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Business

COP30: UNEP Launches New Initiative to Halve Food Waste by 2030

November 14, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates COP30: Food Waste Breakthrough: UNEP plans to reduce food waste by half, reduce hunger and cut 7% ...

Business

Australia’s Clean Energy Push Faces Setback for COP31

byJana Deghidy

November 13, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Australia-Turkey Standoff Puts COP31 Hosting at Risk: Australia’s plan to host next year’s climate summit is delayed ...

ESG News regarding global carbon emissions, Amazon claims AI will accelerate the clean-energy transition, Australia’s opposition party states it will drop the country’s net-zero target if elected, Portugal’s utility EDP focuses its clean-energy expansion in Southeast Asia

COP30

Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record High as Planet’s Natural Sinks Falter

byLena McDonough

November 13, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record High as Natural Sinks Weaken: The Global Carbon Project report intensifies the ...

Climate Change

Climate, Gates and COP30

byJosé Graziano da Silva - Former Director-General at FAO, Founder and Director of the Instituto Fome Zero, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Campinas

November 12, 2025

Bill Gates’ recent article on the “three tough truths” of the ongoing environmental changes makes an essential point: we must ...

Business

WBCSD and One Planet Network Launch Global Circularity Protocol at COP30

byAda Omar

November 12, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates COP30 Launch: First global circularity protocol for business aims to save 120bn tonnes of materials and avoid ...

ESG news regarding SBTi proposes flexible Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2 with new Scope-1/2/3 pathways and strict credit guardrails, COP30 in Belém during the UN climate summit, Simon Stiell addresses COP30 in Belém, warning governments to act on climate or face famine, conflict and inflation, Carbon Direct acquires Pachama to add AI and satellite MRV for forest-carbon projects

Business

SBTi Draft Plan Gives Companies More Ways to Reach Net Zero

byAda Omar

November 11, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates SBTi Proposes Net-Zero Standard V2: Multi-path targets across Scopes 1–3, tighter credit rules; consultation open until December ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called “the lungs of the world.” It produces oxygen and stores billions of tons of carbon every year. The Amazon rainforest covers more than 60% of the landmass of Peru. Photo Credit: USDA Forest Service / Diego Perez.

Biodiversity

Inside COP30

byInternational Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

November 10, 2025

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) is taking place in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21, 2025. ...

ESG news regarding U.S. absence from the COP30 climate summit, Europe’s role in the U.S. absence, new euro zone loan pricing, and countries suffering from global warming speak at COP30

Business

COP30 Without the U.S.

bySarah Perras

November 10, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Global Climate Talks Proceed Without U.S. Leadership: Lack of U.S. representatives at the UN’s COP30 talks in ...

COP30

From Caves to COP30: Comparing the Neanderthals and Modern Humans

byRichard Seifman - Former World Bank Senior Health Advisor and U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer

November 9, 2025

There is much positive to be said about life in this twenty-first century; we live longer and have multiple technologies ...

Biodiversity

COP30: Climate Extremes Are Already Impacting Food Yields Today

byThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

November 7, 2025

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), taking place in Belém, Brazil, brings together world leaders, scientists, non-governmental organizations, and ...

COP30

Historic $5 Billion TFFF Launch Is the Gamechanger Nature and Climate Need

byWWF

November 7, 2025

WWF congratulates Brazil and partners including Norway, Indonesia, Colombia and endorsing tropical forest countries for their visionary leadership in launching ...