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'Landmark' Microsoft offsetting deal demonstrates the need for scale

In the wake of a new 'landmark' carbon credit deal with Microsoft, BTG Pactual's Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has told Environmental Finance that investors are looking for co-benefits and why project scale is necessary for both impact and reduced costs.

Microsoft and BTG Pactual announce landmark carbon credit deal

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has agreed to provide Microsoft with eight million nature-based carbon removal credits, believed to be the largest carbon removal transaction to date.

Rise of AI can benefit impact data, APG says

The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify and organise data presents opportunities in areas including sustainability-related impacts, according to one of Europe's largest asset managers.

McKinsey & Microsoft create company carbon monitor

Cisco, Microsoft face tax transparency resolutions

Biomass data from satellites 'can benefit voluntary carbon market'

Satellite imagery has been used to build a global map the amount of carbon sequestered by trees and plants, in a development that could help add transparency to forestry carbon...

US climate disclosure tussle develops over SEC filings role

A tussle is developing over whether mandatory climate disclosures in the US should feature in the closely scrutinised annual regulatory filings or as a separate document, with some major firms opposing inclusion in annual filings but some significant investors backing such a move.

CDP: 80% rise in carbon accounting for largest corporates

News Round Up: Amundi; ISS ESG; GAM; Osmosis, Aviva, Astia, and more

Microsoft enters into Australian voluntary soil carbon deal