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Deloitte Partners with Leading Academic Institutions for Enhanced Sustainability Training

Programs by MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, and most recently, Arizona State University combine with Deloitte’s own Learning and Development training to form a comprehensive suite of climate change and sustainability offerings for U.S. Deloitte professionals Deloitte announced expanded collaborations with renowned academic institutions, including MIT Sloan School of Management, NYU Stern Executive Education and Center for Sustainable Business, […]

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Malaika Mihambo and Panasonic Team Up to Promote Sustainability

Panasonic is collaborating with Olympian Malaika Mihambo in the lead-up to the Olympic Games Paris 2024. With mutual respect and determination for sustainability and social change, this partnership expresses the collective call for climate action using the shared passion for sports to draw attention to and educate wider sports’ enthusiasts. “I have been interested in […]

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Committee to review request to dename Winthrop House

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the University have jointly convened a committee to review a request to dename Winthrop House made by FAS affiliates last spring. The review comes two years after former Harvard President Larry Bacow shared the report from the Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming. That committee, chaired by President […]

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TranzactCard Announces Z-Club Travel, Bank Card Rewards Program

New Bank Card Program: Allows Members to Redeem “Dollar for Z-Bucks Dollar” Purchases in New Bank Card Rewards Marketplace TranzactCard, a leader in bank card rewards announced it is redefining the travel landscape for its members with the introduction of Z-Club Travel. Announced just ahead of TranzactCard’s national launch in Las Vegas later this month […]

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Greenly Joins Xero App Store, Brings Revolutionary Carbon Accounting App to Wider Audience

Greenly, the innovative climate tech company known for pioneering carbon accounting solutions, now integrates with global small business platform Xero as a Xero App Partner, expanding its carbon accounting capabilities and enhancing its services for businesses worldwide. Greenly’s cutting-edge platform simplifies carbon accounting, empowering businesses to measure, analyze, and reduce their carbon footprint effectively. By becoming a […]

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ESG Book, Arcesium Partner to Deliver Market-leading Sustainability Data for Institutional Investors

Market demand for more sophisticated ESG and climate data is sharply growing, driven by increasing worldwide regulation. Over 90% of executives expect to increase their spending this year on ESG data. With coverage of over 50,000 companies globally, institutional investors around the world rely on ESG Book’s real-time, transparent sustainability insights for security selection, portfolio management, […]

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MDBs Provide Record Climate Finance of $60 billion for Low, Middle-income Economies in 2022

$60.7 billion of climate action support in low and middle-income economies, including $22.7 billion for climate change adaptation Worldwide, MDB climate finance reaches nearly $100 billion, up from $82 billion in 2021 The amount of mobilised global private finance stands at $69 billion, up from $41 billion in 2021 A joint report by multilateral development banks published today finds that MDB climate […]

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S&P Global Commodity Insights Launches First-of-Kind Emissions-Adjusted REC Pricing

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, the leading independent provider of information, analytics and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets, announced it is launching first-of-kind price assessments for Emissions-Adjusted (EA) Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) through a collaborative data-licensing agreement with clean energy data-driven solutions provider REsurety. While renewable energy certificate markets are well […]

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TotalEnergies Launches Call for Tenders to Avoid 5M Tons of CO2 Emissions with Green Hydrogen

As part of the drive to decarbonize its European refineries, TotalEnergies is launching a call for tenders for the supply of 500,000 tons per year of green hydrogen. The use of green hydrogen should avoid the emission of around five million tons of CO2 each year from the Company’s European refineries by 2030. TotalEnergies has six […]

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PGA Tour Outlines Future Sustainability Direction

Since its early origins on sand dunes shaped by wind and rain, golf has been intrinsically connected to nature and the environments where the game is played. In more recent decades the sport has grown exponentially, accompanied by an evolution of course design, agronomy, technology, tournaments and media. As golf has grown, so has awareness […]

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