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BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) and Microsoft announced today that they have signed a large-scale, long-term nature-based carbon removal agreement, with Microsoft purchasing 8 million tons of carbon removal credits through 2043 generated through TIG’s reforestation and restoration strategy in Latin America. According to the companies, the agreement marks the largest known carbon dioxide […]

Only 40% of high emitting companies disclose and quantify the impacts of their decarbonisation actions, a study has found. The research from sustainability tech firm Clarity AI also found that, while over 80% of the analysed companies reported on their decarbonisation measures, only 40% of all companies made a clear quantification of the impact of […]

A new SEI report reveals that the EU’s focus on territorial emissions understates the impact of its consumption globally. The study shows huge potential for the EU to raise the ambition of its climate action by addressing Member States’ consumption-based emissions and lowering consumption overall. Between 1990 and 2020, the EU slashed its territorial emissions […]

Swiss Re’s SONAR report features 16 emerging risks and their potential impacts on the insurance sector and society.

Member states in the European Council voted today to approve the long-contested Nature Restoration Law, a key piece of legislation aimed at protecting and restoring natural ecosystems, and creating a mandated target for EU countries implement measures to restore at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030, after a last-minute decision […]

Die KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, wurde in den Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024 unter die Top 6 der einflussreichsten Universitäten weltweit und auf Platz 1 in Indien in Bezug auf das Ziel der nachhaltigen Entwicklung „Verringerung von Ungleichheiten” eingestuft. Mit einer Gesamtpunktzahl von 79,3–83,9 liegt die KIIT in dieser renommierten Rangliste, die […]

Das Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking 2024 bescheinigt der Universität Bonn in mehreren Kategorien ein hohes Nachhaltigkeitsengagement. Es beleuchtet den Impact der Universitäten auf jeweils ein Nachhaltigkeitsziel der Vereinten Nationen (Sustainable Development Goals/SDG). Beim SDG 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities” landet die Universität Bonn deutschlandweit sogar auf Platz 1.