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CDPQ and Nuveen Green Capital (NGC) have announced the establishment of a $600 million financing program for sustainable real estate investments. The program will combine senior and Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing, which enables property owners to finance the upfront cost for qualified energy, water, resilience, and public benefit projects.

3M announced a series of new and updated climate-related goals, including a new target to reduce absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 42% by 2030, on a 2021 basis.

The European Commission announced that it is proposing a one-year delay to the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a new law aimed at ensuring that products imported to or exported from EU markets no longer contribute to deforestation and forest degradation globally, which is currently set to apply to from the end of […]

The UK government announced on Friday that it will make up to £21.7 billion available over the next 25 years for the development of two new “carbon capture clusters” capable of removing and storing more than 8.5 million tonnes of industrial carbon emissions per year.

Kenia nutzt die Energie der Erdwärme und gilt als Vorreiter bei erneuerbaren Energien, von Geothermie bis Windkraft. Doch auch das hat Schattenseiten.

Die Europäische Union hat sich eine Umwelttaxonomie verpasst, um messen zu können, ob Unternehmen ökologisch verantwortlich handeln. Ebenfalls geplant war eigentlich auch eine Sozialtaxonomie – um die es allerdings sehr still geworden ist. Auf Recherche nach einem ungeliebten Mammutprojekt.

UK-based supermarket retailer Asda announced the launch of a new sustainable supply chain finance scheme in partnership with HSBC UK, adding a sustainability-linked enhancement to its Supply Chain Finance program to encourage sustainable practices through financial incentives.

Denmark-based investment group A.P. Moller Holding announced the launch of Vioneo, a new venture that will seek to develop and manufacture fossil-free plastic, with the aim of significantly reducing the carbon footprint associated with plastics production.

Microsoft announced the launch of a new pilot project with Irish state-owned energy company ESB testing the use of green hydrogen as part of the tech giant’s portfolio of clean energy solutions aimed at decarbonizing its growing data center footprint.