Paris, 2 October 2025 — French utility EDF has successfully raised €1.25 billion (US$1.35 billion) through a green hybrid bond, with proceeds earmarked for extending the operating life of its domestic nuclear reactors. The issue, structured to comply with EU taxonomy rules, underscores France’s reliance on nuclear power as a cornerstone of its energy transition […]
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Atlanta, 2 October 2025 — U.S. electric vehicle maker Rivian has broken ground on a $1 billion manufacturing facility in Georgia, a project set to anchor production of its next-generation R2 sport utility vehicle and R3 crossover from 2028. The plant, spanning nearly 2,000 acres across Jasper, Morgan, Newton, and Walton Counties, is expected to […]
Continue ReadingOn 1 October 2025, European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra and Turkish Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Murat Kurum met in Brussels for the third EU-Türkiye High-Level Dialogue on climate, in the presence of the Turkish Deputy Ministers for Trade and for the Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change. The […]
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Hong Kong, 2 October 2025 — The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has issued HK$240 billion (US$31 billion) in sovereign green bonds since 2019, making it one of Asia’s largest government-led green financing platforms. According to the newly released Green Bond Report 2025, proceeds have been allocated to 116 projects spanning wastewater treatment, hospital expansions, […]
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Dublin, 2 October 2025 — Ireland has reached a landmark in its transition to cleaner transport, with 196,000 electric vehicles (EVs) now registered nationwide, surpassing the Climate Action Plan (CAP) target of 195,000 EVs set for the end of 2025. Announcing the achievement, Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien described it as proof that “when the […]
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Paris, 30 September 2025 — French energy giant TotalEnergies (NYSE:TTE) has announced plans to divest all of its renewable power assets outside Europe, the United States, and Brazil, a move that could see the company sell its $8 billion Indian portfolio, one of its largest international clean energy holdings. The company’s Indian operations, developed largely […]
Continue ReadingArchimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” At CSRHub, our new ESG Lever tool helps the 60,000 entities we track build a better, more sustainable world.
Continue ReadingThe European Commission and EUROCONTROL have launched NEATS – the Non-CO2 Aviation Effects Tracking System – a new IT tool for monitoring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) the non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation. Developed under the Cooperation Agreement between EUROCONTROL and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), the first version of NEATS is […]
Continue ReadingMégane Déziel, Université du Québec à Montréal, discusses her article: Resolving the Effects of Functional Traits on Tree Growth Rates: The Influence of Temporal Dynamics and Divergent Strategies by Leaf Habit Functional ecology has long assumed that variation in tree growth reflects differences in functional traits, which serve as proxies for resource acquisition and investment […]
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to reclaim more than $13 billion in unobligated funds that had been set aside under the previous administration to support wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles, a move the department said will return the money to taxpayers; President Trump this week dismissed climate change as “the greatest con […]
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