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    Hong Kong Expands $31 Billion Green Bond Program to Fund Climate Projects

    2025-10-01

    ESG News: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has released its Green Bond Report 2025, providing a detailed account of how HK$240 billion (US$31 billion) in sovereign green bonds have been allocated to climate and environmental projects.

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    NBIM Invests $1.5 Billion in Brookfield’s Energy Transition Fund

    2025-09-30

    ESG Today: Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the investment manager for Norway’s $1.8 trillion oil fund announced a new agreement with Brookfield Asset Management, committing $1.5 billion to its latest energy transition fund, the Brookfield Global Transition Fund (BGTF II).

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    Renewable Energy Sector’s Human Rights Practices Have ‘Critical Gaps,’ Says BHRRC

    2025-09-30

    Yahoo Finance: The renewable energy industry has steadily improved its core human rights policies and practices, despite facing political and financial challenges, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s latest Renewable Energy and Human Rights Benchmark report

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    Diginex Signs $1.7 Million Deal to Provide ESG Reporting for Indonesian Banks

    2025-09-30

    Investing.com: Diginex Limited, a sustainability technology provider whose stock has surged nearly 1,500% year-to-date according to InvestingPro data, announced it has secured agreements with Indonesian tech firm PT.

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    MAS Appoints Abigail Ng as New Chief Sustainability Officer

    2025-09-29

    ESG News: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has appointed Abigail Ng as its new Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), effective 6 October 2025, marking a shift in how the city-state’s central bank embeds sustainability leadership within its financial governance.

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    Most Companies Say Pressure for Sustainability Reporting Increasing Despite Regulatory Pullback: PwC Survey

    2025-09-29

    ESG Today: A majority of companies subject to CSRD or ISSB disclosure requirements say that pressure from a variety of stakeholders including investors and customers to provide sustainability reporting and data has continued to increase over the past year, according to a new report by global professional services firm PwC.

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    California Releases List of More than 4,000 Companies Required to Begin Reporting Under New Climate Disclosure Laws

    2025-09-26

    ESG Today: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released a list of more than 4,000 companies that will be required to comply with the state’s new climate reporting laws, mandating disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities, and for some companies on value chain greenhouse gas emissions as well.

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    One-Third of Corporate Spending Aligns with Sustainability: Risilience

    2025-09-25

    ESG Dive: Thirty-six percent of large businesses in the U.S. and Europe have aligned their capital expenditures with sustainability goals despite a pullback in the U.S. and other countries from environmental protection efforts including combating climate change, Risilience found in a survey.

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    BRB Finance Coalition Secures $4.5B for Brazil’s Forests, Bioeconomy Ahead of COP30

    2025-09-24

    ESG News: The Brazil Restoration and Bioeconomy Finance Coalition (BRB Finance Coalition) has secured more than $4.5 billion in commitments to forest and bioeconomy projects, accelerating momentum toward its $10 billion target for 2030. 

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    Trump Energy Secretary to Return Billions Set Aside for Green Projects

    2025-09-24

    The Guardian: The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, announced that his department will return to the treasury billions of dollars set aside for green projects, while dodging questions about affordability and grid reliability and claiming international climate policy has not lowered emissions.

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