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Boston Consulting Group sets sights on net zero emissions by 2030
Global consultancy giant vows to take 'significant action' to slash its emissions, as it reveals $400m plan to help support the net zero transition
Velux pledges to become 'lifetime carbon neutral' by 2041 centenary
New 20-year partnership with WWF aims to help roof window specialist offset 100 years of carbon emissions through global reforestation and afforestation projects
Facing up to Covid, climate and equality challenges
The current crisis should support and accelerate many trends and themes integral to sustainability, writes Liontrust's Peter Michaelis
'Worrying': Global energy firms still prioritising fossil fuels over renewables, study warns
Just 10 per cent of global utility firms prioritising renewables over fossil fuel investments, University of Oxford research finds
UK provides £27m green loan to solar-powered water project in Ghana
Direct loan from UK Export Finance aimed at supporting Aqua Africa project that will provide clean drinking water to rural communities in Ghana
PRI and WBCSD team up to drive corporate-investor action on sustainability
The collaboration aims to provide financial actors with the information they need to allocate more resources towards sustainable business
HSBC and Pollination Group plot 'natural capital' investment venture
Banking giant aims to raise $1bn for its first fund, which will be followed by a carbon credit fund of up to $2bn
Hundreds of UK pension schemes to fall under climate risk reporting rules
Pension schemes holding more than £1bn of assets will be required to publicly disclose climate risk in their portfolios by 2023 or face penalties
Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin
Current regulation and risk disclosure efforts are insufficient for tackling the varying and complex risks posed by nature loss and climate change, UCL research argues
Deploy 'Blue Bonds' to align interests of fishing industry and marine life, study argues
Planet Tracker reaches its conclusion in a carefully argued analysis that urges policymakers to draw on the power of financial markets to support commercial fishing companies while marine ecosystems regenerate
Council-issued green bond enables residents to invest in solar farm
Warrington Borough Council's CMI aims to raise £1m, making it the second local authority to launch a green bond via ethical investment platform Abundance
'Renewable energy is here to stay': Investors swinging behind 'good energy', report finds
UK-listed clean energy and tech stocks grew by an average of 170 per cent over the past year, the report finds
Carbon negative: Brewdog makes it a double (offset)
Pioneering beer company confirms it has secured 'carbon negative' status as it steps up efforts to slash emissions and plant new Brewdog forest
Australian insurer Suncorp to ditch coverage for oil and gas projects
Landmark pledge makes Suncorp the first major insurer to adopt any policy restricting underwriting for oil and gas
UK tots up £6bn in climate finance for developing counties since 2011
International Climate Finance mobilised by UK has helped avoid an estimated 33 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, government estimates
Global green bond market rallies towards Covid-19 recovery
After tough start to 2020 due to pandemic global green bond issuance rallied in the second quarter of 2020, says Moody's
'Future of fuel': Middlesbrough waste pellet plant secures funding boost
Waste Knot Energy project to produce 240,000 tonnes of fuel pellets each year offering alternative to coal in steel and cement manufacturing
Mining giant BHP to sell its thermal coal mines
World's largest mining company to exit thermal coal mining within two years and prioritise 'higher quality coking coal' for steelmaking
Carbon Tracker: Oil and gas giants take $87bn hit on assets in nine months
BP, Shell and Total have all written down value of their assets by billions in the second quarter of 2020, but Exxon, Equinor and ConocoPhillips failed to report any significant material impairments
National Lottery funnels £14m into community-led climate action projects
Projects covering farming, transport and behaviour change are the first to secure support from National Lottery's ten-year £100m Climate Action Fund
Why the Covid-19 recovery and climate crisis need a unified response
The EU's proposed Green Deal shows that the right policy initiatives could address the economic crisis and climate change simultaneously
What could a Biden presidency mean for climate change investing?
Joe Biden in the White House, and potentially Democrats in control of the Senate too, could turbo-charge climate change as an investment theme, argues Schroders' Simon Webber
Welsh low carbon heat networks clinch £8m government funding boost
Cardiff and Bridgend are the first councils in Wales to be awarded funding from the government’s £320m HNIP scheme to accelerate the development of district heating networks
'We could fix our world': Martin Freeman voices net zero pension campaign animation
Animation features a 'woolly man' voiced by Sherlock actor calling for pension investments to help protect against the 'ravages of climate change'
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