Morningstar Sustainalytics Wins Environmental Finance IMPACT Award for Sustainable Finance Research

Morningstar Sustainalytics has won an Environmental Finance 2025 IMPACT Award, receiving top honors in the Impact Research category for its work advancing transparency in sustainable finance. The award recognizes Sustainalytics’ flagship research series, SFDR Article 8 and Article 9 Funds in Review, which analyzes trends across Europe’s sustainable investment market under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The annual IMPACT […]

Egypt Mobilizes $750 Million in Green Bond Finance to Advance Climate Strategy 2050

Egypt secured €688 million ($750 Million) via the Global Green Bond Initiative, backed by the European Investment Bank and UNDP, to strengthen climate finance and adaptation under its Climate Strategy 2050. The financing package is expected to cut 10 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions and support adaptation measures benefiting 8.3 million people. Parallel […]

Vietnam Certifies 71,000 Tonnes of Low Emission Rice Under National Green Farming Programme

71,000 tonnes of rice certified under Vietnam’s Low Emission Green Rice label across 18,000 hectares in the Mekong Delta Eight exporters now shipping certified rice globally, positioning Vietnam as the first country to export low emission rice at scale Programme ties agricultural emissions reduction to traceability, farmer behaviour change, and cooperative reform In the heart […]

Norway Pushes Electric Vehicles to Nearly All New Car Sales in 2025

Electric vehicles accounted for 95.9 percent of all new car registrations in Norway in 2025, rising to almost 98 percent in December, placing the country far ahead of global peers. A mix of targeted tax relief for low cost electric vehicles and rising charges on petrol and diesel cars has reshaped consumer demand and manufacturer […]