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Sustainable Investing: 

Sustainable investing grows in popularity, but is dogged by performance questions
MarketWatch
This is the promise of sustainable investing, one of the trendiest strategies on Wall Street, but one where the effectiveness remains highly debated and ...

Sustainable Investing - Today's Editors' Picks
Seeking Alpha
Have we entered the Renewable Revolution? The move toward a sustainable economy may lead to some investing opportunities. Henry Miles offers ...

Alibaba, Tencent, and Sustainable Investing
Barron's
When Gary Greenberg graduated from business school in 1985, he had idealistic views about how investors could help open doors for progress in ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Goodyear highlights continuous improvement in annual corporate responsibility report
Automotive World (press release)
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company today released its annual report on ... Goodyear follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards in its ...

Sustainability Assurance Services
The CPA Journal
In fact, an important trend in sustainability disclosure is that ESG reporting is ... Lockheed Martin extends assurance to 21 GRI indicators, including ...

Conflict Minerals Disclosure Requirements and Corporate Social Responsibility
The CPA Journal
According to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework, reporting companies disclose how their operations and relationships with others affect ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Investing in the future: the institutions funding renewable energy projects
Irish Times
Given the sums involved, if there is one certainty about the opportunities of a country's shift toward renewable energy, it is that investors will never be ...

India's renewable energy investments topple fossil-fuel for the first time in 2017: IEA
ETEnergyworld.com
New Delhi: Investment in India's renewable energy sector overtook those made in the country's fossil-fuel based power generation projects for the first ...

Renewable Energy Won't Succeed Without This -- and Utilities Are Already Preparing
Motley Fool
In fact, there's a strong correlation between the most ambitious renewable energy investment strategies and energy efficiency programs. Some utilities ...

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Climate Scientists Call on Jerry Brown to End Oil Extraction in California
Pacific Standard
Brown has been roundly praised in recent years for his climate leadership, especially as ... But there's little time to celebrate if we are to stave off the worst effects of climate change going forward, according to Shaye Wolf, the climate ...

California Democrats' Dianne Feinstein snub sends a strong signal to liberal candidates nationwide
NBCNews.com
But this past Saturday, leaders of the California Democratic Party did ... cost of healthcare, the shortage of housing, or the ravages of climate change.

California hits emissions target two years early
Climate Action Programme
“California set the toughest emissions targets in the nation, tracked progress ... “In California we see the impacts of climate change all around us, but our ... as we face the failure of our national leadership to address climate change.” ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing: When Social Benefits Are in the Contract
Knowledge@Wharton
For impact investors, there are two bottom lines, says Wharton finance professor David Musto: making money, and making the world a better place.

Billionaire Marc Lasry's take on impact investing in the US
CNBC
Marc Lasry, Avenue Capital Group co-founder, chairman and CEO, shares his views on the health of the U.S. economy and where he is finding ...

How impact investing can tackle the plastic crisis
Raconteur
As organisations react to this new consumer concern, impact investing offers opportunities to commercialise this much-needed global clean-up.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Molson Coors Pushes Forward on Science-Based Targets
Triple Pundit (blog)
Molson Coors Pushes Forward on Science-Based Targets ... The company says its 2025 goals seek to reduce its carbon emissions by 50 percent ...

Real-estate firm surpasses carbon-reduction targets
Business Mirror
Its goals include transforming workplaces with science-based targets. This includes reducing building-related greenhouse-gas emissions and ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How the first nonprofit ETF issuer can change socially responsible investing
Fox Business
A nonprofit investment manager is teaming up with the nation's oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization to issue its own exchange-trade ...

Socially responsible ETFs now come with a twist
Crain's Chicago Business
(Bloomberg) — A nonprofit investment manager is starting a group of “socially responsible” exchange-traded funds that could change the face of ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

£620m sustainable fund manager: 'BT has been the biggest problem for us'
Telegraph.co.uk
But according to Mike Fox, who runs the Royal London Sustainable Leaders fund, savers no longer need to forgo some of their gains if they want to ...

The Brief's Big 8: Vatican impact, global goals scorecard, beyond aid, sustainable oceans fund ...
ImpactAlpha
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! The split screen between this week's gatherings at the Vatican, where impact investors pledged themselves to ...

Sustainability Investing:

How local bars are investing in sustainability
WOODTV.com
How local bars are investing in sustainability ... out and a lot can be sorted out," Carrie Veldman, who leads the sustainability program at BarFly, said.

New RIAA Report: Impact Investment Delivering for our Environment and Communities
Pro Bono Australia
Impact investing is capturing the interest of all of these groups. And with nearly $6 billion of capital now being put to work to deliver a better society and ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Boeing Co (BA) Holder Guinness Atkinson Asset Management Has Lowered Its Stake by $1.28 ...
Hillary HQ (press release)
Guinness Atkinson Asset Management Inc who had been investing in ... More Than $54 Million in Grants and Philanthropic Investments; 27/03/2018 ...

Westover Capital Advisors Increases Stake in Boeing Co (BA); Schlumberger LTD F (SLB ...
Flecha 123 (press release)
Westover Capital Advisors Llc who had been investing in Boeing Co for a number ... More Than $54 Million in Grants and Philanthropic Investments; 07/03/2018 ... It dived, as 60 investors sold BA shares while 691 reduced holdings.

Green Bond Funds:

Municipalities could benefit from issuing more green bonds
Brookings Institution (blog)
For instance, municipalities can use green bonds to fund projects focused on renewable energy, clean transportation, sustainable water management, ...

Green-Bond Market Needs to Get Tough to Blossom
Bloomberg
For those unfamiliar with green bonds, they're essentially what you'd imagine: securities issued to fund projects that are good for the environment.

Green bonds: The $2 trillion opportunity
Fortune India
Thus, green financing is a big opportunity. No wonder the global market is teeming with new players—specific green bond funds, ESG (environmental, ...

Low Carbon Funds:

UrbanVolt Signs $65m Funding Deal with UK Investment Firm Low Carbon
Markets Insider
DUBLIN, July 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- UrbanVolt, the Irish company which established the Light as a Service (LaaS®) business model, has signed a ...

Lift-off: UK firm Orbex secures £30m to launch low carbon rockets
www.businessgreen.com
UK space flight firm Orbex has secured £30m in public and private funding to develop low carbon rockets, which it hopes will one day launch satellites ...

Funding Roundup: Flow Batteries, Free EV Charging, Carbon Capture and 'Light-as-a-Service'
Greentech Media
Finally, in Ireland, “Light-as-a-Service” provider UrbanVolt closed a $65 million financing deal with UK investment company Low Carbon. UrbanVolt ...