International asset manager Robeco announced today plans to launch a new range of transition investing strategies over the next few months, spanning a range of asset classes and aimed at finding alpha in companies that are making sustainable transitions across all industries, including carbon-intensive sectors. According to Robeco, the launch of the new range comes as most transition investing is…
Climate technology company Arcadia announced that it has raised $50 million, with proceeds from the financing aimed at growing the company’s community solar program and supporting AI-based product innovation to enable new use cases for its energy data platform. Launched in 2014, Washington D.C.-based Arcadia provides energy data solutions aimed at enabling enables consumers, businesses and developers to access and…
This week in ESG news: SBTi to allow expanded use of carbon credits in net zero targets; Japan releases proposed sustainability reporting standards; EU adopts rules requiring new buildings to be zero emissions by 2030; Watershed launches new CSRD sustainability reporting solution; Lululemon launches first-ever product with new recycled polyester tech and captured carbon; MSCI study finds increase in Scope…
The European Council announced today that it has formally adopted the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), with new rules aimed at reducing energy use and emissions from buildings across the EU, including targets for all new buildings to be zero emissions by 2030, and to phase out the use of fossil fuels in building heating systems by 2040….