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ESG Today: International savings and investments business M&G plc announced the appointment of Marian D’Auria as its new Chief Sustainability Officer, with responsibility for further developing and integrating the firm’s sustainability strategy into its business.
ESG Dive: The green economy, as defined by the report, was the second fastest-growing industry in the decade since 2015, behind only technology. More than half of the global emission mitigation needed by 2050 — 55% — can be achieved through “competitive methods,” with another approximately 20% of emissions that can be addressed at a “minor cost disadvantage,” the report said.
ESG Today: The European Commission announced plans to invest up to €5.2 billion (USD$6.1 billion) in net zero technology, clean hydrogen and industrial decarbonization projects, using funds generated through its EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).
ESG News: The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) has released a sweeping update to the Global Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry, widening the scope of assets that banks, asset managers and insurers can measure across their financed and insurance-linked emissions.
ESG News: A decisive new wave of private capital is moving into Europe’s energy transition as Low Carbon, one of the region’s most active utility-scale renewables developers, secures a landmark investment from CVC DIF.
Financial Newswire: The Market Forces report is based on the public disclosures of the superannuation funds with the group claiming that the top super funds have more than three times invested in the global list of 200 companies with the biggest fossil fuel expansion plans than the $9.7 billion they have backing clean energy companies.
Funds Europe: ESG ratings agencies will be regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after the regulator said it had come across a number of potential issues, with firms often unclear about how these ratings are devised.
ESG News: New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has urged the trustees of the city’s three major pension systems to sever ties with BlackRock, Fidelity, and PanAgora after concluding the firms’ climate stewardship plans fall short of the systems’ net-zero requirements.
Financial Newswire: According to the 2025 Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Scorecard the gender pay gap has fallen to 21.1 per cent, but only 22 per cent of CEOs are women and 39 per cent of key management personnel roles are held by women across employers who report their personnel data to the WGEA, remaining relatively unchanged from the previous year.
ESG Today: EU Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho announced that she has found a series of shortcomings in the European Commission’s process to launch its “Omnibus” initiative to simplify and reduce corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements.
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