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Sustainable Investing: 

Sustainable Investing Gains Traction
Seeking Alpha
Our take on sustainable investing: It's gaining popularity, does not require sacrificing risk-adjusted returns, and can increase portfolio resilience.

Sustainable Investing: A Glossary
Barron's
There are a number of approaches that try to foster one or more sustainable investing goals. European asset managers are leading the charge.

Most asset owners into sustainable investing: Survey
The Straits Times
A survey of large investors around the world found that a majority of them are pursuing sustainable investing to manage risk and drive returns.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Sappi North America: Maine mills are key to sustainable business strategy
Mainebiz
"To us it's a very solid report card on our world-class business plan," said ... Nations Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative and ISO 26000.

Kimco Realty Releases 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report
Financial Post
The 34-page Corporate Responsibility Report follows the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. The summary ...

Cargill looks for 15% cut in shipping CO2 emissions by 2020
Marine Log
The report, written in line with the Global Reporting Initiative, provides an update on progress for 2017. The company outlines its plans and activities to ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

What Financiers Need to Unlock $1 Trillion in Renewable Energy Investment
Greentech Media
Under the right conditions financial institutions say they could double their planned investments in the U.S. renewable energy sector, with the potential ...

Clean energy investment 'must be 50% higher' to limit warming to 1.5C
Carbon Brief
The paper also finds a far faster increase in low-carbon energy and energy efficiency investment would be needed to limit warming to 1.5C.

Renewable energy investments may double by 2030, reaching $1 trillion, survey finds
Agri-Pulse
An overwhelming majority of top investors in the U.S. renewable energy sector intend to double their cumulative investments between now and 2030, ...

CDP Sustainability:

Global investors pick firms that keep pace with greening world
Inquirer.net
During the first ever Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) workshop in the ... funds were selecting companies with proven sustainability track records.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Tries Again With 3 Landmark Clean Energy Bills. This Time Things Are Different
Greentech Media
California has championed clean energy and climate change mitigation, but legislators last year failed to pass SB 100, a 100 percent clean energy bill authored by Senate leader Kevin De León and supported by Governor Jerry ...

Prop 70's resounding defeat signals need for bolder climate leadership
Ventura County Star
Low-income residents and communities of color across California are not only on the frontlines of climate change — they're also at the forefront when ...

Who Owns California 2018: Big Oil and the Western States Petroleum Association Exposed
Red, Green, and Blue
Who Owns California 2018: Big Oil and the Western States Petroleum ... Over the past ten years, oil lobbying in California has topped $150 million: ... Nechodom, in turn resigned in the summer of 2015 the day after Central ... and climate groups, reveals how California's climate leadership requires a ...

Impact Investing:

Practice Management Launches Impact Investing Module to Educate Advisors
Business Wire (press release)
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With a market estimated at more than $8.72 trillion in sustainable, responsible, and impact investing, the sector is ...

Newday Investing Brings Impact Investing to the Mainstream
PR Newswire (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Newday Investing, a financial technology and institutional asset management company bringing ...

Sign Of The Times: Designation For Financial Planners Underscores Demand For Impact Investing
Forbes
An impact-investing oriented professional designation for financial advisors was recently unveiled by the College of Financial Planning, ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

5 Things to Know About Responsible Investing
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
A wide spectrum of responsible investment strategies meet at the intersection of personal values and investment portfolios – including socially ...

For just $5, you can now start a responsible investment portfolio
Fast Company
Newday Investing, a recently founded impact investment firm expects to make all of these leaps far easier with a new kind of socially responsible ...

Social Investing Has a New Message
Wall Street Journal
Also referred to as socially responsible investing, or SRI, this approach began in earnest in stock markets in the 1990s, but spread to bonds in recent ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

What You Need To Know About Fund Sustainability Ratings
Forbes
Given the choice between two funds that have similar returns, many people prefer to invest in the one that prioritizes investing in companies that have ...

For donor-advised funds, investible options climb with demand
ImpactAlpha
Fidelity Charitable, the nation's largest provider of donor-advised funds, has seen the share of this capital committed to impact investing increase ...

Sustainability 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 ...

Getting Started in Sustainable Investing
Barron's
Critics contend that sustainable investing requires a willingness to accept lower returns—“economic concessions” in Wall Street parlance. However ...

Philanthropic Investing:

"Investment Ready." A New Venture Philanthropy Fund Gets Up and Running
Inside Philanthropy
“This is why New Coast Foundation is developing a multi-pronged approach to philanthropic investments, including investing growth capital, ...

Philanthropic investment co Omidyar sharpens focus on vernacular platforms
Business Standard
Philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network is betting big on local language platforms sensing huge opportunities in this space as the country is ...

Fidelity Charitable® Practice Management Launches Impact Investing Module to Educate Advisors
Odessa American
This course explained the intersection of philanthropy and impact investing across asset classes and risk spectrum, helping me, as an advisor, to offer ...

Green Bond Funds:

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board sells $1.2 billion green bond in global first
Pensions & Investments
The pension fund, which boasts the highest credit score at the three largest rating firms, priced C$1.5 billion ($1.16 billion) of green bonds Wednesday ...

London Stock Exchange welcomes its biggest green bond from China's ICBC
Renewables Now
The funds will be used to finance green assets under ICBC's Green Bond Framework, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, low-carbon ...

Ontario Power Generation set to be the next green bond issuer
Financial Post
That offering is also the largest by a Canadian issuer and the first by a pension fund. On Monday, OPG posted a green bond investor presentation on ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Blending climate funds to finance low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure
Brookings Institution
By 2030 the world will need to build approximately $85 trillion in low-carbon climate-resilient (LCR) infrastructure in order to meet the Paris climate ...

Climate Mitigation Finance Update: Carbon Pricing Gains Traction, Banks Update Policies to ...
IISD Reporting Services
MDBs and commercial banks have also announced changes in their financing policies to support a low-carbon transition in line with the Paris ...

Responsible Investing: The impact of carbon risk on your portfolio
The Edge Markets MY
As the world transitions into a low-carbon economy, investors can no longer .... “Most categories of diversified funds, however, have low-carbon fund ...