Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Celebrated Finance and Investment Banking Leader Joins All-Star Leadership Team  Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, a groundbreaking Wall Street leader and long-time ethical investing advocate, has been named President of Known Holdings, a finance company that manages assets, while deploying, structuring and shifting capital to fuel the next economy and close the racial wealth gap.  Red-Horse Mohl is […]

First tranche of 25-year co-financing loan of €600 million to back Greece’s national contribution in the 2021–2027 Partnership Agreement between the EU and Greece Total EIB support will reach €1 billion. Operations will help Greek authorities roll out priority investments including energy and water management, education and health services The European Investment Bank (EIB) and […]

The strategies leverage the firm’s experience in deploying capital to target regional opportunities in transforming agriculture and food value chains Sustainable Food in Asia strategy made a $173 million first close Sustainable Food in Latam strategy made a $101 million first close responsAbility Investments AG is pleased to announce the closings of its second private […]

BNP Paribas has already made a major pivot towards financing low-carbon energy production. Building on expertise developed by its Low-Carbon Transition Group, BNP Paribas is embarking on a new phase designed to rapidly accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. This new phase is set to last until 2030, by which time BNP Paribas […]

Liam Trethowan discusses his recent article: Plant species biogeographic origin shapes their current and future distribution on the world’s highest island mountain. Find out more about how they used herbarium specimens to investigate species presence under current and future temperatures. Tropical mountains are host to some of the highest densities of plant species on earth, […]

(Seychelles News Agency) – The primary source of plastic debris washing up on the shores of Seychelles’ beaches primarily originate from Indonesia, followed by India and Sri Lanka, a new study by the University of Oxford shows. Called ‘Sources of marine debris for Seychelles and other remote islands in the western Indian Ocean’, the study […]

Innovative farmers are adopting agro-ecological approaches to producing beef which they believe are better for biodiversity and soils. Lisa Norton (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and colleagues investigated the validity of these claims by comparing their grassland to those across the wider countryside surveyed as part of the national GB Countryside Survey.  Public concerns […]

Received orders from over 300,000 investors for over Euro 10 billion, compared to Euro 1 billion initially offered The strong demand enabled Eni to close the offer in advance in just five days Gross annual nominal interest rate set at 4.30% Eni S.p.A. announces that the gross annual nominal interest rate of its first sustainability-linked […]

U.S. Bank announces the hire of Guillaume Mascotto as the company’s head of Sustainable Finance. In this new leadership role, Mascotto will build and lead a new team focused on identifying sustainable finance opportunities across the entire enterprise. Based in New York, Mascotto is part of the U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation (USBCDC) leadership team […]

Jan 2023 Week-3; WEF launches initiative to unlock $3 trillion for climate and nature; UNEP & S&P launch nature risk profile methodology; Fidelity pledges $250 million to support minority students; UN Chief urges “credible” net zero pledges or risk greenwashing; King Charles redirects £1 billion wind farm profits towards “public good”; NASA to invest $425 […]