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Sustainable Investing: 

Opinion: As Vanguard launches a sustainable-investing ETF, its low fees are only one of the factors ...
MarketWatch
The funds will incorporate elements some elements from more traditional Socially Responsible Investing (“SRI”) by excluding certain “sin stocks” such ...

Sustainable Investing After the Paris Accords
Triple Pundit (blog)
In 2014, I was asked by the United Nations to spend a year helping the UN think through the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable ...

How Advisors Can Reach Out on Sustainable Investing
Morningstar.com
Today, I'm joined by Jon Hale, he is the director of sustainable investing research here at Morningstar. He recently had the chance to attend a few ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Clorox Releases 2018 Integrated Annual Report
PR Newswire (press release)
In preparing this report, Clorox followed the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Standards, which represent a global best practice for ...

Univar Releases its 2017 Sustainability Report
Markets Insider
The 2017 report is also Univar's third report based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and references the latest version of the GRI Standards, ...

Is Sustainability Fading from Board Agendas?
CFO Magazine
So does the assortment of sustainability reporting frameworks and standards, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, that companies ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Tech Investments Are Powering Up Clean Energy
Bloomberg
This week, my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Shira Ovide took a close look at U.S. tech company capital expenditures. Three years ago, Alphabet Inc., ...

About EUR 880 mln of investments attracted in Ukrainian renewable energy - Serhiy Savchuk
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
"In general, about EUR 880 million of investments have been attracted in nearly 1,000 MW of new renewable energy capacities since the beginning of ...

Lower Tax Regime to Attract Investment in Renewable Energy, Says Report
THISDAY Newspapers
The report noted that countries such as China, United States and India, which are leading the renewable energy revolution, offer substantially lower ...

CDP Sustainability:

“We help brands to reach their goals through innovative packaging design and materials,” Sari ...
Premium beauty
Metsä Board was this year again awarded a position both on CDP's ... trustworthy brands which have transparently published their sustainability ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

Impact Investing: The Billionaires Building Change
Forbes
leven years ago, at a small gathering at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy, the term “impact investing” was coined. It was not a new ...

LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman On His Billion-Dollar Impact Investing Bet
Forbes
In an email interview, Hoffman disclosed for the first time that he has put $1.5 billion of his fortune into impact investments, doing so through charitable ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Q&A: Schneider Electric Banking on Science, Smarter Cities to Power a Sustainable Future
Sustainable Brands
Setting science-based targets is a clear driver for financial performance and they ... targets. And because SBTs are so ambitious, they act as a catalyst for transformational change, helping generate innovation in low-carbon products, ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Research: The findings may help understand 'winners and losers' under climate change —
Tdnews
“Learning these rules will be crucial to understanding what traits define winners and losers under climate change, allowing us to better predict future ...

How New Technologies Can Avert Agricultural Devastation
Fair Observer
Agricultural technologies could help to obviate the effects of climate change and ensure the planet's population ... from the UN suggests climate change will carve the global agricultural community into two camps: winners and losers.

CSR Cheat Sheet: Science clarifies the obvious during Climate Week New York
Ethical Corporation Magazine
US firms sign up for Science-Based Targets; winners and losers from climate change; fossil fuel companies move on methane emissions. Science ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Vanguard Aims to Prove Feel-Good Investing Can Deliver Feel-Good Returns
Wall Street Journal
Vanguard Group Inc. recently launched some of the cheapest funds yet featuring green and socially responsible companies, the latest example of ...

Swedroe: Socially Responsible Investing's Results
ETF.com
The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance recently estimated that $22.9 trillion worldwide is managed under the auspices of “responsible investment ...

The New Generation of Socially Responsible Investors
WealthManagement.com
Many folks in the industry expect millennials to drive the greatest demand for socially responsible investments going forward, as this generation ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Unleashing the potential of Islamic finance and impact investing for the SDGs
UNDP (blog)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer new investment opportunities for the private sector, which will be vital to help address the SDG ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Department of Energy Announces $30 Million for Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies
Energy.gov (press release)
... level Mission Innovation report, Accelerating Breakthrough Innovation in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage, which can be found here.

Recharging American Coal Power Generation Through Innovation
R & D Magazine
... more efficient – including coal gasification, advanced coal-energy conversion technologies, and carbon capture, utilization and storage systems.

Key Takeaways | Private Sector Investments in Climate Technologies: ROI & the New 2018 US Tax ...
Lexology
Technologies and models can be categorized as carbon capture and utilization (CCU), carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), and carbon capture ...

Sustainability Investing:

Arnerich Massena: Impact Investing Is Not Philanthropy
Planadviser.com
The paper concludes that impact investing is not philanthropy, “nor is it about sacrificing return in exchange for a societal good, nor even about ...

The brave new world of impact investing
Oregon Business
The emerging trend of socially responsible “impact investing” is grappling with growing pains. Big questions loom on the horizon. How should ...

Lombard International Assurance continues to make a compelling case for impact investing
World Finance
For many wealthy individuals, their fortunes come with a great sense of personal responsibility – to the society in which they live, to the wider global ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Innovative Financing for the SDGs
UNDP
Both private sector and philanthropic investors increasingly demand social and environmental results. There is a growing volume of private assets ...

How Educators, Philanthropists, and Investors Are Revolutionizing Education
Barron's
Tara stood up in the center of a circle of classmates at a middle school last spring, looking a little nervous. It was her turn to relay the progress she had ...
  
JPMorgan Chase & Co. holds third annual Women on the Move Leadership Day
Odessa American
Support women-owned businesses: Help women start and grow businesses through banking, credit and the firm's philanthropic investments.

Green Bond Funds:

Sweden's AP Funds behind first short-term green bond issue
IPE.com
Sweden's biggest property company – which is owned by four of the country's national pension buffer funds – has issued SEK610m (€58.9m) of green ...

SBI raises $650 million via green bond issue
Economic Times
State Bank of India raised $650 million via green bonds, proceeds of which will be used to fund environment-friendly projects, two people familiar with ...

India's Largest Bank Raises $650 Million In Inaugural Green Bond
CleanTechnica
The Indian government has mandated several public sector companies to issue green bonds in order to finance large-scale solar and wind energy ...

Low Carbon Funds:

The 20 Dirtiest Mutual Funds
WealthManagement.com
Morningstar introduced its Portfolio Carbon Risk Score in May, which identifies funds that hold companies with low carbon emissions or are lowering ...

Mourant advises Low Carbon on launch of VLC Renewables Fund I
Private Equity Wire (press release) (blog)
Offshore law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has advised Low Carbon, a privately-owned investment company, in connection with the establishment of VLC ...