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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 facility is being prepared with ...
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 across North America. The new ...
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 appointment, confirmed in an internal ...
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 one of the largest vetted ...
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 industry. Operational since 2024, its ...
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 in Germany to Allianz Global ...
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 push to scale industrial hydrogen ...
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 reinforcing its growth ambitions across ...
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 multinational companies track, interpret, and ...
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 agreed later this year. The ...
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 closer to structural decarbonization. The ...
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 awarded under the country’s Renewable ...
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 adoption for listed companies. The ...
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 Colombian developer Erco Energía have ...
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 in highly competitive funding costs ...
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 of its kind for non ...
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 companies and adding fresh renewable ...
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 carbon removal solutions. The move ...
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 rulemaking into live operation. The ...
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 and reduce energy consumption across ...
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