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Food and beverage giant PepsiCo announced today that its beverage plant in Northern Spain aims to become the company’s first plant globally to reach net-zero emissions by 2025. According to PepsiCo, the new achievement follows investments of €27 million (USD$29 million) dedicated to innovation and sustainability projects in the plant over the past five years, […]

International banking group Standard Chartered announced today a new commitment to set a science-based target by 2025 to reduce financed methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. Rapid reduction in methane emissions is seen as one of the most effective near-term actions that can be taken to help achieve the global climate goal to […]

Sustainability advisory firm ERM announced today the launch of ERM Climate Markets, a new business aimed at helping companies investing in carbon credits to address their unabated greenhouse gas emissions and achieve decarbonization goals. The new business line comes as demand for carbon offset projects and related credits is expected to increase significantly over the […]

More than a third of companies in the S&P 500 have monetary incentives in place linked to company emissions reduction, although a lower proportion have climate-related compensation incentives for senior executives, and even fewer at the top executive ranks, according to a new study released by S&P Global. The study, which included data from the […]

Snacking, food, and pet care products provider Mars announced today the launch of “Moo’ving Dairy Forward,” a new initiative aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of its dairy sourcing, backed by $47 million of investment over three years. The new initiative follows the launch by Mars last year of a series of new climate-related goals, […]

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and low carbon solutions provider World Energy announced today a new 5-year agreement for the purchase by BCG of sustainable aviation fuel certificates (SAFc) as part of the company’s efforts to achieve its net zero climate goals. The agreement marks BCG’s largest SAFc purchase to date, and is expected to deliver […]

Multinational pharmaceutical company Teva Pharmaceutical announced a series of new sustainability goals, including targets to achieve net zero emissions across the company’s operations and value chain by 2045 and to reach 100% renewable electricity across all Teva sites by 2035. The new goals were announced alongside the release of Teva’s 2023 Healthy Future Report, outlining […]

Adler & Allan, ein führender Anbieter von Umweltrisikominderungs- und Beratungsdiensten, gab bekannt, dass das Private-Equity-Geschäft von Goldman Sachs Alternatives eine Mehrheitsbeteiligung am Unternehmen von einer Tochtergesellschaft von Sun European Partners, LLP („Sun European“) erwerben wird den üblichen kartellrechtlichen und behördlichen Genehmigungen. Die Transaktion ist ein wichtiger Meilenstein in der Mission von Adler & Allan, die […]

Eine neue Studie des Meta and World Resources Institute (WRI) nutzte künstliche Intelligenz (KI), um eine globale Karte der Baumkronenhöhe mit einer Auflösung von einem Meter zu erstellen. Dies ermöglicht die Erkennung einzelner Bäume auf der ganzen Welt. Um die Open-Source-Waldüberwachung zu fördern, sind alle mit der Kronenhöhe verbundenen Daten und KI-Modelle für die öffentliche […]

The UK government’s strategy to reach net zero emissions by 2050 was ruled to fall short of legal requirements by the High Court for a second time, with the court supporting challenges claiming that the plan did not provide sufficient information on the risk to achieving the required emissions reductions, which rely in part on […]

Microsoft and Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi announced today a 10-year offtake agreement with Stockholm Exergi providing Microsoft with more than 3.3 million tonnes of carbon removal certificates from its planned bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm. The agreement marks the largest-ever permanent carbon removal deal to date, according to the […]