The business case for corporate social impact January 30, 2024 | Sponsored What it takes to sustain a business over time has radically changed. No longer is it enough to deliver value to customers and turn a profit. Now, companies need to ensure their impact on people and the planet is positive if they want to attract talent, be a top consumer choice, and access funds from [...]
Diversified Energy rises on opening but concerns over well clean-up bill grow January 30, 2024 Diversified energy shares continue slide as oil assets clean-up bill grows
Mark Carney backed climate tech company raises £11m in series A January 30, 2024 Climate tech company Cultivo has raised $14m (£11m) in a series A funding round co-led by Massmutual Ventures and Octopus Energy Generation.
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BP faces City pressure to ditch £24bn clean energy investments for shareholders January 29, 2024 BP has been told to cut $28bn in clean energy funding by a leading activist investor
Electric dreams to pricing nightmares for lithium? January 29, 2024 The electrification era is still very young, busts like lithium are commonplace
Number of SMEs ‘going green’ has doubled – but it hasn’t been easy January 29, 2024 The number of UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have “gone green” doubled last year, research shared exclusively with Morning Wire has found, but it wasn’t an easy feat. Some 489,000 UK businesses have formally committed to reaching “sustainability” by the government’s net zero 2050 deadlines, up from 220,000 at the beginning of 2023, [...]
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Are The Fortune 500 Afraid Of The Dark? Metrikus Is Back With Dark January To Get Companies To Go #LightsOut January 25, 2024 | Sponsored It definitely feels like that when you look up at the skyline of Canada well after office hours. All these towering skyscrapers are lit up with absolutely no one in. And while the legend of the occasional graduate banker burning the midnight oil and napping in sleep pods may well be the [...]
ESG Backlash: Investors are pulling more cash from sustainable funds than they’re putting in January 25, 2024 Sustainable funds saw their first net redemptions ever in the last quarter of 2023, according to a report from Morningstar, as further questions are asked over the value of ‘ESG’. Environmental, social and governance- focused funds experienced $2.5bn (£1.96bn) of outflows, as US investors pulled a record $5bn from sustainable funds, while European investors still [...]