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Today’s ESG Updates Bolsonaro Creates Uncertainty Over Carbon Market Plans: Industry representatives express concern over market volatility and capital flight over Presidential Candidate Bolsonaro’s potential climate plans. Bolsonaro pledges to keep much of President Lula’s policies, but his Senate track record suggests otherwise. Democrats Bring to Light White House Official’s Connections to Oil Company: A
Key Pointers EPA locks in 2027 HFC supply at 60% of baseline: National caps of 229.5 million MTEVe (production) and 181.5 million MTEVe (consumption) set the refrigerant budget for 2027 under the AIM Act phase-down. Compliance pressure ramps up on importers: EPA withheld and revoked 2027 allowances from entities that missed audits or imported HFCs
Today’s ESG Updates Diesel Claimants Denied Appeal Route but Vow to Press On: A London judge has refused to let 1.6 million motorists challenge the July judgment that went the carmakers’ way, so their lawyers will take the request straight to the Court of Appeal. Brussels Sets Common Pollution Standards for Pig and Poultry Farms:Shared
Today’s ESG Updates World’s Biggest Penguin Colony Loses Two-Thirds of Its Chinstraps: Zavodovski Island in Antarctica has lost two-thirds of its chinstrap penguins since 2011, a study found. Scientists blame warmer seas that have pushed krill south and say the species may need endangered status. Kingspan Penalised €40 Million by EU Over Incorrect Trimo Deal
Once understood, One Health ought to be one of the most attractive, essential, and shared causes in modern philanthropy. It is global, interdisciplinary, scientifically compelling, urgent, and potentially transformational. It sits directly at the intersection of global health security, food systems, biodiversity, climate resilience, animal health, and environmental protection. It could be crucial in preventing
Whenever I visit my grandparents, my Brazilian grandfather is constantly making me eat. He fills my plate (and my stomach) with yucca, homemade pizzas, freshly made salads, and my personal favorite, pão de queijo, or Brazilian cheese bread. I can’t walk out the door without a case of coconut water or a couple of puzzles
Today’s ESG Updates Australia’s Highest Court Rejects Coal Mine Extension Over Climate Impact: The judges backed a community group’s challenge to the Mount Pleasant extension, saying the state planning body should have weighed ways to curb the mine’s emissions, nearly all of which occur abroad when its coal is burned. Spanish Town Loses Safe Tap
Yemen is often described through the vocabulary of war: conflict, displacement, hunger, poverty, collapsed institutions and humanitarian need. Increasingly, however, another reality must be placed at the center of the country’s future. Yemen is a climate-vulnerability crisis as much as it is a conflict crisis. The distinction matters because climate change is not an abstract
New York Climate Week this year was ripe with abundant roadmaps, pledges, and sustainability commitments. These are important milestones, yet as the dust settles, a simple truth remains: the infrastructure needed to turn this climate ambition into implementation remains chronically underfunded — from grid and power infrastructure to thermal heat technologies. This funding gap is
Today’s ESG Updates Tory Plan to Axe Future Homes Standard Draws Warnings: Think tank E3G says scrapping low-carbon heating rules for new builds would add about £1,000 a year to running costs for a three-bed home. Bangkok Floods Expose the Limits of a Sinking, Over-Concreted City: Around 300mm of rain in two days overwhelmed the
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Conquest, War, Famine, and Death — were originally symbolic figures in the Book of Revelation, meant to warn early Christian communities of cascading catastrophe. Today, the horsemen ride again, from our own ingenuity, from laboratories, reactors, data centers, and carbon-producing coal mines, cars, and the like. In the
Today’s ESG Updates Google and Apple’s Verification Nightmare: Facing an enormous number of lawsuits, tech companies have begun lobbying for influence in how age-verification laws are being written. Companies aim to stop private lawsuits by passing responsibility for prosecution to state Attorneys General. Driven by ‘privacy’ claims and First Amendment infringement for minors. Russia Latches