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Sandoz Sources Renewable Energy for 90% of Europe Operations

Sandoz Sources Renewable Energy for 90% of Europe Operations

Swiss generic and biosimilar medicine pharmaceutical company Sandoz announced that it has signed a new 10-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Elawan Energy for new-build solar projects in Spain, anticipated to cover the vast majority of Sandoz’s electricity use in Europe. Under the new partnership, Sandoz and Elawan Energy will jointly develop solar projects with a total installed capacity…

Nuveen Raises $1.3 Billion for New Power Generation and Sustainable Infrastructure Credit Fund

Nuveen Raises $1.3 Billion for New Power Generation and Sustainable Infrastructure Credit Fund

Investment manager Nuveen announced that it has raised $1.3 billion in capital commitments at the first close of Energy & Power Infrastructure Credit Fund II (EPIC II), reaching more than half of its $2.5 billion target for the infrastructure-focused private credit strategy. Anchored by commitments from a leading Canadian pension fund manager and financial services provider TIAA, the fund aims…

Apollo Acquires Kelvion to Tackle Data Center Cooling, Energy Transition Opportunities

Apollo Acquires Kelvion to Tackle Data Center Cooling, Energy Transition Opportunities

Global alternative investment manager Apollo announced an agreement to acquire energy efficient thermal management solutions provider Kelvion from investment firm Triton, noting the company’s positioning to address “secular megatrends” including data center cooling and green tech. Founded in 1920, Germany-based Kelvion develops and manufactures heat exchange and cooling solutions for a broad range of applications including data centers, hydrogen production,…

Sustainability Solutions Provider Diginex Acquires Supply Chain Risk Platform Findings for $305 Million

Sustainability Solutions Provider Diginex Acquires Supply Chain Risk Platform Findings for $305 Million

Sustainability RegTech company Diginex announced today an agreement to acquire supply chain risk monitoring platform Findings, in a transaction valued at up to $305 million, and aimed at boosting Diginex’s technological and cybersecurity capabilities. Founded in 2018 by CEO Kobi Freedman and CTO Jonatan Perry, U.S. and Israel-based Findings provides solutions aimed at providing companies and their vendors with visibility…

U.S. FTC Drops Antitrust Investigation Against Volvo, Daimler After Truckmakers Commit to Not Enforce California Emissions Reduction Agreement

U.S. FTC Drops Antitrust Investigation Against Volvo, Daimler After Truckmakers Commit to Not Enforce California Emissions Reduction Agreement

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has closed an investigation into truck and engine manufacturers including Volvo Group, Daimler Truck, International Motors, and PACCAR, after receiving commitments from the companies that they will not enforce an agreement with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the heavy-duty trucking sector. The truck…

Myth busting in biodiversity

What gets measured gets managed, what is hard to measure can often get ignored.  This is the legacy of the complex topic of biodiversity … and also the paradox: we are all biophilics at heart – nature is literally in our DNA – but the relationship between biodiversity and the economy has always been challenging.  Companies have long seen nature as…

Ownership, intentionality and additionality: The challenge of measurability in impact investment

In many ways, impact investment is the ultimate form of active management. By its very nature, public market impact investing is inherently direct and active; having the ability to actively assess and participate in impact opportunities that come to market and, in some cases, seek to influence the pipeline of opportunities is as important as the ability to divest when…

From Baku to Belem: The road to COP 30

The city of Belem in Northern Brazil, the gateway to the Amazon River will host the next COP conference in November and see over 50,000 delegates attending proceedings. The choice of venue has been controversial in most years with Baku, which hosted COP 29 criticised over the involvement of petrostates such asAzerbaijan in tackling climate change. Belem is a city…

Seaspan, Anew Climate Partner to Provide Low Carbon Renewable Marine Fuel

Seaspan, Anew Climate Partner to Provide Low Carbon Renewable Marine Fuel

Marine transportation company Seaspan’s subsidiary Seaspan Energy and climate solutions provider Anew Climate announced a new strategic agreement aimed at offering a more sustainable fuel option for ship owners through the offer delivery of renewable liquefied natural gas (R-LNG) to customers on the North American West Coast. Renewable natural gas (RNG), or biomethane, is produced from organic waste, such as…