The European Commission announced an agreement with over 20 airlines* including Air France, Lufthansa and KLM, with commitments from the companies to stop using environmental claims considered by the EU’s national consumer authorities to be misleading, including claims that the CO2 emissions from flying could be offset by paying additional fees to support climate projects or the use of sustainable…

The European Commission announced an agreement with over 20 airlines* including Air France, Lufthansa and KLM, with commitments from the companies to stop using environmental claims considered by the EU’s national consumer authorities to be misleading, including claims that the CO2 emissions from flying could be offset by paying additional fees to support climate projects or the use of sustainable…

Royal London has finalised its acquisition of UK-based infrastructure manager Dalmore Capital. Dalmore manages £6bn assets, which aim to deliver essential UK infrastructure while supporting the transition to a more sustainable economy. Royal London said the deal highlights the firm’s ambition to grow its private assets capabilities and respond to the increasing demand for access to real assets. While ownership has…

Global energy and electricity provider Iberdrola announced that it has raised €1 billion (USD$1.16 billion) in the first-ever offering of a hybrid green bond to be issued under the new European Green Bond (EuGB) standard. The offering drew strong demand with an order book exceeding €8 billion from more than 400 investors across Europe and the UK, Asia and North…

The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, a major multi-trillion dollar group of investment managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions, announced that it will resume operations after pausing in early 2025 to adapt to a rapidly changing political and regulatory environment which had caused some of its largest signatories to exit the coalition. While…

By: Anna-Stina Reuter, Principal Sustainability Consultant at Sphera Over the past few years, discussions surrounding sustainability reporting standards have evolved significantly. In the coming months alone, the threshold for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is set to be lowered, the simplified set of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) will be published, and the reporting deadline under California’s Climate…

Remember when all investment conferences had to have an ESG session? Now it’s the AI session that has become mandatory, and you can get through a whole conference without hearing anyone mention the three-letter acronym that used to be on everyone’s lips.   Granted, ESG is – or was – a nebulous concept, not only yoking together three very different sets…

Remember when all investment conferences had to have an ESG session? Now it’s the AI session that has become mandatory, and you can get through a whole conference without hearing anyone mention the three-letter acronym that used to be on everyone’s lips.   Granted, ESG is – or was – a nebulous concept, not only yoking together three very different sets…

Remember when all investment conferences had to have an ESG session? Now it’s the AI session that has become mandatory, and you can get through a whole conference without hearing anyone mention the three-letter acronym that used to be on everyone’s lips.   Granted, ESG is – or was – a nebulous concept, not only yoking together three very different sets…

Remember when all investment conferences had to have an ESG session? Now it’s the AI session that has become mandatory, and you can get through a whole conference without hearing anyone mention the three-letter acronym that used to be on everyone’s lips.   Granted, ESG is – or was – a nebulous concept, not only yoking together three very different sets…