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Jupiter Intelligence Launches New Solutions Enabling Banks, Investors to Quantify Climate Risk

Jupiter Intelligence Launches New Solutions Enabling Banks, Investors to Quantify Climate Risk

Climate data solutions provider Jupiter Intelligence announced the launch of a series of new tools, aimed at enabling banks and asset managers to quantify physical climate risk within their portfolios and to calculate the ROI on resilience investments. The new tools will form part of Jupiter Intelligence’s flagship ClimateScore Global climate analytics platform. Launched in 2020, the platform was designed…

Goldman Sachs Acquires Liquid Waste Solutions Provider LES

Goldman Sachs Acquires Liquid Waste Solutions Provider LES

Goldman Sachs Alternatives announced an agreement by its infrastructure team to acquire non-hazardous liquid waste management services provider Liquid Environmental Solutions (LES), from Boston-based investor Audax Private Equity. Founded in 2002, Texas-based LES manages non-hazardous liquid waste for clients across sectors including restaurant, grocery chain, hospitality, education, and environmental services across the U.S. The company collects, treats, and recovers materials…

Meta Buys 100% of Renewable Energy from New $900 Million Solar Project to Power U.S. Data Centers

Meta Buys 100% of Renewable Energy from New $900 Million Solar Project to Power U.S. Data Centers

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp owner Meta and Alberta-based energy company Enbridge announced a new long-term contract with Enbridge supplying Meta with 100% of the renewable energy generated from a new 600 MW solar facility in Texas to power the tech company’s data center operations. The new project, Clear Fork, will be a utility scale solar facility located near San Antonio. Enbridge…

JPMorgan, Microsoft Back New Financing Model to Scale Nature-Based Carbon Removal Projects

JPMorgan, Microsoft Back New Financing Model to Scale Nature-Based Carbon Removal Projects

Nature-based carbon removal startup Chestnut Carbon announced that it has secured a new $210 million project finance credit facility, led by J.P. Morgan and backed by a massive forest-focused carbon removal offtake agreement recently signed with tech giant Microsoft. The agreement marks the first financing of its kind for a U.S. voluntary carbon removal afforestation project, with Chestnut, Microsoft and…

Earth Overshoot Day arrives early again: ‘Sustainability is no longer a moral luxury – it is a financial necessity’

Overshoot Day: innovation and engagement essential for a sustainable future  Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for natural resources exceeds what can be regenerated. This year it will arrive on 24 July – eight days earlier than last year, showing the escalation in usage of resources. Here, four sustainable investment experts explore how we can help push this…

SBTi creates net-zero standards for financial firms

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has release its Financial Institutions Net-Zero Standard providing guidance for asset managers, asset owners, private equity firms and banks on how to align with activities with limiting global warming and achieving net zero by 2050 at the latest.  Initially announced in 2022, the standards support financial institutions in setting targets that build clear routes…

Ambienta Acquires Sustainable Agriculture Platform Agronova

Ambienta Acquires Sustainable Agriculture Platform Agronova

Sustainability-focused European asset manager Ambienta announced the acquisition of Agronova Biotech, marking its first investment in the sustainable agriculture sector. Agronova Biotech, which is headquartered in Spain and considered a global leader in biological crop solutions, was acquired from Iberian private equity firm Magnum Industrial Partners and the founding Casanova family. The agriculture sector faces a series of sustainability challenges,…

Sustainable investing’s midlife crisis: What comes after the ESG boom?

As southern Europe swelters under a record-breaking summer heatwave, the signs of climate risk are no longer theoretical – they are blisteringly real. From scorched vineyards in France to shrinking reservoirs in Spain, the environmental urgency that once fuelled the ESG boom is now playing out in real time. Yet, just as the need for sustainable finance intensifies, the narrative…

Place-based investing: Think sustainably, act locally

Local government pension schemes (LGPS), which manage nearly £400bn in long-term capital, have the potential to become key drivers of sustainable transformation, benefitting communities and driving progress towards environmental goals. Since 2015, pension reforms have continued to consolidate LGPS into fewer larger pools, with the ambition of improving cost efficiency and collaboration. While this should ultimately unlock positive synergies for…

Place-based investing: Think sustainably, act locally

Local government pension schemes (LGPS), which manage nearly £400bn in long-term capital, have the potential to become key drivers of sustainable transformation, benefitting communities and driving progress towards environmental goals. Since 2015, pension reforms have continued to consolidate LGPS into fewer larger pools, with the ambition of improving cost efficiency and collaboration. While this should ultimately unlock positive synergies for…