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Climate Action

Home HVAC to U.S. Grid Assets: Unlocking a New, Scalable Distributed Capacity Resource

In this article, Hakan Yilmaz, SVP & Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer at Carrier, outlines how Carrier is transforming residential HVAC systems into smart, battery-enabled energy assets that support grid stability, reduce peak demand, and empower homeowners to participate in the clean energy transition—without compromising comfort.

28 July 2025

Greening Homes – Unlocking demand for green home finance

As the UK awaits the government’s forthcoming Warm Homes Plan, UK Finance’s new report highlights how the financial services sector can help unlock demand for green home improvements and play a key role in decarbonising the country’s housing stock.

24 July 2025

Green Skills Are Not Optional: Insights and Provocations from the Santander Roundtable

As the UK races toward net zero, a quiet crisis is unfolding: we don’t yet have the workforce to get us there. That was the urgent message from Santander UK’s recent roundtable at the Climate Innovation Forum on green skills, where leaders from business, education, and government gathered to confront the challenge and imagine what comes next.

14 July 2025

How Clean Energy Finance Supports Sustainable Growth

Sustainable finance is critical in working towards global net-zero goals. As one of the largest banks in the world, with a presence spanning both developed and developing markets, Santander recognises the need to support the UK Government’s Clean Power 2030 initiative. The Bank is working with clients to power renewable energy and clean technology in the UK and globally.

08 July 2025

Climate Innovation Forum Key Highlights

Leaders from government, finance, business, and civil society came together at the Climate Innovation Forum to accelerate the clean energy transition, unlock climate finance, and reaffirm the city’s role as a global hub for climate leadership and innovation.

26 June 2025

An Elevated 2025 Hurricane Season

In this report, the S&P Global Climate Center of Excellence forecasts above-average hurricane activity in the North Atlantic, Caribbean, and the US and Mexican Gulf Coasts for the upcoming 2025 season. It is forecasted that many stakeholders, from residents and municipalities to property owners, businesses, and energy production facilities along the US Gulf Coast, US East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Islands will have elevated risk to property and infrastructure damage and financial loss in 2025 compared to long-term averages.

23 June 2025

Greenwashing: An AI Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Practices

Sustainability trends have become ubiquitous in the business world, mainly due to the attention ESG is receiving. To state the obvious, this is a positive trend as it helps push companies to consider their impact on the environment, employees, and customers and ensure their governance practices are sound. However, it also incentivizes actors in the business world to try to game the system through marketing campaigns to improve their reputation.

29 May 2025