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…
Guest post by: Mandi McReynolds, Chief Sustainability Officer & Vice President, External Affairs & Customer Advocacy for Workiva The atmosphere of 2026 has felt noticeably different. The era of “bold vision” has given way to a more grounded era of pragmatism. As we move through the first 100 days of the year, sustainability and finance executives are shifting from high-level…
Clean iron producer Electra announced that it has secured $30 million in new capital, through a venture debt facility from J.P. Morgan. Founded in 2020, Colorado-based Electra has developed a low-temperature process to electrochemically refine iron ore into 99% pure iron, using chemistry and renewable energy in place of traditional ironmaking’s coal and extreme heat. The process works by dissolving…