Good morning. Here is the latest news, research and market analysis that sustainable technology partners need to know for Friday, March 3, 2023.
1. M&A - Sustainability Consulting: ERM has acquired NINT, a Latin America-based consultancy providing sustainable finance and ESG advisory services in the financial services sector.
2. Partnership - Climate Software and Cloud Services: Watershed, which develops an enterprise climate software platform, has joined the Google Cloud Ready Sustainability program.
3. Google Cloud Ready Sustainability Program: Early partners in the program are listed here.
4. Financing - Data Centers: DataBank, a provider of colocation, interconnection, and managed cloud services, has issued $715 million of secured notes in its third securitization offering since 2021.
5. Green Power in Technology and Telecom: Here is the EPA's Green Power Partnership Top 30 Tech & Telecom list for 2023. DataBank (mentioned above) made the list.
6. Research - Scope 3 Challenges: Only 16% of companies analyzed have publicly set science-based targets for operational carbon emissions, according to research from Microsoft and Tata Consultancy Services.
7. Global Sustainability Standards: Japan has agreed to include new global sustainability rules in its own national reporting requirements, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) said, according to Bloomberg.
8. Partnership: Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division and Altium have entered a strategic partnership which will help the design and manufacturing of electronics be more environmentally sustainable, the two companies said.
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