The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) recently released their 2025 Annual Report on Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) Disclosures under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). While the report highlights notable progress on PAIs disclosures, particularly among larger financial institutions, it also exposes persistent gaps in methodology, comparability, and investor relevance. While it is necessary to point out these gaps, it is…
Europe’s sustainable finance crossroads: Will SFDR 2.0 close the transparency gap?
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) recently released their 2025 Annual Report on Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) Disclosures under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). While the report highlights notable progress on PAIs disclosures, particularly among larger financial institutions, it also exposes persistent gaps in methodology, comparability, and investor relevance. While it is necessary to point out these gaps, it is…
Europe’s sustainable finance crossroads: Will SFDR 2.0 close the transparency gap?
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) recently released their 2025 Annual Report on Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) Disclosures under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). While the report highlights notable progress on PAIs disclosures, particularly among larger financial institutions, it also exposes persistent gaps in methodology, comparability, and investor relevance. While it is necessary to point out these gaps, it is…
EU Reduces GHG Emissions 37%, but Faces Growing Climate, Nature Risks: Report
The EU has made significant progress towards meeting its climate goals, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions by well over a third since 1990, despite economic growth, but continues to face growing risks to its competitiveness from climate change and environmental degradation, according to a new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The new publication forms part of a series…
Could banks ‘nudge’ customers to make more sustainable financial decisions?
Banking is no longer only about balance sheets and compliance. A new question hangs over the sector: what kind of future are you financing? Increasingly, the answer is framed through sustainability — not as a marketing slogan, but as a core strategic principle that cuts across credit, investment and client engagement. The shift is not just about green products. It…
KKR Acquires 50% Stake in $1.25 Billion North America Solar Portfolio from TotalEnergies
Alternative asset and private equity investor KKR announced an agreement to acquire a 50% stake in a portfolio of solar energy assets from TotalEnergies, in a transaction valuing the portfolio at an enterprise value of $1.25 billion. The portfolio includes six large-scale solar projects totalling 1.3 GW and 41 smaller distributed generation sites adding another 140 MW, primarily based in…
China Sets its First-Ever Absolute Emissions Reduction Goal
China’s President Xi Jinping announced a series of new interim climate goals, including a target to reduce economy-wide net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 7%-10% from peak levels by 2035, marking the country’s first-ever absolute emissions reduction target. Speaking by video in a speech to a UN Climate Summit, President Xi also announced 2035 targets to expand China’s installed capacity…
Q&A with FGEN’s Mountney: ‘Energy transition requires a holistic approach’
In this Q&A, Ed Mountney, investment manager at Foresight Environmental Infrastructure (FGEN), sits down with Natalie Kenway to discuss the opportunities for infrastructure, wholesale portfolios and his outlook for sustainable investment. Provide us with some background on FGEN… when was it launched? Who for? What does it invest in and aim to achieve? Foresight Environmental Infrastructure is a listed environmental…
Q&A with FGEN’s Mountney: ‘Energy transition requires a holistic approach’
In this Q&A, Ed Mountney, investment manager at Foresight Environmental Infrastructure (FGEN), sits down with Natalie Kenway to discuss the opportunities for infrastructure, wholesale portfolios and his outlook for sustainable investment. Provide us with some background on FGEN… when was it launched? Who for? What does it invest in and aim to achieve? Foresight Environmental Infrastructure is a listed environmental…
Eni Signs $1 Billion Power Purchase Deal in U.S. with Fusion Startup Commonwealth
Italian energy company Eni announced today that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) worth more than $1 billion with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), to offtake energy from CFS’ first commercial fusion plant, which is anticipated to come online in Chesterfield County, Virginia in the early 2030s. Fusion, the process of combining two atoms to form a single atom to…