The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI) has worked with consultancy Mott MacDonald to create a guide designed to encourage investment in the resilience of infrastructure, exploring how infrastructure is exposed to climate risk.
Apex Group, a global financial services provider with a leading ESG practice, has launched an EU Taxonomy solution to guide clients through the alignment process with SFDR and NFRD.
The Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) is launching a formal research collaboration to combine the expertise of the Met Office with UK universities research to advance the science and skill of weather and climate prediction.
Climate tech companies are increasingly appealing to debt finance providers. Marc Deschamps, co-head at investment bank DAI Magister explains how the market has changed for technology and global challenges drive demand for climate tech.
US start-up Flora has raised $9 million for its technology driven online marketplace for sustainable products, reflecting the growing global trend towards sustainably focused e-commerce.
The EU Commission is threatening legal action against 11 Member States who have not transposed the Single-Use Plastics Directive indicating a clamp down on lack of action to tackle the plastics crisis.
One • five are intending to replace single-use plastics (like condiment sachets), using biomaterials based packaging. This will play a role in reducing the 56 gigatons of GHG emissions projected from plastic by 2050.
Vertical farming and agri-tech appear to be taking off in the UK, with technological innovations that address many of the UN SDGs, and providing a home for the growing need for impact investment vehicles.
A newly released report has revealed that, since 2018, the UK has only made good progress on 17% of its targets under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The delivery of Scotland’s largest wind farm has supported a £1 billion boost to the Scottish economy, according to new figures published by developer SSE Renewables and PwC.
