Investment
Food waste startup Apeel Sciences snags $250m backing
Investors in US firm - which produces thin, edible coating for food products to extend their shelf life - include celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Katy Perry
Factories of the future
All across the country green industrial facilities are planned that could turbocharge the recovery and help deliver net zero emissions
Clean Growth Fund: Government launches £40m green start-up funding push
Business Secretary Alok Sharma says new public-private venture fund will help clean tech start-ups 'drive a green and resilient economic recovery'
JP Morgan Chase climate shareholder resolution narrowly defeated
Resolution's narrow defeat – at 49.6 per cent – sends a clear sign to bank that investors are increasingly displeased with its approach to fossil fuel investment.
Government sketches out plans for energy and carbon pricing deal ahead of crunch EU trade talks
Differences on regulatory alignment between EU and UK expected to come to head in next month's talks
Looking towards an ESG shaped future
Scottish Widows Maria Nazarova-Doyle explains how the coronavirus crisis has made green investments more attractive than ever
'Prophetic action': Christian groups divest from fossil fuels and call for low-carbon Covid-19 recovery
Call to action from more than 40 Christian organisations worldwide calls on governments to prioritise "just recovery" to pandemic.
Reasons to be positive
The story of businesses delivering strong growth and profits while helping to tackle climate change, biodiversity collapse, and poverty has a long way to run, argues Liontrust's Peter Michaelis
'Bold and visionary': MEPs demand 'massive' €2tr EU green recovery package
European Parliament adopts resolution calling for EU coronavirus recovery fund that prioritises net zero and the Paris Agreement
Global Briefing: Norway sovereign wealth fund blacklists coal firms
Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week
Report: Fair CO2 pricing could boost economy and tackle deficit after Covid-19 crash
Cutting fossil fuel subsidies and putting efficient price on CO2 would raise crucial revenue for Treasury, LSE research paper argues
A pandemic was near inevitable - so too is climate-driven disruption
The inevitable pandemic has just materialised. On climate, the Inevitable Policy Response is next, warn PRI CEO Fiona Reynolds and Climate Works Foundation program director Ilmi Granoff
Community energy group launches takeover bid for award-winning wind farm
High Winds Community Energy Society plans to raise £2.8m in loan notes and issue 2.9 million £1 shares to fund the acquisition of Cumbrian wind farm
BNP Paribas accelerates 'complete coal exit' plan
Banking giant pulls forward target to end the use of coal by its electricity-producing customers to the end of 2030
'Oil has no place in our future': Rockefeller fund returns shine after ditching fossil fuels
Rockefeller Brothers Fund announces that its investment portfolio has exceeded expectations and industry averages in the five years since it divested from fossil fuels
Iberdrola set to snap up French renewables developer Aalto Power in €100m deal
Deal beefs up Iberdrola's presence in French generation market, where Aalto Power is developing a 636MW onshore wind pipeline
The seven steps to a green and resilient recovery
Backed by high and low carbon businesses alike, the Energy Transitions Commission has outlined seven key priorities for delivering credible, net zero-focused recovery packages
'Totally insincere': Splits emerge over investor response to Total's net zero pledge
While some investors welcomed the latest net zero pledge from a leading oil giant, others believe yesterday's announcement was a 'clear attempt to stave off a shareholder rebellion at its AGM'
Refurbished electronics website Back Market raises $120m investment
French start-up secures backing from Goldman Sachs and others in bid to expand its marketplace for refurbished smartphones, laptops and tablets
'The world is ready': Campaigners and academics call on government to scale up Nature Based Solutions
Christiana Figueres, Nick Stern, and Paul Polman lead renewed push for beefed up approach to nature-based emissions reductions
Barclays snaps up stake in energy efficiency platform SaveMoneyCutCarbon
It marks the first move under the bank's £175m sustainable investment drive announced last month as part of its net zero strategy
Build back better: Green Covid-19 recovery best for jobs and growth, say leading economists
Joseph Stiglitz and Lord Nicholas Stern co-author paper setting out evidence green stimulus measures offer best pathway to economic recovery
'Space-age': Sustainable laundry service Oxwash secures £1.4m backing
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Indeed.com founder Paul Forster among high profile investors in green laundry start-up Oxwash
'Another nail in the coffin': Westpac joins thermal coal investment exodus
Australian banking giant becomes latest major investor to tighten coal lending rules with 2030 target for ending investment
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