Sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) are financial instruments whose economic characteristics—typically interest rates—vary based on borrowers achieving predetermined sustainability performance objectives. Learn how they differ from green loans and the steps to secure one for your organization.
Delve into the 2025 implementation of AI for sustainability, focusing on smart monitoring systems, urban planning applications, and climate resilience solutions. By understanding these advancements, organizations can develop more effective strategies to combat environmental challenges while ensuring responsible AI deployment.
AI and climate change share a complex relationship that cannot be ignored. It is evident that AI contributes to environmental challenges, but it also offers solutions to fight them. Can AI’s potential environmental benefits outweigh its growing carbon footprint? Or does its expanding energy demand push our climate goals further away? The path forward requires balancing innovation with environmental responsibility, ensuring that technological progress doesn’t undermine the very planet it aims to protect.
Businesses can integrate indigenous sustainability practices to strengthen their environmental initiatives, manage climate risks, and create lasting positive impact. Going through practical applications of Indigenous wisdom in corporate settings.
Decarbonization plans and the chance of the EU’s goal to reduce GHG emissions by 55% by 2030 are realistically not feasible. Progress in addressing climate change is significantly behind schedule. Recent data shows potential excess emissions of up to 29% in various European economic sectors, meaning we are falling significantly short of reduction targets.
Artificial intelligence tackles some of the world’s greater environmental emergencies. Its technology is already being used to transform disaster management and enhance resilience.
The negative aspect of AI’s explosion concerning the environment cannot be overlooked.
There is a profound need for concerted effort on behalf of technology companies, policymakers, and environmental groups to join forces in the goal of reducing AI’s environmental footprint.
As wildfires now occur more often and burn intensely, they threaten California’s rich biodiversity and turn wildlife habitats into barren landscapes. Conservation efforts and environmental protection strategies need to understand how these changes affect wildlife populations, ecosystem stability, and long-term biodiversity.
From the potential transformation of environmental regulations to the ripple effects across clean energy markets, climate policy changes will influence American businesses, workers, and communities for decades to come.
The 2024 COP29 reveals progress across multiple fronts and an ambitious agenda focusing on critical areas including climate finance reform, technological innovation, and support for vulnerable nations. However, there were persistent challenges unveiled that require attention from the global community.
EcoSkills, in collaboration with Environmental Horizons, has successfully completed two training sessions for the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the topics of “Creating a GRI Standards ESG Report” and “Climate Change and measuring GHG emissions.”
