After an EU greenwashing probe, Danone has committed to specify which parts of its water bottles are made from 100% recycled plastics and to refrain from misleading marketing claims, ESG Dive reports. Nestle and Coca-Cola had already revised their labels. The cap, it turns out, matters.
Read more at ESG Dive →The number of companies linked to greenwashing incidents rose 28% last year, with companies related to the energy transition making up a considerable portion, according to RepRisk data reported by ESG Dive. The sector selling the transition is also selling the most adjectives.
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Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust and Singapore Land were named global sector leaders among listed entities in GRESB's standing investments benchmark for the first time, in its annual report published on October 27. The benchmark assesses how well operating buildings are managed. Hongkong Land slipped.
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MIT's 2026 State of Supply Chain Sustainability report surveyed 1,810 professionals in 91 countries. 83% rate sustainability as important to long-term success, a seven-year high, and 59% say they have become more committed. Oversight is lagging and disruptions are blocking results. Commitment is the easy part.
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EcoVadis has picked Vertice as its first AI procurement orchestration partner, putting ESG ratings directly into purchasing workflows. Vertice covers more than 250,000 negotiated contracts across over 32,000 vendors, and EcoVadis rates more than 175,000 businesses in over 180 countries. Suppliers will now be graded before the invoice.
Read more at ESG Today →Safaricom's 15th Sustainable Business Report shows Scope 1 and 2 emissions rose in FY26, and solar power reached 2,028 sites against a 2030 target of 5,000. The company put its value to Kenyan society at KES 1.247 trillion. It also reported one work-related fatality.
Read more at Kenyan Wall Street →CDC Data Centres told an Australian parliamentary inquiry on AI that it reached net zero in FY26 across a boundary covering Scope 1, Scope 2 and selected Scope 3 emissions. It reported a PUE of 1.38 and says it has used closed-loop cooling since 2007.
Read more at w.media →An NBS survey of 336 construction professionals found 86% think robust specification matters for sustainable outcomes and 83% want more performance data from manufacturers. Only 53% measure and report sustainability on all or most projects, and 21% on very few or none. The full piece is for edie members.
Read more at edie →Canara HSBC Life Insurance received a Leader rating in NSE Sustainability Ratings and Analytics' FY2026 assessment, with an overall score of 71, including 79 for environment, 75 for governance and 63 for social. Its direct emissions and energy use were below industry averages, the assessment noted.
Read more at thecsruniverse.com →SBTi validation has been treated as a defining milestone for more than a decade, a commentary notes, and it signals alignment with climate science. But "a validated target is not evidence of decarbonisation." The real test is whether it changes investment, procurement and operations. The certificate does not cut emissions.
Read more at pressreleases.responsesource.com →A new Grant Thornton study finds risk management at most companies still sits in siloes and makes the case for integrating risk functions, especially cybersecurity, ESG Dive reports. Climate risk, presumably, waits in its own meeting room.
Read more at ESG Dive →Dental products maker Envista's 2025 Sustainability Report shows a 40% year-over-year cut in waste generation and a 19% reduction in water consumption. Its Envista Smile Project donated $2.4 million for dental care. The report also covers employee safety and governance.
Read more at TradingView →The Corporate Governance Triangle, a partnership of the NBA Section on Business Law, Nigerian Exchange Group and the Chartered Institute of Directors, called for stronger board accountability, more credible sustainability reporting and rules that keep pace with technology at its Lagos colloquium on October 22.
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A Sylvera report with the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market draws on 53 developers across reforestation, biochar, REDD+, cookstoves, regenerative agriculture and mangroves. It finds investment needs vary widely, and that financing costs and limited transparency weigh on project economics, especially nature-based ones.
Read more at CarbonCredits.com →Marsh and carbon developer Invert have placed the first reversal insurance policy under Verra's durability pilot, after a five-year partnership. The policy replaces buffer pools, the press release says, to unlock capital and scale carbon markets. Carbon that might escape now has cover.
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The San Antonio Food Bank has become one of the first Feeding America food banks to generate revenue from carbon credits for keeping edible food out of landfills. It builds on a retail grocery rescue programme that redistributes surplus food across South Texas.
Read more at ksat.com →Speakers at Carbon Forward London saw linking the EU and UK emissions trading systems as increasingly achievable, Fastmarkets reports, and said the EUA to UKA spread depends on when markets expect fungibility. The EEX December 2026 EUA contract settled at 85.42 euros per tonne.
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Iberdrola has raised $1.6 billion in a US green bond, its first direct issuance in the US since 2009. Proceeds will finance US electricity network assets, including transmission and renewable energy facilities. The company says it opens a new financing channel.
Read more at ESG Today →Masdar has raised $600 million in its debut blue bond, earmarked for maritime renewables including offshore wind. The five-year deal peaked at a $1.5 billion orderbook and was 2.5 times oversubscribed, lifting its bond programme to $3.35 billion since 2023.
Read more at ESG News →AirTrunk has secured an A$4.25 billion green loan from 32 lenders for its SYD3 campus in Western Sydney, due by mid-2028. Any margin savings will go to its social impact programme for local charities. The AI capacity, it seems, is green-financed.
Read more at ESG News →Abu Dhabi National Energy Company has raised $1.75 billion through a five-year green bond and a ten-year conventional bond, with orders above $6.2 billion. Strong demand let it price both tranches below initial guidance. $850 million goes to green projects.
Read more at solarquarter.com →First Abu Dhabi Bank has issued AED 1 billion of 5.75% digitally native green notes due 2029, the first from the Middle East and North Africa, Dentons says. They settled through Euroclear's distributed ledger infrastructure while keeping standard T+2 settlement. The blockchain, reassuringly, still takes two days.
Read more at legaldesire.com →Truck maker TRATON GROUP has issued its first green bond under its Green Finance Framework, advised by Clifford Chance. The 500 million euro issue carries a 3.875% coupon, matures in 2031 and is admitted to trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
Read more at cliffordchance.com →Resus Energy has dual listed its Rs 1 billion green bond on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and displayed it on the Luxembourg Green Exchange, the first non-financial Sri Lankan issuer there. The bond, first listed in Colombo in July 2025, was the country's first by a local energy company.
Read more at The Morning →Cinepolis has secured a $380 million, seven-year unsecured loan led by the IFC, with BBVA Mexico, Banamex, BanBajio and Scotiabank Mexico. The terms tie growth to goals including gender outcomes and more efficient cinemas. It is IFC's first such loan in Latin America's creative industries.
Read more at Devdiscourse →Google estimates its partnership with off-grid energy firm Ignite Energy Access enabled over 160,000 tCO2e in reductions in the first half of 2026, driven by 3.7 million solar devices delivered in sub-Saharan Africa since 2023. Google built routing and supply chain models for Ignite.
Read more at ESG News →India's climate finance debate is moving from how much money can be raised to whether that capital delivers measurable outcomes, Asianet Newsable argues. With a 2070 net-zero target, the next phase depends on whether investment creates jobs and strengthens industry.
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The UN's annual assessment of 154 countries' plans projects global emissions about 6% below 2019 levels by 2035, against 12% in last year's update, after the US exit from the Paris Agreement and weaker pledges. The IPCC says a 60% cut is needed to limit warming to 1.5C.
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The Commission's proposed Climate Resilience Law would have member states plan against warming of 1.5C by 2030, 2C by 2050 and 3C by 2100. Adapting Europe's infrastructure is expected to need about 70 billion euros a year. A resilience platform will host a hazard map.
Read more at ESG News →Analysis of the 40 countries and regions in the Clean Energy Transition Partnership shows continued cuts to overseas fossil fuel finance, by 80 per cent, BusinessGreen reports. Only 42 per cent of that money has been redirected to clean energy, it warns.
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E3G says COP31 must deliver a credible response to the growing risk of a significant 1.5C overshoot, show climate finance moving from commitments to implementation, particularly for developing countries, and live up to its billing as an implementation COP.
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Singapore has updated its SS 673 standard so that Scope 2 claims from renewable energy certificates must be tied to clean energy supplied directly to its power grid. Minister of State Gan Siow Huang announced it at the Asia Clean Energy Summit, to address greenwashing risks.
Read more at ESG Today →MNRE Secretary Santosh Kumar Sarangi says India will combine domestic funding, international capital and blended finance to reach 500 GW of renewables. Measures to cut developer risk include 25-year power purchase agreements, payment security mechanisms and agreements with states against payment defaults.
Read more at cnbctv18.com →Vietnam's Decree 396/2026 amends rules on registering accounts in the national registry for greenhouse gas emission quotas and carbon credits, specifying which agencies grant accounts to each group of entities. The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment is among them.
Read more at Vietnam.vn →The UK government is understood to be cutting money for heat pump subsidies in Wednesday's budget, The Guardian reports. Installer Bill Tuck of Sustain Homes says about 75% of his customers use the grants. "It's going to damage us as a company," he said.
Read more at The Guardian →Cutting the UK's 2030 EV sales target from 80% to 70% would add emissions greater than burning all the gas in the Jackdaw field, ECIU analysis finds. Slashing targets to 50% could add 147 megatonnes, 58% of the Rosebank field's lifetime emissions.
Read more at fleetworld.co.uk →Campaigners led by Chris Packham have asked the chancellor to cut the government's 24 billion pound support for carbon capture, which they call "fairytale" technology, in favour of schemes that cut emissions and bills. The planned spending exceeds that of the US, EU, Norway and Japan combined.
Read more at The Guardian →The contracted cost of Australia's pre-COP31 summit in Fiji and Tuvalu has reached about A$34.6 million, A$15 million more than the figure the government previously cited, a Senate committee heard. The A$20 million event management contract was only part of the total. Budgets, like warming, can overshoot.
Read more at fijitimes.com.fj →Western Australia has announced a 75 per cent renewable generation target for its South West Interconnected System by 2031, relying on major new wind projects and citing its ageing coal fleet. Business groups warn it will not cut power prices enough to protect manufacturing and minerals processing.
Read more at afr.com →The UK household energy price cap rose by 60 pounds in October to its highest in three years on high gas prices and could rise by as much as another quarter in January 2027, nearing 2,200 pounds a year, Carbon Brief explains, setting out options to lower bills.
Read more at Carbon Brief →Traffic has been removed from Oxford Street as London's pedestrianisation plan begins, BusinessGreen reports. Mayor Sadiq Khan called the transformation of the famous shopping street into a car-free road "a momentous occasion for the capital." Shoppers will now carry the bags all the way.
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COP31 in Antalya, from 9 to 20 November, has put the circular economy on its Action Agenda for the first time, Il Sole 24 Ore reports. Targets include a global recycling rate of at least 15% by 2035, up from 6.9%, and halving growth in municipal solid waste.
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Scotland's household recycling rate fell from 44.3% to 42.8% in 2025, SEPA figures show. Landfill fell a further 10.3% and is 84% below 2011, but incineration rose 49,000 tonnes, or 5.7%. The waste left the landfill and went to the furnace.
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Reuse service Dispatch Goods has opened an 18,000 square foot wash facility in the East Bay, three times its previous site, able to wash up to 240 million foodware items a year. It supplies reusable foodware to campuses, hospitals and universities in place of single-use items.
Read more at morningstar.com →A GAO report published October 16 sets out policy options for a US textile circular economy, from extended producer responsibility to tax credits, based on interviews with 49 stakeholders. It warns limited funding and domestic infrastructure could hamper nationwide collection and recycling.
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Renault Group has brought its circular economy after-sales offers under a single name, renative, covering remanufactured parts, reconditioned batteries, repaired electronics, re-refined oils and recycled accessories, with more than 2,000 part references. It says they are often more affordable. Old parts get a new brand.
Read more at renaultgroup.com →More than 1,000 food charities have urged the UK government to use the Autumn Budget to tackle policies that currently make it cheaper for businesses to waste food than to redistribute it, BusinessGreen reports. The bin, for now, is the cheaper option.
Read more at BusinessGreen →The Norway Philippines Circular Economy Conference in Makati on October 22 brought together 180 delegates to address the Philippines' severe waste challenges. It was co-organised by the Norwegian embassy, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Innovation Norway and a bilateral business council.
Read more at manilatimes.net →Kenya's Octavia Carbon captures carbon dioxide, M-Taka builds waste management tools and Mr. Green Africa collects and resells plastic, Il Sole 24 Ore reports. The African Development Bank says a sustainable transformation could unlock about $546 billion in opportunities and 11 million jobs by 2030.
Read more at en.ilsole24ore.com →Speakers at Vietnam's Autumn Economic Forum 2026 said byproducts from rice, coffee, fruit and seafood processing could become raw materials for food, cosmetics, energy and bio-based materials, cutting waste costs and adding revenue from the same source. Value from byproducts remains limited for now.
Read more at en.sggp.org.vn →Officials, businesses and experts met in Chisinau for Moldova's fourth National Circular Economy Conference on cutting waste, reusing resources and competitiveness. Circular principles remain relatively unfamiliar to the public, though businesses could lower operating costs, speakers said. Repair and reuse come before recycling.
Read more at moldova1.md →The Recycling Council of Alberta has given retired Cleanfarms executive director Barry Friesen its Rs of Excellence Circular Champion Recognition Award for long-standing work recovering and recycling agricultural products and materials in Canada. Farm plastic, it turns out, has champions.
Read more at Farms.com →Waste becomes raw material only when businesses can collect, process and return it to production, experts in Vietnam say. They suggest linking recycling technology with quality standards, market demand and collectors' rights, since plastic recycled abroad can stall if quality or import rules fall short.
Read more at Vietnam.vn →UNEP notes that an estimated 1.2 billion jobs depend on ecosystems, while biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. About half of Earth's forests have been lost over 50 years, and recorded wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds.
Read more at UNEP →Engineering services group SPIE says the circular economy is now a major challenge for businesses and has developed a structured approach. Jean-Jacques Bucher of SPIE France and Jurgen Meerkerk of SPIE Nederland explain how it departs from the linear model of take, make and dispose.
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Amazon and Tata Motors will put 3,000 electric trucks into Amazon's Indian transport network, moving shipments between facilities, across cities and along national freight corridors. It extends Amazon's fleet electrification beyond last-mile delivery. The first batch was flagged off in Delhi.
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JK Lakshmi Cement has deployed more than 70 electric vehicles on key logistics routes and plans 120 by March 2027. Clinker dispatches from its Sirohi plant in Rajasthan to its Kalol grinding unit in Gujarat are now nearly 100% electric. Cement, famously heavy, is now quieter.
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Investment firm Hg has acquired a majority stake in Belgium-based 3E, a renewable energy software and advisory provider, from India's ReNew and minority shareholders. Founded in 1999 as an IMEC spin-off, 3E runs SynaptiQ, which monitors solar, wind and battery assets. Management keeps a stake.
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China-based Sigenergy, which entered India in January 2026, plans a 40 GW facility, starting production of commercial and utility-scale systems by Q2 2027. A second phase would add 30 GW for battery storage and residential hybrid inverters, as India shifts focus towards storage.
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Bajel Projects has received letters of award worth Rs 1,500 crore from Lakadia A Power Transmission for EPC work on a Gujarat transmission system evacuating renewable power from Lakadia, Jam Khambaliya and Jamnagar. It is the company's highest-ever transmission order.
Read more at equitybulls.com →India's Hughes and Hughes Chem and South Korea's Anytech have formed Anytech Hughes Climate Solutions to help carbon-regulated Indian industries turn CO2 and plant waste into saleable products, starting with cement and steel. It pitches technology "built to pay for itself" instead of burying carbon.
Read more at energetica-india.net →IEEFA says Indian Oil is adding petrochemical capacity while global markets face oversupply, slow demand and weak margins. The segment makes up only about 3% of IOCL's revenue but gets a larger share of capital investment, and its profits depend on domestic demand.
Read more at ieefa.org →Octopus Energy has extended its Happy Hours offer through winter. Eligible customers who use less power during two one-hour weekday sessions get free electricity at the weekend, BusinessGreen reports. Saving energy has never been so transactional.
Read more at BusinessGreen →A new World Bank Group report says demand for off-grid solar is booming and the market could provide nearly 400 million people with power by 2030, if the right policies and investment are in place, BusinessGreen reports.
Read more at BusinessGreen →Ayala Land and Crown Asia Chemicals, known as Crown Pipes, signed a two-year memorandum on October 21 covering a PVC pipe cuttings take-back programme, ESG criteria for green vendors and renewable energy options for Crown facilities, to decarbonise the Philippine construction supply chain.
Read more at mindanaotimes.com.ph →Thai food company Betagro has announced a Scope 3 roadmap targeting a 25% cut in value chain emissions by 2035 on the way to net zero by 2050. It said several indicators under its BETAGRO Saijai concept had surpassed their 2026 targets.
Read more at minimeinsights.com →Shipping group MSC has received its first ESG Recognition from certification body DNV, based on independent evaluations of its certified management systems. MSC says its sustainability approach rests on logistics decarbonisation, protecting the blue planet, inclusive trade and social challenges.
Read more at indiashippingnews.com →India is pursuing carbon capture, utilisation and storage as a vital tool to reach net zero by 2070, especially for hard-to-abate steel, cement, oil and gas and chemicals, an official statement said. It said CCUS also strengthens industrial competitiveness and resource efficiency.
Read more at lokmattimes.com →Tenaga Nasional's strategic investment in its wholly owned London subsidiary Vantage RE will strengthen its overseas renewable diversification, HLIB Research says after a site visit. Vantage brings expertise in development, grid integration, financing and ESG to support TNB's growth in Malaysia.
Read more at klsescreener.com →ESG and climate roles checked today. Every listing links to the original posting. Reusable cup not required for the interview.
Climate weeks and ESG meetups coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Take the metro if you can.
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