Virtual Launch for the Cordaid Co-investment Project in West Africa The USAID-funded West Africa Trade & Investment Hub Activity, in partnership with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), launched its co-investment partnership with Stichting Cordaid, managed by Cordaid Investment…
Criminal Gangs Are Cashing In On Humanity’s Plastic Crap
Gangsters aren’t in it for the environment. They’re in it for the money. Imagine for a moment the world of organized crime in Southeast Asia, and you may picture meth labs, human-trafficking rings, or the billion-dollar trade in endangered…
Swiss Re announces ambitious climate targets including phase-out of coal by 2040
Swiss Re today has announced new measures to support the transition to a net-zero economy, encompassing both asset management and underwriting as well as its own operations. The Swiss Re Group, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, has announced ambitious…
Fast-Track Energy Transitions to Win the Race to Zero
Press Release: World Energy Transitions Outlook outlines global strategies towards carbon-neutrality and leads way to a climate-safe 1.5°C pathway by 2050 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 16 March 2021 – Proven technologies for a net-zero energy system already largely exist today, finds…
International Aluminium Institute releases global aluminium industry 2050 climate pathways
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has published the most comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions reductions pathways available to the aluminium sector over the next three decades. The pathways are based on the IAI’s unrivalled data and leading analysis of the global…