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Today’s ESG Updates Trump Administration Revives Bid to Halt Revolution Wind: The justice department asks a court to send the 704MW Rhode Island wind farm’s approval back for reconsideration, weeks after the White House signalled a softer stance on wind. Trump’s Coal Push Wins Policy, Not Yet a Revival: Direct access to the White House
Countries whose peacefulness outruns their institutional strength are more likely to see violence rise, according to the Positive Peace Report 2026, released by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP). Of the 30 countries with the largest deficits in 2009, 25 deteriorated in internal peace by 2024. All 16 countries with the largest deficits deteriorated.
In the energy world, we like to pretend everyone’s equally guilty. The story often goes that “we’re all in this together,” that rising emissions are a planetary accident driven by anonymous billions rather than a few specific lifestyles and infrastructures. If we look only at total CO₂ emissions from energy, we see world emissions climbed
Today’s ESG Updates Trump-Putin Deal Unites Europe and UK: Officials across the UK and the EU have reaffirmed their commitments to Ukraine amid Trump’s recent deal with Russia. Finance Earth and FSD Africa Launch First-Ever Africa Nature Impact Fund: The fund aims to raise $100 million to finance early-stage nature and nature-based carbon projects. French
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
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often described through models, applications, and computing capacity. Behind all of them is a physical infrastructure that has to be manufactured, installed, powered, maintained, and eventually replaced. The data center hardware lifecycle therefore extends well beyond the period when a server is processing workloads. Physical components do not necessarily become unusable
Today’s ESG Updates EU to Introduce Limits on Vehicle Imports From China: Following an official meeting in Beijing, a newly confirmed plan for a hybrid vehicle import cap would halve China’s market share to just 3%. Saudi Arabia Aims to Disconnect From the Strait of Hormuz: State-controlled Aramco is now studying two new crude export
Today’s ESG Updates McDonald’s AI Pricing Software Antitrust Worries: McDonald’s is facing potential antitrust scrutiny over a larger industry trend of using AI to set prices. UK Heat Pump Subsidies Cut in Defense Spending Bid: Ministers will be removing heat pump subsidies and cutting back on energy & net zero department spending to make space
Much of Aaron Sorkin’s new film “The Social Reckoning“ takes place in server rooms, where the algorithmic machinery that has shaped the last decade of human life is developed, maintained, and overseen. Sorkin’s focus is on “Meaningful Social Interactions,” or MSI, a ranking system that weights comments and reshares dozens of times — more heavily
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) is putting demand at the centre of its UK geothermal conference on October 13. The day’s big question: who will actually buy the heat and power that geothermal projects can produce. Possible customers range from data centres and farms to heat networks, factories and cooling systems, and the REA wants
Today’s ESG Update Brazil’s Biodiesel Push Gains Momentum: Firms are testing higher biodiesel blends as simpler rules, climate obligations, and diesel-supply risks make domestic biofuels a more attractive option. Diesel Crunch Deepens as IEA Urges Further Stock Releases: Disrupted exports and constrained shipping are tightening diesel supplies, raising the risk of higher costs across transport,
Today’s ESG Updates Bolsonaro Creates Uncertainty Over Carbon Market Plans: Industry representatives express concern over market volatility and capital flight over Presidential Candidate Bolsonaro’s potential climate plans. Democrats Bring to Light White House Official’s Connections to Oil Company: A former White House energy official, now working for an offshore oil company, has been singled out