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October 27, 2026

Britain Wants Up to £712,500 a Megawatt to Hold a Grid Place. A Green PPA Doesn't Buy One.

Britain's regulator wants large data centres to lock up capital to hold a grid place, and a renewable power purchase agreement buys electricity only, so where compute connects becomes a board question.

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October 23, 2026

Your AI Vendor's Data Centre Lands in Your Scope 3, Not Theirs

AI bought from a vendor lands in the buyer's emissions inventory as a purchased service, its data centre figures are sealed by law, and a contract clause signed now is how the buyer obtains them.

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July 13, 2026

US$128 Trillion in Capital Now Screens Boards on ESG Disclosure Quality

TLDR: ESG disclosure frameworks have converged into capital market infrastructure: boards with...

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July 12, 2026

Swiss Companies Are Under-Reporting the Climate Transition Risk That Hits Their Balance Sheets

ESMA's October 2025 fact-finding across 91 European companies found fewer than two-thirds met the double materiality standard's core disclosure objective. The failure concentrates in financial materiality, the axis where climate transition risk lives — and Swiss companies face a compressed window to fix it before auditors close in on 2027 reporting.

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June 26, 2026

Turning SDG Pledges Into Funded, Measured Projects

The world holds the pledges and the budgets. The gap is execution. Corporate ESG money reaches real impact when it funds a specific project and measures the result.

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June 26, 2026

Nature as Infrastructure: Air, Soil, and Water as Balance-Sheet Assets

Half the world's GDP depends on nature. Clean air, healthy soil, and fresh water behave like infrastructure, and accounting frameworks are bringing them onto the balance sheet.

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June 25, 2026

Credible by Design: Communicating ESG Progress That Survives Scrutiny

Greenhushing and greenwashing are the same failure: claims that outrun the evidence. Credible ESG communication carries its proof. Here is how to build it.

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June 24, 2026

The Measurement Trap: When More ESG Data Leads to Worse Decisions

Companies track around 100 ESG metrics, and the regulator just cut the ESRS by more than half. Decision quality comes from the few measures that move a choice.

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June 23, 2026

Month Six: Why ESG Programmes Stall, and the Setup That Carries Them Through

ESG programmes stall when ownership and data live in one person's head. The fix is structural: an operating model that outlives any single champion.

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June 22, 2026

Solar Passes Coal as Private Capital Floods Clean Energy

Solar generated more US electricity than coal for the first month on record, and private equity committed a record $63.8 billion to clean energy in Q1 2026. The transition now reads as a returns-driven asset class.

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