manufacturers are facing a mounting sustainability challenge that is no longer confined to compliance teams or annual reporting cycles....
After five years of technical work and global consultation, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol has released its Land Sector and Removals Standard, introducing a long awaited framework that brings land based...
Jupiter Power has secured a $500 million Senior Secured Green Revolving Loan and Letter of Credit Facility, significantly expanding its financial capacity to advance utility-scale battery energy storage projects across...
Europe’s largest electricity consumers and grid technology providers have formed a new industry body aimed at accelerating the overhaul of the continent’s power infrastructure, as grid congestion and slow connections...
A Development Lens on Climate Policy India’s climate strategy is being recalibrated around development realities rather than abstract emissions targets, according to the Economic Survey 2025–26 tabled in Parliament by...
Beneath a scarred landscape shaped by wildfire, Mast Reforestation has buried the remains of millions of dead trees, sealed them underground, and converted that intervention into verified carbon removal credits...
Voyager Ventures has closed a $275 million second fund aimed at early stage companies building the physical and digital infrastructure underpinning future economic growth. The close brings the firm’s total...
• First mandatory climate disclosure standard designed specifically for governments and public sector entities, effective from 2028• Alignment with IFRS S2 aims to make public sector climate risks visible and...
In an era where corporate accountability extends far beyond balance sheets, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable business practice. Yet, as regulations like...
A global commodities trading powerhouse is moving deeper into long-duration climate infrastructure across Africa, with a woodland restoration platform targeting at least $1 billion in lifetime investment and positioning carbon...
Global finance and carbon markets are moving closer together as Bloomberg and Calyx Global launch a strategic collaboration to deliver independent carbon credit ratings directly through the Bloomberg Terminal, embedding...
OVO has entered a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to embed artificial intelligence across customer energy management, customer service and vulnerability support systems, marking a shift in how retail energy...
BMI has expanded its ESG Country and Physical Climate Risk analytics platform, introducing new geospatial climate hazard modelling and forward looking physical risk scenarios through 2050. The move reflects rising...
The Conservation Fund has appointed Kristina Wyatt as Executive Vice President and General Counsel, bringing senior climate disclosure, carbon accounting, and sustainability governance experience into one of the United States’...
European sustainability focused asset manager Ambienta has secured more than €500 million ($540 Million) in commitments for its Sustainable Credit Opportunities strategy, surpassing its original fundraising target and reinforcing investor...
ESG Reporting Expertise Moves Into Enterprise Software As the European Union scales the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive across major corporates, enterprise ESG software provider Sweep has moved to embed regulatory...
Helsinki Launch Reflects a Shift Toward Market Infrastructure Puro.earth has introduced a new premium service that allows engineered carbon removal suppliers to issue verified credits with greater frequency, tightening the...
The UK has awarded £181,000 in government funding (about $225,000) to four sustainable aviation fuel innovators to accelerate testing, certification and commercialisation of next-generation fuels. The awards, issued through the...
• European Commission approves a 3.1 billion euro ($3.4 billion) Spanish aid program for high efficiency CHP plants• Ten-year scheme ties natural gas to renewable hydrogen readiness and biomass based...
Holcim has taken a strategic stake in Capsol Technologies, a Norwegian developer of post-combustion carbon capture solutions, in a move that places industrial carbon removal at the center of the...
The United States has formally exited the Paris Agreement for the second time, completing a year-long withdrawal process and removing the world’s largest economy from the principal multilateral framework for...
Ford Motor Company has appointed Lisa Drake as president of Ford Energy and confirmed that the new business unit will bring Ford into the battery energy storage systems market. The...
Hong Kong Launches Phase 2A Update to Sustainable Finance Taxonomy The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released the Phase 2A update of the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance on...
Tetra Pak is expanding its sustainable packaging research agenda with a €60 million ($65 million) investment in a pilot plant in Lund, Sweden, aimed at commercializing a paper-based barrier that...
Bureau Veritas has agreed to acquire SPIN360, a Milan-based sustainability advisory firm specializing in lifecycle analytics, supply chain traceability, and ESG reporting for premium fashion and luxury brands. The deal...
• £12 million DRIVE35 grant will back Belfast magnet recycling plant supporting UK automotive and advanced manufacturing• Project targets 400 metric tons of high purity separated rare earth oxides annually...
TotalEnergies will supply 800 GWh of clean firm power to paper manufacturer SWM over ten years beginning in 2026, marking one of France’s stronger examples of heavy industry locking in...
• Drax debuts an interactive data tool that tracks biomass sourcing, transport and carbon across its global supply chain• The Tracker supports the company’s new Sustainability Framework and strengthens verification...
Aneo has agreed to acquire RWE Renewables Sweden’s wind power portfolio, adding scale, development capabilities, and operational teams as the Nordic utility accelerates its regional growth strategy. The transaction includes...
ESG strategy shifts packaging from waste stream to Scope 3 climate lever Packaging provider IFCO has set a target to help its grocery and retail customers avoid one million tonnes...
• Brazilian decarbonization market projected to grow from $43.1B to $76.8B by 2030• Framework focused on MRV-ready data to support traceability, carbon and nature-based initiatives• Initial sector pilot in beef,...
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...
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...
Rio Tinto’s decision to sell up to fifteen billion dollars worth of assets and cut planned decarbonisation spending has opened a new debate over how far mining majors can support...
CDP, the global environmental disclosure platform, released its 2025 A List with evidence that appetite for high quality climate and nature data continues to intensify across capital markets and real...
Equitable Earth has secured EUR 12.6 million to expand globally as demand intensifies for trusted, high-integrity nature-based carbon credits. The round was led by a United States family office with...
Morningstar Sustainalytics has won an Environmental Finance 2025 IMPACT Award, receiving top honors in the Impact Research category for its work advancing transparency in sustainable finance. The award recognizes Sustainalytics’ flagship research series, SFDR Article...
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