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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Solar Developer Pine Gate Raises $650 Million ESG Investing Bloomberg Launches Sustainability Screening Tool for Investors Exec Moves IBM Appoints Christina Shim as New Chief Sustainability Officer Million Carbonfact Raises $15 Million for Emissions Reporting Solution for Fashion Industry U.S.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Billion for Sustainable Food Chain Fund Infrastructure Tech Startup Neara Raises $24 Million to Help Utilities Deploy Renewable Energy, Reduce Climate Risk InterContinental Energy Raises $115 Million to Develop Green Hydrogen Projects

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Investors Caught Between Greenwashing and Green Blushing

Chris Hall

The global investment community is walking a “tightrope” between greenwashing and green blushing as it strives to stay abreast of regulatory developments that continuously ramp up accountability on sustainable investing, industry sources have sad.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Boeing Announces Public Launch of Data Tool to Assess Aviation Decarbonization Solutions Carbon Removal Buyers Group Frontier Announces First $53 Million Offtake Agreement Svante, 3M Partner to Develop Material to (..)

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How Tracking GHG Emissions Accelerates Value and Strengthens Companies

3BL Media

SUMMARY: James Mandel, Blackstone’s Chief Sustainability Officer, and Jake Shirmer, a Principal in Portfolio Operations, explain why tracking greenhouse gas emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. Rightly understood, then, tracking GHG emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox.

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UK Regulator FCA Launches ESG Committee

ESG Today

Recent announcements have included the establishment of a working group to develop a code of conduct for ESG data and ratings providers, and the release of proposed rules for investment product sustainability labels and disclosure requirements to address greenwashing risk. Catherine Howarth OBE , Chief Executive of ShareAction.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

This week in ESG news: EU adopts new law against greenwashing; Walmart reaches 1 billion ton supply chain emissions reduction milestone; S&P forecasts $1 trillion sustainable bond market in 2024; Airbus, TotalEnergies launch sustainable aviation fuel partnership; Verizon invests $1 billion in renewable energy; EU lawmakers agree to certification (..)