Day: 12 November 2025

United We Dream, ACLU, and Partners Launch Historic $30 Million Dollar Fund to Scale Up Access to Lawyers for Families Fighting Wrongful Detention, Deportation

Stuart Mitchell

United We Dream (UWD), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Abundant Futures Fund (AFF), have joined forces to launch the Defending Our Neighbors Fund: a bold new initiative that will scale up crucial financial support to legal organizations all across the country. Housed within AFF, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund will help ensure immigrant families facing the threat of separation and wrongful detention and deportations have access to lawyers. Already, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund has raised over $10 million with the goal of raising a total of at…

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Scaling up transition finance can support efforts to tackle emissions in key sectors and countries

Stuart Mitchell

New report explores landscape for transition finance and how it could help channel capital towards hard-to-abate industries As countries, companies and industries in many parts of the world look to reduce their emissions, transition finance can play an important role in mobilising the capital needed for energy projects that support these ambitions, according to a new IEA report published today. Scaling Up Transition Finance examines the potential for expanding the use of this financing mechanism, whose uptake has so far been slowed by challenges associated with defining it. It finds that…

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Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024

Stuart Mitchell

  The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin said continued emissions of CO2 from human activities and an upsurge from wildfires were responsible, as well as reduced CO2 absorption by “sinks” such as land ecosystems and the ocean – in what threatens to be a vicious climate cycle.   Growth rates of CO2 have tripled since the 1960s, accelerating from an annual average increase of 0.8 ppm per year to 2.4 ppm per year in the decade from 2011 to 2020. From 2023 to 2024, the global average concentration of CO2 surged…

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EcoVadis Launches Worker Voice Connect to Strengthen Human Rights Accountability in Global Supply Chains

Stuart Mitchell

EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, has launched EcoVadis Worker Voice Connect, a digital grievance mechanism designed to help organizations and procurement teams more effectively address worker concerns in global supply chains, anywhere and at anytime. The new solution expands on EcoVadis’ existing Worker Voice solutions developed with Ulula, which give direct, real-time access to workplace conditions. “Grievance and whistleblower channels have been around for decades, but often only for direct employees,” said Pierre-Francois Thaler, Co-CEO and Co-founder of EcoVadis. “They rarely reach workers in the…

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Twice as many firms face biodiversity and greenwashing risks

Stuart Mitchell

New research from RepRisk, the world’s most respected DaaS company for reputational risks and responsible business conduct, shows that the global share of companies linked to both greenwashing and biodiversity risks has doubled over the past five years – from 3% in 2021 to 6% in 2025. RepRisk’s fourth annual report on greenwashing – focusing on the link between greenwashing and biodiversity risks – indicates that rising awareness of nature-related risks and the adoption of “nature positive” strategies are increasing pressure on companies to demonstrate progress, which, at times, results…

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