Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the investment manager for Norway’s $1.4 trillion oil fund announced the publication of its 2030 Climate Action Plan, outlining its updated investment and engagement approach to managing the financial risks and opportunities arising from climate change, and to support its mandate to have portfolio companies organize their activities to be compatible with global net zero…

Investor-focused sustainability data provider Net Purpose announced today the acquisition of the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP), in a move the company said is aimed at creating a unified standard to accelerate investing to achieve climate and other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Launched in 2020 by pension asset managers APG, AustralianSuper, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and…

Impact data company Upright announced the launch of a new double materiality assessment (DMA) tool, capable of providing companies with real-time DMAs, including clarity on key impacts, risks, and opportunities, using just a company URL. Upright said that it is offering the new tool free of charge, with organizations that have advanced sustainability reporting assurance needs able to upgrade to access…

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp owner Meta and Engie North America announced that they have signed new purchase power agreements (PPAs), including a PPA which will see Engie supplying 100% of the energy produced from its largest-ever solar project to power Meta’s data center operations in Texas. The new agreement will increase the overall scale of the commercial relationship between the…

European asset manager Amundi announced that it has been selected by a coalition of UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), led by the University of Cambridge, to launch a cash fund that excludes companies contributing to fossil fuel expansion globally. According to Amundi, the new fund will exclude fossil fuel companies, as well as utilities, banks, insurers, and other companies that…

The UK Government introduced its finalized law to regulate ESG ratings providers in Parliament, with the new legislation bringing the providers under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The new legislation follows a call by securities regulator standards setter IOSCO in 2021 for regulators to focus on improving transparency in the ESG ratings and data space, and to…

Google and electric power and energy infrastructure provider NextEra Energy announced a new agreement to restart a nuclear plant in Iowa shut down in 2020, with Google signing a 25-year deal to purchase energy generated by the plant to help power its growing cloud and AI infrastructure in the state. Alongside the power purchase agreement (PPA), Google and NextEra also…