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The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance

GreenBiz

Nasdaq offers definitions and criteria for each type of bond here.). So far, 80 percent of sustainability-linked loans have been made in Europe, although the practice is expanding in other countries. As with any growing market, there’s a need for standardization of definitions and metrics. By whatever name, money is pouring in.

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CBAM Ignites New Era of Equitable Contest in Europe

Hydrogen Fuel News

Market Expansion: With the CBAM in place, there may be an increased demand for green hydrogen in Europe. It will enable the European Commission to collect valuable information on embedded emissions to refine the methodology for the definitive period, set to commence in 2026.

Europe 111
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Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions on par With Denmark

DeSmogBlog

This story is the fourth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with Le Monde. Equinor says the project will initially store 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 a year — with that capacity already committed to ammonia, cement and bioenergy plants.

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EU Commission: Green finance 'integral' to Europe's pandemic recovery

Business Green

The coronavirus crisis demonstrates the "critical need" for Europe to strengthen the resilience of its economy against climate and environmental threats, the European Commission said today, as it set the ball rolling towards finalising a new Sustainable Finance Strategy for the continent in 2020.

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Beyond the Stockholm Convention: new regulations targeting forever chemicals

Envirotec Magazine

A proposal to ban the manufacture, import and use of PFAS in Europe, with a few exceptions, is currently being debated at the European Commission. Still, at a federal level, no PFAS is definitively banned; instead, the US EPA has regulations in place to prevent companies from resuming the manufacture, import, and use of phased-out PFAS.

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A secret weapon in agriculture’s climate fight: Ants

Grist

For more than a millennia, the species was embraced as a natural insecticide in countries like China but never quite made its way into the agricultural mainstream in North America or Europe. The method would eventually be replaced by the dawn of synthetic solutions.

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What does 'climate risk' actually mean?

GreenBiz

If you stick around the world of sustainable business long enough, you’re sure to see an immutable march of memes — terms that rise up and become popularized, often without agreed-upon definitions. Then, over time, they become used, and overused, to the point where they lose much of their meaning.