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Sustainable Investing

The Continued Growth of Sustainable Investing
Morningstar.com
With $12 trillion now invested in the United States, sustainable investing is not just a trend, it's becoming part of the fabric of investing. That's my take ...

William Blair appoints Pontius as sustainable investing director
PE Hub (blog)
William Blair has named Blake Pontius as a director of sustainable investing. Pontius joined the firm in 2005 as an institutional relationship manager.

Impact investing can be next growth and job engine for India: Amit Bhatia, Global Steering Group
Economic Times
Impact investment can solve problems that governments and philanthropy cannot. In a country like India, the government can make use of impact ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

B3, CVM, GRI And Global Compact Launch Document To Facilitate Disclosure Of Socio ...
Exchange News Direct
In line with their leading role in the development of activities that encourage good corporate governance practices and in their support to create new ...

Zenith Bank's 'Best firm in Sustainability Reporting'
New Telegraph Newspaper
The new Standards is designed to replace the older GRI G4 reporting guidelines and was unveiled in October 2016 by the Global Sustainability ...

CSRware's Responsible Supply Chain and Conflict Minerals Management Software Achieves 'Built ...
PRNewswire (press release)
... Sustainability Index, Global Reporting Initiative, Carbon Disclosure Project), and Environmental Management (Air Quality, GHG emission standards, ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

More jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency
Statistics Netherlands
Since 2015, employment associated with investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency has exceeded employment related to conventional ...

JAY RICHARDSON: Governor's clean energy and climate plan key to NC economic success
WRAL.com
The governor also used the executive order to underscore the importance of supporting corporate renewable energy investments. Dozens of our peers ...

Global Wind Turbine Decommissioning Services Market 2018-2022 | Rising Investments in ...
Business Wire (press release)
Global Wind Turbine Decommissioning Services Market 2018-2022 | Rising Investments in Renewable Energy to Boost Growth | Technavio ... 

CDP Sustainability:

Is Your Fortune 100 Company One of the Nearly 40 Percent that Lack a Climate Target? If so, Read ...
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
The truth is simply this: I know it can be done, sustainability targets create ... Use tools like The Sustainability Consortium or CDP, to report publicly.

CDP: Firms failing to strengthen climate risk reporting despite EU guidelines
www.businessgreen.com
CDP, which operates its own independent environmental data disclosure ... Mathew Nelson, EY's global climate change and sustainability services ...

ISOS, Measurabl Partner to Deliver Sustainability Services and Training
PR Web (press release)
... most iconic brands, and is known for having trained more sustainability professionals than any other GRI or CDP licensed partner in the world.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Hawai'i Emerges As Leader at Poland Climate Action Convention
Big Island Now
“Climate change is front and center on our governor's radar, and our ... “In California, we will continue to be a leader in climate action and policies; ...

California's cap-and-trade system may be too weak to do its job
Vox
California is regarded as a global leader on climate-change policy, having put in place some of the world's most ambitious carbon-reduction targets.

US-China Friction Threatens to Undercut the Fight Against Climate Change
New York Times
Now, as diplomats meet in Poland for high-stakes climate negotiations, ... “The biggest threats to the planet are the lack of U.S. climate leadership at home .... a University of California Los Angeles law professor who follows China's ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing Could Accelerate the Fight Against Cancer
Harvard Business Review
And new approaches to philanthropy, often termed impact investing, have emerged as a path to meet their goals. As part of our work with the Harvard ...

Report Shows INGOs in Impact Investing Continue to Emerge as Key Players – INGO Impact ...
Business Wire (press release)
Report Shows INGOs in Impact Investing Continue to Emerge as Key Players – INGO Impact Investing Network with support from FHI 360, Humentum, ...

10 Key Alpha Drivers in Impact Investing: Study
ThinkAdvisor
Yes, impact investing does boost financial returns, but does more, according to the latest study confirming this finding, which also zeroed in on 10 ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Will Global Warming Shrink US GDP 10%? It's Complicated, Says The Person Who Made The ...
Forbes
As the UN hosts its annual meeting on climate change this week, it is imperative that we .... Across the United States, there will be winners and losers.

Emmanuel Macron's carbon tax sparked gilets jaunes protests, but popular climate policy is possible
The Conversation UK
Research has long shown how difficult it is to win popular support for carbon ... Addressing climate change enjoys widespread approval – until climate ... the latter is real and will be allocated unevenly, creating winners and losers.

Socially Responsible Investing:

Pipeline Portfolio: ESG and the Rise of Socially Responsible Investing
North American Oil & Gas Pipelines (press release)
The reason is because the concept of socially responsible investing has transitioned from an exclusionary approach to portfolio development to a ...

Celebrating socially responsible investing
Global Sisters Report
On October 16, 2019, about 125 people attended the 45th Anniversary celebration of Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investing ...

How Socially Responsible Stocks Could Protect Investors in a Bear Market
Fortune
So-called ESG equity strategies—buying the stocks of companies that perform well on environmental, social-responsibility and governance (ESG) ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

The Feds' 2000-Page Prod for Sustainable Investing
Barron's
GMO Funds' Jeremy Grantham, who has been ringing the alarm on global warming for years, emphasizes the human, rather than economic, impact ...

Cash Course: Investing in companies you can stand behind
Quad City Times
Ramsay said sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor in companies' successes. And, for individuals, investing money in companies ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Advanced Economies Increased CO2 Emissions in 2018 After Five-Year Decline, Says IEA
Natural Gas Intelligence
... energy efficiency, more nuclear, and more innovation for technologies such as carbon capture, utilization and storage and hydrogen, for instance.”.

Carbon Dioxide Conversion and Corrosion
Advanced Science News
Carbon Dioxide Conversion and Corrosion ... There exists, however, another community of scientists and engineers, captivated with the capture, ...

Carbon Capture And Storage (CCS) Market Outlook and Opportunities in Grooming Regions ...
Journal of Industry
2018-2023 Global Carbon Capture And Storage (CCS) Market Report ... price, capacity, capacity utilization rate, gross, production, production rate, ...

Sustainability Investing:

Domini Impact Investments Releases Report on Systemic Approaches to Managing Macrorisk in ...
Business Wire (press release)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Domini Impact Investments, a leading impact investing firm, has just released a report detailing their development of ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Sees Impulse To Do Good As Universal
Forbes
Q. More and more philanthropic families seem to be supporting social enterprises and impact investing as a means to address social problems.

Impact Investing and Human Rights: Can We Talk?
Forbes
To take on impact investing from a human rights mindset, we would have to ... through the allocation of their philanthropic and investment capital.

Are your charity dollars going to the right people in the right place at the right time?
The Globe and Mail
“At that time, there weren't philanthropic advisors or anywhere to go for effective giving advice.” ... “A lot of them are going toward impact investing.”.

Green Bond Funds:

Nuveen Expands Responsible Investing Offering with Addition of Actively-Managed Green Bond ...
Associated Press (press release) (blog)
The TIAA-CREF Green Bond Fund (TGROX) and TIAA-CREF Short Duration Impact Bond Fund (TSDBX) draw on the firm's decades of experience ...

Green asset classes are proliferating
The Economist
That means asset managers will have to offer more green investment ... The first “green” bonds, which raise funds for environmental projects, were ...

Why is green bond growth in Southeast Asia so weak?
Eco-Business
The fund, which closed in March, raised US$1.42 billion, of which IFC ... The study said that green bonds could be used to narrow the financing gap for ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Nuance the name of the low carbon game
Top1000funds.com
The fund is “100 per cent climate aware,” with climate risk integrated across all asset classes. The fund has also introduced a low-carbon index for part ...

Ontario climate change plan includes fund to help big polluters reduce emissions
CBC.ca
The Ontario government unveiled its plan to combat climate change Thursday, including a fund that commits public money to entice companies to ...
Ontario unveils climate plan with scant details - National Observer

COP24: ten years on from Lehman Brothers, we can't trust finance with the planet
The Conversation UK
... said the investment community and financial institutions would “mobilise hundreds of billions of dollars for financing low-carbon and climate resilient ...

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