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Sector Based Decarbonization:

EU 'deep decarbonization needs unprecedented storage and renewables drive'
Power Engineering International
“Deep decarbonization will require unprecedented efforts” across Europe if the ... a close connection between electrification and deep decarbonization. ... transition and pursue a fully carbon-neutral power sector well before 2050.

Sustainable Investing: 

Young rich Singaporeans keen on sustainable investing: survey
The Business Times
YOUNG rich Singaporeans are keen on sustainable investing, and they also understand that doing good can be profitable, a survey showed. Investors ...

How to Take a Passive Approach to Sustainable Investing
ThinkAdvisor
Sustainable investing is big business, and getting bigger every day. In fact, assets under management that incorporate some environmental, social or ...

Getting Asian investors to adopt sustainable investing practices among key issues at AVPN ...
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - Asian investors are lagging their global counterparts in the adoption of socially responsible investing practices even as this trend is on ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Union Pacific Delivers on its Mission of Service
Union Pacific (press release)
Union Pacific uses the Global Reporting Initiative's global sustainability reporting standards as a guide to report its most material social responsibility ...

Air Products Publishes 2018 Sustainability Report
PR Newswire (press release)
Highlights of the GRI Report include: Air Products' commitment to safety, including delivering the best safety performance in the Company's more than ...

Iron Mountain Publishes Fifth Annual Corporate Responsibility Report
PR Newswire (press release)
The full report is available for download on Iron Mountain's Corporate ... Corporate Sustainability Report follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Big Oil Is Investing Billions in Renewable Energy. Here's Where and How.
Motley Fool
If the future of energy were a storybook, then renewable energy would play the part of the hero. That would leave oil and gas producers as the villains ...

Solar Farms by ISS Offer Proven Renewable Energy Investment Returns
PR Newswire (press release)
To help Solar Energy Investors achieve reliable income, ISS specializes in offering a wide variety of Solar Energy Investment Portfolios containing our ...

NV Energy new clean energy investment depends on Question 3
Las Vegas Review-Journal
NV Energy announced plans Thursday to add six new solar projects in Nevada in what it said is the largest clean energy investment in the state's ...

CDP Sustainability:

Carbon Clear News
Carbon Clear (blog)
... independently verified and assured by Carbon Clear, as a CDP Accredited Provider of carbon, energy management and sustainability services.

Major Tech Companies Urged to Boost Carbon Disclosure in Time for September Summit
Environmental Leader
“Companies, cities, states and regions who have disclosed via CDP for many ... might consider reporting their climate change and sustainability data.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Leaders
Sacramento Bee
Former Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court .... California's leaders must confront the challenge of climate change, lack of affordable housing ...

One Year After Trump Left the Paris Agreement, Who's Still In?
CityLab
And while states and cities have taken climate action on the ground—banning hydrofluorocarbon pollutants (California); divesting pension funds from ...

Prop. 70 will undermine California's climate investments
Sacramento Bee
... that are improving health, cleaning the air and fighting climate change. ... vulnerable communities and California's climate leadership are on the line.

Impact Investing:

When Investing Is More: Three Ways Impact Investors Incorporate Self
Forbes
My personal journey intertwines with my investment journey. When I was starting out in the field as a representative for a large financial company, ...

Forbes' Impact Summit Will Bring Together Business Titans, Impact Investors, And Major ...
Forbes
Forbes will Host its First-Ever Impact Summit June 12-13, 2018 in Newark and New York City. NEW YORK (May 31, 2018) – Forbes Media announced ...

Impact investing assets under management doubled to $228 billion last year
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, May 31 – The Global Impact Investing Network's Amit Bouri dropped the figure in an interview with Business Insider ahead of the release ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially Responsible Investing Designation for Advisors to Debut This Fall
ThinkAdvisor
According to US SIF, more than 20% of assets under management in the U.S., some $8.7 trillion, are now involved in socially responsible investing ...

Asia lagging behind in socially responsible investments: Report
The Straits Times
Asian investors are lagging behind their global counterparts in the adoption of socially responsible investment practices, even as this trend is on the ...

Give the People What They Want: Socially Responsible Investments in 401(k)s
Nasdaq
While the names applied to such investment strategies abound, including terms such as socially responsible investing, impact investing, ESG ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Don't Get Thrown Off by Sustainable Fund Labels
Morningstar.com
Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive changed its name to Neuberger Berman Sustainable Equity (NBSLX) this month. Launched in 1994, the fund ...

Sustainability Investing:

Inside Swell, Pacific Life's in-house impact investing startup
Digiday
“It was a nights and weekends passion of mine,” said Fanger, CEO of Swell, the impact investing platform owned by Newport Beach, California-based ...

Mainstreaming impact investing: What do investors want?
The Business Times
Institutional investors are taking a cross-asset class view of impact investing, catering to a spectrum of risk tolerance levels and return expectations.

Philanthropic Investing:

Investing their time: Dozens of Bay Area-based philanthropic organizations tour Stockton
Stockton Record
STAND administrator Fred Sheil talks to the group in a vacant lot on Phelps and Airport Way in south Stockton. [CALIXTRO ROMIAS/THE RECORD].

Men love being philanthropic — if they can get something in return
The Outline
While women and men were roughly as likely to participate in impact investing on the whole, 18.9% of men surveyed did so “in place of some or all ...

Profile: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros
BBC News
Hungarian-American businessman George Soros is one of the world's most renowned, and philanthropic, financial investors. Earning his fortune ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green bond use signals growing environmental focus says Imperial report
Imperial College London
The growing use of green bonds signals that sustainable economic ... investors, either by purchasing directly or by investing in green bond funds.

Bank analysts estimate $600bn of green bonds from Asia by 2023
IPE.com
Major European pension funds were among the backers of a $1.42bn emerging market green bond fund recently launched by Amundi and the ...

Kenya mulls sovereign green bond to plug 2018/2019 budget deficit
Xinhua
"We are still yet to determine the time and size of the green bond but its proceeds will be used to fund the green infrastructure projects that have been ...

Low Carbon Funds:

EU tables ground-breaking 'low-carbon benchmark' for green finance
EURACTIV
The European Commission presented on Thursday (24 May) a set of proposals aimed at boosting private investment in low-carbon technologies like ...

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Hot ETF Right Now?
Nasdaq
Launched on 12/08/2014, the iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) is a smart beta exchange traded fund offering broad exposure to ...

Nordic Clean Energy Week: Which Way Towards the Global Low Carbon Economy?
IISD Reporting Services
Nordic Clean Energy Week: Which Way Towards the Global Low Carbon ... Members have committed to double their governments' funding for clean ...