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- Regulations
EU agrees ecodesign rules and digital product passports for sustainability
EU Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement revising the ecodesign framework to make products more durable, repairable and recyclable, introducing digital product passports and bans on d…
- Climate & Nature
Six Climate Organisations Launch Joint Infographic on Corporate Decarbonisation Path
Six international organisations — VCMI, ICVCM, We Mean Business Coalition, CDP, Science Based Targets initiative, and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol — have jointly published an animation and infographic …
- Disclosure Analytics
EFRAG and GRI release interoperability index linking ESRS and GRI standards
EFRAG and GRI renewed their cooperation and released a GRI-ESRS Interoperability Index mapping disclosure requirements to eliminate double reporting for entities using both frameworks. Indian companie…
- Standards & Frameworks
IFRS Foundation and ISO reaffirm collaboration on sustainability standards
The IFRS Foundation and ISO reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate following the ISSB's release of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, aligning ISO 14000 environmental standards with the new disclosure framework. …
- Sustainable Finance
IEEFA Urges Australia to Include Scope 3 Emissions in Mandatory Sustainability Disclosures
IEEFA has submitted recommendations to the Australian Treasury's Sustainable Finance Strategy consultation, calling for mandatory sustainability disclosures that include Scope 3 and influenced emissio…
- Climate & Nature
Fluence India Commercial Head Builds Battery Storage Pipeline Across Indian Market
Rupam Raja serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Fluence India, leading market development for the Fluence joint venture with a focus on front-of-meter and behind-the-meter energy storage applications…
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM and VCMI Leaders Call for Scaled Carbon Market Finance at COP28
Annette Nazareth of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) and Rachel Kyte of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) have jointly called for deeper decarbonisa…
- Climate & Nature
Indonesia's $100 Billion JETP Investment Plan Needs Clearer Priorities and Transparency
Indonesia has released its Comprehensive Investment and Policy Plan under the US$20 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership, identifying hundreds of billions of dollars in prospective investments b…
- Standards & Frameworks
GHG Protocol Opens Technical Working Group Applications for Standards Update
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol issued a simultaneous call for expressions of interest to join its Technical Working Groups, the bodies that will develop the technical content of updated GHG accounting st…
- Climate & Nature
South Korea Expands LNG Infrastructure Despite 17% Demand Decline Forecast by 2036
South Korea is accelerating the construction of LNG import terminals and storage facilities in response to post-Ukraine energy security concerns, even as national climate targets project a 17% fall in…
- Climate & Nature
South Korea Risks $8.7 Billion LNG Overinvestment Amid Declining Gas Demand
A new IEEFA report finds South Korea is investing ₩11.3 trillion in LNG import and storage infrastructure at high risk of overinvestment, as eleven new terminal projects proceed despite the country al…
- Sustainable Finance
VCMI and ICVCM Call on Companies to Decarbonise and Use Quality Credits
Ahead of COP28, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative issued a joint statement calling on businesses to urgently cut emissions and…
- Sustainable Finance
COP28 Must Address Trillion-Dollar Climate Finance Gap for Developing Nations
As global leaders convene at COP28 in Dubai, the UN's first global stocktake confirms current greenhouse gas emissions are incompatible with Paris Agreement pathways, while developing and least-develo…
- Climate & Nature
S&P Global warns up to 4.4% of world GDP at risk
S&P Global Ratings found that up to 4.4% of world GDP could be lost annually by 2050 without adaptation if warming exceeds 2°C, with South Asia facing the highest exposure at around 12% of GDP. The fi…
- Climate & Nature
Bloomberg integrates UNEP FI framework to assess company SDG impact
Bloomberg launched a tool using the UNEP Finance Initiative Sector Impact Map to assess company impact on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals across 50,000 public companies. As SDG-aligned investing …
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM and VCMI Seek Partners for Indigenous Peoples Carbon Market Engagement Forum
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative are seeking expressions of interest from partner organisations to co-host a new IPs and LCs …
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM and VCMI Launch Engagement Forum for Indigenous Carbon Market Voices
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative launched a call for board nominations for a new Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities VCM …
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Opens Nominations for IPs and LCs VCM Engagement Forum Governing Board
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has opened a public nomination process for the Governing Board of the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities VCM Engagement Forum, with applicat…
- ESG Movers
Maersk signs first major green methanol offtake deal with Goldwind
Maersk signed the shipping industry's first major green methanol supply agreement with China's Goldwind, sourcing wind-powered bio-methanol and e-methanol from a 2026 facility. The deal signals maturi…
- Climate & Nature
Amazon achieves 100% recyclable delivery packaging across Europe
Amazon announced it achieved 100% recyclable delivery packaging in Europe, avoiding over one billion single-use plastic delivery bags since 2019. As packaging waste regulation tightens, Indian e-comme…
- Climate & Nature
Indonesia's JETP Advances but Captive Coal Plants Remain Outside Investment Plan
Indonesia's Just Energy Transition Partnership Comprehensive Investment and Policy Plan, launched in November 2023, covers only on-grid power plants, leaving approximately 20 gigawatts of planned off-…
- Standards & Frameworks
EU Parliament urges ending all fossil fuel subsidies globally by 2025
The European Parliament approved its COP28 position calling for an end to all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies globally by 2025 and tripling renewable energy by 2030. The push intensifies glo…
- Climate & Nature
KEPCO Faces Death Spiral Risk as Fossil Fuel Losses and Debt Mount
South Korea's state-owned Korea Electric Power Corporation recorded its highest-ever operating loss of US$24 billion in financial year 2022 and faces a bond maturity wall of US$39 billion between 2024…
- ESG Movers
Gulfstream completes first trans-Atlantic flight on 100% sustainable aviation fuel
Gulfstream completed the first trans-Atlantic flight powered entirely by sustainable aviation fuel on November 19, flying a G600 from Savannah to Farnborough in under seven hours. The milestone advanc…