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IFS has launched IFS Zero, an agentic Emissions Operating System built for companies where carbon data is often buried across assets, sites, suppliers, and legacy systems. The new platform is...
McDonald’s Faces A Climate Target Reality Check Chicago-based McDonald’s has acknowledged that it will miss some of its 2030 emissions targets, placing one of the world’s largest restaurant companies at...
Last updated: May 2026. This guide reflects the Omnibus I Directive, which entered into force on 18 March 2026 and significantly revised CSRD scope, timelines, and reporting standards. Executive Summary...
Elemental Impact has launched a new investment initiative with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to test clean energy and materials technologies inside one of the world’s fastest-growing infrastructure markets. The...
Standard Setters Move To Reduce Reporting Complexity London and Amsterdam are moving closer on sustainability reporting, as the IFRS Foundation and the Global Reporting Initiative expand their collaboration to align...
Clean-Energy Trade Defies Tariffs London, New York and global energy markets entered 2025 facing tariffs, industrial policy shifts and widening geopolitical risk. Yet clean-energy trade still grew. Global shipments of...
China’s Carbon Accounting Comes Under Scrutiny Beijing’s latest carbon data has opened a new fault line in global climate governance, after researchers said China changed the way it calculates emissions...
Hong Kong Green Debt Market Gains New Benchmark Hong Kong has added a new marker to its sustainable finance market, after Standard Chartered issued its inaugural HKD2 billion ($255 Million)...
Stockholm Moves Carbon Removals Into Municipal Climate Policy Stockholm has placed permanent carbon removals at the centre of its municipal climate strategy, agreeing to purchase 50,000 tonnes a year from...
TISFD has released the first draft of its global framework for inequality and social-related financial disclosures, opening a new phase in how companies and investors assess people-related risks. The draft...
Brazil Moves To Scale SAF Production São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, is moving into the center of Brazil’s low-carbon fuel strategy. Acelen Renewables secured $1.5 billion in financing to start...
Enbridge and Meta are moving ahead with a major solar and battery storage project in Wyoming, adding new clean power capacity for Meta’s growing U.S. data center operations. The project...
Shein Moves Deeper Into The US Retail Market San Francisco is now the center of a closely watched retail deal that could test the limits of sustainability branding in fashion....
Paris became a meeting point for global methane governance as regulators from nearly 30 countries and regional organisations gathered at the International Energy Agency headquarters for the first plenary meeting...
Lufthansa Group is reshaping its climate protection portfolio as airlines face rising pressure to address one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize. The company has introduced a new set of...
The European Commission has awarded around €400 million ($465 Million) to 65 industrial heat decarbonisation projects, using revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System to push clean heat technologies into factories...
In this week’s ESG News Week In Review, governments and markets continued scaling the transition economy through industrial decarbonization, carbon markets, and climate finance. Germany secured approval for a major...
AI Risk Monitoring Moves Into Portfolio Oversight New York based Novata has launched Risk Atlas, an AI-powered risk monitoring tool built to help organizations identify, compare, and prioritize exposure across...
Partnership Targets Ocean Freight Emissions Scan Global Logistics and Hapag-Lloyd are expanding their decarbonization partnership as global shippers face rising pressure to cut Scope 3 emissions across complex supply chains....
UN Carbon Market Expands Into Industrial N₂O Cuts Bonn, Germany, became the latest testing ground for Paris Agreement implementation this week, as the UN body overseeing the agreement’s carbon market...
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