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    How VCs Are Navigating Europe's Defence Spending Push

    2025-06-16

    Yahoo Finance: As venture capital investors look to profit from Europe’s defence spending boom, speculators hunting for the next unicorn need to navigate hurdles such as EU sustainability guidelines and difficulties for start-ups in a market dominated by large prime contractors.

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    KKR Acquires Leading Australian Independent Power Producer Zenith Energy

    2025-06-16

    Business Wire: KKR, a leading global investment firm, announced the signing of definitive agreements to acquire Zenith Energy (“Zenith” or the “Company”), a leading independent power producer (“IPP”), from a consortium including Pacific Equity Partners, OPSEU Pension Trust (“OPTrust”), and Foresight Group (together the “Consortium”), with Zenith’s founder and management retaining a minority stake.

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    EU Lawmaker Pushes for Deeper Cuts to Corporate Sustainability Rules

    2025-06-13

    ESG News: The European Parliament’s lead negotiator on the Omnibus regulatory package, Jörgen Warborn of the European People’s Party (EPP), has released a proposal calling for significantly deeper cuts to the EU’s sustainability reporting obligations than those originally suggested by the European Commission.

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    Companies are ‘Very Struck’ by SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard Draft Changes: Sustainability Roundtable Inc.

    2025-06-13

    ESG Dive: The Science Based Targets initiative, an organization that validates that corporate sustainability goals align with leading climate science, released a draft revision of its Corporate Net-Zero Standard this spring that proposed substantial changes to the scope of the prior framework for setting climate targets. 

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    Investor ESG Software Market Size is Reaching US$ 3.36 Billion by 2031

    2025-06-13

    Yahoo Finance: According to a new comprehensive report from The Insight Partners, the global investor ESG software market is observing significant growth owing to the focus on innovation in ESG software and integration with generative AI.

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    “ESG’s Future Is About Outcomes, Not Labels”: Nordea

    2025-06-12

    Funds Europe: The future of ESG is not about labels but about outcomes. That’s the key message from Christophe Girondel, deputy CEO of Nordic asset manager Nordea Asset Management, who says that despite growing media skepticism around ESG, demand from institutional clients remains strong and focused on long-term impact.

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    Investors Turning Outside U.S. to Look for Climate Investment Opportunities: Survey

    2025-06-10

    ESG Today: Most investors globally are shifting focus outside of the U.S. to find climate-related investment opportunities following the election of Donald Trump, and expect the new administration’s policies to negatively impact global net zero progress and their own portfolio decarbonization goals, according to a new survey released by international asset manager Robeco.

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    Transferability is Transforming Clean Energy Project Finance, Say Dealmakers

    2025-06-10

    ESG Dive: Gaurav Raniwala, global renewable energy leader at GE Vernova, said that financing had previously relied on the tax equity market, which “was limited in capacity. The industry wanted to be bigger.”

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    BlackRock, Republican States Clash Over Evidence in Climate-Investing Case

    2025-06-10

    MSN/Reuters: A lawyer for BlackRock said that Republican states' claim that asset managers violated antitrust law through industry climate groups was not "plausible," as the firms pressed to have the case dismissed.

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    Canada Releases Anti-Greenwashing Guidance for Companies

    2025-06-09

    ESG Today: Canada’s Competition Bureau announced the release of its final guidelines on environmental claims, aimed at helping companies to comply with new anti-greenwashing laws when making claims about the environmental benefits or attributes of products or businesses.

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