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ESG, Food and beverage / 18.09.2020

Bottled water in China: Nongfu IPO success, but what about its sustainability from an ESG perspective?

The IPO of Nongfu Spring, a bottled water brand in mainland China, broke the record of the subscription capital of HKEX on September 8, 2020: it was 1,147 times oversubscribed by more than 700 thousand investors. The listing made the owner of the brand, Zhong...

Climate change, Renewables / 12.08.2020

Australia’s Snowy Hydro 2.0 and its threat to biodiversity

Australia’s Snowy Hydro 2.0, a pumped hydro storage project in the Snowy Mountains, has recently been approved by the federal government as an economic savior to bushfire-ravaged region and the COVID19 recession. However, several concerns arise from its economic and environmental costs. Australia has recently approved Snowy Hydro 2.0...