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Clean Energy Solutions Provider DSD Renewables Raises $250 Million

Clean Energy Solutions Provider DSD Renewables Raises $250 Million

Clean energy solutions provider DSD Renewables announced today a $250 million strategic investment from broadband, automotive, and media company Cox Enterprises, aimed at supporting DSD’s growth as accelerate its renewable energy deployment. Founded within GE in 2012 as GE Solar, and rebranded as DSD Renewables in 2019, Schenectady, New York-based DSD provides a “one-stop shop” for custom, large-scale commercial, industrial…

DHL to Invest Over $200 Million in Clean Fuels to Decarbonize Supply Chain Unit

DHL to Invest Over $200 Million in Clean Fuels to Decarbonize Supply Chain Unit

DHL Group’s contract logistics division DHL Supply Chain announced today the launch of a new global Green Transport Policy, aimed at setting a global sustainability standard for its transport fleet and substantially reducing emissions, and including a has commitment to invest an additional €200 million (USD$217 million) in investment in fossil fuel alternatives over the next three years. The release…

Biden Announces Over $6 Billion in New Climate Investments

Biden Announces Over $6 Billion in New Climate Investments

President Biden announced more than $6 billion in investments aimed at strengthening climate resilience in the U.S., targeting areas including the electric grid infrastructure, reducing flood risk, advancing drought resistance, and advancing community-level clean energy deployment and climate justice efforts. Addressing climate change has been a significant focus for the Biden Administration, starting with the return of the U.S. to the…

SFDR II Must Deliver “Simplicity”

Dutch regulator proposes overhaul ahead of green fund consultation closure, France follows Belgium in revising SRI label to exclude fossil fuel developers.  Industry experts have stressed the need for simplicity and clarity around Europe’s ESG fund labelling, as the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) consultation deadline looms.   Regulators around Europe have been increasingly active this month, coming…

Asia Wakes Up to Blue Finance Regulation

Blue finance regulatory frameworks are starting to make ripples as the ocean cause expands its reach to Asia.  The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in September 2023 became the first regulator to issue blue finance guidelines. In developing its own guidelines, the Philippine SEC leaned heavily on Asean’s existing green bond frameworks, illustrating infancy of this market and the…

Damilola Ogunbiyi on Clean Energy in Emerging Markets

Energy access and clean energy development in emerging markets will be at the forefront of COP28 this year. In this episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (UN SRSG) for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. Ahead of COP, listen to Damilola’s expert take on why there is…

Nucor Sets Goal for Net Zero Steelmaking Across Value Chain by 2050

Nucor Sets Goal for Net Zero Steelmaking Across Value Chain by 2050

Steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation announced a series of new climate targets, including a goal to achieve net zero emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 from the production of hot rolled steel. According to Nucor, the new commitments make the company the first diversified steelmaker in the U.S. to set GHG reduction targets encompassing all three scopes. Steelmaking is one…

EU Commission Funds €400 Million Climate, Biodiversity & Circular Economy Projects

EU Commission Funds €400 Million Climate, Biodiversity & Circular Economy Projects

The European Commission announced today that it has today approved more than €396 million in funding for climate and environmental sustainability projects in areas including nature and biodiversity, circular economy and quality of life, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and clean energy transition. The new investments are being made under the LIFE Programme, the EU’s funding instrument for the environment…

Geothermal Engineering Raising $745 Million to Produce Zero Carbon Lithium for EVs

Geothermal Engineering Raising $745 Million to Produce Zero Carbon Lithium for EVs

Geothermal heat and power company Geothermal Engineering announced today that it is raising £600 million (USD$745 million), with proceeds used to expand its production of zero carbon lithium, a biproduct of its geothermal projects, for use in the rapidly growing electric vehicle market. Lithium is a key input in most energy storage system, and rapidly rising demand for the material…