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ESG News regarding Middle East tensions disrupting gas flows, hitting Indian industries, ferries in major European ports emitting more sulphur than cars, Russia’s central bank challenging EU asset freeze, citing procedural violations and legal rights, and BlackRock and EQT acquiring AES.

Business

India Cuts Industrial Gas Supplies Amid Middle East LNG Disruption

March 3, 2026

Today’s ESG Updates India Cuts Gas Supplies After Qatar Halt: Industrial deliveries fall 10–30% as Petronet, GAIL, and IOC plan ...

ESG News regarding AI data center protests in the UK, Apple lawsuit, African soldiers for Russia, and Iran US war

Business

UK Activists Plan Nationwide Protests Over AI Data Centres

byPuja Doshi

February 27, 2026

Today’s ESG Updates Local Communities Oppose Green Belt Developments: Environmental groups are launching two days of coordinated protests across the ...

Politics & Foreign Affairs

Farewell to Soft Power

byMichele Gimondo, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan

February 26, 2026

The Caribbean and the Arctic seem to have little in common. The same cannot be said of Venezuela and Greenland, ...

Engie UK Power Networks acquisition and power grid infrastructure

Business

Engie Acquires UK Power Networks in $14B Deal to Boost Grid and Decarbonization

byJana Deghidy

February 26, 2026

Today’s ESG Updates Engie Expands UK Power Grid Presence with $14B Acquisition: French utility Engie announces the purchase of UK ...

ESG News regarding AI datacenters fueling U.S.-led gas power boom, Lukoil selling foreign holdings, England and Wales households paying more for water bills, and Trafigura investing $1 billion in African carbon removal projects.

Business

AI Datacenters Fuel U.S.-Led Gas Power Boom

byAnastasiia Barmotina

January 30, 2026

Today’s ESG Updates U.S.-Led Gas Boom Threatens Climate: Global Energy Monitor reports 2026 could see record new gas plants, many ...

ESG News regarding a powerful snowstorm leaving more than 400,000 U.S. customers without power, the Doomsday Clock being set to 85 seconds to midnight, Kazakhstan losing more than 40 million barrels of crude exports, and many Europeans brands labelling their plastic as recycled when it comes from fossil fuels.

Business

Massive Snowstorm Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Without Power Across U.S.

byAnastasiia Barmotina

January 28, 2026

Today’s ESG Updates Winter Storm Cuts Power to Over 400,000: A severe storm hit much of the U.S., causing over ...

ESG News regarding Trump backing sanctions on Russian oil buyers, Norway’s oil and gas output declining, dog food linked to UK emissions, Trump climate treaty exit facing legal scrutiny

Business

U.S. Targets Russian Oil Buyers with New Sanctions Bill

byAnastasiia Barmotina

January 9, 2026

Today’s ESG Updates Trump Backs Sanctions on Russian Oil Buyers: A bipartisan U.S. bill would impose tariffs of up to ...

Politics & Foreign Affairs

Unexpected Consequences of Investment Treaties in Times of War

byInternational Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

December 11, 2025

Russian state entities are threatening to use the 1989 Belgium-Luxembourg (BLEU)–USSR bilateral investment treaty (BIT) to sue Belgium over the ...

ESG news regarding the US-China Trade Agreement, Australia’s new environmental protection bill, Lukoil selling international assets to a Swiss firm, and truckmakers asking the European Commission to ease carbon emissions rules

Business

The United States and China Reach Trade Agreement

bySarah Perras

October 30, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates New Trade Deal Between Trump and Xi Jinping Pauses Trade War: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese ...

Two Russian MiG31 flying in front of one another.

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NATO Members Triggering Article 4: Eastern Sentry Next Steps

byImpakter Editorial Board

September 22, 2025

Recent days have seen a dramatic escalation of tensions on NATO's eastern flank, with two member states invoking Article 4 ...

ESG news regarding icebreaker ships in the Arctic, cattle fat as fuel alternative, Aston Martin’s ESG excellence, and Australia’s $6 billion climate investment

Business

The Race for the Arctic

bySarah Perras

September 16, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Geopolitical Tensions Rise as Icebreaker Race Accelerates: Melting Arctic ice has triggered global competition for resources and ...