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Sustainable Investing: 

Hurricane Florence Hands a Megaphone to Supporters of Sustainable Investing
Barron's
As Hurricane Florence made landfall and followed a path projected to move across the Carolinas on Friday, advocates of sustainable investing sought ...

Sustainable investing doesn't hamper returns, say investors
Money Observer
Sustainable and ethical investment providers have long battled the assumption that performance is compromised when environmental, social and ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Can The World's Major Companies Really Become Committed To Sustainable Development?
Forbes
Since then, international bodies such as the Global Reporting Initiative, the UN Global Compact or the World Business Council for Sustainable ...

WEF Paper Examines Links between Global Value Chains, Voluntary Sustainability Standards
IISD Reporting Services
WEF Paper Examines Links between Global Value Chains, Voluntary ... this topic by the UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Owens Corning Earns Place on Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Ninth Straight Year
Odessa American
Owens Corning's 2017 Sustainability Report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Comprehensive option.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Angola receives renewable energy investments worth $1m - report
Independent Online
The AfDB said the grant would be used to establish a one-stop shop unit as part of efforts to encourage private investment in renewable energy.

China Reinforces Renewable Energy Commitment With Significant European Wind Investments
Lexology
Chinese investors continue to build knowledge of the wind sector through European investment. China has traditionally focused more on developing ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

UN Chief Warns of a Dangerous Tipping Point on Climate Change
New York Times
“Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining ... “The time has come for our leaders to show they care about the people ... Jerry Brown of California, meant to demonstrate what businesses and local ...

As Heat-Fueled Hurricane Threatens Washington, Global Climate Leaders Begin to Act in California
Forbes
Yet as the world bakes or deals with flooding and other climate change impacts, in recent weeks the political scene on climate change has suddenly ...

World's Local Governments Rally in California to Fight Climate Change
Voice of America
The three-day gathering will deepen the leadership of sub-national authorities in curbing climate change, a battle that almost 200 nations have also ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing
Planeta.com
Impact Investing = Investing in companies which will have a beneficial impact on the public good as well as generating a financial return for the ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

UN report identifies where global harvests will rise and fall by 2050
CNBC
... Nations (UN) released a report Monday identifying future winners and losers in agriculture as the planet warms from the effects of climate change.

Insects coping with climate change
Phys.Org
Winners and Losers Among Insect Populations ... Wagner says that with climate change, as with any other environmental change, there will be ...

These Bay Area cities have the smallest – and largest – carbon footprints
The Mercury News
... Global Climate Action Summit, the first-of-its-kind interactive map exposes our local winners and losers in the race to limit the increase in warming to ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially Responsible Investing Gets a Boost From the UK
Barron's
Here's a vote of confidence in socially responsible investing, popularly defined as investing according to environmental, social, and governance ...

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING GUIDANCE SUPPORTS A GENERATION
401kTV (blog)
Socially responsible investing guidance is elusive for 401k plan sponsors. “The Department of Labor has problems with socially responsible investing, ...

KHAYA GOBODO: Good returns need not exclude socially responsible investment
Business Day
That is why we have adopted a cross-cutting approach that integrates material environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into our investment ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

This is what millennials care about when they invest
MarketWatch
“As millennials start to get money and start to get out of debt, we do have ... Millennial investors who are interested in socially responsible 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 ... The number of funds with ESG criteria has grown by 29 percent per year since 2010.

NYC Pension Funds to Double Green Investments
Wall Street Journal
New York City will invest $4 billion of its pension funds into climate-change solutions like renewable energy and clean water over the next three years, ...

Sustainability 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, ...

Philanthropic Investing:

US Cities Will Be Able to Compete for Funding From JPMorgan
Wall Street Journal
Philanthropic investments will account for half of the initiative. The remaining $250 million will be low-cost, long-term loans to fund sustainable projects ...

Why Foundations Should Step Up Their Game In Impact Investing
Forbes
Why Foundations Should Step Up Their Game In Impact Investing ... Their conclusions were recently published in a report called Philanthropy ...

Rising Seas, Bigger Pledges: Are We Entering a New Era of Climate Philanthropy?
Inside Philanthropy
The UK-based Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and its co-founder are committing $500 million over five years, a significant increase to ...

Green Bond Funds:

Can booming green bonds finance sustainable cities?
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
In this three-part blog series “Making Vanilla Green or Making Green Vanilla,” EDF+Business Sustainable Finance Manager Jake Hiller, and Clean ...

New York City officials say pension funds green investments could set a tone
Bond Buyer
New York City officials hope to lay a marker with their move to double green-related investments by the city's five pension funds. “It builds momentum ...

Global green bond partnership to accelerate issuance of bonds
ESI Africa
“In the past decade, green bonds have proven to be a real force in driving commercial financing into climate-smart investments and hold great promise ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Investors find low-carbon opportunities
Top1000funds.com
The fund is refreshing strategy and developing a transition plan to place $2.5 billion in a variety of low-carbon investment strategies, amounting to 6 ...

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Hot ETF Right Now?
Nasdaq
Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Hot ETF Right Now ... Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) is a smart beta exchange traded fund ...

The Financial Sector Can Do More To Tackle Climate Change. It's Time To Step Up
Forbes
Fewer than 1% of assets of the world's largest 100 pension funds are invested in low-carbon solutions, and only 10% of assessed pension funds have ...