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California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Jerry Brown Extols California's Bipartisan Commitment To Fighting Climate ChangeHuffPost
President Donald Trump, who's questioned the existence of man-made climate change, has given Brown a chance to show just how committed he is to ... While he has emerged as an international leader on the issue, local environmental activists continue to clash with Brown on his decision not to ...
Letter: Lawsuits against oil companies are not necessary
The Mercury News
Regarding the city of Richmond's decision to sue oil companies over climate change, California climate change policies are designed to protect both ... There is simply no need for these lawsuits that will take money and jobs out of the economy and work against California's leadership in climate change.
EPA, California must compromise in their fight over weakened fuel-efficiency standards, experts say
Washington Examiner
The Trump administration will have to compromise if it's serious about maintaining “one national program” for vehicle emissions rules and wants to avoid a legal battle with California, experts say. California state leaders have defied the Trump administration on issues including climate change, ...
Sustainable Investing:
Socially responsible investing gets a Trump bumpChicago Tribune
Others have made a similar move, defying predictions that a Trump White House would have a chilling effect on the socially responsible investing industry. Last year, investors plugged $6.4 billion into socially responsible mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, according to Jon Hale, head of ...
Trump bump? Socially responsible investing rose 10 percent in 2017
Omaha World-Herald
Casey reconfigured her portfolio so that she now has about a third of her investments in socially responsible funds, up from zero before Trump was elected. Those investments include a fund that holds stocks in companies where women are well represented on the board and in executive offices. Others ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Quantifying the Sustainable Development GoalsCarbon Clear (blog)
Many companies such as 2017 sustainability reporting leaders Marks & Spencer, Siemens, CRH and Visa are using the SDGs in their sustainability reports to indicate which company activities and impact areas affect the various SDGs they have committed to. And in 2017, the Global Reporting Initiative ...
The Value of Variety in ESG Reporting
Triple Pundit (blog)
It's a common refrain heard among sustainability and CSR professionals these days. Whether you're looking at the external raters and rankers that seek to stack companies up against their peers, or the standards setters like GRI and SASB, we can all agree that there's an abundance of organizations in ...
URC adopts sustainability agenda
Inquirer.net
In line with URC's ESG commitments, the company has issued its first ever sustainability report which is benchmarked with Global Reporting Initiative Standards (GRI), the most comprehensive and widely used sustainability reporting framework around the globe. Gokongwei explained that reporting on ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Australia Will Meet 2020 Renewable Energy Target Following Record InvestmentsCleanTechnica
This week, Australia's Clean Energy Regulator released its own information confirming Australia's record year of clean energy investments and confirming that, as a result, the country will now meet its 2020 Renewable Energy Target of 33,000 GW (gigawatts) of additional renewable energy.
Trump hasn't killed the renewable energy movement
CNNMoney
"It's a lot more smoke than fire," said Bryan Birsic, CEO of Wunder Capital, which develops and manages solar investments. Birsic is "excited" about where the tariffs landed compared with what he expected. Utility company Duke Energy (DUKH) acknowledged that the solar panel tariffs will "hurt" its plan ...
Global Floating Solar Panels Market - Increasing Investments in Renewable Energy to Boost ...
Business Wire (press release)
According to a senior analyst at Technavio for power research, “Global investments in 2016 for solar power were over USD 100 billion, which was lower than 2015. However, this can be attributed to the low cost required to manufacture PV system components due to technological advances that have ...
CDP Sustainability:
CN makes CDP Supplier A ListRailwayAge Magazine
CN is among the 2% of organizations participating in CDP's supply chain program to be awarded a position on the Supplier A List, in recognition of its actions to address climate change. The Supplier A List was released in Closing the Gap: Scaling up sustainable supply chain practices, CDP's Global ...
Honda, Nestle, Microsoft among companies recognized for sustainability
Supply Chain Dive
Environmental disclosure platform CDP has named 58 companies for their sustainability initiatives — twice the number it named last year. Among the companies are Apple, Coca-Cola, Honda, Johnson & Johnson and Nestle. CDP recognized companies that work with their suppliers to mitigate ...
CN recognized as leader for corporate environmental action
Markets Insider
The Supplier A List is released today in Closing the Gap: Scaling up sustainable supply chain practices, CDP's Global Supply Chain Report 2018, written by CDP using analysis provided by McKinsey & Company. The report reveals that awareness of climate change-related risks and opportunities is ...
Impact Investing:
This Impact Investing Platform Was Set To Be A Game-Changer. So Why Did It Fail?Fast Company
Launched in April last year, the ImpactUs marketplace was supposed to open up impact investing to new organizations and new funders. It was meant to be a major development in the emerging–but still limited–field of investing for both financial, and social and environmental, benefit. But, little more than ...
Grameen America Gets Into Impact Investing Game
Barron's
Grameen America, a U.S microfinance nonprofit founded by Muhammad Yunus, announced Tuesday that it closed its first impact investing fund, taking a small step toward tapping a method of social financing that's rapidly gaining popularity. Before this endeavor, Grameen America had relied strictly on ...
Predictions for 2018: Impact Investing
Pro Bono Australia
The brief, here, was to make some predictions for 2018 in the world of impact investing. I'm typically not great at sticking to a brief! Plus I'm a big subscriber to the words of Ionesco in Le Rhinoceros: “You can only predict things after they have happened”. There are however, a number of really, really, ...
Resource Conservation Investments:
Metropolitan Water District Posts New Report Outlining Investments in Conservation, Recycling ...Business Wire (press release)
... including Metropolitan's cumulative investment of $772 million in conservation, $448 million in water recycling and $151 million in groundwater recovery. These and other investments have brought Metropolitan and its member agencies recognition as national leaders in water resource management.
Socially Responsible Investing:
N/AFunds for Sustainable Investing:
Aspiration Investing Review: You Choose the Fees You PayStudent Loan Hero (blog)
As more investors demand socially responsible investments, financial institutions have responded by creating new financial products focused on investing sustainably. In fact, more than a fifth of funds under professional management are now in funds that do at least some screening to eliminate ...
Sustainability Investing:
Wanted: Private Capital to Tackle UN Sustainable Development GoalsBarron's
To UBS Wealth Management, the $5 trillion to $7 trillion annual cost of addressing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, can only be met with a huge boost in private capital. Public monies are meeting only a fraction of this need. Many wealthy investors have already taken up the ...
New sustainability index will facilitate sustainable investment in Europe
Climate Action Programme
Solactive, a leading German company in the indexing industry, has partnered with Deutsche Bank to launch the new Solactive Sustainability Index Europe- a tool designed to track the performance of environmentally and socially responsible European companies. The new index will use Arabesque S- ...
Value Investing! ESG linked investments in India likely to touch $240 billion in 10 years
Moneycontrol.com
In investment parlance, this method of investing is known as socially responsible investing which is fast gaining popularity. Morningstar defines sustainable investing as a long-term approach that incorporates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the investment process.
Philanthropic Investing
Chase boosts wages; 700 in La. see fatter paychecksMonroe News Star
The company said its investment is made possible "by the firm's strong and sustained business performance, recent changes to the U.S. corporate tax system and a more constructive regulatory and business environment." Dimon said the company will also increase its community-based philanthropic ...
JPMorgan Chase's plans for tax cut will benefit its Colorado employees
Denver Business Journal
The company also said it will increase community philanthropic investments by 40 percent to $1.75 billion over five years. “Our philanthropy continues to be a strategic investment in driving inclusive economic growth,” said Peter Scher, the company's head of Global Corporate Responsibility. “We have ...
Green Bond Funds:
Global green bond issuance rose to $163 bln in 2017-researchReuters
Companies from a range of sectors sold green bonds to fund corporate sustainability measures, including development of renewable energy and energy efficiency measures, the report said. * Earlier this month, the Climate Bonds Initiative said global issuance reached $155.5 billion last year. (Reporting ...
Green Bonds: A more grass roots method to helping the planet
Livewire Markets
The green bond market has grown and evolved rapidly as investors have become more environmentally aware. Now the green bond market represents a valuable compliment to more traditional responsible investment equity funds and some would argue offers a more direct method of supporting ...
Around Town briefs: Wildfire preparedness, green bond sale, free legal help for seniors
East Bay Times
1, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District will offer approximately $50 million in general obligation “green bonds” for sale to the public. Green bonds support environmental causes. In this case, the bond sale will allow Midpeninsula to borrow funds for public open space projects. The bonds will ...
Low Carbon Funds:
New York Pension Fund Doubles Bet on Low-Carbon CompaniesWall Street Journal
One of the largest state pension funds in the country has doubled its investment in a low carbon-emissions index, the latest high-profile endorsement of sustainable investing strategies. The New York State Common Retirement Fund will now invest $4 billion in a so-called low-emissions index designed ...
Scottish low carbon energy schemes could net £10 million of funding
Utility Week
Low carbon energy projects will be able to benefit from up to £10 million-worth of support from a £60 million Scottish government fund launched earlier this week. Roseanna Cunningham, climate change secretary in the Holyrood administration, officially launched the Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition ...
Why hasn't San Francisco's pension plan adopted a low carbon policy?
thebaycitybeacon.com
Individual investors have also taken action to reduce the carbon footprint in their retirement accounts. Using free online tools, such as the fossilfreefunds.org site, anyone can research the carbon footprint of their own mutual funds. Almost 60,000 individuals have already made pledges to divest from the ...
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