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Sustainable Investing:

Global Sustainable Investing Is On The Rise
CleanTechnica
A recent survey of 22,000 investors across 30 countries by global investment manager Schroders has found that sustainable investing is on the rise ...
 
SA in top 10 for sustainable investor behaviour - survey
Fin24
Cape Town - South Africa ranks among the top 10 out of 30 countries in terms of investors' knowledge, attitude and behaviour regarding sustainable ...
Which country knows the most about sustainable investing? - Advisor.ca
Asia and US lead the way as global sustainable investing rises - International Investment
Europe lagging in sustainable investment - International Adviser

Sustainable investments up 54% Schroders' study reveals
Portfolio Adviser
Over half of UK investors have increased their allocation to sustainable investments in the last five years according to the annual Schroders Global ...

Global Reporting Initiative: 

Time for next generation sustainability efforts? Global Reporting Initiative marks 20th anniversary
CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced that the anniversary sees it also lay out a 'refreshed course' to help more businesses use ...
   
Businesses Aim to Harmonize Indicators, Reporting Methodology for SDG Progress
IISD Reporting Services
UN Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) launched a mechanism intended to simplify reporting by ...
GRI Analysis Paves the Way for Common SDG Reporting Standard - Sustainable Brands

Varian Publishes 2017 Sustainability Report
Markets Insider
The Varian 2017 Sustainability Report has been produced as part of a wider ... Based on internationally-recognized GRI (global reporting initiative) ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Tiffany & Co. Balances Global Energy Use With Renewable Energy Investments, on Path to Net ...
CSRwire.com (press release)
27 /CSRwire/ - As part of its commitment to address climate change, Tiffany & Co. today announced that it is purchasing renewable energy credits ...
 
4 Utilities Betting Billions on Renewable Energy
Madison.com
And its regulated utility Florida Power & Light plans to spend $2.8 billion by 2020 on solar energy. In total, renewable investment will exceed $10 ...
A new renewable energy power - Motley Fool

Egypt's government injects LE 11.9 billion in new investments for renewable energy
Egypt Independent
Minister of Planning, Follow up and Administrative Reform, Dr Hala Saed, stated on Monday that the government allocated LE 11.9 billion in ... 

CDP Sustainability:

To chart the course of sustainability, grab the right map
GreenBiz
and reporting frameworks (from organizations such as the Global Reporting Initiative and CDP) that drive sustainable performance through data ...
 
EDF Releases Guidebook to Accelerate Investment in Sustainable Infrastructure
Life Pulse Health
Through CDP's Matchmaker effort to link more than 1000+ city projects reported to CDP to investors, we enable cities to better showcase infrastructure ...

ShareAction, CDP and UNPRI Must Update Climate Change Science Statements to Reflect ...
PR Web (press release)
ShareAction, CDP Worldwide and UNPRI must update their climate change science to ... Friends of Science Society says along with ShareAction, the CDP ... M.J. Kelly of Cambridge of May 23, 2016, in MRS Energy & Sustainability, ...

Impact Investing:

Seven Lessons From a Decade of Impact Investing
HuffPost
IKEA expects to make money from its forests, but it explicitly wants to “do well by doing going good,” and that makes this an “impact investment”.
 
Three Players That Exemplify The Complexity Of The Impact Investing Ecosystem
Forbes
Three impact investment players provide an interesting view of the broader impact investing ecosystem and how all the parts work together.
 
The real impact of impact investing
GreenBiz
Whether it concerns climate change, supply chains, human rights or corruption, investors increasingly seek to better understand the impact that their ...
New Barclays fund to make impact investing more accessible - Pioneers Post (press release) (registration) (blog)

Resource Conservation Investments:

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Socially Responsible Investing:

Allergan: Running Afoul of the Socially Responsible?
Barron's
Has Allergan's (AGN) controversial deal to defend the patents protecting the dry eye treatment Restasis run afoul of socially responsible investors?
 
'Generational divide' driving interest in responsible investment
Stuff.co.nz
Investors are being told it's a myth that putting their money into socially and environmentally-friendly investments will cost them. The amount of New ...

bizEDGE NZ - Socially responsible investments made available on Sharesies
bizEDGE NZ
Sharesies has teamed up with Pathfinder Asset Management to launch two new sustainable investment options: The Pathfinder Global Responsibility ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Ethical investment is booming. But what is it?
The Economist
Morningstar, a data-tracking firm, places any fund that uses terms such as sustainable investing, ESG and so on in its prospectus into a category that ...

Super members give up returns to invest with a conscience
The Sydney Morning Herald
While the socially responsible investment of the health and community services super fund, Hesta, has blitzed its rivals over all time frames up to 10 ...

Sustainability Investing:   

Interest In ESG Investing Rises Around The World, Study Says
Financial Advisor Magazine (registration)
In the Schroders Global Investor Study 2017, 78 percent of more than 22,000 investors claimed that sustainability is more important than it was five ...

Philanthropic Investing:

'Impact' fund aims to doing good while making money
Buffalo News
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has teamed up with a group of corporate, private and philanthropic investors in a new venture to do ...
 
Jamie Dimon Wants College Kids to Play in Downtown Detroit
Fortune
A part of that has included the firm's investment in Detroit's M-1 Rail, ... J.P. Morgan has dubbed the experiment "philanthropic investing," in which ...
Jamie Dimon: The Biggest Lesson We Learned From Investing in Detroit - Fortune

More than investment returns: when culture matters
Money Management
Jeff Sitters discusses bringing together strong investment returns, risk ... appropriate investment strategy aimed at meeting the philanthropic investor or ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green bond sales double to record $3 billion this year
Economic Times
Climate Bonds certi fies global standards for green bonds. It also ensures compliance standards for green bond funds and is working on mobilis ing ...
 
Extremely strong investor demand for MuniFin's inaugural EUR green bond
GlobeNewswire (press release)
Extremely strong investor demand for MuniFin's inaugural EUR green bond ... to the issue, says Joakim Holmström, Vice President, Head of Funding at MuniFin. ... The decision to enter the green bonds market was a strategic one for ...

Low Carbon Funds: 

A Roadmap to Low-Carbon Transportation
Natural Resources Defense Council
A Roadmap to Low-Carbon Transportation .... Local, State and federal transportation funds should prioritize these low-carbon mobility options through ...

More than half of UK electricity came from low carbon sources over last three months
The Independent
More than half the UK's electricity came from low carbon sources in the last three months, making it the “greenest” summer on record, National Grid ...

UK has greenest ever summer as low carbon energy production spikes
Sky News
To further reduce the amount of carbon emissions, the National Grid is working with the Environmental Defense Fund Europe and WWF to make ...
UK enjoys `greenest´ summer as 52% of electricity from low carbon sources - Daily Mail