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The California Air Resources Board (CARB), the regulator charged with developing and enforcing the state’s new corporate climate reporting regulations, released a new notification indicating that it plans to delay the deadline for companies’ first mandatory emissions disclosures to November 10, from the current August deadline. According to CARB, the delayed deadline is aimed at giving […]

Guest post by: Emma Miller, Senior Director for Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem As the U.S. water sector faces the challenges of aging infrastructure, worsening drought, contamination, and millions lacking clean water, an urgent need has emerged for a dedicated financing solution. The standard instrument used for funding environmental projects — green bonds — […]

DHL Global Forwarding announced a new agreement with wind-powered maritime transport company VELA to offer a transatlantic cargo shipping service using wind-powered ships, enabling emissions reductions of up to 99% compared to air freight and up to 90% compared to conventional sea freight. Founded in 2023, France-based VELA develops and operates wind-powered cargo vessels for […]

Zurich-based Carbon removal solutions provider Climeworks announced that its carbon dioxide removal (CDR) portfolio service, Climeworks Solutions, has signed 14 new carbon removal deals in the first half of 2026, totaling 450,000 tons of CDR across a range of technologies. Founded in 2009 by Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Zurich-based Climeworks provides companies with carbon […]

Microsoft revealed a series of water-related sustainability milestones, including announcing that it became “water positive” in 2025, replenishing more water than it withdrew across its global operations for the year. The achievement comes several years ahead of its 2030 goal, set by the company in 2020. The announcement comes as tech companies are coming under […]

Tesla, residential clean energy provider Sunrun and Google-backed home energy management company Renew Home announced a new partnership to aggregate millions of home energy devices to form the largest distributed power plant in the U.S., capable of delivering more than 16 GW of flexible energy capacity to hyperscalers and utilities. The framework is aimed at […]

French energy giant TotalEnergies must identify and disclose measures to address climate risks resulting from Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the use of its oil and gas products, according to a new ruling by the Paris Judicial Court. The order gives the company six months to update its legally mandated vigilance plan to […]

Canadian hydrogen fuel cell developer Ballard announced the acquisition of green hydrogen solutions provider GeoPura, with the transaction aimed at establishing Ballard as an integrated hydrogen ecosystem provider, according to the company. The deal values GeoPura at an enterprise value of £301 million (USD$397 million), with the potential for additional £27.5 million in contingent consideration […]

Carbon credit ratings agency BeZero Carbon announced the acquisition of AI-powered climate data startup Cedar, with the transaction aimed at advancing the due diligence capabilities of BeZero’s carbon markets platform. Founded in 2025 by Farouq Ghandour, Piotr Kosiński and Raphaël Haupt, New York-based Cedar provides solutions to automate complex sustainability tasks such as carbon accounting, […]

Mirova, the sustainable investment-focused arm of Natixis Investment Managers (Natixis IM), announced today the appointment of Léa Dunand-Chatellet as its new CEO, succeeding the firm’s outgoing CEO Philippe Zaouati. Mirova was launched as a subsidiary of Natixis Investment Management in 2014, with a focus on sustainable and impact investing. The firm is a conviction-based investment […]