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California’s SB 253 Just Made Your Carbon Data a CFO Problem

California’s SB 253 Just Made Your Carbon Data a CFO Problem

Guest post by: Rachel Delacour, Founder and CEO of Sweep Here’s the question your CFO should be asking right now: It’s not “are we compliant?” It’s “can our carbon data survive an audit?” For years, sustainability reporting has sat comfortably within ESG teams, managed through annual reporting cycles and disconnected spreadsheets, and far from the scrutiny applied to financial statements….

P2 Science Raises $23 Million to Produce Green Chemicals for Beauty, Personal Care Sectors

P2 Science Raises $23 Million to Produce Green Chemicals for Beauty, Personal Care Sectors

Biotechnology and green chemistry company P2 Science announced that it has raised $23 million in a new financing round, with proceeds aimed at accelerating its growth in the beauty and personal care ingredients market, and expanding its platform into new markets. Co-founded by Professor Paul Anastas and Dr. Patrick Foley at the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at…

The 2026 Guide to ESOS Phase 4: Beyond Compliance into Mandatory Action

The Evolution of Energy Savings: Why Phase 4 is Different The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) has long been a staple of the UK’s environmental regulatory landscape. However, as we move through 2026, the “light-touch” approach of previous phases has been replaced by a rigorous, action-oriented framework. For large undertakings in the UK, ESOS Phase 4 represents a significant shift…

The Balancing Act – Navigating the ESG & Anti-ESG Movements

Intelligize Webinar | June 3, 202612:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ETRegister here. The ESG landscape has shifted significantly in recent years, presenting new challenges for organizations operating in this rapidly evolving space. In this session, we will explore the legal and regulatory risks emerging on both sides of the ESG debate and examine the impact of key regulatory developments in the…

IFS Launches New Emissions Measurement and Reporting Solution for Industrial Companies

IFS Launches New Emissions Measurement and Reporting Solution for Industrial Companies

Industrial software provider IFS announced today the launch of IFS Zero, a new agentic AI-powered platform aimed at users in asset-intensive industries to measure, disclose, and optimize carbon emissions across Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 According to IFS, the new platform is designed to address emissions management challenges facing sustainability teams, including fragmented data, manual reconciliation, and time-intensive reporting,…

McDonald’s to Miss 2030 Value Chain Decarbonization Goal, Remains Committed to Net Zero by 2050

McDonald’s to Miss 2030 Value Chain Decarbonization Goal, Remains Committed to Net Zero by 2050

McDonald’s revealed significant progress in its operational climate and sustainability goals, but acknowledged that it does not expect to achieve its 2030 Scope 3 value chain emissions reduction targets, due to energy and supply chain challenges beyond the company’s control. Despite anticipating missing its interim goal, however, in a statement by Jon Banner, Global Chief Impact Officer and Warren Anderson,…

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft Back Initiative to Invest, Test, and Scale Cleantech Solutions in Data Centers

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft Back Initiative to Invest, Test, and Scale Cleantech Solutions in Data Centers

Environmental impact-focused investment platform Elemental Impact, alongside tech giants Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, announced today the launch of the Data Center Innovation Initiative (DCII), a new initiative aimed at investing in clean energy and materials technology startups, and testing their solutions in data center environments for future deployment across broader energy and industrial applications. According to Elemental Impact, the…

IFRS, GRI Expand Collaboration to Align Sustainability Reporting Standards

IFRS, GRI Expand Collaboration to Align Sustainability Reporting Standards

The IFRS Foundation and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released a new statement reaffirming their commitment to work together to align GRI and ISSB sustainability reporting standards as part of their joint efforts to enable a seamless, global and comprehensive sustainability reporting system. The new statement describes the common disclosures that the GSSB and ISSB have been working together to…

Stockholm Becomes One of World’s Largest Carbon Removal Buyers with New 750,000-Tonne Deal

Stockholm Becomes One of World’s Largest Carbon Removal Buyers with New 750,000-Tonne Deal

The City of Stockholm announced that it has entered into a long-term 750,000-tonne carbon removal deal with Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi, making the city the fifth largest buyer of permanent carbon removals globally. Under the new agreement, the City of Stockholm will purchase the equivalent of 50,000 tonnes of carbon removal annually for 15 years from Stockholm Exergi’s bio-energy…

The Justice Company and HANetf launch human rights-screened ETF

The Justice Company has joined forces with HANetf to launch one of the first ETFs built around a specialist human rights-based screening framework. JURY Global High Dividend UCITS ETF, which has the ticker ‘JURY’, is classified as Article Eight under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. It aims to provide investors diversified access to global equities, which offer attractive dividend pay-outs,…