Sustainability Becomes the Next Frontier for One of the World’s Most Trusted Legacies Miami set the stage for what may be remembered as a historic evolution in the Nobel tradition. At the 2025 Nobel Sustainability Trust Summit, global leaders, diplomats, scientists, and innovators gathered around a powerful realization: humanity’s greatest
Apple sustainability chief Lisa Jackson will retire in late January 2026, closing a 13-year tenure that reshaped the company’s environmental strategy and influenced supply chain practices across the global technology sector. Jackson, one of the most prominent environmental leaders in corporate America and a former administrator of the U.S. Environmental
BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has agreed to invest up to $335 million in Aditya Birla Renewables, marking one of the largest foreign commitments to an Indian clean energy platform as the country races toward its 2030 climate and power sector goals. The transaction, which begins with a $225 million
In one of the most forceful interviews of his presidency, Donald Trump delivered a blistering critique of European leadership, telling Politico that the continent is “decaying,” mismanaged, and weakened by what he views as years of uncontrolled migration. His language was blunt, unsparing, and aimed squarely at the political foundation
UNITED NATIONS — It was a sentence that landed like a warning shot across the skyline of global humanitarian efforts: the United Nations will scale back its emergency aid ask next year, even as need rises on nearly every continent. For the first time in years, the world’s largest safety
It is not every day that a court ruling shifts the trajectory of an entire industry. But this week, a federal judge did exactly that — reopening the legal pathway for wind power development in the United States after nearly a year of paralysis. The ruling overturned a sweeping executive
Sustainability moves from voluntary benefit to expected baseline Global hotel and hospitality operators are entering a new era of climate accountability. Following the outcomes and increased expectations after COP30, hotels are now expected to comply with stronger climate governance, emissions reporting, and adaptation requirements. The shift reflects a growing recognition
Panama City, December 2025 — While negotiators from 190 governments gathered for UNCCD meetings, something fundamentally different unfolded nearby — not a side event, but a blueprint for how global climate partnerships might work in the future. The third edition of the Nature Summit Series, co-hosted by the Government of
Panama Nature Summit 2025 opened this week alongside the UNCCD’s CRIC23 negotiations, bringing together leaders from government, science, finance and civil society as the global community confronts accelerating drought, biodiversity loss and shrinking climate finance. The summit marks the culmination of a year in which Panama became the only country
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are confronting a convergence of climate pressures that threaten their long-term viability, as new UNCCD findings show SIDS drought and land loss accelerating at a scale unseen in previous decades. An information brief released during CRIC23 in Panama reports that 17 percent of SIDS land
