Mining giant Glencore announced today the release of its second Climate Action Transition Plan for 2024 to 2026, including the introduction of a new climate goal for the company to reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial CO2e emissions 25% by 2030, compared to 2019. Glencore launched its inaugural climate action plan in 2020, including […]
EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) and minority-owned renewable energy developer Volt Energy Utility announced a new partnership today to launch the development of Hickory Solar Park, a new solar project based near Jerseyville, Illinois. The companies also announced that Microsoft will purchase electricity and renewable energy credits (RECs) for 15 years from the new […]
Steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement with Mercedes-Benz to supply low-embodied carbon steel for the automaker’s production plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The agreement is the latest in a series of low carbon steel deals for Mercedes-Benz, including another agreement last year for the Alabama plant with Steel Dynamics, and […]
Investment research firm Morningstar announced today the launch of the Morningstar Low Carbon Transition Leaders (LCTL) Indexes, a new series of indices aimed at providing investors with exposure to companies leading their sectors in climate transition readiness and action. Morningstar said that the launch of the new indices in collaboration with its index unit Morningstar […]
Balancing opportunities and trade-offs to reimagine packaging for sustainability.
The session kicked off with a temperature check question: have individuals invested in what they perceive as “impact” investments? Three-quarters of the responses indicated that they have made investments that they view as impact- or purpose-driven. A second question was posed to the audience about what they thought the main challenges were. Almost half of […]
Für Anleger stünden 20 Aktienfonds zur Verfügung, die ein Engagement in das Thema Wasser ermöglichen würden. Scope ziehe eine Bilanz, was die Produkte geleistet hätten.
Die auf Initiative der German Datacenter Association erstellte und umfassende Studie beleuchtet den Status quo und den entscheidenden Einfluss deutscher Rechenzentren auf die digitale Transformation, die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und die Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen innerhalb Deutschlands und darüber hinaus.
Westbridge Advisory (Westbridge), ein führender Energy und Sustainability Advisor der Immobilienbranche, hat Hines Immobilien (Hines), ein als Immobilienverwalter und -entwickler sowie als Investor tätiges Unternehmen, bei der Optimierung der nachhaltigen Stromversorgung für durch Hines betreute Objekte beraten.
TotalEnergies and Houston, Texas-based energy exploration and production company Talos Energy announced today the acquisition by TotalEnergies of Talos’ carbon capture and storage (CCS) business, Talos Low Carbon Solutions, for a total transaction value of $148 million. TotalEnergies has set a climate goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and the company said that […]
Zementhersteller können bei der Produktion Kohlendioxidausstoß nicht vermeiden. Das CO2 soll daher durch Speicherung klimaunschädlich gemacht werden. Dafür ist ein Leitungsnetz notwendig.
Wenn wir uns die Folgen des Verlusts der biologischen Vielfalt anschauen, dann wird deutlich, dass wir an einem Wendepunkt angelangt sind. Durch menschliche Eingriffe sind 75% der Landfläche der Erde und 66% der Meere schwerwiegend verändert worden. Die durchschnittliche Populationsgröße der auf der Erde lebenden Arten sank zwischen 1970 und 2016 um 68%.
Google announced today a new commitment to contract for at least $35 million of carbon removal credits over the next 12 months, as part of an initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aimed at helping to scale the carbon removal sector by funding the sector’s innovations and technology.
Alternative asset and private equity investor KKR announced that it will launch a takeover offer to acquire German renewable energy platform Encavis in a transaction valuing the equity of the company at €2.8 billion (USD$3 billion), in a move aimed at supporting the growth and development of Encavis’ project pipeline to benefit from opportunities driven […]
Das Dresdner Cleantech-Unternehmen Sunfire hat 215 Millionen Euro an Eigenkapital eingeworben. Dabei handelt es sich um eine der bisher größten Finanzierungsrunden im Jahr 2024, die Sunfire sogar noch mit Krediten aufgestockt hat.
