The vast majority of companies that have been removed from the scope of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) as a result of the recent Omnibus initiative plan to maintain or even expand their sustainability reporting activities despite the lack of regulatory requirements, with companies citing a range of benefits from their reporting activities beyond compliance, and most already…

Guest post by Katie Ferrier, Regional Director, Northern Europe & MEA, Achilles Katie Ferrier talks to us about the outcomes that really matter in modern supply chain management, from gaining confidence in supplier data to continuously monitoring risk and performance across complex global supply chains. As the energy transition accelerates and geopolitical threats intensify, supply chains have never been more critical…

HSBC announced that it mobilized more than $102 billion in sustainable finance and investment in 2025, reaching a new annual record for the bank, and the first time that it has exceeded $100 billion. The results, reported within HSBC’s recently released 2025 annual report, brings the bank’s cumulative total facilitation of sustainable finance and investment to $495.6 billion since the…

Industrial sustainability-focused venture capital firm Emerald Technology Ventures announced that it has raised €100 million (USD$116 million) in commitments for its Global Water Fund II, aimed at investing in startups advancing solutions to address the world’s most pressing water challenges. Global Water Fund II invests in early- to growth-stage companies worldwide, focusing on innovations across the full water value chain,…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a new strategy to boost the development of advanced nuclear technology in the EU, calling Europe’s move away from nuclear power as a source of low-carbon and affordable energy over the past few decades a “strategic mistake” that has left the EU vulnerable to volatile and uncertain fossil fuel imports. In a…

Following the $4.75 billion acquisition of AI infrastructure-focused clean energy developer Intersect by Google, the company’s investors announced the spin-out of Intersect’s grid-tied power business to launch IPX Power as a new large scale independent power producer (IPP). IPX is being launched with some of the largest clean energy resources in the U.S., including a portfolio encompassing 4.4 GW of…