Home energy and battery storage company Base Power announced today that it has raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round and launched Base Core, a home battery designed to support the electric grid. The financing values the company at a $13 billion post-money valuation. According to the company, the financing comes as the U.S. undergoes a foundational shift…
Global consultancy Bain & Company announced the appointment of Matteo Capellini as Global Head of its Sustainability Value Creation Solution, the firm’s practice focused on the integrations of sustainability strategies into business strategies, to transform ESG aspects from regulatory considerations or commitments into tangible value-creating assets. According to Bain, the appointment comes as sustainability is returning to the forefront of…
Brookfield Asset Management announced the launch of Lumara Energy, a new India-based platform focused on accelerating the development and construction of renewable energy projects. The launch of the new platform comes as India continues to scale up its investments in clean energy, with the country aiming to reach 500 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030. Earlier this year India…
Retail giant Walmart revealed that it has set a new operational emissions target, with a goal to reduce Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 28% by FY2031 from a FY2025 baseline. The new target was announced in Walmart’s FY2026 ESG Report, which indicated that the company achieved a significant 7.5% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions in…
U.S. sustainable investment fund net flows turned positive for the first time in nearly four years in the second quarter of 2026, according to a new report by investment insights and data provider Morningstar, with investors adding nearly $3 billion, and sustainable fund assets rising to a record of nearly $400 billion. The report found that the inflows in the…
French energy giant TotalEnergies announced 2 key clean energy transactions on Monday, including a deal to acquire Shell’s entire onshore renewables business in Europe, and the sale of a 50% interest in a 1.2 GW onshore solar and wind asset portfolio in Europe to alternative asset and private equity investor KKR. According to TotalEnergies, the transactions align with the company’s Integrated…
Guest post by: Hana Beckwith, ESG Analyst at Novisto Every CDP cycle brings adjustments, but the scale of what’s changing for 2026 sets this year apart. New topics, expanded commodity coverage and tighter alignment with frameworks like the ISSB’s IFRS S2, the CSRD and TNFD all point in the same direction: CDP is moving further from a standalone questionnaire and…
This week in ESG news: GHG Protocol, ISO to launch unified carbon accounting standards; ECB to adjust value of corporate loans as collateral for climate risk; NTAM loses $160 million mandate to Amundi over exit from climate groups; EFRAG releases proposed CSRD sustainability reporting standards for non-EU companies; Nordea launches new sustainable equity funds; Deutsche Bank reports strongest sustainable finance…