Business sustainability ratings and solutions provider EcoVadis and climate solutions provider Watershed announced today a new strategic partnership aimed at enabling companies to access accurate Scope 3 data to assess emissions across their supply chains. According to the companies, the new collaboration will allow enterprises to tackle the “Scope 3 data gap,” by replacing broad averages with actual supplier emissions…
The UK government announced the completion of its latest “Green Gilt” offering, raising £6.25 billion (USD$8.4 billion) to help finance expenditures for projects to tackle climate change and other environmental challenges, including funding for infrastructure and the creation of green jobs. The UK launched its Green Gilt program in 2021, along with plans to build a ‘green curve,’ a yield…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) Group will deliver more than €75 billion (USD$87 billion) of energy transition-focused financing over the next three years, according to an announcement by the European Commission. The new investment plans form part of the EU Commission’s new Clean Energy Investment Strategy, aimed at mobilizing funding to fast-track the clean energy transition, and improving the link…
The vast majority of companies that have been removed from the scope of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) as a result of the recent Omnibus initiative plan to maintain or even expand their sustainability reporting activities despite the lack of regulatory requirements, with companies citing a range of benefits from their reporting activities beyond compliance, and most already…
Guest post by Katie Ferrier, Regional Director, Northern Europe & MEA, Achilles Katie Ferrier talks to us about the outcomes that really matter in modern supply chain management, from gaining confidence in supplier data to continuously monitoring risk and performance across complex global supply chains. As the energy transition accelerates and geopolitical threats intensify, supply chains have never been more critical…
HSBC announced that it mobilized more than $102 billion in sustainable finance and investment in 2025, reaching a new annual record for the bank, and the first time that it has exceeded $100 billion. The results, reported within HSBC’s recently released 2025 annual report, brings the bank’s cumulative total facilitation of sustainable finance and investment to $495.6 billion since the…
Industrial sustainability-focused venture capital firm Emerald Technology Ventures announced that it has raised €100 million (USD$116 million) in commitments for its Global Water Fund II, aimed at investing in startups advancing solutions to address the world’s most pressing water challenges. Global Water Fund II invests in early- to growth-stage companies worldwide, focusing on innovations across the full water value chain,…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a new strategy to boost the development of advanced nuclear technology in the EU, calling Europe’s move away from nuclear power as a source of low-carbon and affordable energy over the past few decades a “strategic mistake” that has left the EU vulnerable to volatile and uncertain fossil fuel imports. In a…