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Sector Based Decarbonization:

New Study Outlines Comprehensive Plan for Decarbonization in the Nuclear Energy Sector
Interesting Engineering
Based on rising fears about the safety of nuclear reactors, the main part of the debate centers around whether governments should put pressure on ...

Sustainable Investing: 

Sustainable investing and the millennial investor
The Business Times
In addition, there are further factors that could be seen to be falling under the 'sustainable investing' umbrella in recent years, such as the gender pay ...

Impact Investing: Advisors Need To Build The Case For Imagining Big Capital
Forbes
A special thank you to Karen Wawrzaszek, for sharing her vision in conceiving this article. Her leadership in the Impact Investing space, her ...

Does sustainable investing bring weaker returns?
Money Marketing
The higher the value of assets, the greater the economic impact of climate-related events, making responsible investing a form of risk management for ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI Updates Water and Effluents Standard
IISD Reporting Services
28 August 2018: The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has issued an update to its water and effluents standard for corporate reporting. The revised ...

Ingevity publishes inaugural sustainability report
Tullahoma News and Guardian
Ingevity's 2017 sustainability report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, core option. The company ...

Continental Gold Issues 2017 Sustainability Report
Markets Insider
Continental Gold Issues 2017 Sustainability Report ... The report is Continental Gold's third annual update and is aligned with GRI (Global Reporting ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

APS' irrational war against renewable energy policy creates big risks for investors
Utility Dive
APS' irrational war against renewable energy policy creates big risks for ... But what should investors think when a utility pursues a scorched-earth ...

3 Top Renewable Energy Dividend Stocks to Buy Now
Motley Fool
Renewable energy has become a real player on a global basis. ... Take into consideration its plans to diversify its investments into storage and solar in ...

Fossil fuels dominate African energy investment
Deutsche Welle
The single biggest public investor in African energy was China. Hailed as a world leader on renewable energy development, 85 percent of its ...

CDP Sustainability:

Driving Sustainability in Asia
BRINK
Regarding communication of sustainability practices, the CDP A-List 2017 report on climate, water and forests includes 32 companies in Asia: 19 of ...

Science and context: Inside Diageo's refreshed Water Blueprint
edie.net
With water and sanitation at the core of sustainable development, edie ... in 2017, with analysis from CDP finding that more than $23bn was invested.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California's response to record wildfires: shift to 100% clean energy
The Guardian
That means replacing the current Republican leadership and its platform of climate denial with a Democratic leadership like California's.

How California and China are collaborating to fight climate change
Los Angeles Times
California's leadership role will be on display this week as Gov. Jerry Brown hosts thousands of international delegates at the Global Climate Action ...

Leadership must act now on climate change
Capitol Weekly
First, state leaders should direct California's utilities to procure more low-cost wind and solar energy in 2019 by passing AB 893, bringing billions of ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing and what it means for financial advisers
InvestmentNews
Over the course of the past 20 years, impact investing has grown from a cottage industry to a $9 trillion movement. Your clients are clamoring for it, ...

Impact Investors Should Use UN Targets as Investing Guide
Barron's
The Global Impact Investing Network is urging investors to do more than seek positive social and environmental impact from their investments by ..

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Sustainable fishing needed for food security
Daily Nation
“Even with the right management changes, there will be winners and losers. Success will require not only emissions reductions, but also multilateral ...

BCI sets out climate change action plan
Benefits Canada
“Climate change is becoming a focus of both long-term investment risk and ... of climate change, including the shift in investment winners and losers.

Marine aquaculture and the need to protect global food security
Science Daily
There will be some "winning" patches of ocean, however, where aquaculture production could fare well or better under climate change. For example ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investments are at a 'tipping point' says Triodos Bank
Co-operative News
New research by Triodos Bank has found that the UK market for socially responsible investments (SRI) has reached a tipping point of growth.

Socially Responsible Investing: What You Need to Know
The Motley Fool Canada
Traditional investors should be made aware of a new trend — socially responsible investing (SRI). What is SRI? At its core, it's an investment strategy ...

Socially Responsible Investing market worth £48 billion by 2027
UK Investor Magazine
The Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) market is set to grow by 173% reaching £48 billion by 2027, Triodos Bank reports. An increasing amount of ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Opinion: This is one way Donald Trump has been good for the environment
MarketWatch
The largest ETF focusing on ESG and other socially responsible investment practices is the Parnassus Core Equity Fund PRBLX, -0.02% where ...

To cash in on the boom in impact investment, transparency is key
Ethical Corporation Magazine
Millennial investors have fuelled a 50% rise in the SRI market, but early-stage businesses have to be able to show they are contributing to positive ...

How To Overcome The Gender Pioneer Gap
Forbes
These market-based solutions are creating significant interest in impact investing -- an investment strategy that seeks both financial and social returns.

Sustainability Investing:

A fixed-income investor's guide to impact investing
CNBC
As impact investing continues to grow — and into a nearly $9 trillion market, at that — many investors still remain focused on the equity side of their ...

Sustainable Investing Is A Low Priority For Institutional Investors
CleanTechnica
Sustainable investing remains a low priority for institutional investors, according to Schroders Institutional Investor Study 2018, despite expectations ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Pope leads Catholics to profit from, not just give to, the poor
Reuters
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After decades of giving to ... are starting to put their philanthropic billions into profitable investments instead ...

Going mainstream: The Future of ESG Investing [Download]
Newsweek
Philanthropic foundations are now linking their investments to the SDGs, and in the US, while the current administration has pulled out of the Paris ...

Designing Corporate Impact: 4 Keys to Success for Autodesk Foundation
Real Leaders (blog)
That generosity inspires Speicher, whose impact investing mentors include Kevin Starr of the Mulago Foundation and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green Bond Pledge: Global regions, businesses, and pension funds join as founding signatories
www.businessgreen.com
A global group of financial firms, pension funds, and city and state authorities have today been unveiled as founders of the Green Bond Pledge, which ...

Climate change: Why green bond financing is a good bet to raise resources to save nature
Firstpost
Is India too far from 'Green Bonds' financing? How can the same be channelised? What could be the possible ways to direct and monitor the smooth ...
  
Ireland is planning to issue its first ever green bond
MarketWatch
"The issuance of Green Bonds enables Ireland to access a new and growing pool of capital," said NTMA director of funding and debt management

Low Carbon Funds:

How Do You Assess a Fund's Carbon Risk?
Morningstar.com
About 100 out of 500 funds in the large-cap blend category get a low carbon designation, meaning, on average, their portfolios have low carbon risk.

Public pension funds slow to move on climate change risk: study
Reuters
Less than 1 percent of the funds' assets were invested in low-carbon solutions and only 10 percent of the funds had a policy to exclude coal from their ...