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Newsletter#100 Nature as Financial Infrastructure: Featuring BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is positioning itself as a first-mover in nature finance, deploying €5.4B+ in biodiversity-linked capital and helping build frameworks like Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. By combining blue finance, biodiversity-linked instruments, and strong partnerships, it is betting that early leadership will capture a major share of the fast-growing nature finance market.
Newsletter#99 Energy Security vs Transition Amid US-Iran Conflict
Governments can align energy security with transition goals via key levers: embed security metrics (import risks, resilience) in climate plans; use short-term fossil contracts as bridges while fast-tracking renewables; lower clean energy financing costs with public banks and policy signals; build regional cooperation on reserves, interconnections, and joint clean projects.
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#97 AI and the Planet: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Climate and Nature Solutions
How AI is powering climate solutions and straining the planet at the same time, and what companies need to do about it.
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#95 ESG Isn’t Failing. Execution Is.
Most companies aren't failing at ESG because they lack ambition. They're failing at execution. The real bottleneck is operational: disorganised evidence, unclear ownership, and systems that can't keep pace with commitments.
Newsletter#94 L'Oréal's Green Ambition with Hard Reality: Progress, Gaps, and What Investors Should Watc
L'Oréal has made measurable progress on operational decarbonisation and renewable energy, yet material gaps remain in Scope 3 emissions and packaging circularity. This ESG Compass analysis examines what is working, where risks persist, and what investors should watch next.
Newsletter#93 Nature Is the New Basis Point: Attenborough’s Message to Sustainable Finance
David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet is framed as a witness statement on a century of environmental change, from biodiversity loss to climate disruption. The feature links his lifetime narrative to ESG practice, arguing that nature and time horizons must sit at the core of strategy, capital allocation, and policy.
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#91 Asking Better Questions on Nature: A New Fiduciary Lens for Asset Owners & Managers
Asset owners are waking up to nature as a core driver of risk, resilience and returns. This editorial sets out the sharper questions CIOs can ask on governance, investment process, stewardship and reporting to turn nature from ESG rhetoric into fiduciary practice.
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.
Newsletter#89 Mangroves: The Most Underpriced Coastal Defense in Climate Finance
Mangroves store vast amounts of carbon, protect coastlines, and sustain livelihoods. Backed by global institutions, this editorial examines why they must move from conservation projects to a core climate strategy.