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Sustainable Investing: 

The rise of sustainable investing | Szymanski
NJ.com
Decades ago, some aware investors just couldn't bring themselves to invest in companies and/or industries whose practices flew in the face of their ...

Ensuring That The Trillions Have Impact: New Global Minimum Standards For Credible Impact ...
Forbes
The International Finance Corp (IFC) set global minimum standards for credible impact investing today at the annual meetings of the International ...

9 Must-Have REITs for Sustainable Investing
U.S. News & World Report
Ask investors what they want in their portfolios these days and a growing number of them will say the same thing: sustainability. A 2017 report by EY, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Ten takeaways from Sustainability Reporting and Communications Summit 2018
Ethical Corporation Magazine
The CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council revealed that the IIRC is working together with other standards agencies, including the GRI ...

Groups plan global sustainability push at World Congress of Accountants
Accounting Today
... as well as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the ...
   
Corporate sustainability gets a boost from Leeds School of Business, B Lab partnership
CU Boulder Today
B Lab is a nonprofit that serves a global movement of people using ... the Global Reporting Initiative and the World Business Council for Sustainable ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Macquarie Group Investments In 11 Gigawatt Asian Renewable Energy Hub
CleanTechnica
Australian banking giant Macquarie Group has joined a consortium of renewable energy leaders including Intercontinental Energy, Vestas, and CWP ...

EV Company Fundings Help Drive Clean Energy Investment in Q3 2018
Greentech Media
Equity raising by specialist electric vehicle companies emerged as a bright spot in clean energy investment totals for last quarter, as more traditional ...
 
[CHART] The Biggest Investors in Renewable Energy Will Shock You
Money Morning
Renewable energy firms are quickly becoming some of the hottest takeover targets in the world, and one of the biggest buyers is who you'd least ...

CDP Sustainability:

Scientists set 2030 deadline to stop climate disaster
WTVA
... brands, according to reports from corporate transparency advocate CDP, public opinion consultancy GlobeScan and think tank SustainAbility.
  
Crown More Than Halfway Toward Fulfilling Its 2020 Sustainability Goals
PR Newswire (press release)
The goals, which were included as part of the Company's submission to the CDP's (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) climate change program in ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

UC named a national leader in renewable energy
University of California
“We need to be bold and ambitious with our solutions to climate change,” Napolitano said. “For its part, the University of California has set a goal of ...

The UN's Climate Report Exposes How Badly Wrong Leaders Like Trump Have Got Climate Change
TIME
The U.N.'s Climate Report Exposes How Badly Wrong Leaders Like Trump Have ... Climate change is a global challenge demanding global solutions. ... wildfires from California to the Arctic Circle, hurricanes battering the Eastern ...

Fact-Checking California Governor's Debate on KQED: Climate and Energy
KQED
I reject that and I applaud the leadership in the state of California, particularly Gov. Brown, to radically change the way we produce and consume ...

Impact Investing:

Millennials And Impact Investing: A Striking Pair For A Broadening Sector
Forbes
Go to any social impact conference, and you will probably hear, “Soon, there will be no 'impact' investing. It will simply be investing.” Indeed, with a ...

How Impact Investing Can Reduce Maternal Mortality
Knowledge@Wharton
The series is being produced in partnership with Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), a Singapore-based organization that serves as a bridge between ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Going beyond science-based targets
edie.net (blog)
... UK is going beyond science-based targets to become carbon positive. ... targets and KPIs embedded into the contract and service level agreements.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Senate candidates criticized for responses to climate-change debate question
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
"You can't do what the Democrats did and start picking winners and losers by trying to prop up industries that may be part of the long-term solution, but ...

Candidates' climate talk at debate chills critics
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
... Indiana-specific economic risks predicted from climate change – as these ... “You can't do what the Democrats did and start picking winners and losers by ... As for Braun's remark on the government “picking winners and losers,” ...

Unintended consequences: Climate-hacking poses big ethical questions
Christian Science Monitor
As the effects of climate change begin to take a tangible toll, should we be ... But what happens when those winners and losers arise from deliberate ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Wooden says treasurer should make 'socially responsible investing'
Meriden Record-Journal
Shawn Wooden thinks Connecticut can apply the old adage of “money talks” by using the state's investment practices to support businesses with ...

7 Robo Advisors for Socially Responsible Investors
U.S. News & World Report
Opinionated consumers are often told to "vote with their wallet"; now socially conscious investors can vote with theirs, too, thanks to socially ...

Why sustainable investing won't be mainstream for a very long time
Quartz
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is all the rage in finance today. Major banks and asset managers are rushing to provide clients ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

How Can You Become a 'Sustainable' Investor?
iBerkshires.com
Essentially, sustainable investing incorporates non-financial or indirect financial considerations, specifically environmental concerns (climate change, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

The Fizzy Math of Carbon Capture
Grist
Once seen as cost-prohibitive, pulling carbon dioxide out of air could .... the Furthering carbon capture, Utilization, Technology, Underground storage, ...

New catalyst opens door to carbon dioxide capture in conversion of coal to liquid fuels
Phys.Org
The technology to make this happen is called CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage). It has been developed by other parties and is already ...

Bet on Carbon Capture (But Not Only on Carbon Capture)
Bloomberg
Another system, carbon capture utilization and storage, is up and running in a few places. In a paper published last month in the Proceedings of the ...

Sustainability Investing:

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Philanthropic Investing:

Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropic group is funding research into why coral reefs live so long without ...
CNBC
Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy is about to reach new depths: The bottom of the ocean. Facebook's CEO has invested more than $10 billion in a ...

Nuveen Partners with Forbes to Unveil New Philanthropy Score for The Forbes 400 List
Forbes
As part of the Forbes 400 package, Forbes and Nuveen will also highlight the top impact investors in the country, defined as those investing for both a ...

Cisneros' Foundation Invested in Company With History of Environmental Fines
Washington Free Beacon
has campaigned as a champion for the environment, but his foundation invested in a gold-mining company that was fined $9 million for dumping more ...

Green Bond Funds:

NTMA raises €3 billion from first 'green' bond
RTE.ie
NTMA Director of Funding and Debt Management, Frank O'Connor said, ... The reference to the green bond in Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe's ...
Ireland becomes only fourth country to issue 'green' bond aimed at funding environmental ... - Independent.ie

Societe Generale to Issue Green Bonds in Taiwan
Chief Investment Officer
The proceeds of the issuance will be used to fund renewable energy ... “With this first TWD denominated green bond issued by a foreign bank in ...

Norwegian hydro firm Smakraft may back ops with green bond issue
Renewables Now
Aquila Capital said that it is likely to issue a senior secured green bond with a term of five years. The idea is to secure funds to refinance outstanding ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Hot ETF Right Now?
Nasdaq
Making its debut on 12/08/2014, smart beta exchange traded fund iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) provides investors broad ...

Exxon Funds Push for a Carbon Tax That Ends Climate Liability Suits
Climate Liability News
To prevent catastrophic climate change, carbon emissions must be reduced by 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 and 100 percent by 2050, the ...