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American Airlines Completes First U.S. Commercial Flight Powered by eSAF

American Airlines Completes First U.S. Commercial Flight Powered by eSAF

American Airlines and low-carbon synthetic fuels provider Infinium announced the completion of the first ever commercial flight in the U.S. – from Christi Corpus to Dallas-Fort Worth – using electro-sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF), demonstrating the real-world deployment of next-generation, drop-in SAF. Founded in 2020, California-based Infinium produces synthetic fuels, or eFuels, using renewable power and waste carbon dioxide, avoiding the…

PWC, PCAF Partner to Help Banks, Investors Measure & Report Financed Emissions

PWC, PCAF Partner to Help Banks, Investors Measure & Report Financed Emissions

Professional services provider PwC and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) announced a new partnership aimed at supporting banks and investors to measure and report financed emissions, with PwC becoming a global partner under PCAF’s Accredited Partner program. The PCAF is a global partnership of financial institutions, launched globally in 2019 with a mission to develop and implement a…

B Corp Certification UK: Requirements, Timeline and Cost

B Corp certification is a legally binding standard verified by B Lab that measures a company’s entire social and environmental performance across governance, workers, community, environment and customers. Unlike a marketing claim, B Corp status must be written into a company’s legal governing documents, committing directors to consider all stakeholders, not just shareholders. ESG PRO is a Certified B Corporation…

Novisto Launches Double Materiality Assessment Solution

Novisto Launches Double Materiality Assessment Solution

Sustainability reporting software provider Novisto announced the launch of Novisto Materiality, a new digital solution aimed at enabling companies to conduct double materiality assessments to meet new compliance obligations and to identify and address their most significant sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities. “Double materiality” is one of the hallmark new approaches introduced by the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive’s (CSRD)…

New EU Sustainable Packaging Rules Enter into Force

New EU Sustainable Packaging Rules Enter into Force

New packaging regulations in the EU are entering into application on Wednesday, kicking off a series of rules to be rolled out over the next few years The first new requirements under the EU’s revised Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) are entering into application on Wednesday, kicking off a series of rules under the regulation to be rolled out…

Vast majority of UK businesses hit by new EU packaging rules

The vast majority of British manufacturers and suppliers are having to redesign their packaging to comply with sweeping European Union environmental regulations coming into force today. From August 12, the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces strict new frameworks for packaging circularity, including mandatory requirements for recyclability, recycled content, and material minimisation. According to a new survey of…

Carnival Raises, Accelerates Emissions Reduction Goal

Carnival Raises, Accelerates Emissions Reduction Goal

Global cruise company Carnival Corporation announced a new climate target to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity by 25% by 2029, on a 2019 basis, increasing and accelerating from its prior 20% by 2030 goal, after achieving it five years early. According to the company, as detailed in its newly published 2025 Sustainability Report, the progress has been driven by a…

UK sustainable funds return to inflows pulling in £173m in Q2

UK sustainable funds recorded net inflows of £173m in the second quarter of 2026, ending five consecutive quarters of net redemptions. The return to positive flows followed redemptions of £610m in Q1 2026, marking a quarter-on-quarter improvement of £783m. According to the latest Lipper UK sustainable fund market report for the first half of the year, fixed income strategies drove…

Where next for battery storage?

Battery storage has grown from a niche, poorly understood corner of the energy transition into one of its most critical components. But as the asset class matures, one question comes up more than any other from investors: where does the growth come from next? It’s a fair question. The market has already come a long way. When we built our…

Google Purchases Entire Output from RWE U.S. Solar Project

Google Purchases Entire Output from RWE U.S. Solar Project

German power producer RWE announced that it has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Google for the entire output from a new 155 MW solar project in Oklahoma. The new Crooked Creek solar project, located in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, will support Google’s operations in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and provide locally produced power to the regional grid….