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Sustainable Investing: 

Better data makes sustainable investing pay
Financial Times
A decade ago, investors who considered themselves “serious” would smirk into their brandy if you brought up sustainable investing. And that attitude ...

Sustainable investing is finally 'going mainstream', BlackRock claims
edie.net
As concerns that the next financial crash may be climate-related grow, impact investment and green finance products are "going mainstream" and ...

The Debate About Impact Investing We Should Be Having
Barron's
Impact investing has become a lightning rod unlike anything I've seen in my 25-year career. It cleaves investors into three primary groups.

Global Reporting Initiative:

If the WEF wants to change the world, it can start with itself
The Hill
Though the World Economic Forum is elitist in setting and attendees, ... reporting frameworks of the Global Compact and Global Reporting Initiative, ...

Demand for Renewable Electricity Surpasses 500 TWh in Europe
Transmission and Distribution World
The RE100 initiative now has 161 corporate members that have all publicly pledged to consume 100% renewable energy. Global reporting initiatives ...

Waning Trust in Corporate Leadership Brings a New Urgency to Transparency
CFO Magazine
Nearly 90% of the world's biggest companies are reporting on their ... performance, using metrics established by the Global Reporting Initiative.

Renewable Energy Investments:

New Mexico considers greater investments in solar, wind
WRAL.com
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico lawmakers would channel a small portion of state investments specifically toward renewable energy projects under ...

Hazel Renewable Energy VCT2 plc: Final Results
GlobeNewswire (press release)
Whilst the investment emphasis of the Hazel Capital Renewable Energy VCTs remains on renewable infrastructure, I expect there to be benefits to ...

Solar, Renewables, Energy Transformation Reshaping the Geopolitical Landscape
Solar Magazine
Solar energy investments and usage have grown fast and spread worldwide in recent decades, so much so that they're influencing and reshaping the ...

CDP Sustainability:

HeidelbergCement takes top cement company position in CDP sustainability rankings
Global Cement
Germany: HeidelbergCement has been awarded 'A-' in the climate change category of CDP's Climate A List. It also received the same score in the ...

Corporate Giants' Suppliers Have Saved $19.3B by Reducing CO2
Sustainable Brands
CDP says 10 years of corporates requesting supplier transparency has ... The research finds that for some corporate giants, sustainability is now a ...
Key Suppliers Cut CO2, Save Major Companies $19.3 Billion - Environmental Leader

Firmenich Reinforces Global Environmental Leadership With Fourth CDP Top Score This Year
PRNewswire (press release)
"These world-class recognitions illustrate how Firmenich's sustainability leadership is well entrenched beyond our business and positively impacting ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Report: Californians Facing Public Health Impacts Related to Climate Change
Natural Resources Defense Council
“Despite California's leadership in the fight against climate change, the state is experiencing a wide-ranging and severe array of climate-related harms ...
  
PG&E Bust: Here's What California's Elected Leaders Have to Say
Bloomberg
PG&E Bust: Here's What California's Elected Leaders Have to Say ... that California continues to make forward progress on our climate change goals.

A climate problem even California can't fix: tailpipe pollution
Reuters
That's the lowest level since 1990 thanks to a shift away from coal-fired .... California officials, eager to maintain the state's leadership role on climate ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing is driving the most exciting emerging technologies
VentureBeat
You might not have pegged Boost VC as an impact investing fund, but that is exactly what they are and have always been, albeit with an emerging ...

Impact Investing Isn't Just For The Rich - We All Have A Part To Play
Forbes
As one of my New Year's resolutions, I've introduced my children to an excellent idea I heard once at an event on gender lens investing (which is, ...

Energy Storage:

Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share
Yahoo Finance
For Tesla, the small acquisition gives the electric-car maker a short-term energy storage technology that its Chief Executive Officer Musk has called a ...

Not all energy storage is clean – it might even increase emissions
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
Falling capital costs for energy storage coupled with a major push by grid operators to deploy energy storage technologies has the market ready for ...

Massachusetts to pay energy storage its fair share
pv magazine USA
Massachusetts lawmakers have approved energy storage as a part of solar+storage net metering programs, and have also approved privately-owned ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

The secret ingredient behind Hershey's new science-based target pledge
GreenBiz
Many companies are joining the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi), about ... goals were the company's go-to blueprint for reducing its carbon footprint. ... Hershey's existing 25 x 25 goals, which include reducing GHG emissions ...

AvalonBay Makes Commitment to Setting Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets ...
Associated Press (press release) (blog)
The Science-Based Targets initiative is a collaboration between CDP, ... do business move toward a low-carbon future, AvalonBay has plans to lead ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Who Wins and Who Loses From PG&E's Bankruptcy
New York Times
... could have consequences far beyond its immediate winners and losers. The bankruptcy could shape California's response to climate change and ...

THE NATURALIZED MID-AMERICAN: Let's find commonalities on climate and make change happen
Goshen News
I'm thinking about climate change, on the heels of a historic cold snap. ... it because we hold ourselves hostage to some notion of winners and losers?

A bold new plan to tackle climate change ignores economic orthodoxy
The Economist
In economics, climate change is a big but straightforward example of a ... to free an industrialised economy from fossil-fuel dependence will create losers. ... be said for the New Deal, or indeed the effort to win the second world war.

Socially Responsible Investing:

Invest Responsibly: What Is Socially Responsible Investing?
Zing! Blog by Quicken Loans (blog)
Socially responsible investing, or SRI, is an investment strategy that involves maximizing the money invested into companies that operate in ways that ...

Your Money Month: Socially-responsible investing for the average investor
BNNBloomberg.ca
Your Money Month: Socially-responsible investing for the average investor. Michael ... talks about socially-responsible investments for retail investors.

The surge of socially responsible investing
The Irish News
STANDING next to a plaque in the pure silent outback of Australia, the statement opened with 'when the first Europeans came here…” with no mention ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Opinion: When stock markets turned turbulent, ESG funds punched above their weight
MarketWatch
One of the most common assertions made against Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) and other types of Responsible Investments (“RI”) ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

University of Houston courts oil and gas for work on carbon management
Chron.com
... and perform research on the capture, storage and utilization of carbon. ... a vested interest in developing carbon capture and utilization technology.

Carbon Capture and Storage Market with Top Countries Data: Key Players, Trends, Drivers ...
TOP Tribune
Report Title: Global Carbon Capture and Storage Market 2018 by ... of large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere (from fossil fuel use in power ...

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Philanthropic Investing:

Houston billionaire couple Laura and John Arnold form new philanthropic brand
Houston Business Journal
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has invested more than $1 billion since its formation more than eight years ago, including more than $250 ...

What Does Facebook's Big Journalism Investment Mean for Local News?
Inside Philanthropy
In the intervening year, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark solidified his position as one of philanthropy's biggest patrons of nonprofit journalism and a ...

Longtime philanthropy exec takes the reins at Social Venture Partners Portland
Portland Business Journal
A longtime venture philanthropist has taken the reins at an organization that's ... An investor partner with the group since 2006, Johnson joined SVP ...

Green Bond Funds:

Canada's national pension scheme issues €1bn in green bonds
Financial News
Canada's C$368bn ($279bn) national pension fund has issued its first euro-denominated green bond. This is a rare move among pension funds, ...

Luxembourg wooing mainland Chinese firms to list green bonds on new platform aimed at ...
South China Morning Post
As China becomes an increasingly important player in green bonds, Luxembourg hopes to only grow its role as a go-to financing centre for the ...

Good Vibes For a Green Bond ETF
Yahoo! Finance News
This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com. The VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (GRNB) , the first fixed income exchange traded fund ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Strong ETF Right Now?
Nasdaq
A smart beta exchange traded fund, the iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) debuted on 12/08/2014, and offers broad exposure to ...

Winners of Ultra-Low Emission Bus funding announced
Renewable Energy Magazine (press release)
The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) has welcomed the announcement by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) of the winners of ...

Morningstar launches suite of low carbon risk indices
Expert Investor
The move follows Morningstar's introduction of the the Morningstar Low Carbon Designation for funds and the Morningstar Portfolio Carbon Risk ...