Environment

The 2021 City Water Optimisation Index, developed by Economist Impact and supported by DuPont Water Solutions, investigates how 51 cities around the world are ensuring that all end-users have access to safe, affordable and reliable water.

Economist Impact today launched the inaugural City Water Optimisation Index, sponsored by DuPont, which will measure how well cities around the world are safeguarding the reliability, accessibility, and sustainability of water resources.

Projects include exploring solutions to urban flooding and water pollution in New York City; improving water access in underserved communities in Cape Town and Mumbai; and advancing water sustainability education in Shanghai.

Public Service Enterprise Group Chairman and CEO Ralph Izzo, long a thought leader on climate change and taking action to fight it, is pleased at what he is seeing at the global Convention of Climate Change — better known as COP26 — sponsored by the United Nations in Glasgow, Scotland.

With the UN climate change conference – COP26 – continuing this week in Glasgow, it’s obvious that there is consensus among a majority of world leaders and key stakeholders that much more needs to be done, if the ambition of keeping global warming to a 1.5-degree increase is to have any chance of being met.

The newly developed "Sustainability-linked bonds" could help finance the transition of carbon-heavy companies, but only if the issuers are serious about climate

Green bonds have proven to be an effective way to mobilize capital becuase they have the same fundamental risk and return characteristics as conventional bonds

We believe that people can only live their healthiest lives on a healthy planet, which is why we have set an ambition to reach net zero emissions by FY45. This will build on our progress toward achieving carbon neutrality in our operations by the end of the decade.

Today UN Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions and Global Ambassador for the UN’s Race to Zero Campaign Michael R. Bloomberg announced he will join Mark Carney as co-chair for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a private sector-led initiative anchored in the UNFCCC’s Race to Zero framework.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting and action has, in the years following the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement (2015), been established as a top priority on the corporate sustainability agenda.