Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Lead author Olivia St-Laurent explains why she and her co-authors of the new article advocate for a novel approach to environmental tree planting, benefitting people and nature by prioritizing biodiversity conservation. Everywhere, governments are making commitments to stop or slow the loss of local biological diversity and to restore degraded ecosystems. In megadiverse Australia, endemic […]

The editor’s choice for our January issue is “The ecological implications of interplant drought cuing” by Omer Falik et al. Here, Associate Editor Peter Bellingham discusses the importance of this research:  The importance of interplant communication is a rapidly growing area of research and is becoming more widely appreciated.  Interplant communication through networks of hyphae of […]

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s decarbonization projects include carbon capture, electrification, new CO2 absorption technology and enhanced investments in hydrogen and renewables ADNOC invites global technology and industry leaders to work in partnership and drive real action to embrace the energy transition The company aims to reduce carbon intensity by 25% by 2030 on […]

The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) announced that Albert Gore took over as Executive Director effective January 3, 2023. Gore joins ZETA after seven years at Tesla, most recently as the Lead for Public Policy and Business Development in the Eastern and Midwestern United States—having previously been Deputy Director of Policy and Electricity Markets at SolarCity prior […]

Carmignac has hired Newton Investment Management’s Lloyd McAllister as its new head of sustainable investment. McAllister worked at Netwon for four years, most recently as head of ESG research. Prior to Netwon, he was at KPMG for over eight years. His appointment comes as Sandra Crowl, Carmignac’s stewardship director, seeks to retire at the end […]

Dr Robert Hawkes, RSPB Conservation Scientist, explains the findings of a recently published article. Here, RSPB and BTO scientists, in partnership with Natural England, explore how much bird-friendly agri-environment management is needed to stabilise or reverse farmland bird declines. The UK government has recently committed to halting species abundance declines in England by 2030, with […]

Climate Impact Partners, a leading carbon finance organization with more than 20 years’ experience in the voluntary carbon market, announced Sheri Hickok has been appointed Chief Executive Officer starting at the beginning of 2023.  Sheri succeeds Vaughan Lindsay who led the organization for the past four years and guided it through the merger of Natural Capital Partners and Climate […]

The world’s leading recruiter PageGroup. which operates globally as Michael Page, Page Personnel, Page Executive and Page Outsourcing, has signed an £80 million sustainability Club Deal facility led by BBVA. The new financing will support PageGroup to pursue a twofold objective: to fight climate change and contribute to gender equality. BBVA has been mandated as sole sustainability coordinator in […]

Maersk signed the Land Grant Contract with the administrative committee of Lin-gang new area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone in late December 2022. This marks the official landing of Maersk’s first green and smart flagship logistics centre in China. With a total investment of 174 million US dollars, the project is expected to start […]

Hong Kong has committed to a five-fold increase in green bond issuance in the next five years Investors have shown strong demand for previous issuances Hong Kong has sold US$7.2 billion in sovereign green bonds across different currencies since 2019 Hong Kong aims to raise up to the equivalent of $5 billion in a dollar, […]