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Sustainable Investing:
Sustainable Investing Is at a “Tipping Point,” BlackRock SaysBarron's
BlackRock said this week that sustainable investing is at a “tipping-point moment” as it unveiled a suite of seven sustainable core exchange-traded ...
Commentary: Sustainable investing at a tipping point
Pensions & Investments
Sustainable investing, which takes full account of environmental, social and governance factors, has come of age. More than $1 in every $4 of assets ...
Making sustainable investing mainstream could be the key to solving the world's most critical ...
Campden FB
The year 2017 was when the world woke up to the plastics problem. Blue Planet II showed the world exactly where all the plastic was ending up—on ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
BNSF issues 2017 corporate responsibility, sustainability reportProgressive Rail Roading
The Class I used Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 Guidelines — a globally recognized reporting framework for environmental, social and ...
Big Investors Push SEC to Standardize ESG Reporting for Companies
ThinkAdvisor
The report does note that 93% of the 250 largest firms globally report ESG data, and 75% use the Global Reporting Initiative's voluntary, ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
This new site makes it easy to put your money into clean energy investmentsFast Company
The startup is designed to point people to concrete action, with clean energy investments targeted at areas where the grid lacks renewables and other ...
Singapore to benefit from clean energy investments: minister
Xinhua
He said at the opening ceremony of the fifth Asia Clean Energy Summit Conference and Exhibition that Singapore expects the recent investment in the ...
Clean Energy Finance Corporation signals it may accelerate reinvestment
The Guardian
The CEFC – a government body mobilising capital investment in renewable energy, low-emission technology and energy efficiency – reported it had ...
CDP Sustainability:
Why public procurement is critical to sustainable citiesCDP
Why public procurement is critical to sustainable cities. Sonya Bhonsle, Head of Supply Chain, and Kyra Appleby, Global Director of Cities, States and ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
First response to climate change: More water storageCompton Herald
From the governor on down, California's leadership regularly claims that climate change is responsible for everything from droughts, floods, and ...
Dianne Feinstein opponent De León, in only debate, says California needs 'new voice'
CNN
Kevin de León, arguing forcefully that it was time for new leadership in ... leadership on progressive priorities like combating climate change, ...
Can California Be The US Auto Industry's New Best Friend?
Forbes
A new report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... California's leadership can help car manufacturers find a solution to their ...
Impact Investing:
Is Impact Investing Attempting To Solve Problems Using The Tools That Created Them?Forbes
You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes or Google Play. Jed Emerson, 59, widely recognized in the impact investing ...
Impact investing: This organization helps companies do more with their philanthropy
Dallas Business Journal
But the traditional approach of making donations each year to worthy causes is now being tested by a new model: impact investing. And with that, a ...
New Series Offers Impact Investors Diverse Approaches to Investing Across the Continuum
PR Newswire (press release)
As the impact investing market has grown, so too has the debate about the relationship between financial return and impact. Some claim the two go ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
How Scotland's unique Carbon Metric could redefine government recycling targetsWaste Dive
Weight-based recycling targets have been useful in driving performance to ... Since 2011, Scotland has used the CM to measure the lifecycle carbon .... a target to reduce food waste 33% by 2025, informed by evidence from the CM.
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Can your portfolio weather climate risk?Alternatives Journal (blog)
Climate change, and the fight to stop it, will create winners and losers. “Climate risk” is a concept the financial world uses as they seek to understand ...
Imperial College offers investors an online class on climate change. Bonus: It's free
Yahoo Finance
“Participants will learn about emerging trends in climate-resilient investing and gain insights into potential winners and losers in the ongoing energy ...
More steam needed for shift to green economy
Khaleej Times
Inevitably, the shift to a green economy will create winners and losers ... Climate change and a failure to decide on actions necessary to combat it were ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Fintech Streamlines Socially Responsible Impact Investing Via Robo-AdvisorsInvestorplace.com
What if you could make money and help the world, at the same time? Well, that time is now. Socially responsible investment (SRI) robo-advisors, ...
Walking The Walk In Socially Responsible Investing
Financial Advisor Magazine
The website further reports on and profiles over 2,600 B Corps in 150 industries in 60 countries currently in existence, of which 75 are investment ...
The 411 on Universities and Socially Responsible Investing
Masterstudies News (blog)
According to Investopedia, a socially responsible investment “is considered socially responsible because of the nature of the business the company ...
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
A Rockefeller investor and ex-BlackRock vice chair are funding a fintech startup to tap into a $23 ...Business Insider
New York-based sustainable investing startup Ethic has raised $6.8 million in its latest funding round. Backers include impact investor Justin ...
Opinion: Millennials have more money than you think — so expect ESG funds in your 401(k)
MarketWatch
Between 2015 and 2017, the percentage of millennials who were “strongly interested” in sustainable investing jumped a massive 10 percentage ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Scientists Back Efforts to Pull COScientific American
It provided $50 per ton of carbon dioxide to any business that can capture and store the gas. Called the "Furthering Carbon Capture, Utilization, ...
Energy Companies Could Feel The Effects Of Climate Change On Their The Bottom Line
Forbes
They want to do three things—reduce methane leakage, reduce CO2 and recycle CO2 in the form of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).
ExxonMobil Supports New Singapore Energy Center Partnership with US$10 Million Commitment
Business Wire (press release)
... with university students and faculty; Initial focus areas to include bioscience; carbon capture, utilization and storage; water use and recycling.
Sustainability Investing:
Walking the Walk in Socially Responsible InvestingNasdaq
Herrington: Becoming a B Corp was a wonderful opportunity to formalize what we had been doing all along, namely focusing on sustainable investing ...
Philanthropic Investing:
Wielding Philanthropic Power with AccountabilityStanford Social Innovation Review
In 2014, shortly after I arrived at The California Wellness Foundation—a ... statement—especially if it's an area with little philanthropic investment or ...
How to Use Donor-Advised Funds to Make Impact Investments
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Savvy philanthropists have begun using DAFs to make not only traditional grants with no expectation of financial return and traditional investments ...
How The Russell Family Foundation Moved Almost Entirely Into Impact
Forbes
That means a small, but growing, number of philanthropic organizations are moving most, or all, of their money into impact-related investments.
Green Bond Funds:
Opportunity awaits - Financing Asia's green buildings through green bondsEnvironmental Finance
In this two-part series of articles, Environmental Finance will explore how the market for green bonds to finance green buildings is developing in ...
EnBW's first green bond 'oversubscribed'
Windpower Monthly
Proceeds from the bond will be used to fund investments in wind power, solar PV ... In a report in April 2018, WindEurope noted that green bonds were ...
Dutch to issue first green government bonds in 2019
CNBC
"We want financial markets to take an important role in financing green ... Global green bond issuance hit a record $155.5 billion in 2017 and could ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Low-carbon investing : hitting the mainstream | SzymanskiNJ.com
The new Morningstar Low-Carbon Designation is given to funds that exhibit low overall carbon risk and have lower-than-average exposure to ...
State Street GA launches low-carbon index fund
Funds Europe Magazine
State Street Global Advisors has launched a fund based on the MSCI World Select 5-Factor ESG Low-Carbon Target Index. The index aims to ...
Low Carbon Prosperity Institute Releases Analysis of I-1631 Path to Carbon-Reduction Targets
Index-Journal
Low Carbon Prosperity Institute Releases Analysis of I-1631 Path to ... cost-effectiveness like what we'd expect from commercial investment funds.” ... The Low Carbon Prosperity Institute was launched in 2018 as a project of the ...
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