ESG Today: Week in Review
This week in ESG news: JetBlue enables customers to reduce & track travel emissions; EU plan to include gas & nuclear in green taxonomy sees resistance; Denmark unveils plan to tax carbon emitters; Deutsche Post to offset emissions from mail delivery; Ford scales electric pickup production on big demand; regulator AMF set fight against greenwashing as 2022 priority; ICMA warns EU plan to regulate green bonds could disrupt sustainable finance market; WeSpire to launch solution to track & reduce employee emissions; S&P Global acquires climate risk analytics solutions provider; Zoetis pulls forward renewable energy goal by 20 years, and more.
See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today:
Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements
JetBlue Launches Program Enabling Corporate Customers to Reduce, Report Travel Emissions
Zoetis Accelerates 100% Renewable Energy Goal by 20 Years to 2030
Lenovo Rolls Out Program to Offset Lifecycle Carbon Emissions of Consumer PCs
Smithfield Foods Targets Food Loss, Waste Reduction with New Sustainability Goals
Aramark Introduces Climate-Friendly Food Choices at US Universities
Deutsche Post to Offset All Carbon Emissions from Letter Mail Transport
Reporting and Disclosure
European Commission Proposes Including Nuclear, Gas as Green Investments Under EU Taxonomy
ESG Services and Tools
WeSpire Introduces Solution to Measure, Reduce Employee Scope 3 Carbon Emissions
S&P Global Acquires Climate Risk Analytics Solutions Provider The Climate Service
Blackbaud Acquires ‘Impact as a Service’ Tech Provider EVERFI for $750 Million
Government & Regulators
Denmark to Tax Carbon Emitters, Targets 100% Green Domestic Aviation
ESG Investing
Swedbank Robur Sets Sustainability Management and Reporting Expectations for Portfolio Companies
Sustainable Finance
ICMA Warns Proposed EU Green Bond Rules Would Cause Issuers to Flee Sustainable Bond Market
Energy Transition
Exec Appointments
Schroders Appoints Tim Goodman Head of Corporate Governance
Evli Appoints Petra Hakamo Head of Sustainability
PGIM Real Estate Appoints Julie Townsend to Lead ESG Strategy Across Europe and Asia Pacific
JPMorgan Chase Appoints Ben Ratner Executive Director, Sustainability