By: Lorenzo Saa, Chief Sustainability Officer, Clarity AI Something shifted in the first half of 2025. The era of vague optimism and feel-good ESG slogans is over. What comes next demands harder questions, sharper tools, and a deeper tolerance for uncomfortable answers and trade-offs. We’re not watching a collapse; we’re witnessing a necessary reset. Regulation is fragmenting, political winds are…
UK companies are making progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but will need to move faster to meet international climate goals, according to a recently released report. Experts from the University of Exeter and J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) have jointly developed a probabilistic forecasting model, Horizon, which is used to project emissions from UK-listed firms from 2025 to 2050. …
Zurich-based Carbon removal solutions provider Climeworks announced today that it has raised $162 million in a new equity funding round, with proceeds from the financing aimed at further developing its direct air capture (DAC) technology to reduce the cost of removals, and to expand its carbon removal portfolio service. Founded in 2009 by Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks provides…
The sustainable investment industry has said the UK has an opportunity to regain its position as a leader in transition planning, following a string of announcements at London Climate Action Week. Last week, the government published three consultations on the topic of sustainability disclosures. These include: A consultation on adopting the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) sustainability reporting standards to create UK Sustainability Reporting…
Political myths That ESG is wrapped up in modern culture wars is no myth. Back in 2023, a Republican Congresswoman from Texas, said: “ESG is a form of virtue signalling where companies can proclaim how enlightened they are based on their environmental, social, or corporate governance actions … ” …continuing in the same vein. But such detractors aren’t really talking…
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched two standards designed to empower organisations to take accountability for their impacts and accelerate climate action. GRI 102: Climate Change emphasises that achieving substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is the primary mitigation step organisations can take, setting reporting expectations based on science-based targets and global climate goals while incorporating ‘just transition’…
Rathbones Asset Management has made changes to its four sustainable multi-asset funds to achieve SDR labels across the range. The group has announced it has “better defined” the sustainable objectives of each fund to support SDR – the UK regulator’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements. It has removed a suggestion that the non-financial objective of the funds is to “improve the sustainability…
Global food and beverage company Nestlé announced the release of a new independent evaluation of its income accelerator program promoting improved livelihoods for cocoa farming families and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices, indicating that the program is delivering measurable improvements in income and household resilience. The company said that it is expanding the program from its 10,000 family test phase in…
Telecommunications and networking technology company Nokia announced that it has signed a new €1.5 billion multicurrency revolving credit facility, with pricing on the new debt tied to its performance towards its Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions goals. The new credit facility marks the latest in a series of sustainability-linked financing instruments for Nokia, including a credit facility…