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California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Leadership from California mayors on climate change, air quality, and public transitUnion of Concerned Scientists (blog)
Whether in Minnesota, Utah, or California, electric buses offer significant benefits for air quality and climate change compared to diesel and natural gas buses. And the impacts of pollution from heavy-duty combustion vehicles are large, despite these vehicles making up a small fraction of vehicles on the ...
The question Amazon tribes and the Pope want Californians to start asking
Sacramento Bee
More than 3,500 indigenous leaders traveled to Puerto Maldonado, Peru, to meet with the pope and warn the world that our peoples and our forests are in ... We will report on our role – not as victims of a development model that is destroying our planet, but as a solution for slowing climate change.
Governor Brown Aims to Boost California's Leadership on Electric Cars
Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)
Transportation accounts for nearly 40% of California's climate emissions. And that's not including the emissions from producing gasoline and diesel from crude oil. Including those sources pushes transportation to about half of all global warming emissions in the state. Nationally, while transportation is a ...
Sustainable Investing:
Scientists develop sustainable investing frameworkPhys.Org
Scientists at The City University of New York (CUNY) and Harvard University, in partnership with UBS Asset Management, have developed a scientific framework to inform investment decisions that make positive contributions to sustainable environmental stewardship and human well-being. Among the ...
Scientifically assess impacts of sustainable investments - Science Magazine
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European Commission group outlines sustainable investing goals
Pensions & Investments
A taxonomy should be developed to define areas where capital is most needed to help promote sustainability in the European Union, recommends a group of pension funds and other investors. The EU High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance was established by the European Commission to ...
The 3 Biggest Questions About Sustainable Investing
Nasdaq
Mike Pellinni / Shutterstock Since joining Blackrock last fall, I've gotten a number of questions about sustainable investing. A common thread linking these questions - and rightfully so - is what sustainable investing means for investors' portfolios. And in many of these conversations, people are surprised ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
What Makes a Winning Corporate Responsibility Report? 4 TipsEnvironmental Leader
Accountability is an important aspect of a winning report, according to Air Canada president and CEO, Calin Rovinescu. Air Canada's Citizens of the World report was named a Best Sustainability Report by the Finance and Sustainability Initiative (FSI), a Canadian non-profit that brings together finance ...
Oxea Publishes First Sustainability Report
Business Wire (press release)
MONHEIM AM RHEIN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global chemical company Oxea has released its first Sustainability Report. It features extensive ... Oxea's report for the fiscal year 2016 has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 standard reporting guidelines.
Toronto Hydro releases 2016 Corporate Responsibility Report: Bringing Energy to Life
Markets Insider
This is our second report to be produced in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) G4 sustainability reporting guidelines. Five years ago, Toronto Hydro was certified as meeting the requirements of ISO 14001:2004 (upgraded to ISO 14001:2015 in 2017) and OHSAS 18001:2007, which are ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
A renewable energy investment opportunity not to be missedEconomic Times
The "Policy for Repowering of the Wind Power Projects" announced by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in August 2016 was a step in the right direction. Now is the time for global investors to pay more attention to wind-turbine repowering investment opportunities in India to take a grip on a ...
BP aims to invest more in renewables and clean energy
The Guardian
BP has declared it is looking to acquire more green energy firms, as the British oil giant pledged to set carbon targets for its operations. However, while the chief executive, Bob Dudley, said the industry was in a period of major change, he made clear that hydrocarbons would remain the core of BP's ...
After Tax Reform, Corporates Show Continued Interested in Direct Renewables Investment
Greentech Media
A month into the new tax scheme, industry watchers are still quantifying how much the new law will impact clean energy investments. There is agreement that the market will see at least some contraction. Jeff Waller, principal in the Rocky Mountain Institute's Sustainable Finance practice, said regulatory ...
CDP Sustainability:
Tim Mohin: 'The world doesn't need more CSR reports'Ethical Corporation Magazine
When Tim Mohin, the new head of the Global Reporting Initiative, spoke at Ethical Corporation's sustainability reporting summit last year, he opened with a reference to his fellow panellists: Richard Howitt, CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council and CDP's Paul Simpson. “Great to be up ...
Auckland airport becomes a sustainability champion
Stuff.co.nz
"We acknowledge that the aviation industry contributes to climate change, and we've set ourselves an ambitious goal of reducing our airport emissions by 45 per cent per square metre by 2025," Crook said. Auckland Airport has measured and disclosed its carbon footprint through the CDP every year for ...
CDP's €250bn mission to reinvigorate Italy
GlobalCapital
Also in support of the corporate sector, under its 2016-2010 plan CDP is committed to “intervene in the capital of companies of national importance, safeguarding their economic sustainability” through long-term equity investments. Internationally, meanwhile, CDP's mandate is to “significantly increase ...
Impact Investing:
Grameen America Expands Into Impact InvestingForbes
Grameen America is upping its game in impact investing. That's potentially especially good news for low-income women looking for microloans to jump-start a business. The microfinance organization just announced it closed its first Social Business Fund, an $11 million impact investing fund aimed at ...
Conference to Spotlight 'Impact Investing'
Inside INdiana Business
The co-founder of one of the world's largest private equity firms will headline a conference next week in downtown Indianapolis. The Carlyle Group Co-Executive Chairman David Rubenstein will join executives from organizations including BioCrossroads, AgriNovus and Elevate Ventures at the ...
Investing for social impact: new signs of promise
Christian Science Monitor
Since then, the mechanism behind this success story – known as pay for success or a social impact bond (SIB) – has spread to 24 countries, according to a report released this week by Social Finance, a nonprofit that sets up such bonds. So far, private investors have funded 108 projects aimed at saving ...
Resource Conservation Investments:
Using the 2018 farm bill to boost private investment in conservationThe Hill
A new study co-written by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the R Street Institute highlights how the farm bill's reauthorization provides a unique opportunity to leverage private investment in conservation. The farm bill is the largest single source of conservation funding in the United States ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Personal Capital Adds Socially Responsible Investing to Serve Rapidly Growing Client BasePR Newswire (press release)
SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- To serve the evolving needs of its rapidly growing client base, leading digital wealth manager Personal Capital today announced a new service which will offer clients socially responsible investment strategies through its Socially Responsible ...
Companies' social impact increasingly scrutinized by investors
BizTimes.com (Milwaukee)
These investment strategies are sometimes called socially responsible investment; sustainable, responsible and impact investing; and environmental, social and governance investing. Whatever you call it, investing a portfolio with an eye toward environmentally responsible, morally reputable and ...
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
Sustainable Funds: More Choices in More Categories Than EverMorningstar.com
Sustainable funds are those that use environmental, social, and corporate governance criteria to evaluate investments or assess their societal impact. They may pursue a sustainability-related theme or explicitly aim to create measurable environmental or societal impacts, alongside financial return.
Sustainable Funds Prove a Magnet for Money
Barron's
Sustainable investing is alive and growing in the U.S., according to Morningstar's first U.S. Sustainable Funds Landscape Report, a deep dive into the category. Sustainable mutual funds now have $98 billion in assets under management, up 58% from a year ago, according to the report authored by Jon ...
Restrained Gains for Sustainable Fund Assets in 2017
ThinkAdvisor
Shilling noted that “while lines in the sector may be blurring in the future, fund flows into the sustainable investing sector should pick up as the segment continues to pivot away from a focus on religious/ethical and exclusionary strategies in favor of integrating [environmental, social and governance] ...
Sustainability Investing:
Pirelli leads tire class in sustainability investing ratingsTire Business
ZURICH — Bridgestone Corp., Hankook Tire Co. Ltd., Nokian Tyres P.L.C. and Pirelli & C. S.p.A. were recognized recently for their sustainability efforts by RobecoSAM A.G., an investment specialist focused on sustainable investing. Of the four, Pirelli received the highest honor, a gold class rating — one ...
Philanthropic Investing
The Problem With Capitalist PhilanthropyJacobin magazine
Howard Buffett, like Bill Gates, belongs to the exclusive club of “capitalist philanthropists” who invest their wealth in solving the world's major problems in areas like health and agriculture. The Howard G. Buffett Foundation's mission statement explains that its investments “catalyze transformational ...
3 SRI Stocks to Consider Buying Now
Motley Fool
The bank received accolades for large community investments, particularly in economically challenged areas like Detroit, where it made a $100 million philanthropic investment, in addition to investments in its own business. JPMorgan sees Detroit as a model for how cities can work with large corporate ...
Activist Ory Okolloh Mwangi: Women can't expect their work to "speak for itself"
Quartz
Today, she's director of investments for Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm. Although she's a strong believer in the importance of investing in local African businesses, she's quick to note that countries need better policies and leadership—not just entrepreneurship—to succeed in the long ...
Green Bond Funds:
Australia green bond market muzzled by policy uncertaintyReuters
Other countries have offered tax breaks to bondholders, such as in Brazil, where income from green bonds that finance wind projects is not taxed. Sydney-based Yen Wong, the head of credit research at Altius Asset Management, which is one of the only two local sustainable bond funds in the country, ...
China loses top billing as green bond issuer to US
South China Morning Post
In the US, green bond issuance surged 120 per cent to first place at US$43.1 billion in 2017, with its proportion of the global issuance rising to 28 per cent from 22 per cent. Wilkins said issuers have become more willing to get into new forms of financing vehicles such as green loans, green funds, and ...
Global green bond issuance could hit US$250 billion in 2018
New Straits Times Online
“Reflecting the broader trend toward sustainable investing, the combined assets of dedicated green bond funds reached close to US$2 billion in the third quarter (Q3) of 2017, up from just US$500 million in November 2015. According to the report, the lack of a universally-applied global green bond ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Climate: MEPs pass law to cut CO2 emissions and fund low-carbon innovationEU News
Reduces availability of CO2 emission allowances to encourage low-carbon investment; Two new funds will support low-carbon innovation and transition; Begins delivering on EU pledges under the Paris Agreement. A law to strengthen EU curbs on CO2 emissions from industry, so as to begin delivering ...
New York's Giant Pension Fund Doubles Climate-Smart Investment
InsideClimate News
While the low-emissions index fund—which has had an annualized investment return of 16.5 percent—represents just a fraction of the pension fund's more than $200 billion in assets, DiNapoli said he hopes to continue to grow the low-carbon portfolio. The special climate fund is based on a traditional ..
CalPERS, AXA move money towards the Paris Climate Agreement
GreenBiz
How can institutional investors seize the market opportunities promised by the transition to low-carbon energy? Pension leaders recommend four key actions to help move towards the goals of the Paris Agreement: increased investment in renewables; corporate engagement; investor disclosure; and ...
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