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SAP Launches Solution Enabling Companies to Track, Report Carbon Footprint of Products and Services

SAP Launches Solution Enabling Companies to Track, Report Carbon Footprint of Products and Services

Leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company SAP announced today the general availability of SAP Green Ledger, a new carbon accounting solution aimed at enabling companies to track and report the carbon footprint of their products, services and business units. Initially unveiled in 2023, and forming part of SAP Sustainability solutions, the new solution provides a carbon accounting system that…

EU Adopts New Rules Requiring 100% Recyclable Packaging by 2030

EU Adopts New Rules Requiring 100% Recyclable Packaging by 2030

EU member states in the European Council announced today that they have adopted a series of new rules aimed at significantly reducing packaging waste in the EU, including a goal requiring all packaging placed on the market to be recyclable by 2030. The approval by the Council marks the last major legislative step in the adoption of the new rules, following…

Abrdn to adopt Sustainability Focus label on two equity funds

Global asset manager Abrdn is set to adopt the Sustainability Focus label for both its UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Equity fund and Global Sustainable and Responsible Investment Equity fund from 20 February 2025. As of the implementation date, the two funds will also be renamed the Abrdn UK Sustainable Equity fund and Abrdn Global Sustainable Equity fund, respectively. Investment…

ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today: Week in Review

This week in ESG news: California regulator gives companies an extra year to prepare for climate reporting obligations; Goldman Sachs exits net zero banking initiative; Switzerland to require companies to disclose net zero plans; Google enters $20 billion partnership to build data centers next to clean energy sources; Hong Kong mandates IFRS-aligned sustainability reporting; GRI appoints new CEO; BCG, Google…

Conflicts Ahead as EU Pushes Case for Defence

Clarification sought on the extent to which the bloc’s ESG-labelled funds can and should finance weapons under sustainable finance regulations.  The EU’s plans to boost investment in its defence industry cannot come at the expense of the integrity of the bloc’s sustainable finance framework, industry experts have said.   But the warning comes amid increasing signs that the European Commission…

BCG Buys Over 50,000 Tonnes of Carbon Removals Spanning Broad Range of Technologies

BCG Buys Over 50,000 Tonnes of Carbon Removals Spanning Broad Range of Technologies

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) announced that it has purchased 50,250 tonnes of certified carbon dioxide removals (CDRs) through CDR portfolio manager ClimeFi, to be delivered over the next two years, and spanning a broad set of carbon removal technologies. The agreement marks the second largest CDR purchase to date for BCG, following the company’s commitment to neutralize 100% of its emissions…

Take Five: 2025 Calling

A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.  Fragmentation, polarisation and smaller coalitions are in prospect as countries position themselves for green growth. Keep it clean – The likelihood of 2025 being dominated by a green trade war increased a few notches this week, with the US and China both firing shots. Outgoing US President…

True Sustainability Means More Than the Environment

Margot Kane, Chief Investment Officer at Spring Point Partners, argues that lasting climate solutions require addressing wealth inequality and empowering marginalised communities.  ‘Sustainability’ is generally interpreted in corporate and ESG parlance as related to environmental sustainability rather than societal, but the reality is, you cannot solve one without the other.   I believe that our greatest opportunity to meet environmental…

Behind the Scenes of ISO’s Transition Standard

Daan van der Wekken, Head of Sustainability at BSI, the UK’s national standards body, describes the path towards a globally applicable standard for transition planning in the financial sector. In the face of a plethora of sustainability-related frameworks, financial institutions and investors have been calling for a harmonised international standard to provide clear guidance and share best practice for financing…