UN General Assembly and Climate Week Kick Off in New York
Today’s ESG Updates NYC Climate Week Hits Record Scale: Over 1,000 events and big investments expected despite policy headwinds from ...
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South Korea’s President Warns Companies Will Be ‘Hesitant’ to Invest in the U.S.
Today’s ESG Updates South Korea Cautions Investment in U.S. After Hyundai Raid: Following an ICE raid detaining over 300 Korean ...
Google Faces Massive Fines Over Privacy and Cookies
Today’s ESG Updates Google Faces $804M in Fines for Global Privacy Breaches: A U.S. jury and France's data regulator fined ...
Trump Administration’s Climate Report Rejected By Over 85 Scientists
Today’s ESG Updates Global Scientists Slam U.S. Climate Report as Misleading: Over 85 climate experts have denounced a U.S. Department ...
Historic Amazon Raid Nets 94 Arrests, But Defenders Still Under Attack
A growing wave of violence and environmental crime is endangering Indigenous defenders and biodiversity in the Amazon Basin, as recent ...
Brazil’s Carbon Credit Schemes Linked to Illegal Logging
A recent Reuters investigation has found that many conservation projects in Brazil, designed to protect the Amazon rainforest through carbon ...
Rising Climate Risks, Rising Grocery Bills
Today’s ESG Updates Climate Change Drives Global Food Price Surge: Since 2022, flash floods, droughts, and heatwaves have led to ...
Solar Power Breaks Records Across Europe
Today’s ESG Updates Solar Tops Fossil Fuels in EU Power Mix: Solar reached 22.1% of EU electricity in June, outpacing ...
196 Environmental Defenders Were Killed Globally in 2023
According to a Global Witness report published this month, 196 environmental defenders were murdered in 2023 around the world while ...
ICLEI World Congress 2024: Key Achievements
Organized by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and hosted by the City of São Paulo, the ICLEI World Congress ...
Brazil and France to Invest €1 Billion in the Amazon Rainforest
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled this week a collaborative plan to invest ...
Microsoft’s New Investment in Carbon Removal: A Landmark Deal to Eliminate 1.5 Million Tons of Carbon
Microsoft has announced a major new investment in Brazil's voluntary carbon market — part of the tech giant's biggest nature-based ...
