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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Editorial Rdp
The Olympian
May 2. Los Angeles Times on defending California's right to clean air: World leaders may negotiate their climate change accords in foreign capitals, but the efforts to stem global warming may succeed or fail based on what happens in United States courtrooms, where the state of California is leading the ...
   
The waning days of highway widening
San Mateo Daily Journal
As Californians, we pride ourselves on climate leadership, and we have ... in increased driving, and increased driving contributes to climate change.

Air Canada operates biofuel flight from Edmonton to San Francisco
Biodiesel Magazine
Air Canada's leadership in the renewable resource sector strongly aligns ... which is integral to all of us working together to address climate change.

Sustainable Investing:

WORLDVIEW: Sustainable investing delivers market-beating returns
BizNews
WORLDVIEW: Sustainable investing delivers market-beating returns. In the last few years, sustainable investing has gone from a fringe fixation to a mainstream investment strategy. A growing number of sustainable investing funds are attracting assets and generating market-beating returns. This is a ...

Millennials – the Future or Fad of Sustainable Investment?
The Market Mogul
We hope to get a sense of whether Millennials will really prove to be an important driver of growth in sustainable and responsible investment or merely ...

Chinese investors warming up to impact investing, but regulations slowing progress
South China Morning Post
Impact investing aims to generate positive social and environmental outcomes alongside a financial return, and can include areas such as education, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Fairmount Santrol Launches Twelfth Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report
GlobeNewswire (press release)
CHESTERLAND, Ohio, May 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fairmount Santrol (NYSE:FMSA) is pleased to announce the release of its twelfth annual Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report, Do Good. Do Well. Always. The 2017 report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative ...

Teranga Gold Announces First Drawdown Under Facility For Construction of its Second Mine
Virginian-Pilot
The Company's responsibility report is available at www.terangagold.com/responsibilityreport and is prepared in accordance with its commitments under the United Nations Global Compact and in alignment with the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines. Contact Information Richard Young Trish Moran ...

Fraport Sets Group-Wide Climate Protection Goals: Further Significant Reduction of CO2 ...
eTurboNews
Fraport is complying with the sustainability reporting standards of the Global Reporting Initiative with a separate and detailed GRI report, which can ... 

Renewable Energy Investments:

AfDB's Investments In Electricity Was 100% Renewable Energy In 2017 - Official
SaharaReporters.com
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said all the investments in electricity in 2017 were in renewable energy. Amadou Hott, Vice President, Power, Energy, Climate and Growth Complex, who revealed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria also noted that 74% of the bank's investment in the ...

Solar Energy Investors are Placing Billions in Solar Farms for Up to 500% Returns
PR Newswire (press release)
ASHEVILLE, N.C., May 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Finding a stable high return investment is crucial for Private Wealth, funds, family offices and large investors these days. Solar Energy Investors are making huge returns on Utility Scale Solar Farm projects. Renewable Energy, and specifically, solar energy ...

US Becomes Second Most Attractive Country For Renewable Energy, Says New Study
Forbes
The United States is the second most attractive nation for renewable energy investments, according to the newest annual global ranking prepared by Ernst & Young. The international accounting juggernaut E&Y released the 2018 Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) today, showing ...

CDP Sustainability:

The Ongoing Partnership Between thinkstep and CDP
Thinkstep
We are pleased to announce that thinkstep has renewed its partnership with CDP. thinkstep is listed as an accredited silver software solutions provider ...

Impact Investing:

Special Report: Impact Investing
IPE.com
Some asset owners will say their ESG investments have always sought to make a positive difference to the world. That may well be the case but there is something distinct about the current interest in impact investing among institutional investors. It brings impact – the fact that all investing has an impact ...

China's sponge cities, Kingdom impact investing, Singapore's inclusive fintech boom
ImpactAlpha
Sizing the market for 'Biblically responsible investment” and “Kingdom” impact investing. The Franciscan Sisters of Mary in St. Louis have backed the ...

Chinese investors warming up to impact investing, but regulations slowing progress
South China Morning Post
Impact investing aims to generate positive social and environmental outcomes alongside a financial return, and can include areas such as education, ...

Resource Conservation Investments:

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Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing is in the crosshairs of the Labor Department
Marketplace.org
The Labor Department has suggests that considering values other than traditional measures like profits and losses when running a retirement plan ...

How Advisors Can Help Clients Be Socially Responsible Investors
ThinkAdvisor
The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors on Monday published several tips for consumers who want to become socially responsible investors, but worry about the financial tradeoff from such investments. Sustainable, responsible and impact investing is growing by leaps and bounds.

BNP Paribas targets mainland investors with socially responsible investment fund
South China Morning Post
BNP Paribas Asset Management joins a growing bandwagon of asset managers offering environmentally and socially responsible investment options, ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

University endowment funds face increasing pressure to be more sustainable
Financial Times
Yet when it comes to sustainable investing, university endowment funds have been slower than many other investors to take part. US university ...

DOL guidance on ESG funds shouldn't have chilling effect on social impact investments
InvestmentNews
Financial advisers looking for an excuse to avoid allocations to investments based on environmental, social and governance factors have been ... 

Sustainability Investing:

Investing Sustainably: Students Launch New Fund
Smith College Grécourt Gate
A multinational package delivery company, an engineering consulting firm and a water technology provider will receive the first investments from a new $100,000 fossil-fuel-free innovation fund managed by the Smith College Investment Club. Those were the winning stock proposals in the student club's ...

The Brief's Big Eight: Impact at Milken, private-equity watch, walking the impact talk, Al Gore's ...
ImpactAlpha
(Ret.) David Petraeus. “We are raising our first impact investing fund where we're going to…do good while still hopefully doing well,” said Petraeus, ...

Al Gore's Generation Investment Management builds the investment case for sustainability
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, May 2 – Generation Investment Management, the $19 billion public and private equity investment firm co-founded by the former vice president, isn't just calling the 'Sustainability Revolution.” It's building the business case for sustainable investing, starting with its own returns. The Financial ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Donations bill raises tensions between wealthy philanthropists and politicians
The Australian Financial Review
Underlying these tensions sit sensitive bilateral international investment and philanthropic relationships connecting Australia with China, Israel, Italy ...

'Talent' Has Become the New Theme Uniting Education and Employment
EdSurge
... of skills demands in the economy; evolutions in public policy; trends in venture and philanthropic investment; and new technology developments.
   
Learning Machine Raises $3M Seed Financing to Drive Growth of Blockchain Records and Identity ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives ...

Green Bond Funds:

Adaptation Finance Update: Green Bonds on the Rise but Will Adaptation Projects Benefit?
IISD Reporting Services
This fund is dedicated exclusively to emerging markets and focuses on investing in green bonds issued by private sector financial institutions.

Green bonds get glowing green light
Asia Times
Green bonds carry marginally higher costs, up to 7 basis points, due to ... Green bond funds do not exist, and the proposed $2 billion pool between ...

BNDES: Brazil's wind industry ready to tap green bond market
Recharge
The bank published its first Green Bond Report a year after the seven-year ... and transfers from the national treasury and workers guarantee fund.

Low Carbon Funds:

Will Climate Change Hurt Your Portfolio?
Barron's
The firm this week unveiled its new carbon risk score for mutual funds, which shows ... “We're saying anything below 10 is low carbon risk,” says Hale.

New Carbon Risk Score Launched by Morningstar
ThinkAdvisor
In his paper, “New Tools to Assess Carbon Risk in a Portfolio,” he found that U.S. large-value funds devote more than 20% of their assets to the three sectors with the highest levels of carbon risk: energy, utilities and materials. However, large-growth funds have less than 10% invested in those sectors.