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Newsletter#121 11 questions every CFO should be asking about nature
A new TNFD guide reframes nature as a finance question, not only a sustainability one. Here is what it asks CFOs to consider, and why the timing matter
Newsletter#119 Ecosperity Week 2026: Asia's Sustainability Agenda Moves From Ambition to Execution
At Ecosperity Week 2026 in Singapore, Asia's sustainability agenda moved from commitments to delivery, with finance, nature and credible execution at the centre of the conversation.
Newsletter#114 Iberdrola and the power demand behind AI
Iberdrola has spent years building one of the strongest sustainability records in the power sector. Now it is making a more unusual move: taking equity in AI data centres, not just supplying them with power. At the centre of the story is a bigger question: can clean power keep pace with AI-scale demand?
Newsletter#113 EU CBAM 2026: A Practical Guide for Exporters Facing Europe's Carbon Border Tax
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is now in force. Exporters of steel, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity into Europe face a carbon-linked charge tied to EU ETS prices. This guide breaks down how CBAM works, sector cost exposure for India, China and Southeast Asia, why data quality drives liability, and the transition finance gap for hard-to-abate sectors.
Newsletter#112 How Danone Is Rebuilding Food Sustainability Around Health, Farmers and Nature
The French food group has just opened the second phase of its sustainability roadmap, backed by one of the strongest sets of external sustainability credentials in the sector. The question now is whether the next five years can match the ambition of the last.
Newsletter#110 - ReconKering and Responsible Luxury
The luxury group is closing one of fashion's most ambitious sustainability roadmaps just as a new chief executive tries to stop the bleeding at Gucci. Whether its climate credentials hold up through the next two years will say a great deal about how durable corporate ESG commitments actually become under pressure.
Newsletter#106 Radisson's Net Zero Hotels: What Hospitality Can Teach the Rest of Corporate Sustainability
The hotel group is retrofitting existing buildings to hit net zero, getting them verified by a third party, and finding that guests are actually booking because of it.
Newsletter#105 - Are We Funding Net Zero or Delaying It?
Record clean energy investment. Record fossil fuel financing. Both happened in the same year. The transition is moving just not fast enough, and not to the right places.
Newsletter#98 Heathrow’s Green Transition
Can the world's most connected airport expand and decarbonise at the same time? Heathrow is pushing a £49bn third runway while chasing net-zero. SAF sits at 0.2% of global fuel, hydrogen planes are a decade late, and a new runway could add 9.43m tonnes of CO₂ a year.
Newsletter#96 Volvo Group’s 2040 Net-Zero Roadmap
Volvo Group faces heavy transport's decarbonization crunch: diesel fleets drive emissions, yet uptime is non-negotiable. Its 2025 ESRS-aligned report charts a net-zero value chain by 2040, with 31% lower use-phase emissions since 2019, 3% electric sales, and 93% supplier sustainability assessments. CEO Lundstedt and CSO Svensson spotlight partnerships as key. Progress is real, gaps remain.
Newsletter#92 Amazon At An Inflection Point: Can An AI And E-Commerce Giant Still Bend Its Carbon Curve?
The article explores how Amazon’s 2024 Sustainability Report reveals rising absolute emissions amid an AI and data center boom, even as carbon intensity falls, renewable energy, logistics, water and packaging initiatives accelerate and net zero plans evolve.
Newsletter#90 Heidelberg Materials And The Hard Road To Net Zero Cement
Heidelberg Materials is testing what a credible net zero strategy looks like in cement, blending science based targets, circular products and bold CCUS bets while grappling with policy, technology and economics in a genuinely hard-to-abate sector.