Yesterday (June 4 2015), the world’s biggest furniture dealer IKEA announced that it plans to spend 1 billion Euros ($1.13 billion) on renewable energy projects and strategies to assist poor countries to manage climate change. Chief Executive Peter Agnefjall was adamant that prices at their...
Last Friday May 29 2015, the heads of BP, Shell, BG Group, Statoil, Eni and Total wrote a joint letter to UN Climate Chief Christina Figueres. Aware of the critical challenge that climate change presents for the world, they wanted her to know that they...
As part of Climate Finance Day (Friday 22 May 2015) the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has produced a ten point action plan for businesses on how to finance the low carbon transition in collaboration with leading finance sector experts as part of...
International business leaders are bracing themselves for an incomplete agreement at the UN Climate Summit in Paris this December, and are calling for agreement on carbon pricing, tighter collaboration between business and Government with respect to climate policies and a joint public and private sector...
A group of investors that have assets totalling $25 Trillion has revealed their roadmap for tackling climate change. The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change in Europe, the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk in the US, the Investors Group on Climate Change in Australia...
As part of what it says is part of its “moral responsibility”, the Church of England has divested 12 Million British Pounds (approximately AUD$23.3 Million) from tar sands oil and thermal coal related projects. Head of Responsible Investment Edward Mason stated that the divestment policy...
Microsoft has announced the results of the first three years of internal carbon pricing and a related carbon investment fund, and they are impressive. The pricing commenced in July 2012 following Microsoft’s decision to adopt a carbon neutral strategy for its global data centres, offices,...
