💚🌊 The GreenWave Podcast By Synergy International 🌊💚 Episode 49 is out and you don't want to miss this one!

AI & Data Centres in New “Age of Electricity”

Great Iberian Blackout Rattled Airbus in a Big Euro Wake-Up Call

⚡This is a lesson about system fragility. We've posted repeatedly about Iberia’s grid failure, how voltage surge, cascade, and collapse took out entire regions of Spain and Portugal. It was the most serious outage Europe has faced in years. And it exposed a truth many investors and policymakers prefer not to linger on: sustainability transitions fail at the weakest point of the chain, not the strongest.

🏭 Airbus now plans several days of autonomous power at key sites. Bigger reserves. Guaranteed supply contracts. Hardening, not just greening. Companies across Europe will follow, because resilience is no longer optional. If a single outage can threaten aerospace output, consider what happens when hydrogen clusters, data centres, e-fuels, and high-temperature industrial loads collide with the same vulnerabilities. Read more...

EU's Proposed Improvements to SFDR Stir Up Even More Debate

💶 The Commission wants to sweep away the alphabet soup of Articles and give every fund that talks about sustainability one of three clear labels: Sustainable, Transition or ESG Basics. Disclosure templates shrink, data asks are rationalised and a common exclusion list tightens the rules for the most polluting fossil activities that want to sit inside a green label.

📉 Out in the market, the picture is less glossy. Launches of dark green Article 9 funds have almost dried up this year, with only a handful coming to market. Existing Article 9 strategies have now clocked several quarters of net outflows as clients redeem and allocators retreat to softer Article 8 style products or plain vanilla funds. Read more...

The Latest Sustainability Developments

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COP30 closes: 1.5°C “still alive”, but no fossil-fuel phase-out deal COP30 in Belém wrapped up on 22 November with UN climate chief Simon Stiell insisting climate cooperation is “alive and kicking” and 1.5°C “still within reach,” even as the final outcome ducked a formal roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, leaving that fight to future COPs and coalitions outside the formal text. (unfccc.int)

New global goal to triple adaptation finance by 2035 One of the most concrete outcomes from Belém was agreement to at least triple international public finance for climate adaptation to around USD 120 billion per year by 2035, a big jump from today’s levels but still well below what vulnerable countries say they need. (The Guardian)

Debate shifts to how we measure “successful” adaptation Human Rights Watch flagged a key COP30 battle: governments haggled not just over how much adaptation finance to mobilise, but over the metrics themselves, with rights-based groups pushing for measures that track whether investments actually protect people, especially coastal and Indigenous communities, rather than just counting dollars spent. (Human Rights Watch)

UN puts forests and the Amazon at the centre of the COP30 agenda A UN forests brief this week underlined that protecting and restoring forests, especially in the Amazon, is essential to meeting climate, biodiversity and SDG targets; it pushed for stronger links between climate finance, forest governance and Indigenous land rights in the post-COP30 follow-through. (United Nations)

CITES CoP20 – Date: November 24–December 5, 2025 Location: Samarkand, Uzbekistan (#ThinkLandscape)

UNCCD CRIC23 (Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention) – Date: December 1–5, 2025 Location: Panama City, Panama (#ThinkLandscape)

7th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) – Date: December 8–12, 2025 Location: UNEP Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya (#ThinkLandscape)

Earth Summit 2025–26 (NABARD & IAMAI) – Date: December 5–6, 2025; February 2026 (exact dates TBC) Location: Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar; New Delhi, India (The Times of India)

World Future Energy Summit - Date: Jan 13–15, 2026, ADNEC Centre, Abu Dhabi.

Sustainability Week 2026 (Economist Impact) – Date: March 2–4, 2026 Location: Intercontinental London – The O2, London, United Kingdom (events.economist.com)

Climate Week New Orleans 2026 – Date: March 15–22, 2026 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (Climate Week)

Climate Week Hawaii 2026 – Date: March 22–29, 2026 Location: Hawaii, United States (Climate Week)

Climate Week Atlanta 2026 – Date: March 29–April 4, 2026 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Climate Week)

ChangeNOW - Date: Mar 30–Apr 1, 2026, Grand Palais, Paris.

DC Climate Week 2026 – Date: April 20–26, 2026 Location: Washington, DC, USA (DC Climate Week)

Climate Week Zurich 2026 – Date: May 4–9, 2026 Location: Zurich, Switzerland (climateweekzurich.org)

Climate Week 2026 (Climate Change & Sustainability Conference) – Date: June 18–19, 2026 Location: London, United Kingdom (climateweek.thepeopleevents.com)

2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability – Date: October 8–9, 2026 Location: ART Hotel Narita, Tokyo (Narita, Chiba), Japan (climatechange.c2pforum.com)

Greenbuild - Date: Oct 19–22, 2026, Javits Center, New York City.

UN 2026 Climate Change Conference (COP31) – Date: November 2026 (exact dates TBC) Location: Host country/city TBC (Australia–Turkey bid under discussion) (esgdive.com)