Siemens Earns Highest-Ever Score in EcoVadis Sustainability Rating
Siemens earns its highest-ever EcoVadis score of 85, placing it in the top 1% of around 130,000 rated companies worldwide. The Platinum rating reflects strong performance across Environment, Ethics, Labor & Human Rights, and Sustainable Procurement. Over 90% of Siemens’ business portfolio enables customers to achieve sustainability gains in decarbonization, resource efficiency, and social impact. […]
China Overhauls Green Taxonomy to Increase Energy Transition Finance
China’s updated green taxonomy consolidates bond and loan market standards into a single catalogue, aiming to cut reporting costs and increase funding for decarbonisation. The new framework expands eligible green activities to include climate resilience, methane abatement, passenger rail, green trade, and consumer-focused green finance. While seen as a milestone for market efficiency, experts say […]
ISS Sustainability Solutions Acquires Sust Global to Boost AI‑Powered Geospatial Climate Risk Analytics
ISS Sustainability Solutions, the sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, will acquire Sust Global to integrate geospatial risk modeling and analytics into investor workflows. The deal pairs Sust Global’s AI-driven physical risk models with ISS STOXX’s proprietary asset-level data to enhance portfolio, corporate, and index-level risk insights and regulatory reporting. Financial institutions gain high-resolution, asset-level […]
Pandion Asset Management Appoints Horatio H. Sparkes as Senior Director of Business Development and Investor Relations
Appointment strengthens Pandion’s outreach to institutional allocators, with Sparkes focused on introducing differentiated strategies aligned to long-term value creation and ESG principles across public pension plans, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments, foundations, family offices, and consultants. Sparkes adds more than 30 years of pension and financial services leadership, including senior roles at CapSource Productions, APEX, Geronimo Investment […]
Mars Invests $5M to Protect Peanut Supply, Breed More Climate Resilient Crops
Mars launches the Protect the Peanut Plan with a five-year, $5 million commitment to pioneering agriscience, aiming to reduce crop losses that keep up to 30% of peanuts from reaching consumers and to strengthen global food security. The plan builds on more than a decade of Mars-funded research, including approximately $10 million invested to co-found […]
