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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

With sustainable investment, its the same story, Heaps says. That green investment is key to a more sustainable future, telling us where companies are going as opposed to where they currently derive their revenues. Sustainable capital expenditure is growing twice as fast as all other capex.

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Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley's recent climate commitments

GreenBiz

Building on previous commitments that increase green investments or restrict financing to certain high-emitting activities, recent pledges add to growing evidence that banks are taking a more holistic approach to the climate emergency.

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The nuclear option

Corporate Knights

Samuel Miller McDonald, a geographer and the author of a forthcoming book on the science and history of progress, steers a middle ground and warns against listening to commentators who make strident claims in one direction or the other. Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems?

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Discussing SDG Implementation in Turkey: Prof. Sachs visits Istanbul 

Sustainable Development Network

Professor Sachs delivered a speech on the SDGs and the economic and political relations of Turkey with neighboring countries pointing towards peace as a baseline condition for sustainable development and green investment. You can read some takeaways from an attending student here. Later on October 31, 2019, Prof.

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Take Five: Forest Fire

Chris Hall

But Europe is perhaps in a better place than certain other jurisdictions that are struggling to get similar rules on the statute books. With China nearing peak emissions, dominating solar power installation and accelerating EV and wind turbine production, a faltering in its green investment revolution would have far-reaching consequences.

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Study of EU 100 largest companies shows streamlining and precision needed for optimal EU Green Taxonomy

We Mean Business Coalition

Our analysis also shows that financial companies appear to overestimate the share of their loans and investments on their books that are covered by the Taxonomy. Estimation Models: Enhance estimation model descriptions, detailing the methodology, especially if relying on external data providers.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

ESG Book Launches Fund Sustainability Scoring Solution. Leapfrog Investments Appoints Julie Wallace as Head of Impact. Macquarie’s Green Investment Group Appoints Regional Leaders for Americas, APAC, EMEA. UK Commits to Net Zero Domestic Aviation and Airports by 2040. ESG Services and Tools. Exec Moves.