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A Morgan Stanley survey of 900 institutional investors finds 66 per cent include responsible AI in their sustainable investing strategies. Of those focused on AI, 61 per cent prioritise board oversight, ethical AI policies and cybersecurity controls.
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More than four in five institutional investors expect to increase allocations to sustainable investments over the next two years, the same Morgan Stanley survey finds, though expected growth has moderated from last year. Growth opportunities and risk materiality are the main drivers.
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The International Sustainability Standards Board voted unanimously to require companies using both its rules and SASB industry standards to follow its general reporting mandates, Bloomberg Tax reports. About 40 countries, including Canada and the UK, are weighing mandatory ISSB reporting.
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Clarity AI has launched a Transition Credibility Assessment scoring companies on emissions, technology, disclosure, targets, strategy, green capex and governance. Strong disclosure alone earns a Medium rating, and a High rating needs every sector performance criterion met.
Read more at ESG News →The European Commission proposed a European Climate Resilience Law on 27 October, setting a common reference trajectory of 1.5°C of warming by 2030, 2°C by 2050 and 3°C by 2100, Environment Analyst reports. The ISSB is also seeking input on nature disclosure.
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Salesforce will buy 500,000 methane reduction credits from Mitti Labs by 2030 under a five year deal, each backed by field evidence and satellite verified dry downs. Mitti Labs projects the climate smart rice partnership will save 700 billion litres of water.
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HASI closed a $34 million senior secured term loan for Terradot's enhanced rock weathering projects in the US and Brazil, backed by fixed price offtake deals with buyer coalition Frontier. CFC provides carbon delivery insurance, arranged through Marsh.
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India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme covers 748 plants in eight sectors, including 255 iron and steel plants with draft targets, ORF reports. The top 10 districts hold over a third of covered emissions, mostly in mineral rich eastern states, which could pool clean power demand.
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The Green Climate Fund approved $140 million for Climate Fund Managers' Climate Investor Three, with $84 million for the SA H2 Fund and $56 million for SDG Namibia One. CI3 is raising towards a $1.2 billion target.
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Iberdrola Finanzas has priced a US$1.6 billion dual tranche green bond for renewable projects, guaranteed by the parent. An $800 million tranche matures in November 2029 at 5.40 per cent and another in November 2033 at 5.85 per cent.
Read more at theglobeandmail.com →Ministers from six nations say only a sliver of climate finance reaches the smallholder farmers on the front lines of ecological preservation, edie reports. They blame debt, high interest rates and complex procedures for choking off funds needed for biodiversity targets.
Read more at edie →The APEC Business Advisory Council Hong Kong, China, launched Mobilising Capital for Nature, a roadmap on nature finance and carbon market connectivity across APEC, with Standard Chartered as lead author and GFANZ and HKEX as knowledge partners.
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With COP31 in Turkey looming, Carbon Brief asks experts what China will push for. At COP30 China helped secure a dialogue on unilateral trade measures and a two year climate finance work programme, and co led a methane summit with Brazil and the UK.
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Climate Home News argues COP reform is under way behind the headlines, two years after a COP29 open letter from 22 scientists and politicians, including a former UN secretary general, said the talks were no longer fit for purpose.
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edie analysis finds less than half the money divested from fossil fuels by key international partnerships is being reinvested in clean energy. The COP31 Presidency is targeting building efficiency as talks approach.
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Climate Home News argues that tens of billions pledged for just energy transitions in the Global South mostly fund infrastructure, such as closing coal plants or adding renewables. Without money for social protection and participation, worker and community support is unlikely.
Read more at Climate Home News →Nepal's Foreign Minister Shirish Khanal told the National Climate Summit 2026 in Kathmandu that the country will bring its priorities to COP31, led by climate induced loss and damage in the Himalayas, climate finance and climate justice.
Read more at millenniumpost.in →Tenioye Majekodunmi, Director General of Nigeria's National Council on Climate Change, told a pre COP31 press conference in Abuja that the country is moving from pledges to implementation to attract climate finance, green investment and jobs.
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WRAP modelling finds a transformational shift to repair, reuse and rental could create 550,000 extra UK circular economy jobs by 2035 and more than £93 billion in additional gross value added, after five years of largely stagnant jobs.
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Volkswagen has opened its first industrial dismantling line at its Zwickau plant in Germany, with 100 employees retrained to run it from 2027. The plant's future vehicle production is uncertain as the group plans around 50,000 fewer positions by 2030.
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A study in Cleaner Engineering and Technology applied a DEMATEL ANP method to a sugar, paper, spirit and cement ecosystem. Demand and supply risk ranked highest externally, infrastructure risk internally, and buyer supplier contracts were the best mitigation.
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A study by NACEJ and the Centre for Financial Accountability finds electricity from Delhi's waste to energy incinerators produces more carbon emissions than almost any other source in India. Hyderabad activists say Telangana should rethink its Siddapur facility.
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Trellis reports carpet maker Interface ended its Fair Works pilot when customers would not risk performance, then used the lessons to build Net Works. The piece argues teams should set exit terms before a pilot starts.
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Alphabet reported $127.6 billion in third quarter revenue, up 25 per cent, as Google Cloud more than doubled to $30.7 billion on AI demand, CarbonCredits reports. More data centres and electricity use make Google's climate goals harder, and the stock fell 10 per cent.
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Analysis first published by Bloomberg finds US data centres are set to emit about 618 million more tonnes of CO2 by 2030 than in 2025, a 42 per cent rise driven by fossil powered AI infrastructure. That could offset 15 years of power sector cuts.
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Union Minister Pralhad Joshi inaugurated the Solar Energy Corporation of India's new corporate office at the World Trade Centre in Nauroji Nagar, New Delhi, as SECI completes 15 years of running India's renewable energy programmes.
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DuPont commits to cut absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions 83 per cent and Scope 3 emissions 63 per cent by 2035, and to reach net zero by 2050. By 2025 it had already cut Scope 1 and 2 by 76 per cent and Scope 3 by 59 per cent.
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Seattle area startup Group14 Technologies has raised $169 million and will build a factory in Spain, adding to sites in Washington state and South Korea. Its silicon carbon material replaces graphite in lithium ion battery anodes for higher energy density.
Read more at GeekWire →Singapore Airlines has agreed to buy sustainable aviation fuel from Aether Fuels, made from waste carbon feedstock at a new plant in Singapore. Aether, founded in 2022, makes liquid fuels for aviation and shipping.
Read more at ESG Today →Analysis by CREA's Lauri Myllyvirta for Carbon Brief finds China's 2026 exports of solar panels, batteries and EVs are on track to cut emissions abroad by 2 per cent. Their impact grew 26 per cent year on year in the first three quarters.
Read more at Carbon Brief →Singapore and Malaysia have set up their first joint working group on cross border renewable energy certificates, to build confidence in regional clean electricity trading and support corporate sustainability reporting, Kiripost reports.
Read more at kiripost.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.
Climate, materials and circular-economy research that landed recently. Preprints say so on the card. Findings stay where the source put them.
Researchers from CUSAT and SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, find significant differences between gut bacteria of Parkinson’s patients and those of healthy individuals. Study in Keralam sheds light on link between gut bacteria, Parkinson’s disease
For instance, even though birds and mammals comprise less than 1 per cent of animal biodiversity, they dominate both conservation and research efforts, find two studies. Taxonomic ‘chauvinism’ rife in ecological literature
Scratch, scratch… and then you hit the exact spot. Aah, yes! We have all had that satisfying moment when a stubborn itch finally disappears under our fingernails. But why does scratching an itch feel so good, and sometimes even feel pleasurable?
The findings of new research reinforce a long-standing idea in genetics that there is no single ‘personality gene’, the dataset the researchers used also directly challenged older theories that attempted to link traits to particular brain chemicals
In a preprint paper uploaded to the arXiv repository in July 2025, Marathon scientists had predicted this process could produce roughly 2 tonnes of gold annually for every gigawatt (GW) of thermal fusion power
Vultures spend half as long on carcasses at an open dump site than at dog-free enclosures, the scientists observed. Feral dogs ‘a major threat’ to vultures in Thar desert, study finds
A new study measured how different neighbouring languages were from one another. The authors say that linguistic hotspots may offer glimpses into how human languages became more varied before large migrations and population movements reshaped much of the world
The ISRO chief said that the upcoming Kulasekarapattinam spaceport facility will feature crucial infrastructure such as integration buildings, launch pads, rail-track systems, telemetry, tracking, and command systems. ISRO to have four launch pads by 2029, says Narayanan