SWEN Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on non-listed responsible investment and ocean sustainability, has raised €160m in the first close of its SWEN Blue Ocean 2 fund, to invest in innovative start-ups working to support the regeneration of ocean biodiversity.
Shareholders at Walmart and Netflix voted overwhelmingly to reject anti-DEI proposals brought by a conservative shareholder group, with resolutions brought at each company’s annual meeting receiving less than 1% shareholder support. The votes mark the latest in a series of anti-DEI proposal rejections at major U.S. companies, following similar results at Apple, Amazon, Deere and […]
Amazon’s cloud provider service, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it is more than halfway towards reaching its “water positive” goal to return more water than it uses in its operations by 2030. AWS initially set its water positive goal in 2022, setting out a strategy to achieve its target based on key aspects including […]
Institutionelle Investoren sehen im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel eine Priorität – zumindest außerhalb der USA. Das geht aus einer Umfrage des niederländischen Vermögensverwalters Robeco hervor. Gleichzeitig herrscht Frust über unklare politische Rahmenbedingungen.
For the past 15 years, Climateworks Centre has bridged the gap between research and climate action. We strive to bring about large-scale emissions reductions in line with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Extreme Ansichten prägen die ESG-Debatte. Der Fokus auf Treibhausgas-Bepreisung bleibt entscheidend. Reporting und Finanzmärkte sind nachgelagert.
Während in den USA die ESG-Kriterien zunehmend unter Druck geraten, bleibt Europa fest entschlossen, seine Nachhaltigkeitsziele zu verfolgen. Die Europäische Kommission hält am Green Deal fest, was weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die Immobilienbranche hat.
This week in ESG news: Energize Capital raises $430 million for new climate solutions venture fund; BlackRock escapes Texas’ anti-ESG divestment list; Oxford launches new sustainability reporting course for finance, accounting execs; survey finds investors are quietly sticking with sustainable investment approaches; Schneider Electric’s new Chief Sustainability Officer; Nippon Steel commits $6 billion to green […]
Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) announced the completion of their acquisition of European waste-to-product company Renewi, in a deal valuing the company at approximately £707 million (USD$957 million). Headquartered in the UK, Renewi focuses on extracting value from waste and used materials, diverting waste flows from incineration or landfill, operating […]
Carbon removal technology company Aircapture announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round, with proceeds from the financing aimed at scaling its Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems to capture and re-use CO2 at industrial sites. Founded in 2019, California-based Aircapture provides modular on-site DAC machines that capture CO2 from the […]
The investment in the platform CrowdBuilding aims to support the development of 100,000 sustainably built homes in the Netherlands by 2035.
Klimawandel. Vor einem Jahr gingen die Bilder von Überschwemmungen in Bayern und Baden-Württemberg durch die Medien. Die Katastrophe prägt auch die Schadenstatistik der Versicherer. Politisch ist das Thema Elementarversicherung ebenfalls wieder heiß.
Honeywell UOP, Johnson Matthey, GIDARA Energy and SAMSUNG E&A announced today the launch of a new alliance aimed at developing a new technology offering to accelerate the production and reducing the cost of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Fuel accounts for the vast majority of the aviation sector’s emissions. Generally produced from sustainable resources, like waste […]
Rund 52 % des Abfallaufkommens (Deutschland, 2023) und bis zu 40 % der CO₂-Emissionen in Deutschland entstehen im Bausektor – zirkuläres Bauen bietet daher ein enormes Einsparpotenzial. Ein Materialkataster wird seit Jahren als zentrale Lösung diskutiert. Es schafft die notwendige Transparenz, um Ressourcen gezielt zurückzugewinnen, Rückbau planbar zu machen und Emissionen wirksam zu senken. So […]
Nachhaltige Finanzierungen insgesamt fallen im ersten Quartal zurück. ESG-Emissionen in Europa sanken um 27%, während speziell nachhaltige Anleihen leicht zulegten.
