Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) provider Persefoni announced today the release of Persefoni Pro, a new free, tool aimed at enabling businesses to measure and disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Launched in 2020, Persefoni’s SaaS platform enables companies and institutional investors to measure, analyze, plan, forecast, and report on their carbon footprint.
Investment giant BlackRock will continue to view the global transition to low carbon energy sources as one of the most powerful drivers of capital market opportunity and risk, even as the energy transition becomes “more contentious in the U.S.,” according to the firm’s Chairman and CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter to investors. While describing the […]
Die Dynamik bei Artikel-8-Fonds lässt nach, doch das Wachstum ist noch immer signifikant, so die Experten der Scope Fund Analysis GmbH. Bei Artikel-9-Fonds sei das Vermögen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr jedoch kaum gestiegen. Scope gebe einen Überblick über das nachhaltige Fondsuniversum gemäß SFDR.
Die Abscheidung und Speicherung von Kohlenstoffdioxid (CCS) ist ein Wachstumsmarkt mit langfristigen Chancen, der zusätzlich von politischen Anreizen, steigender Rentabilität und wachsender Infrastruktur profitiert. Denn: Nicht alle Industrien lassen sich mithilfe von Elektrifizierung und erneuerbaren Energien dekarbonisieren. Natalia Luna, Senior Thematic Investment Analyst bei Columbia Threadneedle Investments, zeigt in ihrem Marktkommentar die langfristigen Wachstumschancen des […]
Retail giant Walmart announced today a series of new clean energy investments and purchase agreements, aimed at adding nearly 1 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity across the U.S. The new commitments follow the announcement by Walmart in January of plans to accelerate its energy transformation strategy, with an ambition to enable as much as 10 […]
Zurich-based Direct Air Capture (DAC) company provider Climeworks announced today that it has signed a new 9-year carbon removal agreement with the LEGO Group. The new deal also includes a carbon removal agreement with KIRKBI, the Danish family office for the Kristiansen family, which owns The Lego Group. The combined agreements are valued at over […]
Economic pressures have had disparate effects on asset managers’ use of ESG as well as their willingness to advertise around it. Some have leaned into it as a value creation and protection tool, while others have substantially decreased their focus on or mention of it.
Von Zukunftsfähigkeit fabulieren viele. Im „Bundesverband Nachhaltige Wirtschaft“ (BNW) haben sich Hunderte Unternehmen zusammengeschlossen, die es ernst mit ihr meinen. Das bedeutet auch: Längst nicht jeder darf dabei sein.
Climate tech startup Cemvision announced that it has raised €10 million in a seed funding round, aimed at accelerating the company’s near-term efforts to provide high-performance, ultra-low CO2 footprint and resource-efficient, 100% circular cement.
Microsoft and climate solutions provider The Next 150 announced that they have signed a 6-year offtake agreement, with Microsoft purchasing 95,000 tons of carbon removal credits generated by a new biochar production facility in Mexico.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the selection of 33 projects to be awarded up to $6 billion in funding aimed at advancing technologies to help significantly reduce emissions across hard-to-decarbonize industries across sectors including chemicals, steel, food, refining and cement, among others.
The study found a “green rush” towards climate funds in both the private and public markets over the past few years, with more climate funds launched in private markets between 2020 and Q3 2023 than in the previous nine years combined, and with these new funds representing more than 70% of the $90.5 billion of […]
This week in ESG news: Texas pulls $8.5 billion from BlackRock over ESG; US appeals court pauses SEC’s climate disclosure rule; EU’s human rights and environmental due diligence law passes major hurdle; Deutsche Bank ties bonuses for top execs to loan book decarbonizations goals; Oracle launches sustainability data and reporting solution; Dutch court finds KLM’s […]
Carbon accounting Greenly announced that it has raised that it has raised $52 million in a Series B funding round, with proceeds aimed at supporting the acceleration of the company’s growth and enhancing its suite of solutions enabling companies to measure and manage their carbon emissions.
Zum zweiten Mal wurden im Rahmen des Sustainability Transformation Monitor Nachhaltigkeitsexpert:innen in Finanz- und Realwirtschaft zu unterschiedlichen Themen des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements und der Transformationsfinanzierung befragt. Insgesamt haben in dieser Runde 362 Unternehmen an der federführend von der Universität Hamburg konzipierten und von der Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainble Finance unterstützen Befragung teilgenommen.
