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Sector Based Decarbonization:
Industry Decarbonization: Leaking carbon and jobs in Europe?Bellona
As the notion of 'pre-industrial' temperature levels already suggests, the industry plays a central role in rising emissions and therefore climate change.
Sustainable Investing:
Global sustainable investing assets surged to $30 trillion in 2018GreenBiz
Sustainable investment has surged worldwide by more than a third since 2016, reaching assets of more than $30 trillion at the start of last year, new ...
Why Hasn't Sustainable Investing Gone Viral Yet?
Forbes
Let's first look at what sustainability looks like in financial terms. In sustainable investing, the ideal scenario is when you find opportunities that produce ...
Sustainable investing: this is how you do it
Investors' Corner BNP Paribas
Sustainable investing is becoming more popular as evidence mounts that this investment approach can offer a higher return. But what exactly is ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
GRI's tax initiative threatens to overtake CbCR on tax transparencyInternational Tax Review
Tax directors are backing an independent standard-setting body, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), to introduce a worldwide standard to tax ...
GRI calls for business and governments to partner on SDGs
edie.net
The chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) had called for greater collaboration and cooperation between businesses and national ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Student fund managers fuel colleges' clean energy investmentsEnergy News Network
As colleges and universities divest from fossil fuels, investments in clean energy have not been as quick to catch on, in part because of unpredictable ...
UK court shuts down renewable energy investment company
euronews
LONDON (Reuters) - A British court has shut down UK Renewable Investments (UKRI) after it failed to pay back millions of pounds of investor funds, ...
Norway Doubles Investment In Renewable Energy By Sovereign Wealth Fund
CleanTechnica
In a statement, it said it is “now allowing for the Government Pension Fund Global to be invested in unlisted renewable energy infrastructure.
CDP Sustainability:
Sustainability Series: Munich Airport tops climate protection rankingsInternational Airport Review
Munich Airport has been recognised for its effective climate change efforts by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an international organisation that ...
SDG6: Quenching business' thirst in a water-scarce world
www.businessgreen.com
Companies reporting on water to the investor-backed CDP disclosure ... the local level," says Emilio Tenuta, vice-president of corporate sustainability.
TESSY PLASTICS MAKES THE 'A' LIST FOR THE CARBON DISCLOSURE PROJECT
Healthcare Packaging
Tessy Plastics consistently takes action to build a sustainable business and a ... The Climate Change A List is published by CDP each year, alongside ... The full list of companies that made this year's CDP Climate Change A List are ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
John Kerry is on a mission to hold Trump accountable on climate changeLos Angeles Times
“Regrettably, President Trump has eliminated American leadership and replaced it [with] know-nothing denial,” Kerry said in an interview Thursday.
"Because We Punch Above Our Weight:" Gov. Newsom Says California Deserves Bigger Say In US ...
Capital Public Radio News
Jerry Brown influenced climate change policy — because California's size, robust ... That's what I want to bring back in terms of the leadership that we want to ... Newsom said he's relying on the powerful California congressional ...
PG&E Reveals New CEO and a Revamped Board of Directors
New York Times
Pacific Gas and Electric announced the appointment of a chief executive and ... In addition, climate change is making natural disasters more destructive, ... C.E.O. and the newly constituted board will help PG&E address California's ...
Impact Investing:
How the Gates Foundation is Revolutionizing Global Health Impact InvestingForbes
GHIF is a social impact investment fund, which manages manages ~$108M and was initially structured and backed by the Gates Foundation and JP ...
How Elyse Cherry Became an Impact Investing Pioneer
ThinkAdvisor
“Lots of folks are looking for impact investments. They can be hard to find in the equity space and they can be even harder to find in the fixed income ...
Energy Storage:
Congress Introduces Energy Storage Tax Credit BillGreentech Media
The Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), is the latest update to a bill first introduced in ...
Global Energy Storage to Hit 158 Gigawatt-Hours by 2024, Led by US and China
Greentech Media (blog)
For the energy storage industry, the past five years have been something of a stage rehearsal for a market explosion to come, led by the U.S. and ...
US energy storage market to double two years running
Windpower Engineering (press release)
The U.S. energy storage market nearly doubled in 2018 and is expected to double again in 2019. This is according to Wood Mackenzie Power ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
N/AClimate Change Winners and Losers:
Winners Outnumber Losers as Massachusetts Goes GreenVoice of America
Winners Outnumber Losers as Massachusetts Goes Green .... "In Massachusetts, climate change is not a partisan issue," Baker told the House of ...
Nesting Shorebirds Block Sacramento Area High School From Using New Turf Field
Capital Public Radio News
“There are always going to be winners and losers [of climate change] and we have to decide what we want. Do we want the species that are native to ...
Green new deal is an opportunity for GOP to retake climate debate
The Hill (blog)
says he believes in human-caused climate change. ... Where the green new deal would have the government pick winners and losers, this alternative ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Workers want those hard-to-find socially responsible investments in their 401(k) plans: SurveyCNBC
That level of access to socially conscious investments is "not good enough," according to Edward Farrington, executive vice president at Natixis ...
Socially discerning investing can bring both monetary and ethical rewards if done right
Tacoma News Tribune (blog)
According to the U.S. Forum on Sustainable Investing, investors now emphasize social and environmental issues across $12 trillion of professionally ...
“It's the era of socially responsible investment – ooh hello, Saudi Aramco”
MoneyWeek
Socially responsible investing is all the rage these days. The modern investor is an enlightened sort, so we're told by trend watchers and marketing ...
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
Sustainable Funds Still Gaining Steam in 2019Morningstar.com
Jon Hale: Hi I'm Jon Hale, global head of sustainable investing research at Morningstar, here to give you a quick recap on sustainable funds in the first ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Storing CO2 underground could help the fight against climate change. But cost is a big problemCNBC
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers are looking at something called carbon capture, utilization and storage. This places an ...
Global Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Market Study, 2019: Analysis & Outlook Through ...
Business Wire (press release)
The Global Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Market is poised to grow strong during the forecast period 2017 to 2027. Some of the prominent ...
Bipartisan senators want 'highest possible' funding for carbon capture technology
The Hill
Bipartisan senators want 'highest possible' funding for carbon capture .... with maximum funding for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).
Sustainability Investing:
More Funds Are Formally Considering ESG in Their Investment ProcessesMorningstar.com
Increasingly, impact funds are measuring and reporting on their impact to investors. Not surprisingly, many are also using the term "impact" in their ...
Investing In Food & Drink: Current Trends & Future Directions
Forbes
Concerns about food scarcity and interest in sustainability has led to emergence startups adopting different approaches to tackling this issue. However ...
Philanthropic Investing:
After the donation, the $100 million questionThe CT Mirror
“It's a great concept and I'm excited that the Dalio Foundation is investing in the area of public schools that are the most neglected — the social and ...
With Unique Assets, Health Corporations are Poised to Have a Larger Philanthropic Impact
Inside Philanthropy
... they're also investing capital in businesses created by entrepreneurs of ... and Health Care: Reimagining Corporate Philanthropy to Amplify Impact.
Ascension Michigan to get $3.6 million from Wilson foundation to train, retain caregivers
Crain's Detroit Business
The Wilson foundation will invest $1.5 million to measure success of the pilot and demonstrate the return on investment in terms of improved retention.
Green Bond Funds:
Illinois Finance Authority says sale benefitted from green labelBond Buyer
CHICAGO – The Illinois Finance Authority attracted new investors and greater retail participation on its first “green” designated state revolving fund ...
Woolworths to issue $400m in 'green' bonds
The Australian Financial Review
Food and liquor retailer Woolworths is issuing about $400 million in 'green' bonds to fund initiatives such as installing solar panels and LED lighting in ...
ILLINOIS EPA: Clean Water Initiative Bonds Finish Successful Pricing Following Triple-A Rating ...
Prairie State Wire
This is the first "Green Bond" deal Illinois has issued. ... Proceeds from the bond sales are combined with federal funds and past loan repayments to ...
Low Carbon Funds:
HSBC sees growth in green finance with low carbon push in Menat regionThe National
HSBC is seeing growth in the demand for sustainable finance in the Middle East North Africa and Turkey (Menat) markets with the British banking ...
Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Strong ETF Right Now?
Nasdaq
The iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) made its debut on 12/08/2014, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund that provides ...
Canadian government under fire for Loblaw funding
Supermarket News
Canada's environmental ministry is facing criticism for providing funding to help Loblaw Cos. reduce emissions from refrigeration units in hundreds of ...
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