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Issues such as climate change are no longer “soft” elements that can be tucked away in a sustainability report somewhere.

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Mineração Vale Verde completes US$140m debt financing for Serrote development February 4, 2021 GMT Highlights US$140m debt financing raised to fully fund the project through to production Transaction is the largest greenfield mining project finance transaction to have reached completion since the beginning of 2020 and the onset of COVID-19, highlighting the strong underlying fundamentals of the project Construction is progressing well, on time and in line with budget, now over 90% complete Project de...

February 3, 2021 Trees are seen by the private sector as an attractive and accessible offset, easy to measure, easy to invest in and easy to promote. Photo by Jacob Lund on Shutterstock. If 2020 taught us anything, it was that plans can be derailed in an instant, priorities change overnight and what we consider to be pressing challenges one day can become low-priority issues the next. In 2020 all sectors — business, government and NGO — saw their best laid plans unravel or become irrelevant in the global chaos of the pandemic. As we look to 2021, it might be foolish to make predictions ...

ADIO launches ESG policy to foster long-term, sustainable growth in Abu Dhabi ABU DHABI, 3rd February, 2021 (WAM) -- The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) has launched a new policy to maximise the environmental, social and governance (ESG) benefits of its incentive and public-private partnership (PPP) programmes for investors and the people of Abu Dhabi. ADIO’s policy outlines how ESG standards and considerations are integrated into investment and business decision-making regarding Abu Dhabi projects and businesses supported by ADIO’s various programmes, in order to promote the establish...

A Chinese backed solar plant in Cafayate, northern Argentina. Such projects would be given the green light by regulators under new proposals for Chinese overseas investment Credit: Alamy/ChineseDialogue BEIJING, Jan 15 2021 (IPS) - A government-backed coalition of international advisors to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has recommended that China apply more stringent environmental controls over its overseas investments. If adopted, this would be a major departure from China’s usual approach of deferring to host country rules, many of them inadequate, for regulating its overseas investm...