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Why Employee Pensions Belong in the Social Sustainability Conversation

Why Employee Pensions Belong in the Social Sustainability Conversation

Sustainability reporting has expanded well beyond environmental metrics in recent years, with many organisations now reporting on aspects of social sustainability too: workforce wellbeing, fair pay, safe working conditions. One area that appears to get comparatively little attention in that...

Greenvolt Sells Hungarian Solar Park To PPC Group

Greenvolt Sells Hungarian Solar Park To PPC Group

Greenvolt Power has agreed to sell Kira, a 57.47 MWp solar PV park in Királyegyháza, southern Hungary, to PPC Group for a total consideration of €64.2 million. The deal marks the latest disposal from Greenvolt’s expanding Central and Eastern European portfolio and comes with an option for PPC to...

Ethex And Triodos Bank UK Unite Crowdfunding Platforms

Ethex And Triodos Bank UK Unite Crowdfunding Platforms

A wind turbine on a coastal cliff, representative of the renewable energy projects funded through impact crowdfunding. Ethex and Triodos Bank UK have agreed a partnership that will bring all future Triodos crowdfunding investment offers onto the Ethex platform, creating what the two organisations...

Triodos Bank Finances Northumberland Nature Restoration Estate

Triodos Bank Finances Northumberland Nature Restoration Estate

The Emblehope and Burngrange Estate in Northumberland. Photo credit: Grays. Triodos Bank UK has provided senior debt finance backing the purchase of the 7,500-acre Emblehope & Burngrange Estate in Northumberland by nature restoration company RESTORE. The deal, structured through a blended finance...

Octopus and Santander Launch UK’s First Zero Bills Mortgage

Octopus and Santander Launch UK’s First Zero Bills Mortgage

Octopus Energy and Santander representatives launch the Zero Bills mortgage at a gs8 development in Epping. Octopus Energy and Santander have launched what they describe as the UK’s first mortgage from a high-street bank designed specifically for Octopus Zero Bills homes, a move that could reshape...

Yorkshire Colleges Lead the Way on Sustainable Construction Skills

Yorkshire Colleges Lead the Way on Sustainable Construction Skills

A network of 17 construction colleges across Yorkshire and the Humber has become the first regional education partnership in England to join the Supply Chain Sustainability School, in a landmark agreement that will put industry-developed sustainability learning directly into the hands of students...

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