This first amount of funding from the UK’s £500 million Blue Planet Fund will be used for five programmes aimed to tackle climate change, enable marine recovery, and reduce poverty in developing countries.
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a new 2025 commitment to act more sustainably across its mobile product lifecycles and business operations
Mitie has unveiled its new roadmap to achieve a net zero estate by 2025.
The end of June 2021 marked the latest deadline in the introduction of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). From that date, larger financial firms will have to begin disclosing the “Principal Adverse Impacts” their investments have on social and environmental issues.
The government-backed UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) agency has announced new funding to support sustainability projects aimed to help trees and woodlands adapt to climate change.
The UK’s offshore wind industry is taking new strides in energy innovation as Siemens Gamesa and GRI Renewable Industries expands its production in the north-east.
BP has announced that the clean hydrogen facility in Teesside (H2Teesside) will be completed by 2030.
In a new landmark report, the IPCC has found that human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe.
The Prime Minister and Chancellor believe that now is the time to unlock the hundreds of billions of pounds sitting in UK institutional investors and help drive the UK’s green recovery from the pandemic.
They say money makes the world go round. With COP26 on the horizon, that well-known saying has added currency. But how will the UK’s financial sector be playing its part? Gina V Hall, the Carbon Trust’s Investment Director and Global Head of Sustainable Finance, investigates…
DHL announces order of first-ever all electric cargo planes from global manufacturer Eviation.
This week marked the cut-off date for the submission of new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to be included in a UNFCCC synthesis report that will be issued later this year, ahead of COP26.
NatWest Group has completed £9.5 billion worth of climate and sustainable funding in the first half of 2021, exceeding its target of £20 billion in 2020-2021 six months early.
Seneca ESG led Team Stoics in the third Eagle Alpha Data Hackathon in May 2021. As more corporations and funds commit to a net-zero economy and investment strategies, the Eagle Alpha Data Hackathon posed the challenge of how investors may get reliable ESG ratings free of greenwashing, social washing and huge gaps in governance reporting.
A new report from MSCI tracks quarterly progress toward global climate goals.
Financial markets are increasingly turning their attention towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), as sustainability efforts become a top priority among regulators, asset owners, investors and companies alike.