Day: 11 August 2025

Charity Bank Wins Top Honour at NatWest SE100 Social Business Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Charity Bank has been named the winner of the Social Investment Pioneer Award at the 2025 NatWest SE100 Social Business Awards. This prestigious recognition celebrates their bold, innovative, and high-impact approach to social finance. This honour comes at a time of record-breaking impact for Charity Bank. In 2024, they approved £85.4 million in new loans – their highest level ever – supporting 104 charities and social enterprises tackling some of the UK’s most urgent challenges, including homelessness, mental health, education, and environmental sustainability. Importantly, 77% of their lending reached the UK’s most deprived communities, and £23.3 million was directed to diverse-led organisations…

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Nine new projects set for implementation after approval at record-breaking GCF Board meeting

Stuart Mitchell

Nine new projects backed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are ready for implementation. Project agreements were signed for each project on the margins of GCF’s 42nd Board meeting (B.42), where the projects were approved. In addition, three projects received their first disbursement shortly after the agreement signings. B.42, which took place in Papua New Guinea from 30 June to 3 July 2025, saw a record volume of GCF investment approved in a Board meeting – USD 1.225 billion for 17 projects. GCF now has a portfolio of 314 projects…

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Cascale and Worldly Release Policy Deep Dive on EU Product-Level Environmental Disclosures

Stuart Mitchell

Cascale, the global nonprofit alliance advancing collaboration to drive equitable and restorative business practices in the consumer goods industry, and Worldly, the leading sustainability data and analytics platform for the consumer goods industry, today released a new policy deep dive: One Market, Two Systems – What PEFCR and France’s Environmental Cost Mean for Apparel & Footwear. This publication explores two emerging regulatory frameworks: the EU Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for apparel and footwear, and France’s Environmental Cost (Coût Environnemental). Both are poised to shape product-level environmental disclosures across…

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RES takes charge of major European battery project

Stuart Mitchell

RES, the world’s largest independent renewable energy company, has signed an agreement to manage what will become one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage systems (BESS), at a former coal mining site in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The 500MW/1GWh Coalburn battery storage facility is being developed by energy investment company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), helping balance the grid when demand is high or renewable output is low. RES will be responsible for the site’s asset management, ensuring the site runs efficiently and delivers long-term value for its owners. Coalburn is being…

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Four Million Hectares of Forest Benefit Under WWF’s Forests Forward Program

Stuart Mitchell

WWF’s new Forests Forward Impact Report reveals that 26 leading companies, including US-based businesses, from nine sectors are improving forest management or going beyond responsible sourcing to support forest conservation projects around the world. Through Forests Forward, WWF’s flagship program for corporate leadership on forests, WWF projects financed by private sector partners are helping conserve a total forest area of 1.3 million hectares in some of the most vital and vulnerable landscapes through actions such as forest restoration. An additional 2.7 million hectares of tropical forest are benefiting from improved…

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