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Procurement Act 2023 – Technology and AI

Procurement Act 2023 – Technology and AI

A professional’s guide to the Procurement Act 2023. We explore the new legislation and offer a FREE COPY of our 50-page Procurement Act Handbook (published 2025). Expert guidance and checklists! In this extract of the ESG Pro Procurement Act Handbook, we consider the key changes to the Procurement Act 2023 and especially the role of technology in public procurement. Technology…

Procurement Act 2023 and Social Value

Procurement Act 2023 and Social Value

A professional’s guide to the Procurement Act 2023. We explore the new legislation and offer a FREE COPY of our 50-page Procurement Act Handbook (published 2025). Expert guidance and checklists! In this extract of the ESG Pro Procurement Act Handbook, we consider the key changes to the Procurement Act 2023 and especially the absolute focus upon Social Value in Public…

Procurement Act 2023 MEAT to MAT

Procurement Act 2023 MEAT to MAT

A professional’s guide to the Procurement Act 2023. We explore the new legislation and offer a FREE COPY of our 50-page Procurement Act Handbook (published 2025). Expert guidance and checklists! In this extract of the ESG Pro Procurement Act Handbook, we consider the key changes to the Procurement Act 2023 and especially the UK’s public procurement process transitioning from the…

Procurement Act 2023 Competitive Procurement

Procurement Act 2023 Competitive Procurement

A professional’s guide to the Procurement Act 2023. We explore the new legislation and offer a FREE COPY of our 50-page Procurement Act Handbook (published 2025). Expert guidance and checklists! In this extract of the ESG Pro Procurement Act Handbook, we consider the key changes to the Procurement Act 2023 and especially how to understanding the competitive procurement process Introduction…

Tyba Raises $14 Million for Solution to Maximize Value of Energy Storage Projects

Tyba Raises $14 Million for Solution to Maximize Value of Energy Storage Projects

Energy storage software startup Tyba announced that it raised $13.9 million in a Series A funding round, with proceeds aimed at advancing its solution aimed at helping energy providers maximize the profitability of their energy storage assets. Energy storage forms one of the key building blocks for the rapidly expanding clean energy transition, given the intermittent generating nature of many…

Amundi launches Europe ex-UK fund for UK investors

European asset manager Amundi has launched the Amundi Funds – Europe ex-UK Equity fund, in response to demand from UK clients for European exposure. The strategy aims to provide an ‘all-weather’ portfolio with no style bias. It is classified as Article 8 under SFDR and holds 35-45 stocks. The fund will be managed by portfolio manager and head of large…

Take Five: Bold, Fresh, New Ideas

A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.  Investors – and pretty much everyone else – learned to expect the unexpected from policymakers this week. Double take – In a week in which US President Donald Trump introduced more “bold, fresh, new ideas”, a slightly older one was being edged out in Europe. According to…

EU Invests $439 Million in Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Projects to Decarbonize Transport

EU Invests $439 Million in Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Projects to Decarbonize Transport

The European Commission announced that it will allocate €422 million (USD$439 million) to 39 alternative fuel infrastructure projects, aimed at supporting the transition to cleaner transport. Selected projects will focus on areas including the installation of public electric recharging stations for both heavy-duty and light-duty vehicles, the development of hydrogen refueling stations and onshore power installations in ports, in addition…

A New Discipline for the Energy Transition

A new approach to underwriting scale-up risk can help institutional investors to tap middle market opportunities, says Eduardo Monteiro, Co-CIO at Victory Hill Capital Partners. Barring the climate change sceptics, the notion that the energy transition needs more capital is arguably axiomatic. Changing weather patterns, natural disasters and rising temperatures are reported annually and clear for all to see. Meanwhile,…

How to Reach Net Zero – and Go Beyond

Nature-based carbon removal projects can generate substantial environmental and social co-benefits, explains Marta Krupinska, CEO of CUR8. Carbon removal tends to be misunderstood. Some confuse it with carbon avoidance (which prevents emissions from entering the atmosphere) or carbon capture and storage (which captures emissions at the point of production). For others, it’s synonymous with direct air capture, which is only…