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Windfall Bio Raises $28 Million to Scale Methane-Eating-Microbe Industrial Emissions Solution

Windfall Bio Raises $28 Million to Scale Methane-Eating-Microbe Industrial Emissions Solution

Climate solutions startup Windfall Bio announced today that it has raised $28 million in a Series A funding round, with proceeds from the financing aimed at supporting the commercialization of its solution to capture and utilize methane from emissions-intensive industries. Rapid reduction in methane emissions is seen as one of the most effective near-term actions […]

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Chevron, Carbon Direct Capital Invest $45 Million in Carbon Capture Tech Firm ION Clean Energy

Chevron, Carbon Direct Capital Invest $45 Million in Carbon Capture Tech Firm ION Clean Energy

Carbon capture technology provider ION Clean Energy announced that it has raised $45 million from investors including energy giant Chevron’s low-carbon solutions-focused business Chevron New Energies (CNE), who led the round, and carbon management-focused investor Carbon Direct Capital. Founded in 2008, Boulder, Colorado-based ION Clean Energy provides technology aimed at reducing the overall costs of […]

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Nachhaltiges Investieren für institutionelle Anlegerinnen und Anleger leicht gemacht

Nachhaltiges Investieren für institutionelle Anlegerinnen und Anleger leicht gemacht

Nachhaltige Strategien beziehen wesentliche Überlegungen zu Umwelt, Sozialem und Unternehmensführung (ESG) in die Anlageentscheidungen mit ein, um die risikobereinigten Renditen zu verbessern und neben finanziellen Erträgen auch positive umweltbezogene oder soziale Auswirkungen zu unterstützen. Hat eine Institution ihren strategischen Anlageprozess definiert, geht es an die Implementierung und damit an die Auswahl der passenden Anlagestrategie. Damit […]

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Investors Engaged on Energy Transition

Investors Engaged on Energy Transition

Over half of investors globally believe they can significantly influence energy transition progress through their strategies, according to investment manager Nuveen’s fourth annual EQuilibrium institutional investor survey. Fifty-seven percent of the 800 surveyed institutional investors – who collectively manage US$18 trillion in assets – said they had or were seeking exposure to alternative energies including […]

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Japan Issues Impact Investing Guidelines

Japan Issues Impact Investing Guidelines

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has finalised new guidelines on impact investing, setting out four principles for market participants to refer to when structuring and financing investment projects that have social and environmental benefits. The four key principles of impact investment are: intentionality; additionality; identification, measurement and management of impact; and innovation, transformation and acceleration. […]

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Norwegian Investors Choose Voting Over Divesting

Norwegian Investors Choose Voting Over Divesting

Norway’s five largest investors supported the majority of climate resolutions filed at oil and gas majors in 2023, according to research by activist group Follow This. “These Norwegian investors show the world that voting is essential to active ownership,” said Mark van Baal, Founder of Follow This. “Big Oil will only change if shareholders vote […]

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today: Week in Review

This week in ESG news: SEC pauses its new climate disclosure rules; JPMorgan, Citi and RBC agree to disclose new climate finance metric; Deloitte survey finds sharp increase in investors implementing sustainable investment policies; Biden awards $20 billion to boost clean energy financing for low income communities; EY launches new sustainable finance hub; U.S. Steel […]

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EY Launches Sustainable Finance Hub to Help Financials Meet New ESG Reporting, Regulatory Requirements

EY Launches Sustainable Finance Hub to Help Financials Meet New ESG Reporting, Regulatory Requirements

Professional services firm EY announced today the launch of a new Sustainable Finance Innovation Hub, aimed at supporting financial institutions globally in meeting their ESG regulatory and reporting requirements. Based in Dublin, the new hub will add 40 specialists over the next few months, spanning the environmental, social and governance pillars of ESG, more than […]

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Wasserfonds: Renditepotenzial mit Impact

Wasserfonds: Renditepotenzial mit Impact

„Der Weltwassertag am 22. März erinnert jährlich an unser wichtigstes Grundnahrungsmittel“, sagt Scope-Analystin Sina Hartelt. Für Anleger stehen 20 Aktienfonds zur Verfügung, die ein Engagement in das Thema Wasser ermöglichen. Sina Hartelt hat Bilanz gezogen, was die Produkte geleistet haben.

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Top 10: Sustainable Technology Companies

Top 10: Sustainable Technology Companies

There’s an element of diversity to the actions of world-leading technology companies. Despite their differences, they all push towards the same goals Sustainability is largely driven by companies’ strategies to eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or the social impact of an organisation, but without targets and deadlines, there is no way of benchmarking certain metrics.

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Büro: Weltweite Angebotslücke an „grünen“ Büroflächen wächst dramatisch

Büro: Weltweite Angebotslücke an „grünen“ Büroflächen wächst dramatisch

Für die Studie „The Green Tipping Point“ hat JLL weltweit 21 Städte unter die Lupe genommen. Die höchste Angebotslücke an ökologisch nachhaltigen Büroflächen weisen demnach US-amerikanische Metropolen mit durchschnittlich 81 Prozent auf, dahinter folgen mit 60 Prozent asiatisch-pazifische Ballungsräume und mit 54 Prozent europäische Metropolen. Mit elf Prozent fällt das Defizit in London am geringsten […]

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