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London-based AI and genomics startup Biographica has raised £7 million (US$9.4 million) in a Seed funding round to accelerate its creation of climate-resilient, productive and nutritious crops using a…
8 Jan 2026
HSBC has appointed Chaoni Huang as Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance and Transition for its Asia business, as the bank advances its Net Zero Transition Plan and approaches $448 billion…
5 Jan 2026
On December 17, 2025, WBCSD released Financial Quantification guidance requiring counterfactual cash-flow modelling and IRR/NPV analysis to value sustainability initiatives. Indian CFOs can use the me…
2 Jan 2026
Kartikeya Singh serves as Director of Network Leadership at the Growald Climate Fund, bringing expertise in climate policy developed across government, research, and intergovernmental organisations wo…
1 Jan 2026
Carbon Tracker's December 17, 2025 report assessed 38 oil and gas firms in Australia, Canada and the UK, finding most fail to disclose Asset Retirement Obligation costs and schedules. The transparency…
31 Dec 2025
The Royal Government of Bhutan released its Carbon Markets Framework 2025, operationalising Paris Agreement Article 6 with Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes and corresponding adjustments…
27 Dec 2025
The European Securities and Markets Authority released a December 2025 risk analysis of its guidelines on ESG and sustainability terms in fund names, which require at least 80% of holdings to meet env…
24 Dec 2025
The Principles for Responsible Investment published an analysis warning that US companies are increasingly suing shareholders to block proposals rather than using the SEC's no-action process. The tren…
23 Dec 2025
Approximately 64% of funds with ESG or sustainability-related terms in their names changed those names ahead of a May 2025 compliance deadline for new EU fund naming guidelines, with 61% of funds that…
22 Dec 2025
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism transitions to its definitive phase on January 1, 2026, requiring authorized declarants to surrender CBAM certificates covering embedded emissions in import…
19 Dec 2025
Climate Policy Initiative has released the Brazil Climate Finance Reform Compass, a structured assessment mapping the country's progress and gaps across eight climate finance themes. The tool is desig…
18 Dec 2025
The OECD and Asian Development Bank's Government at a Glance: Southeast Asia 2025 report, released December 11, 2025, calls for stronger public institutions as regional debt rose to 58% of GDP in 2023…
17 Dec 2025
Nuclear technology startup Radiant has raised more than $300 million in a new funding round to scale its commercialisation efforts and begin construction of its first factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, …
17 Dec 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has confirmed Puro.Earth as the eighth program to achieve CCP-Eligible status, applying to version 4.2 of the Puro.Earth standard only. The Finlan…
11 Dec 2025
The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority issued Policy Statement PS25/25 on December 3 2025, replacing SS3/19 with new supervisory expectations on climate-related risk management for UK b…
10 Dec 2025
Analysis around the UNFCCC's 2025 Yearbook shows India reached its NDC target of 50 percent non-fossil installed electricity capacity years ahead of 2030 while recording the largest absolute rise in t…
8 Dec 2025
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials released an expanded Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard on December 2 2025, adding four new financed-emissions and two insurance methodologie…
8 Dec 2025
The 2025 Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review found that all 37 jurisdictions assessed strengthened their climate policies since 2020, with formal rollbacks in only the United States. For corpo…
5 Dec 2025
As of October 31 2025, non-fossil fuel sources reached 259,423 MW or 51.37% of India's 505,023 MW installed electricity capacity, exceeding fossil fuels five years ahead of the 2030 NDC target. The mi…
5 Dec 2025
A new impact report from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market documents that credits meeting Core Carbon Principles (CCP) standards now command a price premium averaging up to 25 perc…
5 Dec 2025
Environmental commodities trading firm STX Group has launched STX Climate Tech, a digital platform enabling companies to centralise the procurement, tracking and retirement of Energy Attribute Certifi…
4 Dec 2025
Eleven governments publicly endorsed shared principles for high-integrity carbon market use at COP30 in Belém, signalling a significant step toward global alignment on voluntary carbon market standard…
24 Nov 2025
Germany committed €1 billion (about $1.15 billion) over ten years to Brazil's Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a rules-based mechanism paying countries for intact forest cover and fining deforestatio…
23 Nov 2025
The UNDP introduced its seven-module High-Integrity Carbon Markets Toolkit on November 18 2025 to help nations build market systems, social safeguards and governance for credible carbon markets. The g…
22 Nov 2025
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