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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Gov. Jerry Brown and European Union leaders agree to work to combat climate change
Los Angeles Times
California and the European Union will discuss the possibility of creating a common carbon market to cut greenhouse gas emissions, another sign of the state assuming a global role in the fight against climate change.

California Governor Jerry Brown Is Doing Far More to Combat Climate Change Than Trump’s Washington
The Nation
When Trump opened a massive leadership void on climate change, nuclear weapons, and more, Brown stepped in.

U.S. State, City Climate Leaders: “We Are Still In”
Environment News Service
“We’re here, we’re in and we’re not going away,” California Governor Jerry Brown said of many U.S. states and cities at the ongoing UN climate talks in Bonn. Despite President Donald Trump’s vow to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate, many U.S. states and cities are still committed to the Agreement.

Sustainable Investing:

EU considering sustainable investing as fiduciary duty for investors
IPE.com
The European Commission is considering whether it to clarify that institutional investors' duties include taking into account sustainability risks.   
    
Socially responsible investing: Nonbelievers need to stick to data
Euromoney magazine
That sustainable investments exist? Because about $22.89 trillion in assets were being professionally managed under responsible investment ...   
   
Socially responsible investing makes an impact
Atlanta Business Chronicle
By employing ESG factors, sustainable investment practitioners attempt to limit risk by minimizing harm to people and the planet, while investing in ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

B+K Publishes Sustainability Report for 2016
Packaging Europe
This is demonstrated by the new GRI sustainability report (in accordance with the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative) for 2016. For the ...

Future Forward
Travel Weekly
The 2017 Virtuoso Luxe Report reminds us that what might be popular among .... The Global Reporting Initiative – GRI G4 Index: an international ...

Four Beauty Industry Leaders and EcoVadis Launch the Responsible Beauty Initiative, a Shared ...
Business Wire (press release)
The Responsible Beauty Initiative brings together the global beauty industry in a collaborative effort to strengthen sustainable practices, improve ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Another Utility Bets Billions on Renewable Energy
Motley Fool
American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP), who generates nearly half of its electricity from coal, says it will invest $1.8 billion in renewable energy by 2020.
   
John Kerry is plotting a renewable energy future … starting in Vietnam
Grist
But renewable energy projects are often considered untested, risky investments — especially in less developed countries. So Kerry and the experts ...
 
Peak oil? Majors aren't buying into the threat from renewables
Reuters
L) might be more aptly branded “Back to Petroleum” after exiting or scaling back its renewable energy investments. Lower-cost Chinese components ...

CDP Sustainability:

The Current State and Evolution of Corporate Sustainability Assessment Organizations
Sustainable Brands
CDP, RobecoSAM, EcoVadis — they are all organizations that assess the sustainability performance of companies worldwide. They all have their own ...

Who's on the A-list for corporate water responsibility?
FoodNavigator.com
Food and beverage industry boardrooms are increasingly engaging in water sustainability and investing in water security, says not-for-profit CDP.

UN trip expands opportunities for Davenport's future
Quad City Times
CDP warehouses the largest collection of corporate environmental data. ... alternatives to move green, sustainable infrastructure projects forward.

Impact Investing:

Forbes Launches Impact Investing Community
Forbes
NEW YORK (November 9, 2017) – Forbes Media announced today the launch of its invite-only Impact Investing Community which will convene the ...

All aboard! Advisory body sets out social impact investing agenda
IPE.com
The Pensions Regulator (TPR), pension scheme trustees and the wider financial services industry should all work to develop social impact investing in ...

Asset managers urged to move together on social impact investing
Financial News
Asset managers have been urged to collaborate with government, academics and regulators to help bolster the UK's £150bn social impact investment ...

Resource Conservation Investments:

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Socially Responsible Investing:  

Generation Y takes the moral high ground when investing
The Times
What lies behind the rise in socially responsible investing? The desire among millennials for their hard-earned cash to be put to socially useful ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Investing for Sustainability and Impact
Morningstar.com
Another facet of sustainable investing--impact--has gained significant ... First of all, simply investing in funds that incorporate ESG considerations into ...
   
EU considering sustainable investing as fiduciary duty for investors
IPE.com
Magnus Billing, CEO of Alecta, Sweden's largest pension fund, said: “Clarification and enhancement of fiduciary/investor duties integrated in market ...

Sustainability Investing:  

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Philanthropic Investing:

Bill Gates Is Investing $100 Million In Alzheimer's Research, Citing Family History
Forbes
The investment is independent of his philanthropic work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will follow up his initial investment with an ...
Bill Gates is investing $100 million to fight Alzheimer's, a deadly condition that becomes more ... - Business Insider
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JPMorgan Chase Is Investing Millions in Chicago's Minority Entrepreneurs
American Inno
JPMorgan Chase & Co announced this month that it is investing over $2 ... nonprofits and corporations to identify other philanthropic opportunities.

Opinion: How a small foundation investment can yield continued benefits for a community
Detroit Free Press
DDF successfully leveraged its stronger position by raising more financing capital from a variety of corporate, government and philanthropic investors ...

Green Bond Funds:

ASEAN unveils Green bond standards
Nasdaq
The ASEAN Green Bond Standards, unveiled at the Malaysian Securities ... They specifically exclude the funding of fossil fuels to prevent so-called ...

Fixed-income ETFs can supercharge ESG investing
Pensions & Investments
On occasion, the managers launching exchange-traded funds are significantly ahead of the trend. The growth of investing in green bonds and ...

Green bond issues hit record high on 'sustained global momentum'
Financial Times
Green bond issuance hit a record high in the third quarter of this year, ... by stretching their budgets and debt burdens to fund the implementation costs.
Green bond issuance booms, set to top $120bn this year - Financial Times
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Low Carbon Funds:

Why the council pension fund I chair is divesting £1.2bn out of fossil fuels
The Guardian
We are clear that our action to reduce the carbon exposure of our fund is wholly consistent with our fiduciary duties as pension fund trustees.

Mauritius accelerates towards a low-carbon economy, launches US$ 191 million project
UNDP
10 November, Port Louis, Mauritius – The Republic of Mauritius has launched a US$191 million project supported by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) ...

China Beijing Environment Exchange and US-China Green Fund to Launch RMB 10 Billion ...
Digital Journal
On November 10, 2017, the Green Low Carbon Investment Symposium and Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony between the China Beijing ...