Environment
Smart City Brazil Goes Global: Italian Exhibition Group Takes the Helm
Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) has joined forces with the Smart City Business America Institute (SBCA) to organize the SCB-Br Expo and Congress, starting in 2025.
Energy
A Global Energy Balance for a Sustainable Future
The upcoming COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, follows a successful COP28 led by the UAE, another OPEC member.
Energy
Europe’s Offshore Wind Boom: A Step Forward, But With a Hidden Cost
Europe's clean energy ambitions just got a significant boost. Germany and the Netherlands recently awarded rights to build a whopping 6.5 GW of offshore wind farms – a major milestone on the path to a sustainable future.
Environment
UAE Celebrates COP28 Success with Awards Ceremony
The UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, honored key figures who contributed to the success of COP28, the UN climate conference held in the UAE late last year.
Environment
The UAE Launches the Blue Residency Visa: A Beacon for Sustainability Leaders
The United Arab Emirates builds on its legacy of environmental leadership, following the vision of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Environment
Guterres emphasizes that climate action must not disregard the needs of the impoverished as he unveils a fresh initiative aimed at safeguarding vital minerals...
The newly established Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals brings together a diverse group of governments, organisations and UN bodies to develop a set of common and voluntary principles to protect environmental and social standards aimed at embedding justice in the energy transition.
Environment
Energy financing: the transformation of BNP Paribas’ business model is accelerating, as confirmed by several rankings
For BNP Paribas, the year 2023 was marked, by a simultaneous acceleration of financing for the production of low-carbon energy, and the shift away from financing for the production of fossil fuels. This has allowed the Group to advance the timing for some of its objectives.
Environment
Green Climate Fund approves EBRD project proposals in Tajikistan and Morocco
Two EBRD climate resilience project proposals for the modernisation of a hydropower plant in Tajikistan and an irrigation scheme in Morocco have been approved for co-financing by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today.
