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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today: Week in Review

This week in ESG news: State Street launches dedicated sustainability stewardship service for investors; Morgan Stanley survey finds growing interest in sustainable investing – especially by younger investors; Microsoft signs another record-breaking carbon removal deal; Google backs series of new advanced nuclear projects; India launches climate finance taxonomy; EU consults on changes to sustainable finance […]

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Energieanlagen neu denken: Infrastruktur als Inflationsschutz und ESG-Chance

Energieanlagen neu denken: Infrastruktur als Inflationsschutz und ESG-Chance

Erneuerbare Energieinfrastruktur könnte sich in den kommenden Jahren als fester Bestandteil in der Allokationsstrategie institutioneller Anleger etablieren. Die Kombination aus realem Sachwert, langfristiger Planbarkeit und ESG-Wirkung ist in ihrer Form einzigartig. Wer sich früh positioniert, sichert sich nicht nur stabile Erträge, sondern auch einen aktiven Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Transformation der Wirtschaft.

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Microsoft Signs 3 Million Ton Nature-Based Carbon Removal Deal with Forest Investor EFM

Microsoft Signs 3 Million Ton Nature-Based Carbon Removal Deal with Forest Investor EFM

Microsoft announced a new multi-year offtake agreement with forest investment and management firm EFM, providing access to up to 3 million nature-based carbon removal credits from EFM’s investment platform. Launched in 2004, Portland, Oregon-based EFM is a real estate asset manager focused on investing in natural climate solutions across the Americas. EFM’s approach includes using […]

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ICE Launches Physical Climate Risk Assessment Solution Corporate, Sovereign Asset Classes

ICE Launches Physical Climate Risk Assessment Solution Corporate, Sovereign Asset Classes

Financial technology and data services provider and exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced the launch of its new ICE Global Climate Risk Solution, aimed at providing investors with a view of physical climate risks of their portfolios, based on geospatial data. According to ICE, the new solution marks an expansion of its geospatial platform to […]

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Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects

Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects

Google announced today the launch of a new collaboration with South Carolina-based nuclear project developer Elementl Power, including an agreement to invest in three advanced nuclear energy projects. The agreement comes as Google and its tech giant peers increasingly turn to nuclear energy to help address the growing emissions impact of their rapidly expanding data […]

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EU Commission Launches Call for Evidence to Simplify and Update SFDR Regulation

EU Commission Launches Call for Evidence to Simplify and Update SFDR Regulation

The European Commission announced the launch of a new call for evidence, seeking input on its initiative to revise its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which aims to improve the regulation’s usefulness and to reduce reporting and compliance burdens for investors. The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, in application since 2021, sets out how financial market […]

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India Releases Draft Climate Finance Taxonomy to Drive Capital to Net Zero Goals

India Releases Draft Climate Finance Taxonomy to Drive Capital to Net Zero Goals

India’s Ministry of Finance announced the release of a draft framework for its Climate Finance Taxonomy, its classification system for identifying sustainable economic activities aligned with its climate goals, aimed at enabling the facilitation of major capital flows required to support the net zero transition, while preventing greenwashing. India has set a series of climate […]

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NGFS Releases its First Short Term Climate Scenarios

NGFS Releases its First Short Term Climate Scenarios

The Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), announced today the launch of its first set of short-term scenarios, aimed at enabling central banks and financial sector supervisors to analyze the near-term impact of climate change and climate-related policies on the stability and resilience of economies and financial systems. The […]

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Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe REIM erwirbt Ärzte- und Gesundheitszentrum in Elmshorn für Artikel-8-Fonds

Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe REIM erwirbt Ärzte- und Gesundheitszentrum in Elmshorn für Artikel-8-Fonds

Das Real Estate Investment Management der Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank (HAL REIM) hat für den Immobilien-Spezialfonds „H&A Soziale Infrastruktur“ ein Ärzte- und Gesundheitszentrum im Hermann-Ehlers-Weg 4 im schleswig-holsteinischen Elmshorn erworben. Das 1987 erbaute Objekt umfasst 2.718 Quadratmeter Mietfläche mit sechs Arztpraxen verschiedener Fachrichtungen sowie einer Zahnarztpraxis, einer Praxis für Kieferorthopädie, einer Physiotherapiepraxis, einem Hörakustiker und […]

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Vision Paper: Closing the SDG Financing Gap – A Policy and Impact Investing Initiative enabled by the Impact Data Xchange

Vision Paper: Closing the SDG Financing Gap – A Policy and Impact Investing Initiative enabled by the Impact Data Xchange

Achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands more than vision—it demands coordination, capital, and clarity. Despite significant momentum in the impact investing sector, a persistent barrier remains: the lack of accessible, standardized, and trusted impact data. Without it, policy implementation stalls, capital deployment slows, and the credibility of ESG claims remains in question.

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Amazon Launching Custom-Fit Cardboard, Paper Packaging Across Europe

Amazon Launching Custom-Fit Cardboard, Paper Packaging Across Europe

Amazon announced that it would deploy advanced machines for making custom-fit packaging across its European network, enabling the production of custom-made cardboard boxes and paper bags for customer deliveries. In addition to reducing waste and materials usage, Amazon highlighted sustainability benefits of the new packaging, including emissions reductions by maximizing vehicle space to enable more […]

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