ESG Today

JANUARY 21, 2025

The sector-specific ESRS was initially slated for 2024, but was delayed by the Commission last year to allow companies to focus on the implementation of the first set of ESRS, and to provide more time for the development of the standards.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Spanish Bank BBVA announced the launch of a new goal to channel 700 billion (USD$735 billion) in sustainable finance between 2025 2029, with a focus on climate change and inclusive social development projects.

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James Militzer

MAY 5, 2025

By the time microfinances pioneering practitioners, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the sector was widely seen as a promising perhaps even game-changing tool for poverty alleviation and global development. They create pathways to resilience, opportunity and sustainable development.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Many companies were banking on interest rates remaining low and stable inflation, as well as the nature of the business and regulatory environment remaining essentially the same. But all that changed when the Bank of England began raising interest rates in late 2021. “It

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 19, 2025

And there are significant delays for new gas turbines which now stretch past 2029, slowing down the development of new gas projects in some markets. Europe was particularly hard hit gas prices surged by 180 % in just two weeks, according to the European Central Bank.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2022

DESCRIPTION: By Beth Marcello, Director of Women's Business Development. A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found that labor market disparities by gender and race cost the U.S. trillion by 2029 unless we join forces to reverse the trend. SOURCE: PNC Financial Services Group.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 5, 2023

Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for global climate policy and development, told Reuters that finally meeting this goal could unlock progress in other areas of climate negotiations this year. The developer Xlinks estimates that that its project could supply the UK with 3.6

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