LAPFF and CCLA press FTSE 100 holdouts for sixth year
One in five FTSE 100 companies now puts a transition plan to a shareholder vote; BP, Barclays and Lloyds are the notable absentees.
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SEC no-action pause pushes proxy fights to court
A Sustainable Brands essay argues that the SEC's no-action pause removes the predictability that once kept proxy fights out of court.
BeZero puts Microsoft's carbon-removal diligence on the record
Fourteen ex ante ratings show how a major corporate buyer vets credits before issuance.
Blue Earth's impact secondaries fund gives LPs an exit
A $200 million vehicle backed by the Walton family office puts a price on liquidity in impact investing.
Emirates NBD writes the rulebook for its $30 billion transition pledge
Emirates NBD now defines which hard-to-abate borrowers count toward its $30 billion mobilization target.
Microsoft's retreat shrinks the carbon-removal market it built
Microsoft cut its purchases by 80% through mid-July. Global carbon-removal credit sales fell 66% as the young market lost its anchor buyer.
Nuclea Energy to buy Moltex nuclear portfolio in cash deal
The all-cash purchase, subject to UK approval, would add Moltex's fuel recycling process and two reactor designs to Nuclea.
Morningstar finds no yield penalty in ESG income funds
Morningstar research shows ESG income funds delivered income without sacrificing sustainability, undercutting the trade-off argument.
CPP Investments adds a governance check to carbon footprint disclosures
Canada's largest pension fund now says which of its heavy emitters have begun transition planning, and which have not.
ISSB moves off seed money with a five-year plan
The sustainability standards board adds a Geneva office and its own financing through 2031, while the SEC keeps an eye on the parent foundation's remit.
Transition finance puts a price on hard-to-abate steel
A 30-basis-point discount on Chinese steel debt is the first measurable evidence that transition finance is crossing into hard-to-abate industry. A green hydrogen fund and a biomass loan test the same question.
Blue Earth raises $200M for impact secondaries with Walton LP support
The $200M second close puts Walton family money behind an effort to build a secondary market for impact investments.
Enduring Planet closes first climate debt fund after $24.7M
Fifty-eight loans averaging near $426,000 put the demand side of small-ticket climate credit on the record.
World's largest fund asks if impact investments can hedge
Norges Bank's hedge question puts impact managers on notice to prove downside protection.
African Development Bank, Italian DFI back RMBV's third fund
A Cairo manager approaches a $300 million close for a North African consumer-access fund with two development-finance backers.
Climate Fund Managers raises $182 million for green hydrogen vehicle
A rand-denominated $182 million raise gives Southern Africa's hydrogen market a patient equity base and a test.
WovenEarth closes $155M fund-of-funds for early-stage cleantech
The Palo Alto firm's second cleantech fund-of-funds spreads LP capital across the earliest, riskiest layer of climate tech.
SSE's debut Kangaroo green bond raises about $708m
A two-tranche sale, 2.5 times subscribed, lifts SSE's outstanding green debt to about $8 billion.
Britain's wind curtailment bill tops £1bn as grid lags behind
The operator is paying turbines to stop and gas plants to start, and the tab is heading toward £10 billion a year.
Japan's disclosure lesson: the CARB extension is a runway, not a reprieve
The CARB extension lasts three months. Japan's TCFD experience shows why voluntary reports won't satisfy the rules that carry a $500,000 penalty.
China's steel heartland issued $7 billion in transition debt
Hebei's transition loans cost 30 basis points less than conventional steel debt — a small, measurable start for China's steel decarbonisation.
Nuclea Energy to acquire Moltex's nuclear fuel-recycling portfolio
An all-cash asset purchase would put Moltex's fuel-recycling and molten salt reactor patents in private hands, pending U.K. approval.
Emirates NBD's Bains: hard-to-abate sectors are the next test
Vijay Bains says financing existing high-emitting assets, not just green projects, will decide whether net-zero targets are met.
CEFC lends $100m to Australia's mid-scale renewables gap
A concessional-debt program of $100 million aims to prove that Australia's 'missing middle' of solar and battery projects can be financed.
BBVA's climate fund commitments pass €500m
A €15m EQT ticket brings the lender to eleven platforms and leaves Alterra as the untested relationship.
Form Energy pulls in $750 million to scale 100-hour iron-air batteries
Another T. Rowe Price-led round lifts total equity past $2 billion, putting multi-day storage on a firmer financial footing.
Lloyds sets £100bn sustainable and transition finance goal
The UK bank's 2027–2030 target counts transition lending for the first time and implies an annual pace about 41% above its recent average.
Reach Capital closes $265 million fifth fund for inclusive AI
Reach Capital's fifth fund backs startups at the intersection of learning, health, and work, as AI moves to the center of impact investing.
Investors move into South Africa's renewable rush
ImpactAlpha's Monday briefing finds just-transition openings in Africa's biggest economy as emerging-market energy capital grows.
Bank of America's $250B plan puts energy, minerals at transition's core
The lender's infrastructure program treats the energy and minerals beneath AI as transition finance, widening what counts as green.
Climate Fund Managers banks $182m for Southern Africa green hydrogen
Blended finance gets a $182 million test in green hydrogen's hardest market.
Form Energy's $750 million Series G backs 100-hour iron-air batteries
The round, led again by T. Rowe Price, pushes the company's equity past $2 billion and funds a West Virginia factory.
EU deforestation law collides with West Africa's untraceable cocoa
The EU wants cocoa traced to the plot. West Africa's cocoa trade is not built for that.
Canada pledges C$10 billion toward C$70 billion clean energy package
Federal support backs 14 GW of hydro and wind projects in Labrador.
Seven asset owners from five countries push back on SEC climate rollback
Seven pension funds and public trustees from five countries are urging the SEC not to rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rules.
All Aboard Coalition closes $133 million debut climate-tech fund
The collaborative's first fund lands at 44% of the $300 million it set out to mobilize.
CIP's growth-markets clean-energy fund closes at $3 billion
The final close is three times the size of the predecessor fund, with $1.6 billion already committed across nine investments.
FTSE 100 climate-vote campaign enters its sixth year
LAPFF and CCLA renew their push for shareholder votes on corporate climate plans; investors managing £3.1trn backed last year's effort.
CIP reaches financial close on first Mexican solar-plus-storage project
La Esperanza, a 420MW solar farm with 150MW of batteries, is CIP's first construction project in Mexico and an early commitment from its $3 billion growth-markets fund.
CIP reaches financial close on its first solar-plus-storage project in Mexico
A $510 million debt package, anchored by a CFE power agreement, backs La Esperanza Solar.
U.S. threatens EU action over sustainability rules
Washington says recent EU reforms leave American companies exposed to CSRD and CSDDD, raising the prospect of another transatlantic trade dispute.
La Caisse and Brookfield complete Boralex take-private
The Canadian pension and Brookfield close their $37.25-per-share bid; La Caisse ends up with roughly 30%.
U.S. warns EU sustainability rules still burden American commerce
Washington says the EU's Omnibus fix fell short, reopening a clash over extraterritorial reporting and the 2029 deadline.
Sonnedix closes €730m loan from nine banks for solar and storage
Nine banks lend Sonnedix €730m for solar and battery projects across Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France.
CIP closes $3B growth markets fund, half already invested
The final close nearly triples the predecessor vehicle, and $1.6 billion is already committed — evidence of institutional appetite for emerging-market energy infrastructure.
Citi widens its sustainable-finance rules with $650 billion already counted
A December framework change adding nuclear power, nature projects, and data-center loans makes the remaining $350 billion easier to book and harder to interpret.