Impact News

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has finalised new guidelines on impact investing, setting out four principles for market participants to refer to when structuring and financing investment projects that have social and environmental benefits. The four key principles of impact investment are: intentionality; additionality; identification, measurement and management of impact; and innovation, transformation and acceleration. […]

Norway’s five largest investors supported the majority of climate resolutions filed at oil and gas majors in 2023, according to research by activist group Follow This. “These Norwegian investors show the world that voting is essential to active ownership,” said Mark van Baal, Founder of Follow This. “Big Oil will only change if shareholders vote […]

„Der Weltwassertag am 22. März erinnert jährlich an unser wichtigstes Grundnahrungsmittel“, sagt Scope-Analystin Sina Hartelt. Für Anleger stehen 20 Aktienfonds zur Verfügung, die ein Engagement in das Thema Wasser ermöglichen. Sina Hartelt hat Bilanz gezogen, was die Produkte geleistet haben.

Clean energy developer Solarig announced today that it will develop a new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Spain, with a production capacity of 60,000 tonnes (approximately 75 million liters) of SAF per year. The company anticipates that it will invest €780 million (USD$847 million) in the new plant, located in in Parque Empresarial del […]

There’s an element of diversity to the actions of world-leading technology companies. Despite their differences, they all push towards the same goals Sustainability is largely driven by companies’ strategies to eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or the social impact of an organisation, but without targets and deadlines, there is no way of benchmarking certain metrics.

U.S. Steel and carbon capture technology provider CarbonFree announced a new agreement aimed at launching a new project to capture up to 50,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year at U. S. Steel’s integrated steel mill in Gary, Indiana. According to CarbonFree, the project will be the first commercial-scale carbon capture utilization plant at […]

The IKEA Foundation, a strategic philanthropy funded by IKEA owner INGKA Foundation, announced that it will invest $100 million to support the Leapfrogging Partnership, a new project launched by vehicle electrification-focused initiative Drive Electric Campaign, aimed at advancing decarbonized road transportation in emerging markets. Launched in 2021 by Climateworks Foundation, the Drive Electric Campaign focuses […]

Energy products manufacturer Phillips 66 today announced that it has converted its San Francisco oil refinery in Rodeo, California to process only renewable feedstocks, and is now producing approximately 30,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel, with the commercial-scale production marking a significant milestone in its project to operate one of the world’s largest renewable […]