France’s TotalEnergies and Japanese energy group ENEOS have received final merger clearance and have completed a joint venture agreement to develop 2 GW of onsite business-to-business (B2B) solar projects across Asia over the next five years.
India has announced new, stronger climate targets putting further pressure on economic transition. While compliant with the Paris Agreement, India’s history of setting and missing ambitious targets begs the question if the new targets are for real, or just for show.
Through its investment into Clarity AI, a sustainability technology platform, Blackrock will provide private market investors with the ability to assess the ESG characteristics of alternative investment portfolios.
ESG investments are to grow across all asset classes, according to a survey of 300 investment fund companies sponsored by the Index Industry Association (IIA).
Despite growing regulatory focus on climate risk, only 5% of firms have advanced assessments including a range of variables from emissions factors, different scenarios and impact of extreme weather.
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria are growing in importance in the drive to attract and retain the best talent, with today's recruits expecting tangible action from employers on climate issues.
A decade of increasingly devastating wildfires in California have wiped out nearly all of the state’s 100-year guaranteed forest offset reserves, according to a new independent study by San Francisco-based non-profit CarbonPlan.
Swisscom has announced plans to be climate neutral and reduce carbon emissions by one million tons by 2025, using a new Scope 4 climate strategy developed with Accenture.