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Sustainable Investing: 

Sustainable Investing With Teeth
Barron's
Matt Patsky's interest in sustainable investing came early: At 11, he took his savings from cutting lawns and shoveling driveways to buy his first ...

Some Challenges For Investing Sustainably
Seeking Alpha
Early-stage problems of sustainable investment industry - related to definition, inclusion and delineation, potential misrepresentation, and ...

Fidelity Charitable Expands Impact Investing Options
Barron's
Investors who use donor-advised funds as a vehicle for philanthropic donations increasingly want these funds invested in companies that are doing ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Worldline Confirms its Leading Position in CSR
Payment Week
For the third year in a row, the Worldline CSR report has been published in compliance with the most stringent Standards of the GRI, an independent ...

Sherritt Publishes its 2017 Sustainability Report
Business Wire (press release)
The report, which was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative's Standards, is only available online at sustainability.sherritt.com.

Your Small Business Needs a Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Business News Daily
Hershey has an additional document dedicated to its Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) submission and the company's greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

EU investment supports Austrian renewable energy expansion
New Europe
The European Commission said on June 11 that it is supporting renewable energy expansion in Austria via European Investment Bank loans.

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other influential billionaires are investing in 2 startups that could solve ...
Business Insider
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other influential billionaires are investing in 2 startups that could solve the biggest problem with renewable energy.

Northleaf Capital expands in Australia with stakes in two renewable energy projects
Financial Post
Northleaf Capital Partners is expanding its footprint in Australia with the firm's latest investment in renewable energy and the establishment of an office ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Leadership and climate change
Plattsburgh Press Republican
In a bizarre twist, on April 28, California had a record peak of renewable ... So here we have the threat of drought, induced by climate change, taking ...

Will Chevron Show Leadership in Climate Solutions? Notes From the 2018 Shareholders' Meeting
Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)
Of these, almost all of them were on three topics: climate change, human rights, and an ongoing lawsuit ... I am a scientist here in Northern California.

Climate Weekly: Climate to suffer as G7 splits
Climate Home
As leaders head to Charlevoix, Canada, it looks increasingly likely to ... It widens the rift caused by his break from the consensus on climate change.

Impact Investing:

Can University Seeding and Impact Investing Hasten Blockchain Adoption?
Irish Tech News
Impact investing is trending globally, attracting both individual and institutional investors. At the beginning of 2016, the global 'impact' market stood at ...

This impact investor says stop trying to help people without including them in the conversation
Business Insider
Simon says impact investing can often fall short or be somewhat misguided. She says, "we're often making decisions from the 30th floor of a high-rise ...

Impact investments made by more than 70% of millennials and Gen Xers
InvestmentNews
A large majority of affluent millennials (77%) and Generation X investors (72%) have made an impact investment, according to a study from Fidelity ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Pointers for socially conscious investing
Newsday
While boomers were among the first to embrace socially responsible investing, a new study from Fidelity Charitable, an independent public charity ...

ESG funds: What you need to know about socially responsible investing
USA TODAY
"Environmental, social and governance" funds focus on sustainable, socially conscious investing. Such investing, “has gained considerable traction ...

A Champion of Responsible Investing Takes On the Gun Industry
New York Times
As chief of one of the world's biggest responsible investing mutual funds, Mr. .... “That this matters from a business sense, not a social justice sense.”.

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Impact Investing: Using Your Dollars to Make Change
NerdWallet (blog)
And when money talks, corporations often listen. Impact investing is part of the broader socially responsible investing universe and has resulted in ...

Sustainability Investing:

The next generation of Silicon Valley's sustainability investing needs strategic corporates
GreenBiz
Silicon Valley's cleantech boom and bust cycle has been well chronicled, but some venture capitalists are working on new methods for funding the ...

Some Challenges For Investing Sustainably
Seeking Alpha
Early-stage problems of sustainable investment industry - related to definition, inclusion and delineation, potential misrepresentation, and ...

The Brief's Big 10: What's next for SDG investing, breakthrough energy, Opportunity Zone ...
ImpactAlpha
The Impact Alpha: Abraaj Group liquidation tests champions of SDG investing. It's time for the mission-driven investors behind the $1 billion Abraaj ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Impact Investing Could Displace Traditional Charitable Giving
Pro Bono Australia
Impact investing could displace traditional charitable donations, with men driving this replacement more than women, according to a new study in the ...

Toward a new economic paradigm: Jed Emerson on theory, practice and community
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, June 6 – Recent discussions and reflections taking place within philanthropy and impact investing concern the seeming divide between ...

The Quest of Laurene Powell Jobs
Washington Post
It would involve philanthropy … technology … social change — she was ... editor of the New York Times, oversees media investments and grants.

Green Bond Funds:

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to Issue Green Bonds
GlobeNewswire (press release)
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to Issue Green Bonds ... plans to issue its inaugural Green Bond, becoming the first pension fund to do so.

Auckland Council to launch $200 million green bond offer to fund electric trains
New Zealand Herald
Green bonds are created to fund projects that have environmental or climate benefits, and Auckland Council is the first in New Zealand to offer them.

Low Carbon Funds:

How carbon-heavy are the most popular funds?
Money Observer
Funds with low levels of fossil fuel exposure get a 'low carbon designation'. If they also have less than 7 per cent of their companies' revenues derived ...

Equinor Finds Opportunity In Transition To Low Carbon Future
Forbes
Equinor Finds Opportunity In Transition To Low Carbon Future ... one of the world's largest corporate venture funds dedicated to investing in growth ...

Investor LGIM seeks removal of eight company chairs over climate change inaction
Reuters
Legal & General Investment Management, the fund arm of insurer Legal ... said some were not doing enough to prepare for a low-carbon economy.