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Sector Based Decarbonization: 

34 maritime CEOs sign call for action in support of decarbonization
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
34 maritime CEOs sign call for action in support of decarbonization ... Today we welcome this public commitment to decarbonization by industry ... that align their organizations with science-based decarbonization targets,” says Jules ...

Decarbonization: 34 Maritime CEOs Call for Action
MarineLink
A who's who list of maritime industry executives have signed on to voice their ... into R&D can only come about if we get a global IMO based regulation. ... Today we welcome this public commitment to decarbonization by industry ...

Sustainable Investing: 

Sustainable investing is attracting strong support
FT Adviser
Sustainable investing is experiencing strong demand from investors as sustainability themed investments start to demonstrate outperformance over ...

Liontrust on how all assets can be sustainable investments
FT Adviser
Ethical and sustainable investing is an investment strategy that can apply to all asset classes: you just have to find the right product for your client's risk ...

More Singapore firms gain from sustainable investing trend
Nikkei Asian Review
SINGAPORE (Nikkei Markets) -- As demand for socially responsible investments grows, more Singapore companies are taking advantage of loans ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI Summit at Conrad
manilastandard.net
The Global Reporting Initiative teamed up with the SM group of companies led by SM Investments Corp., the Australian Embassy in the Philippines, ...

How firms can report on sustainability
The New Times
Global Reporting Initiative, a leader in sustainability reporting defines the practise (sustainability reporting) as a report by a company or organization ...

The unifying power of the SDGs
UNDP (blog)
And this is just one segment a massive global investment market that is ... Global Reporting Initiative, Social Value International, the Organization of ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

EV Company Fundings Bright Spot as Clean Energy Investments Slide
Renewable Energy Magazine (press release)
Global clean energy investment was $67.8 billion in the third quarter of 2018, down 6 percent from the same period last year, according to the latest ...

Nigeria's 17.5% lending rate threatens renewable energy investment
New Telegraph Newspaper
The lending rates in Nigeria, which stands at 17.5 per cent, is a major threat to growth in renewable energy investment in the country.

Cash-strapped GE unloads $1 billion of energy investments
CNN
The portfolio holds about 20 investments in renewable energy, natural gas and midstream infrastructure assets. The investments -- most of them equity ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Businesses Push California Toward Another #CleanEconomyGovernor
CleanTechnica
California climate leadership: California's upcoming governor will need to bolster California's global climate leadership through climate change and clean energy commitments, smart climate investments and adaptation measures, ...

The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law
Washington Post
The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to ... California on Sunday became the largest state to adopt its own rules ... the state to court on grounds that the federal government, not state leaders, ... the Trump administration's policies around immigration and climate change.

Commentary: Why a #CleanEconomyGovernor is good for California business
Silicon Valley Business Journal
Editor's note: On Tuesday, several business associations in California joined ... energy and climate change is essential to our state's economic success. ... California has established a leadership position in one of the world's most ...

Impact Investing:

Bain Capital Creates National Home Care Platform Through Impact Investing Play
Home Health Care News
This is the first home care investment for Bain Capital Double Impact. The company, which is the impact investing arm of Boston-based Bain Capital, ...

Impact Investing Key to SDGs
Pro Bono Australia
Impact investing has emerged as a key way to unlock the private capital needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Social Impact Hub ...

The business students of today want to 'do well by doing good'
CNN
"For some people, myself included, they came to business school with impact investing as a target career," Salas says. In the future he wants to work ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Climate change is 'real' and human caused, but EPA boss boosts coal
seattlepi.com
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is "not in the business of picking winners and losers" among the nation's power plants, acting EPA ...

Budget 2019: From parents struggling with childcare costs to stunned environmentalists - winners ...
Independent.ie
THERE are always winners and losers in the Budget. ... A day after dire climate change warnings from international scientists, carbon tax has not been ...

'Winners and losers': Rising temperatures to cause longer growing season in Mississauga
mississauga.com
'Winners and losers': Rising temperatures to cause longer growing season in ... “Climate change increases the pressure put on forests,” Roy said.

Socially Responsible Investing:

10 top-performing ESG funds
InvestmentNews
As socially responsible investing grows in popularity, the perception that such investments lag mainstream options is fading. For example, take a look ...

Amundi announces three-year responsible investments drive
Financial News
The French asset manager Amundi has pledged to more than treble its socially-responsible mutual funds over the next three years, as it makes a ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

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Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Editorial Article: Novel Material Offers Solution for Renewable Energy
SelectScience
Park's work investigates sustainable conversion of energy sources, including carbon capture, its storage and its utilization. In this SelectScience® ...

Sustainability Investing:

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Philanthropic 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 ...

China Global Philanthropy Institute hosts the 2nd Global Social Finance Forum in Shenzhen
PR Newswire (press release)
He expects to drive the combination of philanthropy and finance and the philanthropic innovation in the field of impact investing so as to support ...

PHILANTHROPY MATTERS: Women lead the way in philanthropic efforts
The Bakersfield Californian
Engaging in philanthropy became an appropriate form of investment activity for women. Indeed, it became a mark of a woman's respectability.

Green Bond Funds:

TransLink looks at issuing green bonds to finance capital projects
Vancouver Sun
Malli said green bonds are very similar to a conventional bond, which TransLink has issued for financing capital projects since 2010, but they're ...

Green bonds and green buildings—the perfect match?
Eco-Business
Talking about Swire Properties' experience launching its first green bond In ... Its green bond raised funds to refinance the loan taken out in 2012 to ...

Low Carbon Funds:

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