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Blockchain Platform Concordium, Aqualibre to Address Carbon Market Obscurity

September 9, 2023 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi |

Concordium, the Layer 1 science-backed blockchain creating a safer digital world, has announced an integration with Aqualibre, a carbon offset project that offers high-quality carbon offsets for business and enterprise. Aqualibre will adopt Concordium’s Agora Impact Marketplace tooling, “an infrastructure for scaling safe and transparent… Read More

Manchester’s Energy Tech Firm UrbanChain Raises £5.25M Series A

May 30, 2023 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi |

UrbanChain announced that it has raised a £5.25m Series A round led by global investment firm Eurazeo through its venture expertise dedicated to the Climate and Smart City space. Launched in 2017, the Manchester headquartered energy technology company “runs the a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy exchange… Read More

Securities and Finance Experts Worry that SEC’s ESG Requirements will Drive Shareholder Returns Lower, Push Prices Higher and Have a Negative Impact on Labor

May 1, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By JD Alois |

The Securities and Exchange Commission is currently pursuing new rules under the auspices of ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance. In March of 2022, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler explained they were aiming to require disclosure for firms on issues such as climate impact. He explained: “The… Read More

Open Earth Foundation has Been Awarded a Chainlink Grant to Develop Open-Source, Planetary CO2 Concentration Oracle

August 1, 2021 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi |

The Open Earth Foundation has reportedly been awarded a Chainlink Grant to develop am open-source, planetary CO2 concentration Oracle. As mentioned in the announcement, Climate impacts everyone, from multinational corporations overseeing complex supply chains to individual farmers “managing unpredictable crop yields.” While the totality of… Read More

UK’s FCA Appoints Sacha Sadan as Director ESG, Ian Alderton as CIO, Ian Phoenix as Director, Intelligence and Digital

April 21, 2021 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi |

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Sacha Sadan to serve as its Director of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG). Ian Alderton has been appointed by the financial regulator as Chief Information Officer while Ian Phoenix will work as Director, Intelligence and Digital. Nikhil… Read More

Standard Chartered Joins Forces With Imperial College Business School For New Climate Risk Management Partnership

February 14, 2020 @ 7:50 am By Samantha Hurst |

Standard Chartered, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, announced on Thursday it has joined forces with the Imperial College Business School for a new climate risk management partnership. According to Standard Chartered, the collaboration aims to discover new… Read More