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Sector Based Decarbonization: 

Energy transition, decarbonization in Europe dominate Flame gas conference
S&P Global Platts
Ciszewski said the EC did not have a view on which technologies would be best suited to achieving a decarbonized gas sector, only that the debate ...

Feature: Why smooth integration of DER is key for decarbonization
Power Engineering International
The decarbonization of the energy sector was once a distant aspiration. ... Furthermore, the FANs being deployed today are frequently based on ...

Sustainable Investing: 

Socially responsible investing movement is hot and there are no signs of it cooling off
CNBC
Socially responsible investing has exploded across the globe and interest in it has never been higher. But there is a real chance the business and ...

Missing The Forest For The Trees: Can Impact Investing Shift Its Focus To Where The Big Money ...
Forbes
What, exactly, is an impact investor? This question has been the subject of much debate and until recently, there has been a lack of objective ...

DEFINED CONTRIBUTION INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION (DCIIA) PUBLISHES ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION (DCIIA) PUBLISHES “SUSTAINABLE INVESTING IN DEFINED ... 

Global Reporting Initiative:

Vizient Corporate Responsibility Report Highlights Environmental Sourcing, Supplier Diversity and ...
SCNow
“Corporate responsibility is engrained in our values-based organization, and we voluntarily measure ourselves against GRI benchmarks to affirm our ...

Coffee Trader Mercon Receives $450 Million Credit Line for Sustainability
Daily Coffee News
The group is following the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) from the Global Reporting Initiative, an independent standards ...

Fortuna issues 2018 Sustainability Report
Yahoo Finance
TO) is pleased to announce the publication of its first Sustainability Report, prepared using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Should China Renewable Energy Investment Limited's (HKG:987) Weak Investment Returns Worry ...
Yahoo Finance
Help shape the future of investing tools and you could win a $250 gift card! Today we'll evaluate China Renewable Energy Investment Limited ...

Forget the hype. Here's the state of clean energy in 6 charts.
Grist
Worldwide investment in renewable energy fell slightly last year, and the proportion of money budgeted to low-carbon energy has stagnated at 35 ...

Renewable energy investment surge to buoy construction work: ACIF
The Australian Financial Review
An $18 billion surge in renewable energy infrastructure is part of a stronger-than-expected spend on infrastructure that is offsetting falling residential ... 

CDP Sustainability:

Episode 171: CDP's new leader speaks up, Steelcase CSO takes stock, Moody's wants feedback
GreenBiz
Meet the new head of CDP North America (14:55). At first Dell and later NRG, Bruno Sarda was instrumental in driving sustainability deeper into the ...

CSR Cheat Sheet: California dominates climate A list of cities
Ethical Corporation Magazine
In his monthly sustainability news round-up, Oliver Balch reports on CDP's first ranking of cities, the damning case against hydropower, and how ...

L'Oréal pushes forward with sustainable development
CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com
The CDP is one benchmarking organisation that has recognized these achievements. In 2018, and for the third consecutive year, L'Oréal is one of two ...    

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Berkeley Talks: Kira Stoll and David Wooley on how California and UC are reducing carbon ...
UC Berkeley
In her system-wide role as co-chair of the Climate Change Working Group and representative to the UC Global Climate Leadership Council, she has ...

Climate change takes center stage for Schumer
Politico
Schumer's decision to devote his attention to climate change this year ... Schumer parried Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's move to hold a vote ... Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of ...

'It'd be as popular as the plague': Some House members consider taking pay raise this year
WSBT-TV
The optics for Democrats of restoring the COLA after GOP leaders killed it each ... more than a decade,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. .... more destructive and deadlier wildfires due in part to climate change.

Impact Investing:

The How-To: Measuring Outcomes Of Impact Investing
Entrepreneur
Impact investing, which involves the placement and unlocking of capital to achieve social or environmental impact with an expected financial return, ...

Energy Storage:

Energy Storage Unleashed
Transmission & Distribution World
Slowly, the industry is agreeing with those calling energy storage the killer app of the smart grid because of its wide range of applications and services.

Shell's industrial customers in Ontario to be offered Convergent's BTM battery storage
Energy Storage News
US-Canadian project developer Convergent has been involved in some of the Canadian province's biggest energy storage projects to date, many of ...

Inventive Renewable Energy Storage Systems Reveal New Possibilities
PRNewswire (press release)
The alarming rates have thus prompted many companies to transition towards manufacturing cleaner energy sources. In particular, energy storage ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

'Climate Change Is the Real Job Killer'
FAIR
Sean Duffy likely thought he was onto a winner when he dismissed the Green ... One is that climate change is the real job killer, not the answers to climate ... about “winners and losers” under policy changes, but of course it's true that ...

How AI Can Help Handle Severe Weather
The New York Times
“The challenge with ecology as a field and climate change as an area is that the ... “We know in severe storms, there are clear winners and losers,” Dr. Uriarte said. ... Over the long term, the winners would become more dominant.”.

Fighting climate change a cause for optimism
The Ecologist
The politics of climate change are not a question of right or left but about optimism and pessimism - the ... There will always be winners and losers.

Socially Responsible Investing:

How Ethical Investing Can Help You Retire Comfortably
Forbes
You can do well by doing good through your retirement portfolio. Those who employ ethical or socially responsible investing may also reap greater ...

Allaria: What is values-based investing?
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
You may have heard investment terms like sustainable investing, ESG, and socially responsible investing (SRI). But, what do they all mean? All are ..

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

How Can You Become a “Sustainable” Investor?
Pasadena Journal
Essentially, sustainable investing incorporates non-financial or indirect financial considerations, specifically environmental concerns (climate change, ...

New iShares ESG Fund Off to Roaring Start
Wall Street Journal
Nuveen's ESG fund that invests in smaller companies has more than ... ESG is a contemporary offshoot of socially responsible investing that tries to ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Revolutionary approach to storing and using carbon, and the impressive effort it will take to achieve
Phys.Org
If we can use carbon dioxide as a carbon source for these plastics and chemicals, then we can capture and store a large quantity of CO2 in the plastics ...

The clean hydrogen future has already begun
World Economic Forum (blog)
Current estimates put the price of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in the range of €50 to €70 per ton of CO2. The price is lower in ...

Carbon Sequestration Tax Credits - IRS Requests Comment on Section 45Q Regulations
JD Supra (press release)
In February 2018, the tax credit for carbon capture and sequestration under Section 45Q of the ... Secure Geological Storage. ... “Utilization” of qualified carbon oxide means (i) fixation of the carbon oxide through photosynthesis or ...

Sustainability Investing:

investing in Retail Sustainability
Shopping Center Business
Jeffrey S. Edison, Chairman and CEO of Phillips Edison & Company (PECO), knows sustainability will play a large role in the operation, development, ...

A message for all sustainability believers: Take a hard look from the outside
GreenBiz
"Globally, sustainable investing assets in the five major markets stood at $30.7 trillion at the start of 2018, a 34 percent increase in two years.

Philanthropic Investing:

Jeannette Hogan and Tom Johnson: Public investments in high-quality, affordable child care are ...
Bennington Banner
After decades of philanthropic investment in Vermont's early care and learning system, it is gratifying to see a bill moving through the Legislature that ...

JPMorgan Chase Makes $125 Million, Five-Year Global Investment in Financial Health
Yahoo Finance
The new philanthropic investment is part of JPMorgan Chase's efforts to drive economic opportunity in cities across the world. The bank will identify, ...

Giving City: Innovative real estate fund posts returns to investors
Austin American-Statesman
Giving City: Innovative real estate fund posts returns to investors .... This unique fund, a kind of philanthropic solution that also generates a financial ...

Green Bond Funds:

Cofide issues first green bonds
LatinFinance
Private pension funds, or AFPs, accounted for 80.5% of the orders, while ... development bank has said it will use the proceeds from the green bond ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Many CA Low-Income Renters Still Waiting for Clean Energy
Natural Resources Defense Council
We know how to slash energy bills and reduce climate pollution for ... million in cap-and-trade funds since 2016 to invest in 10,000 low-income renter ...

Managing the magnitude of the energy transition
www.businessgreen.com
This work is carried out independently and, on average, the Liontrust Sustainable Future Funds emit 72 per cent less carbon dioxide than the markets ...

Stalling on Climate Change Action May Cost Investors Over $1 Trillion
Bloomberg
That's the preliminary analysis of a UN Environment Finance Initiative ... “Investors have a central role to play in moving the world to a low-carbon ...