Impact News

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 […]

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has filed complaints in U.S. District Courts against the states of New York and Vermont over their respective climate change “Superfund” laws, aimed at fining energy companies for their contributions to climate change. Separately, a group of 24 U.S. State Attorneys General announced that they have joined a […]

Die Erste Asset Management baut ihre ESG-Präsenz in Luxemburg aus: Künftig vertreibt Spuerkeess ausgewählte nachhaltige Fonds exklusiv im Großherzogtum. Gleichzeitig tritt die Tochter Impact Asset Management nach der Integration in die Erste AM-Gruppe mit neuem Markenauftritt auf.

Chemicals and materials science giant Dow and Google’s breakthrough technologies initiative, X The Moonshot Factory, announced the launch of a new partnership aimed at improving the circularity of hard to recycle plastics such as films and flexibles, by using AI technology in recycling systems. According to the companies, the new collaboration comes to address a […]

A group of 30 investors* representing $1.6 trillion in assets under management, led by responsible investing NGO ShareAction, called on HSBC at its AGM on Friday to restate its net zero commitments, noting that recent moves by the bank have created “deeply concerning signals” around its climate priorities. The investor statement follows an announcement by […]

This week in ESG news: IFRS eases climate reporting requirements for financial firms; MSCI study finds companies continuing to raise net zero ambitions; EU’s ESMA to regulate ESG ratings providers; new decarbonization-focused sustainable building standard by USGBC; BoE raises climate risk management expectations for banks; RBC scraps sustainable finance target due to new greenwashing rules; […]