Vor 25 Jahren wurde der Pictet Water Fund aus der Taufe gehoben. Anfangs von vielen als viel zu spezielles Thema belächelt, wurde daraus eine Erfolgsstory par excellence. Heute zeigt sich an diesem Beispiel, welche überdurchschnittlichen Chancen Themenfonds langfristig bieten können.
Tokyo-based climate tech company Asuene announced the acquisition of carbon management and accounting platform nZero, marking an expansion for the company into the North American and U.S. greentech and corporate sustainability markets. Founded in 2019, Asuene, with some 10,000 clients worldwide, offers a variety of services supporting companies’ net zero targets, including CO2 emissions measurement, […]
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the state’s 2025-2026 budget on Friday, which included more than $1 billion in climate change-focused investments, including funding to lower emissions from buildings and accelerate the rollout of electrified transportation.
Der Gebäudesektor gehört in Sachen CO2-Emissionen zu den größten Baustellen der Politik: Vor allem bei der Wärmeversorgung muss hier schleunigst modernisiert werden. Für Berlins landeseigenen Wohnungsunternehmen wird das teuer.
This week in ESG news: State Street launches dedicated sustainability stewardship service for investors; Morgan Stanley survey finds growing interest in sustainable investing – especially by younger investors; Microsoft signs another record-breaking carbon removal deal; Google backs series of new advanced nuclear projects; India launches climate finance taxonomy; EU consults on changes to sustainable finance […]
Hy2gen has raised €47m from existing shareholders in a funding round led by Hy24, through its Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure Fund.
Impact-Strategien sollen mit nachhaltiger Wirkung investieren und einen messbaren zusätzlichen Beitrag zur Transformation liefern. Um aussagekräftig zu sein, müssten Daten im Kontext und in Bezug auf die Erwartungen oder gemeinsamen Ziele bewertet werden. Dies umfasse eine überzeugende Wirkungsdarstellung, klare Ziele und eine Begründung für die Zusätzlichkeit, statt nur die Zahlen der vergangenen “Wirkungsleistung” anhand von […]
To confront interconnected environmental and social crises, write Yale SOM’s Todd Cort, Juliane Reinecke of Oxford Said Business School, and impact investing expert Clint Bartlett ’17, we must invest in resiliency. That means that impact investors will need to factor resilience-building into their expected returns, especially in the most vulnerable parts of the world.
Microsoft announced a new multi-year offtake agreement with forest investment and management firm EFM, providing access to up to 3 million nature-based carbon removal credits from EFM’s investment platform. Launched in 2004, Portland, Oregon-based EFM is a real estate asset manager focused on investing in natural climate solutions across the Americas. EFM’s approach includes using […]
Financial technology and data services provider and exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced the launch of its new ICE Global Climate Risk Solution, aimed at providing investors with a view of physical climate risks of their portfolios, based on geospatial data. According to ICE, the new solution marks an expansion of its geospatial platform to […]
Google announced today the launch of a new collaboration with South Carolina-based nuclear project developer Elementl Power, including an agreement to invest in three advanced nuclear energy projects. The agreement comes as Google and its tech giant peers increasingly turn to nuclear energy to help address the growing emissions impact of their rapidly expanding data […]
The European Commission announced the launch of a new call for evidence, seeking input on its initiative to revise its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which aims to improve the regulation’s usefulness and to reduce reporting and compliance burdens for investors. The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, in application since 2021, sets out how financial market […]
India’s Ministry of Finance announced the release of a draft framework for its Climate Finance Taxonomy, its classification system for identifying sustainable economic activities aligned with its climate goals, aimed at enabling the facilitation of major capital flows required to support the net zero transition, while preventing greenwashing. India has set a series of climate […]
Aufschrei unter nachhaltigen Investoren: Zahlreiche große deutsche Asset Manager haben jüngst ihre ESG-Fonds für Rüstungsaktien geöffnet. Henrik Pontzen, Chief Sustainability Officer bei Union Investment, sieht das kritisch.
The Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), announced today the launch of its first set of short-term scenarios, aimed at enabling central banks and financial sector supervisors to analyze the near-term impact of climate change and climate-related policies on the stability and resilience of economies and financial systems. The […]
