New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced a new proposal to expand the city’s pension funds’ fossil fuel investment exclusion policy by ceasing future private market investments in midstream and downstream fossil fuel infrastructure. New York City’s pension funds represent over $200 billion in assets, and include the New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS), Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS), and…
Energy-as-a-Service solutions provider Redaptive announced today that it has raised $100 million through an equity investment from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). Founded in 2015, Denver-based Redaptive helps organizations to reduce energy waste, lower costs and cut emissions, with a focus on large Commercial & Industrial companies. The company provides a solution to manage long-term energy efficiency…
California-based Universal Fuel Technologies (Unifuel), which is developing technology to cut sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production costs, announced that it has raised $3 million for the advancement of its projects, as well as for lab space in Texas. Fuel accounts for the vast majority of the aviation sector’s emissions. Generally produced from sustainable resources, like waste oils and agricultural residues,…
TrusTrace, which provides a digital platform for product traceability and supply chain transparency, announced today the launch of a new Deforestation Compliance Solution aimed at supporting companies on complying with the requirement to provide deforestation-free shipments ahead of the implementation of The Regulation on Deforestation Free Products (EUDR). The EUDR was initially introduced by the EU Commission in November, 2021,…
Sustainable investing firm Mirova announced that it has been selected to manage “Objectif biodiversité” a new fund launched by a consortium of French institutional investors, targeting investments in businesses transitioning to sustainable business models and in innovative solutions for biodiversity preservation. The fund, with over €100 million and an initial duration of 5 years, will primarily focus on small and…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has charged ETF provider and asset manager WisdomTree with making misstatements and compliance failures after finding that funds marketed by the firm as incorporating ESG factors failed to comply with their own criteria, by investing in companies involved in fossil fuel and tobacco activities. According to the SEC and a…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Hong Kong’s central banking institution, announced the launch of its Sustainable Finance Action Agenda, setting out a series of finance sector-focused targets and planned actions to support green and sustainable financing needs to support the low carbon transition and to establish Hong Kong as a “sustainable finance hub” in the region. Among the key…