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Sustainable Investing

To Build A Sustainable Future, Impact Investing Needs To Be Brought Into The Forefront
Entrepreneur
Impact investing is a term that is being thrown around globally, as a notion that one needs to become responsible through all waves of life. For many ...

The Evolution of ESG
Barron's
It's always surprising to me how vehemently some people object to the notion of sustainable investing. Most will agree that good investors should look ...

The impact investing trend is here to stay
City A.M.
From recycling waste to reducing plastic consumption to going vegan for the month of January, more and more people today are conscious of the ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

How corporations are approaching sustainability and the Global Goals
Brookings Institution (blog)
How corporations are approaching sustainability and the Global Goals ... Efforts to standardize the field include the Global Reporting Initiative and the ...

GRI Proposes New Standard on Corporate Tax Reporting
Triple Pundit (blog)
Recent tax-related scandals such as the release of the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers have led to a public debate around the world and a ...

Browns seizes top award at 54th Annual Report Awards
Daily Mirror
This is the third integrated report by Browns, adopting globally recognized standards and practices including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Top Clean Energy Stocks for 2019
Motley Fool
That investment in clean energy could generate enormous profits for investors who choose the right stocks. To get there, we'll need to first take a deep ...

Solar energy investment predicted to grow in 2019
Open Access Government
The removal of tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels plus a shift in attitude towards renewables are set to give the European Union a 12% share of the ...

Shell set to double investment in green energy
edie.net
Oil and gas giant Shell is exploring the feasibility of doubling its annual green energy investments to $4bn (£3.2bn), as it begins to transition away from ... 

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Five Big Things Governor Brown Did on Climate Change
KQED
Five Big Things Governor Brown Did on Climate Change ... “I'd say California has taken more intelligent action on climate change than .... first major climate law, AB 32, California has seen itself as a leader on the international stage.

In California, a change of power as a liberal state pushes further to the left
Washington Post
The leadership change will alter the politics and personality of this state ... [As climate changes threaten California's giant redwoods, the key to their ...

Jerry Brown's Midnight in America
POLITICO Magazine
On climate change, nuclear proliferation and the new awareness that .... California has been a leader in America and in the world, as evidenced by our ...

Impact Investing:

To Build A Sustainable Future, Impact Investing Needs To Be Brought Into The Forefront
Entrepreneur
Impact investing is a term that is being thrown around globally, as a notion that one needs to become responsible through all waves of life. For many ...

Climate Change Spurs McKnight to Go Big on Impact Investing
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Of the biggest foundations in the United States — the 100 or so with $1 billion or more in assets — none have a deeper commitment to impact ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Navigant Research Report Shows Science-Based Targets Offer Corporations Direction for ...
Business Wire (press release)
Navigant Research Report Shows Science-Based Targets Offer ... targets (SBTs) offer corporations direction for sustainability performance. ... of trends and optimize energy savings as a winning measure for the low carbon transition.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Climate change: effect on sperm could hold key to species extinction
The Conversation UK
The fingerprints of extreme events and climate change are widespread in the ... Read more: Wildlife winners and losers in Britain's summer heatwave ...

“Innovation”: the latest GOP smokescreen on climate change policy
Vox
The politics of climate change are shifting against the GOP. .... an active supporting role in technology development, “picking winners and losers.

'Spineless'—What Jellyfish Can Teach Us About the Oceans' Future
EcoWatch
Will they be climate change winners or losers? ... Since you first began studying jellyfish, what have you seen change about our scientific ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing catching on with Canadians
Toronto Star
As the new year stretches ahead — with new opportunities to change things up — consider how you can invest in a way that doesn't conflict with your ...

Impact investing and socially responsible investment: complementary approaches
Lombard Odier (press release)
Ethical investment, sustainable investment, socially responsible investment and impact investing: this multitude of terms denotes different approaches ...

Canterbury Consulting 2019 Investment Forum To Focus On Environmental, Social And ...
PRNewswire (press release)
Socially responsible investing (SRI), positive ESG integration, and impact investing are examples that investors can utilize for ESG investing.

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

The Top Sustainable Funds
Barron's
In October, Morningstar altered the way it calculates a fund's sustainability, and that is reflected in our ranking. Previously, a fund's score was based on ...

Who's Not on Our Top Sustainable Funds List—And Why
Barron's
And this list of would-be sustainable funds that don't make our most ... “We're starting to see more asset managers regarding sustainable investing as ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Guiding the way to a more sustainable energy future
EurekAlert (press release)
This project is part of large $90 million inter-institutional consortium designed to advance carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) in Mexico.

Coca Cola To Deploy Carbon Capture Tech
Hello Solar (blog)
Carbon capture and its subsequent storage is describes the process of ... Drink carbonation could provide a great use case for deployment of these ...

GCC Carbon Capture and Storage Market Growth Opportunities, Industry Analysis, Size, Share ...
Philadelphia Soul Insider
Synopsis-This report offers detailed analysis of the GCC Carbon Capture and Storage Market size forecasts covering the next five years. This report ...

Sustainability Investing:

Values and Value Stocks—How to Beat the Market
Barron's
For one thing, Dodson is a giant of sustainable investing. His approach—a combination of virtue and vigilance, bound by guidelines he rarely wavers ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Moving Beyond the Trade-Off Debate
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
More generally, the Global Sustainable Investing Alliance reports nearly $23 trillion in ... And this growth has affected the philanthropic sector as well.

Hewlett Foundation's Leader Makes a Case Against Impact Investing
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The overwhelming majority of foundations, big and small, manage their endowments by pursuing financial returns above all else. Yet few of their ...

Green Bond Funds:

Tata Cleantech pockets USD 25.9m from 1st green bond sale
Renewables Now
January 7 (Renewables Now) - Tata Cleantech Capital Ltd, a joint venture between India's Tata Capital and the International FInance Corp (IFC), has ...

Milton to pay $1.4M for green space
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Milton City Council has approved using $1.4 million in green space bond funds to acquire six parcels totaling about 21 acres on the southwest ...

Institutional Shift: Climate risk hits the market and other impact investing trends to watch in 2019 ...
ImpactAlpha
Significantly, infrastructure funds expect returns in the high-single digits, ... The power of debt is reflected in the growth of green bonds, plain-vanilla ...   

Low Carbon Funds:

Southern California Edison Increases Plug-In Vehicle Rebate To $1000 For 2019
CleanTechnica
The increase raises the maximum funds available through the impressive ... thanks to funds from California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program.

New day for Agents of Impact, Bain's double healthcare impact, Lyme's $300 million timber fund, 15 ...
ImpactAlpha
Stanford's Alicia Seiger says rising appreciation of systemic risks is driving pension, sovereign and insurance funds toward low-carbon investments.

Four local Wind Farm Community Funds now open for applications
Leitrim Observer
Four local Wind Farm Community Funds now open for applications ... Every day, ESB works for a better energy future by investing in low-carbon ... 

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