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Sector Based Decarbonization:
Addressing Corporate Scope 3 Value Chain GHG Emissions: Part 1Sustainable Brands
The Sectoral Decarbonization Approach provides sector-based emission reduction pathways for corporate activities. They take into account inherent ...
Cargill launches global CO2 Challenge to help decarbonize the shipping sector
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
The initiative, focused on decarbonizing the shipping sector, is being launched in partnership with DNV GL, the global quality assurance and risk ...
Sustainable Investing:
Growing interest in sustainable investing boosts LiontrustFT Adviser
The fund house's latest results, which cover the period to the end of March 2018, show Liontrust's sustainable investment team now manages £3bn of ...
HAHN: Socially responsible investing evolves, gains converts
Indianapolis Business Journal
Investing your conscience. Funding change.These concepts all fall under the larger umbrella of socially responsible investing. The premise is that you ...
Why Sponsors Include Sustainable Investing in 401k Menus
The 401(k) Specialist (blog)
Adoption of Sustainable Investing (SI) strategies, or those that integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals, has seen considerable ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Comerica Releases Corporate Responsibility Progress ReportMarkets Insider
The report updates the company's Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)-based comprehensive corporate responsibility report, published in 2017, and ...
Golden Agri-Resources' latest Sustainability Report tracks progress on supply chain transformation
Virginian-Pilot
The SR2017 is based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards Reporting Guidelines. The full report can be viewed on the GAR website.
Goldcorp releases 2017 sustainability report
Business News Americas
Goldcorp's 2017 Sustainability Report is independently assured and follows the requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, the ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Stakeholders review ways to reduce social pressures through renewable energy investmentsJordan Times
AMMAN — Two workshops aimed at developing ways to scale up the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in the Kingdom in line ...
Tunisia: Derisking Renewable Energy Investment 2018
NewClimate Institute
Today's investment environment for renewable energy in Tunisia is characterised by a number of investment risks that result in high financing costs.
3 Oil Companies Getting Serious About Renewable Energy -- and 2 That Aren't
Motley Fool
But investors that take a more nuanced approach will find transitioning toward renewable energy as quickly as possible will require the engagement ...
CDP Sustainability:
Tesco and Target join CDP's supply chain initiativeedie.net
“It's very encouraging to see so many of the world's biggest buyers taking supply chain sustainability seriously,” CDP's head of supply chains, Sonya ...
Supporting companies on sustainability issues in 2018 Jenny Frings, CDP Corporate Partnerships
CDP
CDP's accredited solutions providers offer a range of services across a variety of sustainability issues. These include providers of independent, ...
Retailers go green, as purchasers with over US$3.3trillion spend scale up supply chain sustainability
CDP
26 June, 2018: Leading retail powerhouses are stepping up on supply chain sustainability, according to the latest figures from CDP, a global ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
California Leaders Urge the State to Stop Fossil Fuel Production
Pacific Standard
Elected Officials to Protect California, a group whose mission is "to empower bold, courageous leadership from elected officials on climate change ...
100% by 2045: California evaluates one of the nation's biggest clean energy goals
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
California's leadership could help tip the scale. ... This has the potential reduce climate change causing pollution, lower electricity costs, and support ...
Impact Investing:
African startups invited to apply for $50k impact investing challengeDisrupt Africa
African startups have been invited to apply for the US$50,000 MBA Impact Investing Network and Training (MIINT) challenge, an experiential lab ...
Wealthy Millennials Fuel Impact Investing Gains
Barron's
Impact investing continues to gain momentum among high-net-worth Americans in 2018, largely driven by younger investors' commitment to socially ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
JLL surpasses carbon emission reduction targetsPR Newswire (press release)
During the nine years JLL has been reporting its sustainability performance, ... Set a Science Based Target for JLL's global emission reductions, with ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
A Financial Advisor's Top Socially Responsible ETFsInvestopedia (blog)
Once considered a “feel good” investment strategy, socially responsible investing (SRI) is now at the forefront of investing. There are several methods ...
Does 'Feel-Good Investing' Come at a Low-Return Cost?
RealClearMarkets
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) – whereby people or institutions put their wealth in mutual funds, pensions, and companies that are ...
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
Dislike! Sustainable Fund Says Dump FacebookBloomberg
No responsible investor should own Facebook Inc. shares, according to the head of sustainable investing at the biggest bank in the Nordic region.
Getting Started in Sustainable Investing
Barron's
But just $2.5 trillion is in funds with specific mandates to incorporate ESG ... The $660 million Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth fund (BAWAX) ...
Facebook Should Be Dropped by Sustainable Funds, Nordea Says
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. should be excluded from the holdings of money managers serious about ethical investing, says the head of sustainable funds at the ...
Sustainability Investing:
Impact investing business profs to share their syllabi and other secretsImpactAlpha
Consortium members teaching impact investing are increasingly full-time and tenure-track. A growing number are coming from schools other than ...
Swell Launches Impact Investing for FAs, Partners with Folio
Financial Advisor IQ
Impact investing platform Swell has rolled out a platform aimed at financial advisors and partnered with Folio Institutional, according to a press release ...
Philanthropic Investing:
Moving Community Foundation Dollars from Wall Street to Main StreetNext City
Those laws, regulations and customs all typically require that the entity managing the philanthropic assets invest those assets responsibly, with a focus ...
KIM: 'Secret' to stunning philanthropic gifts hiding in plain sight
Indianapolis Business Journal
Investing by Mickey Kim I'm always amazed to read about “salt-of-the-earth” people of modest means who still manage to amass multimillion-dollar ...
Wells Fargo Promotes Longtime Vet to Central Coast Middle-Market Banking Leader
ABL Advisor
In 2017, Wells Fargo served Central Coast customers and communities through philanthropic investing of more than $2.1 million to 179 local ...
Green Bond Funds:
French asset manager Amundi to create high-yield green bond market through US$1.42 billion fundSouth China Morning Post
Amundi Planet Emerging Green One, which is the world's largest emerging market-focused green bond fund, had US$1.38 billion in assets under ...
Kenya Pooled Water Fund CEO: The Water, Sanitation Sector is Ready for Green Bonds
Bonds & Loans
Robert Bunyi, CEO of the Kenya Pooled Water Fund talks to Bonds & Loans about why green bonds could help funnel billions of shillings to the sector, ...
The risks behind the 'green bond' boom
EUobserver
Investors in a traditional bond have limited information on how proceeds are invested, while green bond issuers are allowed to use the funds raised ...
Low Carbon Funds:
The not-so ethical funds: 'I switched my pension to a 'low-carbon' fund and it invested me in Shell'Telegraph.co.uk
Millions of people are being duped into believing that their pension is invested “ethically” when in reality they are exposed to sectors such as oil, gas ...
North County Transit District Ends Fare Subsidy Program for Students
NBC 7 San Diego
The program was made possible through a grant by the California Low Carbon Transit Operations Program and the grant fund is running out.
Reality Shares introduces a blockchain ETF: Fund Scan
Financial Planning
The Virtus KAR Small-Mid Cap Core Fund was introduced by Virtus ... among which, 6,000 funds will get Morningstar's low carbon designation.
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