Sustainability-focused industrial solutions provider Brimstone announced a new commercial agreement with Amazon, reserving annual volumes of Brimstone’s low-carbon cement from its forthcoming plant. The agreement was announced alongside successful third-party test results of Brimstone’s lower-carbon Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) for use in concrete construction.
Spanish Bank BBVA announced that it achieved a quarterly sustainable finance record, channeling more than €30 billion (USD$34.6 billion) into environmental and social projects in Q2 2025. The bank reported that its sustainable finance volumes for the first half of 2025 reached €63 billion, increasing by 48% over same period last year.
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) announced that it has fined global fashion online retailer Shein’s website operator Infinite Styles Services Co €1 million (USD$1.15 million) for greenwashing, after finding that the company used misleading environmental messages or claims in the promotion of its clothing products. The announcement follows the launch of an investigation last year […]
Chinas aktualisierte grüne Taxonomie konsolidiert die Standards des Anleihe- und Kreditmarkts in einem einzigen Katalog und zielt darauf ab, die Berichtskosten zu senken und die Finanzierung der Dekarbonisierung zu erhöhen. Der neue Rahmen erweitert die förderfähigen grünen Aktivitäten um Klimaresilienz, Methanminderung, Personenverkehr auf der Schiene, grünen Handel und verbraucherorientierte grüne Finanzierung. Obwohl dies als Meilenstein […]
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner Meta announced a new initiative aimed at cutting the embodied carbon footprint of its data centers, piloting the use of mass timber in the construction of the facilities, in place of emissions-intensive materials such as steel and concrete. Steel and concrete are among the most significant sources of greenhouse gas […]
Snacking, food, and pet care products provider Mars announced the launch of the Mars Protect the Peanut Plan, a new multi-million dollar agri-science initiative aimed at safeguarding peanut crops against the impact of climate change. According to Mars, the new initiative comes as peanuts face increasing pressures that threaten the reliability of global supply, including […]
1,6 Billionen US-Dollar weltweit – der Markt des Impact Investings wächst rasant. In der aktuellen Episode von Perspektiven in Private Markets diskutiert Susanne Bregy (Bundesinitiative Impact Investing) mit Alex Koriath (Cambridge Associates) über Intentionalität, messbare Wirkung und welche Renditen die Transformationsfinanzierung Anlegern bringen kann.
The European Commission announced the launch of a new consultation and call for evidence for its upcoming Circular Economy Act, kicking off the process towards launching new regulations aimed at accelerating the transition to a more circular economy, and targeting goals to double the EU’s circularity rate, and establish the EU as “the world leader […]
Nach dem Hype folgt die Enttäuschung. Seit drei Jahren hat das Thema Nachhaltigkeit mit Gegenwind zu kämpfen. Unternehmen und Investoren sollte das aber nicht beirren, so Roman Limacher von Arete Ethik Invest.
Barclays announced that it has decided to exits the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), marking the second UK-based bank to withdraw from the UN-backed coalition dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities, after the departure last month of HSBC. The departures of Barclays and HSBC follow the exit of all major Wall […]
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) announced the publication of its revised Exposure Drafts of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), significantly simplifying and scaling back reporting requirements for companies under the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Among the key changes from the initial ESRS, the new standards remove all voluntary disclosures, and […]
Fusion energy company Helion announced that it has started working on the site of Orion, its first fusion power plant, aimed at providing carbon-free energy to offtaker Microsoft by 2028. Fusion, the process of combining two atoms to release energy, is seen as a potential source of abundant, zero-carbon power. Unlike fossil fuels, fusion does […]
CO₂-reduzierte Bauweise und digitale Planung für nachhaltigeres Bauen / Joint Venture NELCON soll Verfahren bald großflächig anbieten.
Im Jahr 2024 beliefen sich die wirtschaftlichen Kosten extremer Naturkatastrophen auf über 400 Milliarden Dollar, schrieb die Privatbank Pictet jüngst in einer Studie. Im selben Jahr übertraf in der EU erstmals die Stromerzeugung aus Solarenergie die aus Kohle, während 90 Prozent der anstehenden Energieprojekte in den USA entweder erneuerbare Energien oder Speicherlösungen sind.
BayWa r.e. hat ein wegweisendes Erneuerbare-Energien-Projekt in Spanien mit einer Gesamtleistung von 199 MW an den führenden unabhängigen Stromerzeuger Encavis AG verkauft – eine weitere Erfolgsmeldung für das operative Projektgeschäft des Unternehmens.
