In New York, the architecture of climate capital markets is still under construction. Green Impact Exchange (GIX), one of only ten licensed stock exchange operators in the United States, has appointed Alexis Levenson as Chief Communications Officer and Executive Vice President, a newly created role as the exchange builds infrastructure
In London, climate diplomacy did not wait for Washington. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a memorandum of understanding with UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband deepening cooperation on climate and sustainable development, formalizing an alliance that positions California as a subnational actor in global climate governance. The visit concluded with UK
A wager on infrastructure, not just software New Delhi — India is placing a long wager on the infrastructure that will determine who leads the next technological era. This week, Adani Group said it plans to invest $100 billion over the next decade to build a nationwide network of AI-ready
A Turn Away From Maximum Yield COPENHAGEN — For decades, Denmark’s countryside has been shaped by efficiency. Wetlands were drained, soils leveled, fertilizers applied with precision. The country became one of Europe’s most productive agricultural exporters, but the environmental costs accumulated quietly in the background. This week, Denmark signaled a
In Bangkok’s financial district, the screens show familiar contracts: equities, currencies, index futures. What is changing is not visible in the tickers, but in the legal architecture beneath them. Thailand has approved amendments to its Derivatives Act that will allow cryptocurrencies and carbon credits to serve as underlying assets in
The United Nations has long operated with a degree of financial uncertainty. What feels different now is how deliberately that uncertainty is being used. This week, officials in New York received word that the Trump administration intends to make an initial payment toward the nearly $4 billion the United States
More than $35 billion in clean energy investment and tens of thousands of jobs did not disappear overnight. They faded quietly, project by project, factory by factory, as federal priorities shifted and certainty gave way to hesitation. On a gray winter morning in the heartland, the factory floor is silent.
The sharp fall in Bitcoin’s price this winter has triggered familiar market turmoil. But for the first time, the consequences are extending well beyond traders and crypto-native firms. Governments now sit on different sides of the same collapse, revealing a critical distinction in how Bitcoin has entered public balance sheets
A federal judge has struck down Texas’ anti ESG law as unconstitutional, delivering a legal setback to one of the most aggressive state efforts to police sustainable finance. The ruling affirms that governments cannot punish companies for how they assess risk or express investment views. But the decision arrives after
Brussels, February 2026 — The European Union has done something climate markets have argued about for years but never quite resolved. It has written a rulebook for permanent carbon removals. This week, the European Commission adopted the EU’s first certification methodologies for what it defines as permanent carbon removal. The
