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The nuclear option

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Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems? After months of contentious debate, the EU agreed to add natural gas and nuclear to its EU taxonomy, the official list of acceptable sustainable investments to help Europe finance its ambitious climate goals.

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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

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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. When we launched this ranking in 2005, the green economy was a quaint idea.

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Five trends that shaped sustainable finance in 2022

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This surrender was part of a wider pullback, as banks, investment funds and asset owners axed billions of dollars from sustainable investment funds and reined in marketing excesses. More than US$8 trillion removed from sustainable investment tally. sustainable investment, to US$8.4 green investment.

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