Day: 1 December 2025

GFI launches “Transactions to Transitions” initiative as a scalable, approach to accelerate economic transformation and resilience

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Finance Institute (GFI) has announced the launch of “Transactions to Transitions” (T2T), a pioneering approach designed to address the urgent need to accelerate climate finance execution and drive sector-wide economic transition. Despite ambitious commitments from governments and financial institutions, existing capital flows cover a fraction of the investment required to transform sectors, deploy technology, or deliver the promised transition to a sustainable, healthier, resilient future, especially in emerging and developing markets. T2T sets out a new approach, moving from climate politics to climate economics, and from alignment on…

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where funding cuts are putting half a million children’s futures at risk

Stuart Mitchell

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited Bangladesh this week to see the impact of severe cuts to official development assistance (ODA) on the half a million children living in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.  During the four-day visit, Bloom met with children, families, and aid workers to understand the scale of the funding challenges threatening children’s education, health, protection, and survival in the world’s largest refugee camps.  “The children in these camps are 100 per cent dependent on aid, but that aid is sadly shrinking,” said Bloom. “I met…

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Carbon Clean and SAMSUNG E&A form innovative alliance to accelerate global deployment of carbon capture solutions

Stuart Mitchell

Carbon Clean, a global leader in cost-effective industrial carbon capture technology, and SAMSUNG E&A, a world-class engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company, recently announced an innovative alliance to deliver modular, scalable carbon capture solutions for industries worldwide. The partnership brings together Carbon Clean’s patented CycloneCC™ technology, a fully modular, columnless carbon capture system, with SAMSUNG E&A’s deep EPC expertise and AHEAD execution model to deliver compact, pre-fabricated systems that can be deployed faster, at lower cost, and with minimal site disruption. By integrating Carbon Clean’s advanced amine-promoted buffer salt solvent…

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PepsiCo plans to nearly double its regenerative farmland in Canada

Stuart Mitchell

Cool temperatures, an abundance of rich, fertile soil and long summer days that provide extended stretches of sunlight make Canada’s farms ideal for growing high-quality oats and potatoes that are used to make PepsiCo products like Quaker Oats and Lay’s potato chips. And thanks to the growing use of regenerative farming practices that restore soil, conserve water and reduce emissions, those golden fields aren’t just nourishing families today — they’re also helping to build a more resilient food system for generations to come. Now, PepsiCo is building on its regenerative…

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Ceres applauds launch of Tropical Forest Forever Facility, urges more government and private sector support

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres welcomes the announcement of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – a historic global public-private financing mechanism to safeguard the most critical tropical ecosystems – which was officially launched during the COP30 Leader’s Summit. The TFFF Launch Declaration received endorsements from 53 countries, and $5.5 billion in investment commitments have been made to the fund.   “The launch of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility is an encouraging sign that global financial flows are beginning to shift toward conserving essential natural ecosystems that businesses depend on,” said Meryl Richards, program…

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