„Grüne Infrastruktur ist keine Zusatzoption – sie ist Fundament, Impulsgeber und soziale Verbindungsachse für lebenswerte Städte“, erläutert Christoph Hölters, Beigeordneter für Planung und Mobilität der Stadt Neuss und Geschäftsführer der Landesgartenschau Neuss 2026 GmbH, die Bedeutung von Stadtgrün auf der polis Convention.
Viele Unternehmen unterschätzen den Wert ihrer Daten für ESG-Reporting. Auch wenn sich Regulierungen wie CSRD oder CSDDD verzögern: Unternehmen, die jetzt Transparenz schaffen, können nicht nur Pflichten erfüllen, sondern auch Prozesse optimieren und bessere Entscheidungen treffen.
Der Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft fordert eine Neuausrichtung der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung: Ein ESG-Datenkatalog mit 100 Kennzahlen soll als Vorbild für investorenfreundlichere ESRS-Standards dienen.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aufschrei unter nachhaltigen Investoren: Zahlreiche große deutsche Asset Manager haben jüngst ihre ESG-Fonds für Rüstungsaktien geöffnet. Henrik Pontzen, Chief Sustainability Officer bei Union Investment, sieht das kritisch.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
United Airlines announced an investment in carbon transformation-focused cleantech company Twelve, supporting the company’s initiatives to turn CO2 into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using renewable energy. Founded in 2015, California-based Twelve produces chemicals, materials, and fuels from captured CO2 combined with water. The process is powered by renewable energy and produces water and oxygen as […]
Google announced that it has signed a new renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) with Shell, buying 100% of the power generated by Shell NoordzeeWind, the Netherlands’ oldest wind farm. The wind farm, which was built by Shell and Vattenfall JV NoordzeeWind and began operations in 2007, generates a total of 108 megawatts of power. […]
