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More than 99% of Walmart, Netflix Shareholders Reject Anti-DEI Proposals

More than 99% of Walmart, Netflix Shareholders Reject Anti-DEI Proposals

Shareholders at Walmart and Netflix voted overwhelmingly to reject anti-DEI proposals brought by a conservative shareholder group, with resolutions brought at each company’s annual meeting receiving less than 1% shareholder support. The votes mark the latest in a series of anti-DEI proposal rejections at major U.S. companies, following similar results at Apple, Amazon, Deere and […]

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Now more than ever: Impact report 2024

Now more than ever: Impact report 2024

For the past 15 years, Climateworks Centre has bridged the gap between research and climate action. We strive to bring about large-scale emissions reductions in line with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Canada Releases Anti-Greenwashing Guidance for Companies

Canada Releases Anti-Greenwashing Guidance for Companies

Canada’s Competition Bureau announced the release of its final guidelines on environmental claims, aimed at helping companies to comply with new anti-greenwashing laws when making claims about the environmental benefits or attributes of products or businesses. The new publication includes a guideline for environmental claims about the future – such as net zero goals and […]

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today: Week in Review

This week in ESG news: Energize Capital raises $430 million for new climate solutions venture fund; BlackRock escapes Texas’ anti-ESG divestment list; Oxford launches new sustainability reporting course for finance, accounting execs; survey finds investors are quietly sticking with sustainable investment approaches; Schneider Electric’s new Chief Sustainability Officer; Nippon Steel commits $6 billion to green […]

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Macquarie, BCI Acquire Waste-to-Product Recycling Company Renewi

Macquarie, BCI Acquire Waste-to-Product Recycling Company Renewi

Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) announced the completion of their acquisition of European waste-to-product company Renewi, in a deal valuing the company at approximately £707 million (USD$957 million). Headquartered in the UK, Renewi focuses on extracting value from waste and used materials, diverting waste flows from incineration or landfill, operating […]

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Direct Air Capture Startup Aircapture Raises $50 Million to Remove and Re-use CO2 at Industrial Sites

Direct Air Capture Startup Aircapture Raises $50 Million to Remove and Re-use CO2 at Industrial Sites

Carbon removal technology company Aircapture announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round, with proceeds from the financing aimed at scaling its Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems to capture and re-use CO2 at industrial sites. Founded in 2019, California-based Aircapture provides modular on-site DAC machines that capture CO2 from the […]

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Berichterstattungspflichten: ESG und DEI im Spannungsfeld politischer Konflikte

Berichterstattungspflichten: ESG und DEI im Spannungsfeld politischer Konflikte

Die Kürzel ESG und DEI sind inzwischen politische Kampfbegriffe. Der Grundgedanke von ESG ist zweifelsohne sinnvoll: Es gilt, unsere Umwelt vor irreparablen Schäden zu bewahren. Allerdings ist der Zeitgeist im Zeichen der „Wokeness“ manchmal über das Ziel hinausgeschossen. Eine trotzige Gegenbewegung, angeführt vom US-amerikanischen „Trumpismus“, ist die Folge. Während die EU-Regulatoren mit der CSRD zu […]

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ESG bleibt in der EU trotz US-Backlash ein Immobilienthema

ESG bleibt in der EU trotz US-Backlash ein Immobilienthema

DIP-Partner Aengevelt Immobilien verweist darauf, dass Bürogebäude in Europa nach wie vor ESG-Kriterien erfüllen müssen, auch wenn US-amerikanische Investoren das ESG-Thema auf politischen Druck hin aufgeben. Die Europäische Kommission hat erklärt, am Green Deal festzuhalten und auch die Lieferkettenrichtlinie, anders als vom Bundeskanzler gefordert, beizubehalten, so dass auch Zulieferer berichtspflichtiger Unternehmen, die selbst keine ESG-Reports […]

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