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CRH, Holcim Invest $75 Million in Low Carbon Cement Developer Sublime

CRH, Holcim Invest $75 Million in Low Carbon Cement Developer Sublime

Sublime Systems, which specializes in producing low-carbon cement, announced today a new partnership with building materials giants CRH and Holcim, including a $75 million equity investment and a binding offtake reservation, aimed at supporting the near-term development and operations of Sublime’s first commercial manufacturing facility in Holyoke, Mass. Cement production is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, and…

Rules Bolster Asset Owners’ Sustainability Efforts

Investors admit that challenges with ESG data remain, but quality is rapidly improving as regulation advances.   Regulation is helping asset owners achieve their sustainable investment goals by driving corporate disclosures and honing ESG data quality, according to research from global index provider FTSE Russell.  Ninety percent of respondents to FTSE Russell’s eighth global asset owner survey said that sustainable…

Air France-KLM Signs Deal for 1.9 Billion Liters of Sustainable Aviation Fuel with TotalEnergies

Air France-KLM Signs Deal for 1.9 Billion Liters of Sustainable Aviation Fuel with TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Air France-KLM for the delivery of an additional 1.5 million tons, or nearly 1.9 billion liters, of sustainable aviation fuel over a 10-year period until 2035. The new deal builds on a contract that was signed between the companies in 2022, in which TotalEnergies…

TPG Raises $1.25 Billion for Global South-focused Climate Solutions Investment Strategy

TPG Raises $1.25 Billion for Global South-focused Climate Solutions Investment Strategy

TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, TPG Rise, announced that it has raised $1.25 billion in initial capital commitments for its new Global South Initiative (GSI) strategy, aimed at accelerating transformative climate solutions across the Global South, including a $500 million commitment from UAE-backed climate investment platform ALTÉRRA. The new GSI strategy was…

Day 2 of New York Climate Week

Day 2 of New York Climate Week

Hey everyone! Luke (CCO) here writing about how Day 2 has been at New York Climate Week! This morning we joined our network at the Nest, meeting with dozens of other sustainable tech entrepreneurs, sustainability managers/directors, and practitioners looking for solutions. It’s been a fully packed day following a later evening networking with senior sustainability officers, from private backed businesses…

LEGO Group Increases Renewable Content in Bricks by 83% in 2024

LEGO Group Increases Renewable Content in Bricks by 83% in 2024

The LEGO Group revealed progress in its efforts to shift its products towards using more sustainable materials, announcing that it has seen an 83% increase in renewable content in its bricks in the first six months of 2024, with 30% of the resin used by the company sourced under a “mass balance” approach, translating to 22% renewable sources in its…

Hong Kong Proposes IFRS-aligned Sustainability Reporting Standards

Hong Kong Proposes IFRS-aligned Sustainability Reporting Standards

The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) announced the publication of new exposure drafts with proposed sustainability-related and climate-related reporting standards for companies, fully aligned with the standards issued by the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The HKICPA proposal aims to have the standards effective from August 2025. The publication of the new proposals follows the…

Plant-rich Food System Can Offer Climate, Health Benefits

Investing in reformed consumption and production could be five times more profitable than in renewables, but Scope 3 reporting remains a struggle. Investing in a plant-rich food system could add several “healthy years” to the human lifespan and help realise annual savings of US$3.2 trillion by 2050, new research has shown. Published by freshly launched global philanthropic initiative Tilt Collective…

Singapore Exchange Softens Requirement for Scope 3 Reporting for Smaller Companies

Singapore Exchange Softens Requirement for Scope 3 Reporting for Smaller Companies

Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) market regulator SGX RegCo announced updates to its sustainability reporting rules for listed companies, including pushing back mandatory value chain, or Scope 3, emissions reporting requirements for smaller issuers. The update follows the announcement earlier this year by the government of Singapore that it will implement mandatory climate-related reporting requirements for listed and large non-listed companies, alongside…

Move to Regenerative Agriculture Requires Investor Mindset Shift

Increased investment and reframing of sector risk assessments will aid transition to a more sustainable global food system.  Institutional investors need to broaden their support for the food and agriculture industry’s transition to regenerative and sustainable practices, according to climate and nature investment firm Pollination.  “Given the baseline operations for agriculture are massive carbon emitters, we need every arrow in…