Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Bank of America announced today that it has issued a $2 billion “Equality Progress Sustainability Bond,” with proceeds aimed at investments targeting advancements in racial and gender equality, economic opportunity, and environmental sustainability.

Green Investing 75

Green Investing Banking 75

Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems? Hansen notes that nuclear can provide enough power for “whole civilizations,” something that would make it easier for small-scale and intermittent renewable energy to fill any remaining gap in fossil-free generation.

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Green Bonds Net Zero Climate Scientist Waste 304

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. “We did the best job possible with limited qualitative corporate disclosure.” “Now

Manufacturing 363

Manufacturing Banking Sustainable Investment Net Zero 363

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

Against this backdrop of net-zero commitments, investors, regulators and the media started paying more attention to the staggering growth in assets claimed to be invested under sustainable or responsible strategies. for example, assets defined as “sustainable” tripled between 2013 and 2019, from US$6.6 green investment.

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Net Zero Banking Sustainable Investment Greenwashing 299