The Prime Minister and Chancellor believe that now is the time to unlock the hundreds of billions of pounds sitting in UK institutional investors and help drive the UK’s green recovery from the pandemic.
They say money makes the world go round. With COP26 on the horizon, that well-known saying has added currency. But how will the UK’s financial sector be playing its part? Gina V Hall, the Carbon Trust’s Investment Director and Global Head of Sustainable Finance, investigates…
DHL announces order of first-ever all electric cargo planes from global manufacturer Eviation.
This week marked the cut-off date for the submission of new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to be included in a UNFCCC synthesis report that will be issued later this year, ahead of COP26.
NatWest Group has completed £9.5 billion worth of climate and sustainable funding in the first half of 2021, exceeding its target of £20 billion in 2020-2021 six months early.
Seneca ESG led Team Stoics in the third Eagle Alpha Data Hackathon in May 2021. As more corporations and funds commit to a net-zero economy and investment strategies, the Eagle Alpha Data Hackathon posed the challenge of how investors may get reliable ESG ratings free of greenwashing, social washing and huge gaps in governance reporting.
A new report from MSCI tracks quarterly progress toward global climate goals.
Financial markets are increasingly turning their attention towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), as sustainability efforts become a top priority among regulators, asset owners, investors and companies alike.
Natural resources companies are prominent constituents of the FTSE UK Index, resulting in a relatively high carbon emissions and carbon reserves intensity score for the index. At the same time, the UK index has a fairly high ESG rating overall, with very few stocks averaging a higher ESG rating and low carbon emissions intensity at the same time.
A significant new initiative will focus on improving the integrity of voluntary carbon markets to help ensure they play a credible role in keeping global warming to 1.5C.
EDF, through EDF Group subsidiary DREEV, has launched a new commercial charging service using vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology in the UK, in partnership with Nissan.
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. In 2021, it falls on Thursday July 29.
Just five per cent of private rented households have received government help to fund energy efficiency measures despite having the greatest need.
By the end of the decade, Mercedes-Benz has announced plans to go all electric, where market conditions allow.
The UK Government has announced that 8 companies have been shortlisted to receive a share of £15 million to develop first-of-a-kind production plants across the UK that will turn waste into jet fuel.
Cross-party think tank Demos has teamed up with WWF, National Grid, and ScottishPower to ask people across the UK to consider how we should get on track to reach net zero carbon emissions over this decade.