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.
Nach Daten der Ratingagentur Morningstar verzeichneten europäische ESG-Produkte im ersten Quartal 2025 Abflüsse von rund 1,2 Milliarden Dollar. Klassische Fonds dagegen zogen neue Mittel an.
Japan’s Nippon Steel announced plans to invest ¥870 billion (USD$6.05 billion) to transition from traditional blast furnace steelmaking processes to electric arc furnace (EAF) technology at three of its Japanese plants, in a move aimed at significantly reducing the carbon emissions of steel production. Steelmaking is one of the biggest emitters of CO2 globally, and […]
Global digital services and consulting firm Infosys announced a new set of commitments under its updated sustainability strategy “Infosys ESG Vision 2030,” including a new goal to become carbon negative by the end of the decade —moving beyond net zero to sequester more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than it emits.
Fusion energy company TAE Technologies announced that it has raised $150 million in a new funding round, with participation from investors including Chevron, Google and NEA. TAE said that the new capital will support its efforts to deliver world’s first commercial fusion power.
Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and accounting organizations AICPA & CIMA announced today the launch of the Sustainability Reporting and ESG Data Management Programme, a new executive management program focused on sustainability reporting strategies. According to Amir Amel-Zadeh, Associate Professor of Accounting at Saïd Business School, the new course comes as companies face a series […]
Multinational chemicals company DuPont announced a major milestone in its global sustainability journey, with 100% of its grid electricity across all EU operations now coming from renewable sources. According to DuPont, the achievement has been made possible through the use of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and on-site solar energy. The company said that the announcement […]
