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Sustainable Investing: 

How to Do Sustainable Investing Right, According to a Pension Fund Manager
Barron's
Michael Sabia has one of the most enviable jobs in investing. The chief executive officer of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, or CDPQ, helps ...

Sustainable Investing ETFs Cut Costs
Morningstar
The launches of ethical and sustainable ETFs by X-trackers, iShares and L&G represent something of a milestone. For the first time ETF investors can ...

Impact investing manager Triodos IM enters Italy
Investment Europe
Triodos has registered its range of impact investing funds, already available for Italy´s investors and aimed at generating positive impact through their ... 

Global Reporting Initiative:

Five corporate responsibility headlines I'm hoping to see in 2019
AdAge.com (blog)
In addition to GRI, we now have SDGs, ESG and CDP, not to mention numerous SRI indexes, each with slightly different criteria. If that acronym soup ...

Reducing Transport Emissions in Electronics Supply Chains, the 'SmartWay'
Sustainable Brands
Dell expects its suppliers to publish a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)-based sustainability report online and update the report annually, and also to ...

Diamondback Energy, Inc. Releases Inaugural 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report
Nasdaq
The report is informed by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and International Petroleum Industry ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Solar energy projects investing $22+ million in Spartanburg Co.
WSPA.com
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, SC (WSPA) - We've learned $22.7 million is being invested in new solar projects in Spartanburg County. Renewable ...

UAE's Masdar plans first US renewable energy investment
ArabianBusiness.com
Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, better known as Masdar, announced on Tuesday it is acquiring stakes in two wind farms in the United States.

Swedish certificate proposal 'threatens investments'
Windpower Monthly
The Swedish Energy Agency's (SEA) proposal to run the country's green certificate system until the end of 2030 could drive down prices and bankrupt ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

How Data-driven Strategies Can Improve Impact Investing Outcomes
Knowledge@Wharton
Data science is making inroads into the world of impact investing, helping program designers and beneficiaries achieve closer alignment between ...

India's growing impact investing industry
Devex
NEW DELHI — The growth in India's mobile phone market has helped an unexpected sector — impact investing. Mobile phone penetration and data ...

ETF Prime Podcast: Future Of 'Impact Investing'
ETF.com
ETF.com's Lara Crigger discusses challenges and opportunities for environmental, socially responsible and governance ETFs, and highlights the ...

Energy Storage:

'Unlayering' peak demand could accelerate energy storage adoption
Utility Dive
A new approach to the peaker-storage debate could help energy storage better meet peak demand and lower emissions.

Energy storage in India: A 'year of action' lies ahead of us
Energy Storage News (blog)
Since the end of last year, he is also the chair of the Global Energy Storage Alliance (GESA). In his day-to-day role, Walawalkar leads the Emerging ...

Invenergy Flips Switch on MidAmerican Energy Storage System
North American Windpower
Renewable energy developer Invenergy has initiated commercial operations of a utility-scale battery storage system located in Knoxville, Iowa, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Using AI To Help Businesses Go Carbon Neutral
Forbes
For example, we worked with a small chain of hotels, Village Hotel Club, to address their energy performance and re-evaluate the role of ... consultants, presented to Tesco what she thought their Science-Based targets should be.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Will a market crash get the action we need on climate change?
The Hill
There will be winners and losers in this revaluation, but as past speculative bubbles have shown us, when they burst, markets move very quickly.

Globalization, Climate Change Top Agenda of World Economic Forum
Voice of America
Globalization, Climate Change Top Agenda of World Economic Forum ... “Globalization produced winners and losers, and so there were many more ...

5 winners and losers from California governor Jerry Brown's transportation legacy
GreenBiz
Brown has left an impressive legacy of pushing California to be the leading state on fighting climate change, embracing clean energy, pushing for ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

The rising cost of socially responsible investing
The Star Online
BOTH companies and the fund managers that invest in them are under pressure to pay more attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

The Rising Cost of Investing Responsibly
Bloomberg
The surge in spending reflects an explosion in investment products that are marketed as being more socially responsible in their objectives.

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

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Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Oil industry makes landmark investment in CO2 air capture
E&E News
Last February, President Trump signed the Furthering Carbon Capture, Utilization, Technology, Underground Storage and Reduced Emissions ...

IEA, Global Carbon Project Forecast Global CO2 Emissions Growth
IISD Reporting Services
... greater energy efficiency; more nuclear; and more innovation for technologies, such as carbon capture, utilization and storage and hydrogen.

UK Environmental Coalition Pursues Very Large Scale Decarbonization Technology Field Trials ...
PRNewswire (press release)
... by Innovate UK, has led to the development of novel materials that are key to enabling the Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) concept.

Sustainability Investing:

Investors Need More and Better Data on Sustainability
Barron's
Imagine a world in which investors didn't have access to a company's financial performance, or a set of accounting standards making apples-to-apples ...

Philanthropic Investing:

Early Childhood Is Ripe For Investment in Innovation, Says Philanthropic Network
Education Week (blog)
Entrepreneurs are launching innovative projects to support young children and their caregivers, but the investment pales compared to the investments ...

Bank Of Stockton Raised Its Position in Boeing Co (BA) by $353563; Summit Financial Wealth ...
The Moveefy
The institutional investor held 2,343 shares of the aerospace company at the ... Bank Of Stockton who had been investing in Boeing Co for a number of ... in Grants and Philanthropic Investments; 10/05/2018 – BOEING-EMBRAER ...

Green Bond Funds:

Hong Kong highlights its role as a green bond hub for mainland firms
South China Morning Post
Hong Kong and mainland Chinese finance regulators have joined forces to promote the city as a green finance hub, inviting dozens of mainland ...

How Islamic Finance Could Save the Planet
OZY
The project is the outcome of funds raised from the world's first Islamic green bond, with a value of $60 million, unveiled by Malaysia's Securities ...

RCBC creates green finance framework
BusinessWorld Online
RCBC's green funding framework is the first in the Philippines to be aligned with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Green Bond ...

Low Carbon Funds:

A carbon tax to fund increased border security?
The Hill
A national carbon tax to fund increased border security fits that description. ... Finally, all three groups could claim credit for a reduced risk of global ...

Feds select Ontario business as first recipient of new climate money
CTV News
In November, McKenna announced that the Low Carbon Economy Fund, which would normally directly benefit the provincial government, would ...

French fund adapts to reversal of cash flow
Investment Magazine
It developed a low-carbon leader's index with MSCI, Swedish fund AP4 and asset manager Amundi. “We have identified the climate risk as a big issue ...