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Today’s ESG Updates Paris and Berlin Move to Soften the 2035 Car Emissions Target: A provisional Franco-German deal would hold carmakers to a 90% cut without the extra measures the Commission wanted, and could bring Britain inside the bloc’s local-content rules. Grid Bottlenecks Leave Britain Paying to Switch Wind Farms Off:The operator spent £47.9 million
Running political parties and election campaigns costs money. Lots of it. In 2024–25, Australian political parties took in approximately A$490 million. Of this, around A$347 million came from private and other non-government sources, including party members, unions, businesses and other donors. Big donors are ever more frequent. This year, One Nation made headlines after associates
Once understood, One Health ought to be one of the most attractive, essential, and shared causes in modern philanthropy. It is global, interdisciplinary, scientifically compelling, urgent, and potentially transformational. It sits directly at the intersection of global health security, food systems, biodiversity, climate resilience, animal health, and environmental protection. It could be crucial in preventing
“High hazard potential” sounds like a diagnosis. It is not. FEMA defines the term precisely, and the definition has nothing to do with a dam’s current condition. A structure earns the label if its failure or mis-operation would probably cause loss of human life. That is the entire criterion, and FEMA’s own guidelines make the
Today’s ESG Updates SSE Raises A$1bn in Debut Australian Green Bond Issuance: The bonds were very well received, as they were oversubscribed 2.5 times Rio Tinto Secures Renewable-Power Pathway for Tomago Smelter: The smelter secured a PPA until 2038, with 100% renewable electricity from 2033 and a A$1.1bn investment. Form Energy Secures $750 Million to
Ghana recently petitioned the African Union (AU) to formally address the resurgence of xenophobic violence in South Africa because the issue has ceased to be merely a domestic security concern. Other African governments, including Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Kenya, have warned their citizens or assisted nationals in South Africa to be cautious as the attacks
Today’s ESG Updates China Unveils Sustainability Standards: China’s Asset Management Association introduced new sustainability reporting guidelines requiring dedicated ESG teams. Nigeria Launches Africa’s First ESG Guide: The NECA unveiled an ESG Implementation Guide for MSMEs to prepare Nigerian businesses for mandatory sustainability reporting starting in 2030. EU Announces Revised Sustainability Reporting Standards: The European Commission
A study by Penguin Watch at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University has discovered a significant change in the breeding season of Antarctic penguins which, as the study authors note, “increases inter-species competition, causing trophic and temporal mismatch, and reshaping community assemblages.” The study, conducted over a decade and published on World Penguin
Today’s ESG Updates FedEx Launches Reusable Packaging: New reusable packaging for B2B shipping can last 50 cycles, cut costs 30%, and reduce emissions up to 88%. EV Adoption in Australia: Replacing 1 million petrol cars with EVs could cut foreign fuel use by over 1 billion litres annually. Trafigura & Minerven Gold Deal: The partnership
Artificial Intelligence (AI) consumes a lot of energy. But how much exactly? What makes the answer both intriguing and complex is that the carbon footprint of a data center depends heavily on where it is located. Studies estimate that data centers around the world could have produced up to 80 million tons of CO₂ in
The latest International Energy Agency (IEA) annual report on electricity forecasted that by 2030, 50% of global electricity will come from low-emission sources — renewables and nuclear combined. The renewable energy sources include hydropower, wind, and solar. Despite this positive trend, coal and gas remain the most popular sources of electricity, and they will continue
Books are a part of everyday life for many people. You might be a bookworm who devours books every day, a student who has to read them to learn new information, or a parent reading stories to your children. Books bring us pleasure and knowledge, they answer our questions and often prompt new ones. Yet