Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Author Dominic McAfee talks us through his and colleagues’ recently published research article which experimented with the use of home-made speakers to boost oyster recruitment at sites throughout Australia. We’ve all, at one time or another, used music as a band aid. Perhaps to mend a broken heart, or to help us through challenging times. […]

For anyone who missed it, here’s a summary of our latest Journal Club discussion, held earlier this week on Twitter! The featured paper was ‘The shape of trees: Reimagining forest ecology in three dimensions with remote sensing‘ by Emily Lines and Tommaso Jucker et al., which is part of the Grime Reviews series ‘What can […]

The transaction is the Bank’s 2nd green bond issued in 2023 across all currencies Tiaju Life Insurance Company, a leading Japanese insurer, was the sole investor Proceeds will finance eligible green projects, including forestry conservation projects, aimed at supporting the transition to green growth in Africa in accordance with the AfDB Green Bond Framework The […]

With Project Solar Power Bank 2000 you can power your devices anytime, anywhere with the portable, long-lasting battery storage that’s also can be combined with portable solar panels. The Power Bank 2000 is made to stand the test of time with Grade A Lithium Iron Phosphate Cells, which are so efficient only losing less than […]

The appointment of Martin Burdekin as Group Sustainability Director – a new role within the business – reinforces Cedo’s commitment of embedding sustainability within its business strategy The company recycles over 80,000 tons of plastic each year to make the next generation of refuse sacks from fully recycled materials Cedo, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers […]

By signing the Charter the authorities made it clear that they want to cooperate, mobilise resources and develop activities to reach their climate adaptation goals. Of the 301 authorities, 284 come from 25 EU countries, with 17 more parties from non-EU countries that are associated or potentially associated with Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme. A […]

Chris Thomas and colleagues describe their latest Perspective article outlining a new framework – Facilitate-Accept-Resist (FAR) – that operationalizes conservation decision-making in a way that leads to greater adoption of positive biodiversity change. Conservation is in a bind. The biological world is changing, and so are our human priorities. When we declare a nature reserve […]

TotalEnergies is developing its renewable activities in Poland by acquiring the country’s main biogas producer, Polska Grupa Biogazowa (PGB), and a 200-megawatt (MW) development pipeline of solar projects.  Poland, Europe’s Fourth-Largest Biogas Potential With 130 employees in nine Polish regions, PGB is mainly involved in generating renewable heat and power from biogas sourced from organic […]

The study comes as Berlin works on a climate adaptation strategy Costs include loss of agricultural yields, damage or destruction due to heavy rain and flooding, impairment of goods transportation and impact on the health system Climate change-driven extreme weather events have already cost Germany at least 145 billion euros between 2000 and 2021 Extreme […]

€21 billion will be focused on renewables, with €4 billion on electricity networks Renewables deployment to increase to 4.5 GW per year, totaling 18 GW in gross additions by 2026 EDP reiterated its commitment to be coal free by 2025, 100% renewables generation by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2040 EDP is scaling up […]