Food and beverage giant PepsiCo announced today a series of updates to its key sustainability goals in areas across climate, packaging, agriculture and water, including pushing back its 2040 target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by ten years to 2050.
Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 564 – 20 today to approve proposed changes to approve proposed changes to the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the EU’s carbon tax on imported goods, which would exempt the vast majority of importers from the CBAM rules, while allowing the mechanism to continue to cover nearly all emissions […]
Microsoft announced the launch of new solutions and capabilities aimed at enabling users of its Azure cloud computing platform to take sustainability considerations into account in their cloud migration plans, and to manage and reduce the carbon footprint of their cloud usage.
JPMorganChase and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) project developer CO280 announced a new large-scale, long-term CDR purchase agreement, with JPMorgan agreeing to offtake 450,000 tons of carbon removal over 13 years from a project that will capture and permanently store biogenic carbon emissions from a pulp and paper mill in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Low carbon mobility-focused finance and investment firm Neot Capital announced the launch of Neot e-motion, a new leasing platform dedicated to zero-emission mobility in Europe. The new platform is being launched with €350 million (USD$394 million) in equity commitments from investors including Alba Infra Partners, Mirova, and the Banque des Territoires.
Alternative asset manager Patria Investments announced the launch of Omnia, a new platform aimed at developing, building and operating large-scale data centers across Latin America, fully powered by green, renewable energy. Patria said that the new platform will initially focus on 100+ MW campus projects, tailored to high-density AI workloads, with expected investments above $1 […]
The Trump administration has reversed its decision to halt Empire Wind, a large-scale offshore wind project off the coast of New York, anticipated to power 500,000 homes with renewable energy, according to a statement by New York Governor Kathy Hochul The announcement follows an order by the U.S. Department of the Interior in April to […]
Energy giants Occidental and Abu Dhabi-based ADNOC announced a new agreement to evaluate the launch of a new joint venture to develop a Direct Air Capture (DAC) carbon removal facility in South Texas, with ADNOC’s investment company XRG considering investing up to $500 million for the new facility. The new proposed project would be among […]
The European Commission and the government of the UK announced today an agreement to work towards linking their carbon markets through establishing a link between their emissions trading systems (ETS), which have been developing separately since Brexit. Under the envisioned linkage agreement, carbon allowances issued by the EU or UK could be recognized as complying […]
Renewable energy project developer energyRe announced a new agreement with Google, enabling the tech giant to purchase Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by energyRe in South Carolina. The announcement marks the second agreement between the Google and energyRe, […]
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Seit der Veröffentlichung des Omnibus-Pakets zur Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung am 26. Februar 2025 hat sich einiges getan: Wie von der Europäischen Union angekündigt, wurde der Vorschlag zur zeitlichen Verschiebung der Berichterstattungspflichten mit Vorrang behandelt und innerhalb kurzer Zeit verabschiedet. Auch an der Richtlinie zur Änderung der Berichtspflichten wird mit Hochdruck gearbeitet. Alle wichtigen Entscheidungen, Entwicklungen und Fristen […]
This week in ESG news: European Central Bank warns against watering down EU sustainability reporting rules; CDP restructures, aims to reduce sustainability reporting burden for companies; Shell faces new legal action over new oil & gas projects; Germany’s Merz looks to scrap EU sustainability due diligence law; Microsoft signs carbon credit mega-deal; L’Oréal to invest […]
ENGIE North America announced an investment by CBRE Investment Management in a portfolio of battery storage assets in Texas and California, in one of the largest battery storage financing transactions to date. Energy storage forms one of the key building blocks for the rapidly expanding clean energy transition, given the intermittent generating nature of many […]
