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? US clean investment cleans up with $239bn #187

Climate Tech VC

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!  Manufacturing.

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'Five times the size of London each year': BNP Paribas tots up the biodiversity footprint of its investments

Business Green

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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2022 was the year that…

Business Green

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Here are five trends worth noting.

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‘Narratives of Delay’: How the Animal Pharma Industry Resists Moves to Curb the Overuse of Antibiotics on Farms 

DeSmogBlog

The veterinary medicines industry dismisses concerns that it may resist implementation of the new rules, saying it is committed to building on reductions in the use of antibiotics on farms that have already been achieved, while continuing to tackle animal disease. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp.,

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.