In December 2020, BlackRock, the world’s biggest manager of money ($7trillion and counting) issued an update to its approach to engaging with corporations. Crucially, BlackRock indicated it will be more…

After nearly a century of listing on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Exxon Mobil was removed from the index. There is now only one oil company listed on the index…

A consortium of 20 UK universities just announced a GBP 50 million collaborative clean energy deal to power their institutions over the next decade. The deal purchases energy from wind farms across Scotland…

New Zealand’s Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, recently announced details of the nation’s first “Wellbeing Budget”: this national budget includes investment and success measures to pursue issues including mental health, child poverty, indegenous rights,…

A new UN report asserts that the world is on the brink of a “Climate Apartheid” where the rich will use their wealth to escape the consequences of climate change,…

A survey of over 2,000 UK employees, taken by culture and behavioural change consultancy Kin&Co, found that 35% of employees want their employer to take action against climate change. The research…

The Bank of England has written an open letter as a call-to-action to the financial community to intervene on climate change. The letter outlines the likelihood that companies and industries that…

With a mission to scale carbon capture methods, a group of Finnish businesses has partnered with global financial solutions firm South Pole and Swedish bank SEB to create a marketplace…

Hitachi recently declared that it would suspend working on its 15 billion pound nuclear power project in North Wales after an agreement over the costs couldn’t be struck. They will…

Cyclone Idai created inland oceans and left cities across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi with more than 750 dead. Mozambique’s former first lady said that Beira “will go down in history…

A paper released by Chinese and international climate experts in the Nature Communications journal shows China stands a chance of meeting its commitments to the Paris Accord. The development of its…

More than 400 investors managing over $32 trillion in assets from around the world have signed the 2018 Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change (GISGCC).  The statement, released…