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• Alt Carbon issues Asia’s largest batch of verified Enhanced Weathering CDR credits to Japan’s MOL, eight months after signing a 10,000-tonne multi-year offtake deal.• Verification follows Isometric’s high-rigour Enhanced...
• $2 million seed round backs expansion of AI-powered ESG risk management across banks, asset managers, and corporates.• Early deployments with major financial institutions show material efficiency gains, including 38%...
• Negotiators enter the midpoint of COP30 with core issues split into separate tracks, raising questions over whether a unified deal can still emerge.• Indigenous leaders intensify pressure on Brazil’s...
• Rio Tinto commits more than A$35 million ( $22 Million ) to help advance Calix’s hydrogen-enabled Zesty steel technology in Western Australia.• The partnership supports a demonstration plant designed...
• Business groups petition the Supreme Court to pause California’s emissions and climate-risk disclosure mandates as lawsuits advance.• Two laws could require more than 6,000 companies operating in the state...
• DHL to deploy around EUR 1 billion ($1.16 billion) by 2030 to scale low-emission logistics infrastructure and EV-driven operations in India.• Investment accelerates India’s role as a global sustainability...
In this week’s ESG News Week In Review, the global sustainability landscape entered a phase of recalibration — not retreat — as governments, markets, and corporates aligned around a more...
PATH Water CEO Shadi Bakour sits down with ESG News and Kristen Siemen, former Chief Sustainability Officer at GM, to explore the global movement against single-use plastics and virgin plastic...
• Forty-one percent of the world’s largest 2,000 companies now have value-chain net zero targets, reversing last year’s slowdown.• Companies are deploying a broader mix of decarbonization tools, with 13...
• EU Council authorises negotiations with the UK on a shared agri-food SPS area and linked carbon trading systems.• A joint ETS could unlock mutual exemptions from carbon border charges...
• Europe’s fashion sector needs an estimated €4.4 billion (US$5.09 billion) by 2030 to stay aligned with decarbonisation trajectories, exposing a growing financing gap for suppliers.• CHANEL, Kering, Moncler Group,...
A Day Shaped by People, Skills and Cultural Power Delegates closed day three of COP30 with a message that cut through the noise: the human dimension of climate action is...
• Up to US$1 billion in development finance over three years directed to water, sanitation, transport, and urban resilience• Funding aligned with Azerbaijan 2030 national priorities and the Country Partnership...
• Pilot introduces a hybrid payment model to fund regenerative agriculture across 7,000 acres in the Cerrado, with plans to reach 30,000 acres.• Co-funded initiative aims to reduce chemical inputs,...
• €300 million green loan will expand and automate Bahia’s power network, serving more than six million people.• The investment aligns with Brazil’s decarbonisation and energy-efficiency goals through 2030 and...
• FedEx co-leads a 160 million dollar Series C and places an initial order for 53 electric trucks.• Funding accelerates US-based manufacturing of purpose-built medium-duty EVs for logistics and RV...
• Hong Kong issues HK$10 billion (USD1.28 billion) in multi-currency digital green bonds, the largest digital bond offering globally to date.• First integration of tokenised central bank money (e-HKD and...
• New protocol enables governments to use private-sector crediting programmes for Paris Agreement compliance, expanding the supply of eligible emission reductions.• Standardised procedures aim to reduce market risk and improve...
• Parliament backs thresholds that limit sustainability reporting to companies above €450 million turnover and 1,750 employees.• Due diligence duties narrowed to firms with more than 5,000 employees and €1.5...
• New AI assistant built on Azure AI Foundry will give agronomists instant access to 20 years of detailed crop data.• Partnership aims to cut production costs and stabilize yields...
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