A Critical Moment for Sustainable Development The world faces significant challenges—geopolitical conflicts, the climate crisis, high inflation, and the lingering effects of COVID-19—that hinder sustainable development. Only 17% of Sustainable...
Standard Chartered Bank and SEB have expanded their partnership with Puro.earth to enhance the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market. By facilitating offtake agreements for high-quality, Puro Standard-certified carbon removal credits,...
MSCI Inc. has launched MSCI Carbon Project Ratings, the first tool to assess the integrity of over 4,000 carbon credit projects. This marks a significant step forward in setting new...
Key Impact Points: ERM has partnered with CEEZER to create the ERM Carbon Credit Portal, enabling businesses to purchase and retire carbon credits efficiently. The portal, integrated with ERM’s carbon...
Growing Confidence in SI Data Concerns about the availability and accuracy of ESG data have significantly declined, with fewer asset owners citing it as a barrier to sustainable investment (SI)....
SBTi Expands Corporate Net-Zero Standard to Refine Emission Neutralization The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is advancing its efforts to help companies achieve net-zero by revising its Corporate Net-Zero Standard....
Kenya has taken a significant step forward in its climate goals by becoming the first African nation to develop a national REDD+ registry, designed to track carbon credits aimed at...
United Airlines and the San Francisco 49ers have teamed up to reduce carbon emissions from air travel by launching a pilot project using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The 49ers are...
IBM and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched two innovative energy models aimed at accelerating a global energy transition. Hosted on UNDP’s GeoHub platform, these free, interactive models...
Woodland Biofuels Invests $1.35 Billion in Louisiana for Renewable Fuels Toronto-based Woodland Biofuels announced a $1.35 billion investment to build a renewable natural gas (RNG) and ultra-green hydrogen facility at...
Hero Future Energies, a unit of the Hero Group, is set to invest $20 billion over the next six years to expand its renewable energy capacity nearly 16-fold, according to...
A new partnership between BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), Microsoft, and MGX aims to revolutionize AI infrastructure with a potential $100 billion investment. The Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership (GAIIP)...
Vanguard’s Investor Choice proxy voting pilot, launched in early 2023, has revealed new data from the 2024 proxy season, showing growing individual investor engagement. The initiative enables individual investors to...
More than 530 financial institutions, managing over $29 trillion in assets, are pressuring governments worldwide to take decisive action on the climate crisis. In a joint statement ahead of COP29,...
Travalyst has made flight emissions data more accessible than ever, scaling its information to appear in over 65 billion flight searches globally. This effort, led by the non-profit founded by...
Hygenco Green Energies Pvt Ltd, a leader in green hydrogen production, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with REC Limited to finance its Green Ammonia Project in Gopalpur, Odisha....
The Commission’s Approval The European Commission has approved Poland’s €1.2 billion (PLN 5 billion) state aid scheme, designed to drive investments in sectors crucial for the shift to a net-zero...