ESG News Week In Review: 05 April – 12 April
In this week’s ESGEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to...
JPMorgan Signs 85,000 Ton Forest-Based Carbon Removal Deal
Climate solutions provider Anew Climate and U.S. forestry-focused carbon removal platform Aurora Sustainable Lands announced a new agreement with JPMorganChase for the purchase of...
Microsoft Pauses Carbon Removal Purchases: Reports
Microsoft has indicated to carbon credit suppliers that it is pausing its carbon removal purchases, according to reports by media outlets including Bloomberg and...
Impact VC Investor Eka Raises $107 Million for Fund Targeting Consumer Health, Decarbonization Solutions
UK-based impact-focused venture capital investor Eka Ventures announced today that has raised £80 million (USD$107 million) in commitments at the final close of its...
ESG Today: Week in Review
This week in ESGEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to...
JPMorgan buys 60,000 metric tons of biomass-based carbon removals
ESGEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments....
Thrive Market launches initiative to cut carbon, plastic footprint of over 1,000 brands
ESGEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments....
Standard Chartered Appoints Nalini Tarakeshwar as Global Head of Standard Chartered Foundation
UK-based international banking group Standard Chartered announced the appointment of Nalini Tarakeshwar as its new Global Head of the Standard Chartered Foundation and Corporate...
Canada Launches Council to Develop Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
Canadian climate-focused investor initiative Business Future Pathways (BFP) announced the appointment by an independent committee of the new Taxonomy and Transition Planning Council, assembled...
Brazil–China Supply Chain Accounts for Quarter of Global Deforestation Exposure
Brazil–China agricultural trade, valued at $47 billion annually, drives 25% of global deforestation risk linked to commodity supply chains 52% of Brazil’s agricultural exports...