ESG Today

MAY 8, 2025

India’s taxonomy mark the latest in a series of initiatives across jurisdictions to set up a classification system for the definition of sustainable economic activities, including taxonomy systems already established or in development in the EU , UK , Singapore , Hong Kong, Canada , and Australia.

Net Zero

James Militzer

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The strategy also includes a focus on the impacts of climate change on peace and security, adopting insights from research and recommendations made by our team at CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security , which were informed by stakeholder consultations and extensive fieldwork in the country’s Southern Province.

Climate Change

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I will definitely continue this newfound farming practice, and Ill tell everyone in my village about what Ive learned, she said. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 21 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs.

Climate Change

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While there is not yet a commonly agreed definition of an investable NDC, and each of these organisations may emphasise different characteristics, common elements are emerging. Through the PRI Collaborative Sovereign Engagement on Climate Change , investors have also engaged directly with the Australian government about its next NDC.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

In response, the authors propose a formal definition of seascape restoration: the concurrent or sequential restoration of multiple habitats to rebuild functional, resilient, and connected marine ecosystems. “Restoring isolated patches isn’t enough.

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Global Renewable News

JULY 10, 2025

The CIM transaction is subject to the execution of definitive documentation setting out all of the representations, warranties, covenants and conditions precedent associated with the CIM transaction. There is a risk that definitive documentation may not be executed or that the conditions precedent to the CIM Transaction are not satisfied.

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Global Renewable News

JULY 10, 2025

The CIM transaction is subject to the execution of definitive documentation setting out all of the representations, warranties, covenants and conditions precedent associated with the CIM transaction. There is a risk that definitive documentation may not be executed or that the conditions precedent to the CIM Transaction are not satisfied.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JUNE 16, 2025

The UK Committee on Climate Change used such an analysis for its net-zero road maps. Yet they have their share of critics, who note (among other remonstrances) that vague definitions can lead to NBS being co-opted by entities that may not prioritize genuine ecological benefits.

Decarbonize

Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2025

It highlighted expanding marine territorial claims by nations, illegal fishing operations and climate change as major threats to future growth that need to be addressed. 360° view of the pipeline Investors are increasingly recognising the financial materiality of sustainable and regenerative oceans.

Regenerative

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The CISL report acknowledges that there is no universal definition of what constitutes an engagement. Being useful The worlds largest companies are increasingly recognising the risks and opportunities presented by climate changes, according to several studies.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2025

Originally published on Nielsen Insights This year’s International Women’s Day theme #accelerateaction puts the spotlight on how women are driving change around the world. With 2024 being the warmest year on record for the U.S.,

Climate Change

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Updated guidance published by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) seeks to ensure investors have the flexibility they need to effectively apply net zero strategies across all asset classes they invest in. Implementation guidance aims to support a wide variety of net zero strategies.

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ESG Today

JULY 28, 2025

Alongside the new target, NatWest announced the publication of its new Climate and Transition Finance Framework, replacing its prior Climate and Sustainable Funding and Financing framework, outlining definitions, eligibility and guiding principles for classifying financing and facilitation activities that count towards the goal.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The target audience for this appeal, however, is definitely not mass-market. For the time being, the foundations that signed on to today’s commitment will be able to coordinate some of their giving through the Climate Champions initiative, which is the philanthropic arm of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Climate Change

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Blue Zone events: WATER RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE. This SVA framework, designed to evaluate the effects of climate change on water resources—from supply chains to distribution networks—has been applied in over 800 locations globally.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2025

As evidence of the financial implications of climate change become more apparent, and other systemic risks gain prominence, fractures have begun to show. Alongside climate change, other key responsible investment priority themes include biodiversity and nature, and human rights and social issues.

Stewardship Code

Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2025

Common definitions Private investors have a big role to play in ensuring successful negotiations, according to Laure Boissat, Oceans Programme Manager at the FAIRR Initiative. First and foremost, investors can encourage the creation of common definitions and classifications for what qualifies as a sustainable blue investment, she said.

Regenerative

Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

These] targets have helpful overlaps with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures fisheries guidance for example, aligned definition of ETP species, criteria for defining sensitive marine locations, and indicators of stock performance, said Alice Thomas-Smyth, Marine Conservation Scientist at the World Wide Fund for Nature US (WWF US).

Supply Chains

Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2025

As evidence of the financial implications of climate change become more apparent, and other systemic risks gain prominence, fractures have begun to show. Alongside climate change, other key responsible investment priority themes include biodiversity and nature, and human rights and social issues.

Stewardship Code

James Militzer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Philanthropy has the opportunity, the privilege even, of acting as a catalyzer to crowd in larger investors to fund large-scale solutions like off-grid solar, financial inclusion or nature-based strategies for addressing climate change. In that way, philanthropy and impact investing can complement each other.

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Eco-Business

JULY 3, 2025

Not only is extreme heat the nation’s leading weather-related killer, but the rise in global temperatures also contributes to worsening climate-related disasters like wildfires. “Climate change is having an impact … based on the warmer temperatures that we’ve been seeing, the warmer climate and more evaporation.”

Climate Change

Corporate Knights

JUNE 20, 2025

And “as Canadians face another summer of wildfires, support for continued climate action remains extremely strong, with only 14% of Canadians saying the federal government should do less to combat climate change and transition the country to clean energy,” Clean Energy Canada writes.

Climate Change

Global Renewable News

JULY 8, 2025

MW Hoadley Hill Road ground-mount solar project in upstate New York (the "Project") has officially cleared a key milestone: the Coordinated Electric System Interconnection Review (CESIR).

Development

Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As the global community continues to grapple with the harsh and compounding effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, air/water/soil degradation, and out of-control volumes of waste, we do not expect the pressure on companies to lessen.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 21, 2025

Attribution science spurs climate Superfund movement While the concept of a climate Superfund has been around for decades , its only in recent years that states have begun to seriously consider these laws. Researchers are now able to use climate models to link extreme weather events to greenhouse gas emissions from specific companies.

Climate Change

Utiliity Dive

JULY 14, 2025

By Robert Walton • July 8, 2025 Andrew Harnik via Getty Images Federal agencies, including FERC and DOE, revoke environmental review rules The agencies eliminated all references to consider climate change, environmental justice and other key environmental issues in their permit reviews, Earthjustice said.

Development

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Several of these funds also tackle broader social and environmental themes alongside the energy transition, which has led to inconsistent definitions and approaches across strategies.

Net Zero

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Environment Analysts definition of environmental sustainability consulting (E&S) is: The provision of specialist technical, management, risk, analytics and strategic advisory services to help organizations understand, manage, and minimize their impacts to protect and enhance the environment and communities, and proactively respond to climate change, (..)

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Eco-Business

JUNE 11, 2025

“Clean energy is definitely going to be a big push in the future,” she said by phone. ” This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation , the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights.

Waste

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In its 2022 whitepaper, ‘ Climate change benchmarks: The passive pretenders’ , Wold Nilsen and co-author Lauren Juliff argued that there is no such thing as passive Paris alignment and that ‘index-tracking’ is not equivalent to ‘passive’ due to the degree of subjectivity involved in climate index construction. “For

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CleanTechnica

JULY 9, 2025

Tourist season, which runs from January through April in Florida, definitely increases human-made. Everyday beach walkers in my condo community scour the incoming tide and wrack line for litter. The amount of debris they pick up can depend on the direction of the current or a recent storm at sea.

Climate Change

CleanTechnica

JULY 25, 2025

The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago, and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere with climate change was published in 1896. By the mid-20th century, scientists definitively connected the effect of human activities to the Earth’s atmosphere, and consensus built that our.

Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 24, 2025

Fast Company called it an effort to build “the definitive nonprofit transparency platform.” Years later, Candid is in strong financial health, serving millions, and continuing to build out stronger information infrastructure for social change. As the world changes, so must the social sector.

Development

Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Sometimes it is in organization mission statements, or personal value systems, or animating visions of the future, and very often in definitions of success. What if joyful leadership is a superpower for social change? Or sometimes joy comes up in small moments with big meaning like our conversation with Morris.

Development

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success. At the other extreme, a cautious, crystal-clear set of climate goals is too incremental in this time of emergency. We suggest leaders spell out an organizational definition of net-zero to enable the Paris Agreement’s aim of net-zero global emissions by mid-century.

Net Zero

GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

When you think climate change, you need to think about water. While a growing number of companies such as Arcadis are creating solutions and investing in ways to combat climate change issues, there's still untapped potential for water investment, according to industry experts participating in the recent GreenFin virtual event.

Climate Change

GreenBiz

MAY 2, 2022

This Definitive Guide to Getting Started with an ESG Program is a comprehensive resource full of tips, advice and examples to help companies implement and manage ESG as a part of a complete risk and compliance strategy.

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