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Verizon Innovative Learning Reaches 8.5 Million Students, Adds 34 Schools for 2025–2026 School Year

3BL Media

Only half (55%) of students 1 preparing to enter the workforce say they have the skills necessary to be successful in todays digital economy, making the mission of Verizon Innovative Learning - addressing barriers to digital inclusion - as imperative as it was 12 years ago when the initiative was launched. million students.

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Workiva: What Businesses Need to Know About CSRD Omnibus Proposals

3BL Media

This proposal does not introduce any other material changes and would need to be adopted first to provide legal certainty for companies who are currently due to prepare CSRD-aligned annual reports for their 2025 financial years that will be published in early 2026. Whats not changing in the CSRD Omnibus package?

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Off-grid solar is redefining energy in Africa 

Corporate Knights

In Kenya , off-grid solar is fuelling the continents mobile banking revolution, enabling people to power their phones and participate in the digital economy. The International Energy Agency estimates that Africa needs at least US $190 billion annually from 2026 to 2030 to meet its energy and climate goals.

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Data Center Developer Equinix Issues $1.2 Billion of Green Bonds

ESG Today

Data center and digital infrastructure company Equinix announced today that it has issued €1.15 According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), data centers consumed 460TWh in 2022, with this figure projected to possibly double by 2026. billion (USD$1.21 billion total issuance to date, the company said.

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Closing the Digital Divide: T-Mobile Takes Action for Digital Equity

3BL Media

Originally published in T-Mobile's 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report Today, digital connectivity is inextricably linked to the personal, economic, and social vitality of people and communities everywhere. who are disproportionately affected by the digital divide. who are disproportionately affected by the digital divide.

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Terabase Raises $130 Million for Robotics Technology to Scale Deployment of Solar Power Plants

ESG Today

Terbase said that the new capital will support the manufacturing scale-up of its robotics-assisted assembly line, Terafab, which is set to deploy hundreds of megawatts of solar through 2026. Terabases innovative approach to digitalizing and automating solar power plant deployment positions it as a leader in this transition.

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Digital Transformation is Key to CFOs’ CSRD Compliance

Chris Hall

However, starting in 2026, these new standards will also impact US companies that are publicly traded in the EU. CRSD will, in essence, require impacted companies to start collecting and assuring the accuracy of additional, detailed, standardised ESG data – so they digitally tag and report that data by 2025.