The Bank of England must consider the U.K.’s pledge to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution in future policy, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak said.

Pressure is mounting on two South Korean companies that are the world’s largest manufacturers of electric-vehicle batteries to ensure their U.S. legal dispute doesn’t disrupt automaker plans to electrify their fleets.

The U.S. Energy Department has appointed Jigar Shah, a clean-power pioneer who helped bring solar into the mainstream, to run the loan-program unit that backed Tesla Inc. and failed solar manufacturer Solyndra LLC.

While there’s an argument to be made that rewarding any company focused on sustainability is a reasonable focus for an ESG fund, purists would say ESG funds should invest in startups on the cutting edge of renewable technologies—companies that really need the money.

House Democrats unveiled comprehensive legislation with a national goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through targeted investments in clean energy across the power, transportation, and industrial sectors.

The last few months have seen a dramatic uptick in the number of companies voluntarily telling the world how much carbon they emit and how they plan to deal with a changing climate.

Casey Harrell, the campaigner whose sustained pressure was instrumental in pushing BlackRock Inc. to act against climate change, approaches his work as if locked in a race against time. That was true even before the 42-year-old environmental activist was diagnosed last year with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

After shortchanging renewable energy developers for years to the point where it owes billions of dollars in unpaid subsidies, the Chinese government is now proposing that those companies may have to cancel part of the debt if they want to keep building new projects.

Texas’s power grid operator for the first time named some of the electricity providers that are short on payments after last month’s energy crisis.

Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to pay more than $14 million in fines for Clean Air Act violations from a Texas refinery and chemical plant complex.