Impact News

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The European Commission announced today the adoption of the voluntary standard for SMEs (VSME), a new sustainability reporting standard aimed at enabling micro-, small- and medium-sized companies to report on ESG issues in a simplified and consistent way and to respond to requests for sustainability information from financial institutions and large companies. While the VSME […]

Die energiebedingten CO2-Emissionen der Wirtschaftszweige und der privaten Haushalte sind seit 2010 um 29,6 % gesunken (2023: 543,0 Millionen Tonnen gegenüber 2010: 770,9 Millionen Tonnen).