A new report has found that UK’s power emissions are falling faster than anywhere else in the world. According to Drax Electric Insight Report, the UK’s move towards renewable energy generation has helped drive a faster rate of decarbonisation over the last decade than anywhere else in the world. The report found that Britain experienced […]
Ahead of the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2020 taking place in Paris on the 10 March, we caught up with Véronique Menou, Executive Director and Head of ESG Indexes EMEA at MSCI, to discuss how investors can address climate change in portfolio construction strategies. Q. What are the key drivers for investors to address climate […]
Energy Impact Partners are proud to present our first ever 2018 portfolio-wide carbon and water inventories, revealing the positive environmental impacts of EIP’s investments. EIP recognizes that changes to the earth’s climate system caused by greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) pose an existential threat to human society. Human-caused climate change is already contributing to increasingly severe weather […]
The CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos has announced that he will invest $10 billion into the climate crisis. Jeff Bezos has revealed that he will be investing $10 billion into the climate crisis with a new Bezos Earth Fund. The fund will begin issuing grants this summer. Jeff Bezos took to Instagram to announce the […]
Heathrow announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030 to support the UK’s net zero target. Heathrow has announced plans to become carbon neutral, for its infrastructure, and to target zero carbon by the mid-2030s. Following investment of over £100 million in improving Heathrow’s energy efficiency and generating and purchasing renewable energy, Heathrow has reduced […]
Dear readers, Last week, more than 2,800 leaders from around the world were brought together by the World Economic Forum in Davos. The theme – “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World” – gave a clear sign that sustainability has now made it firmly to the center of the debates among world leaders in this […]
The Danish government has agreed to provide $19 million in funds for two large-scale hydrogen projects under development on the Jutland peninsula. The two projects will produce green hydrogen for the transport sector from renewables sources. Denmark’s largest energy company, Ørsted, has also announced plans for an ambitious 2 MW electrolysis plant with appurtenant hydrogen […]
The Co-op has announced a new commitment to only use 100% recyclable packaging for its own brand products. The Co-op has banned black plastic packaging from all its products and by the summer of 2020 it will have phased out all non-recyclable plastics and replaced them with those that can be reused or easily recycled. This follows, the Co-op’s […]