Global professional services firm EY has appointed Velislava Ivanova as Global Chief Sustainability Strategist, a newly created position aimed at integrating sustainability solutions across the firm’s service lines and engagements. ESG Today spoke with Ivanova about her experience with the firm, and the responsibilities of her new position. Ivanova joined EY in 2015 to lead the firm’s America’s Climate Change…
The UK government announced the launch of its new Warm Homes Plan, aimed at helping to reduce home energy bills by providing access to clean energy technology and efficiency upgrades including solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and insulation. As part of the new initiative, the government said that the plan will include £15 billion government investment, aimed at rolling out upgrades…
Scope 3 visibility platform gryn and supply chain CO2 intelligence and carbon solutions provider Lune announced that they have merged, combining their technologies in a bid to address growing demand for accurate, actionable emissions data in logistics. Founded in 2022, Germany-based gryn provides software that allows shippers to more easily engage with their logistics providers and consolidate shipment-level data across…
Switzerland-based global private markets investor Partners Group has appointed Oliver O’Bryan as its new Head of Sustainability, responsible for leading the firm’s sustainability strategy across investment, corporate, and its client pillar. O’Bryan takes on the new position after more than 4 years at Partners Group in a series of sustainability-focused roles, including most recently serving as Senior Sustainability Lead. Prior…
Schneider Electric announced the launch by its SE Advisory Services consulting practice of Resource Advisor+, a new AI-powered energy and sustainability intelligence platform aimed at unifying emissions and energy management, supply chain sustainability, climate risk, and sustainability reporting solutions into a single ecosystem. The new platform is being launched with two initial core products, aimed at enabling companies to manage…
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) announced today the first close of the Allianz Credit Emerging Markets (ACE) strategy, raising $690 million in commitments for the new fund aimed at mobilizing large scale private investments in support of the goals of the Paris Agreement, and accelerating progress toward the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The firm said that it…
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced today the appointment of sustainability reporting veteran Susanne Stormer as the Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), the governance body responsible for setting the GRI Standards. GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards are one of the most commonly accepted global standards for sustainability disclosure by companies, developed to enable consistent reporting across companies and…
By: Sorouch Kheradmand, Global Head of Partner Sustainability, Schneider Electric What is the business case for sustainability? Corporate sustainability is still too often perceived as complex, non-core, and disconnected from business performance. Combined with growing regulatory pressure, heavy reporting requirements, and greenwashing risks, sustainability is frequently framed by executives as a compliance and risk-management burden rather than a value driver….