Ecologi Zero™ joins the Xero App Store to support UK businesses on their net-zero journey

Ecologi Zero is working with Xero to help scale up net-zero in the UK, this joining-of-forces will give thousands of UK service-based small businesses the option to calculate their carbon footprint for free, making it much easier to take climate action and start their net-zero journey.

15 December 2022

£102 million government backing for nuclear and hydrogen innovation in the UK

The UK government has announced new funding to support clean energy production in the UK, following Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent impact on global energy prices.

15 December 2022

IEA: Renewable power’s growth is being turbocharged as countries seek to strengthen energy security

The global energy crisis has triggered unprecedented momentum behind renewables, with the world set to add as much renewable power in the next 5 years as it did in the past 20.

06 December 2022

European Union agrees law to fight global deforestation and forest degradation

The Commission welcomes the provisional political agreement just reached between the European Parliament and the Council on an EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains.

06 December 2022

Circular strategies could cut emissions from materials used in vehicles by 60% by 2040

Greater circularity in materials-use by the European automotive sector could reduce emissions associated with the materials used in production per vehicle by 60% by 2040, a new analysis by Bain & Company shows.

06 December 2022

Increasing UK onshore wind capacity would affect just 0.02% of land, finds new analysis

New analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit has found that the area of land that could be affected by onshore wind farms in future is just 0.02% of the UK's total land.

06 December 2022

Turning sustainability talk into action

It’s hard to convey the intensity of our current sustainable investment (SI) interactions with clients and stakeholders.

05 December 2022

Storebrand announces new nature strategy, tightening requirements for all investments

Storebrand's new nature strategy takes a clear stance against activities that can damage vulnerable nature.

02 December 2022

European Commission announces new rules to put end to wasteful packaging

The European Commission has proposed new EU-wide rules on packaging, to tackle the constantly growing source of waste and of consumer frustration.

02 December 2022

Lack of legally binding core standards for UK trade putting climate and environmental goals at risk

The UK Government must establish a set of Core Environmental Standards (CES) in law that would apply to food imported from overseas based on similar standards that apply to UK farmers or risk undermining the transition to sustainable farming, says a new report by WWF.

02 December 2022

The more asset owner investment strategies change, the more they stay the same

For the sixth year in a row, FTSE Russell asked global asset owners for their views and practices across a range of sustainable finance issues: 184 participated, represent up to £3trillions in AUM in assets.

30 November 2022

UK nature agencies set out vision at COP15 to restore nature to avoid ‘profound threat to humanity’

The UK’s leading nature agencies have set out their plan to boost nature recovery at home and abroad ahead of the key international biodiversity summit in Montreal taking place next month.

25 November 2022

UK and South Africa working in partnership on minerals for future clean energy technologies

UK Government announces it is working with the Republic of South Africa to deepen their minerals mining and energy collaborations, including through a regular Ministerial and Technical dialogues between the Department for Mineral Resources and Energy (RSA) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (UK).

25 November 2022

ENGIE and Google enter into a Renewable Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA)

ENGIE and Google enter into a 100 MW Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA), for a period of 12 years, as part of the offshore wind development of the Moray West project.

25 November 2022

Environmental Audit Committee calls on UK Government to publish targets by COP15

The Chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee, Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP, has written to the Environment Secretary raising the Committee’s concerns that a culture of delay at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is holding up progress on a range of promised environment policies.

22 November 2022

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance calls for development and uptake of net-zero aligned benchmarks

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has released a call to action to asset owners and index providers on Development and Uptake of Net-Zero-Aligned Benchmarks.

22 November 2022

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