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Sustainable Investing:
Best Earth Day-Friendly Robo Advisors for Socially-Responsible InvestingThe Dough Roller
Investing can change your financial life–but today, it could also change the world. Here are the best robo advisors that will make every day Earth Day.
Inside the quest to measure the impact of impact investing
GreenBiz
This is the kind of valuation challenge impact investors have been grappling with for years. Purely financial investments come with an accepted ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Atos publishes its 2018 Integrated Report: People at the heart of sustainable digital transformationGlobeNewswire (press release)
It was prepared in accordance with the 2018 Registration Document and successfully fulfils the recommendations of the Global Reporting Initiative ...
DMCC Launches Sustainability Report 2018 Outlining Development of Its Smart and Sustainable ...
Yahoo Finance
The report is prepared in line with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards ... report today, as part of its commitment to the United Nations Global ...
Barron's Roundtable Live: Abby Joseph Cohen and Todd Ahlsten on ESG Investing
Barron's
Other emerging ESG standards include those from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Why major institutional capital is moving into renewable energyThe Investor JLL
A recent survey by Octopus Investments found that over the next five years, institutional investment in renewable energy is set to rise by 10 percent.
Credit Suisse says global trends will boost these sectors
CNBC
Public pressure on politicians to rely on renewable energy instead of fossil ... “In Europe, investors still seem to underestimate the positive earnings ...
Brookfield Renewable And Hannon Armstrong: Comparing 2 High-Yield Green Energy Stocks
Seeking Alpha
Political and economic trends across the globe favor the long-term outlook for renewable energy investments. BEP and HASI provide two popular and ...
CDP Sustainability:
Leonardo signs MoU with CDP, Borsa Italiana to support supply chainIHS Jane's 360
Leonardo, the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) investment bank, and the ... (LEAP2020) programme that is addressing sustainability within the firm.
Ghana: VRA Disburses Gh¢745000 Scholarships to Tertiary Students
AllAfrica.com
... scholarship under its Community Development Programme (CDP). ... To ensure the sustainability of businesses, he called on corporate entities to ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Protecting the ocean: Don't stop at the shorelineCapitol Weekly
California has distinguished itself as a climate leader, from reducing carbon ... our climate resiliency and slowing the progression of global warming.
Electra Meccanica's SOLO qualifies for $900 rebate as zero-emission motorcycle in California
Electrek
This rebate approval in California stands as a testament to California's leadership in the fight to curb the effects of climate change while increasing the ...
Washington Gov. Inslee: Climate change is at heart of 2020 campaign
San Francisco Chronicle
Inslee largely focused on his signature climate-change campaign issue ... the Butte County town that saw the brunt of California's deadliest and most ... leadership in pursuing comprehensive climate change legislation shows he ...
Impact Investing:
Investing for Social Impact Is Complicated. Here Are 4 Ways to Simplify It.The New York Times
When asked about this strategy, known as impact investing, investors typically give a lukewarm response or sidestep the topic altogether, researchers ...
Energy Storage:
Putting Communities First in Deploying Energy StorageUnion of Concerned Scientists (blog)
UCS convened a select group of stakeholders in December 2018 to discuss policies to spur deployment of energy storage. But this meeting was not ...
Massachusetts' multipronged policy approach spurs distributed energy storage
Utility Dive
Massachusetts is a leader in the deployment of distributed energy storage in America, due to forward-thinking legislative approaches and other ...
Global Snapshot of Key Energy Storage and Battery Markets
Greentech Media
This special report examines 13 energy storage markets to see what's heating up, what's hitting a dead end, and where the savvy storage observer ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
How should we evaluate the ethical and environmental performance of companies and corporations?The Fifth Estate
What does it mean for companies to say they're sustainable or ethical? ... The EFFAS working group was looking at key performance indicators for ... of its carbon footprint by half by 2030, as part of its “Science-Based Targets ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
We just might be at a tipping point on how seriously the world treats climate changeQuartz
... socio-techno-economic systems: energy, transport, land-use, food and buildings, to name just five… there will be winners and losers. These changes will need to be handled fairly if the transition is to win social acceptance.”.
Why jellyfish could be the biggest winners from climate change
World Economic Forum (blog)
Why jellyfish could be the biggest winners from climate change ... The most obvious loser in this new environment are species that build shells, like ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Eaton Vance CEO on Socially Responsible Investing, Reinventing ETFs, AcquisitionsBarron's
Eaton Vance (EV) Chief Executive Tom Faust has “flipped the switch” to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations across ...
Socially Responsible Investing Sounds Appealing, but Does it Actually Work?
Robb Report
Make money, do good, feel good, save the planet. That's the pitch for socially and environmentally responsible investing. And this form of investing is a ...
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
Illinois lawmakers want to sway state, local funds to 'sustainable' investingIllinois News Network
Illinois lawmakers are looking to nudge public investment funds in the state toward what they call “responsible investing.” The bill, which passed a ...
MBA students face off in challenge to create the next best impact investing idea
CNBC
The competition is evidence that impact investing is being embraced in ... The number of sustainable funds has grown, according to Morningstar's ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Implementation of Recent Amendments to the 45Q Carbon Sequestration Tax CreditThe National Law Review
The modifications in the BBA were designed to enhance the existing tax incentive for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to promote ...
Carbon storage gets nod, but needs more study
Terre Haute Tribune Star
The project involves re-use of the shuttered SG Solutions coal gasification plant ... Underground storage of carbon dioxide would be an alternative to ...
IRS gets moving on tax guidance
E&E News
The IRS is soliciting comments on how to implement last year's overhaul of a key tax incentive for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) ...
Sustainability Investing:
Sustainability focused Ecosystem Integrity Fund closes on $100 millionTechCrunch
With six deals already under its belt, the sustainability focused investment firm Ecosystem Integrity Fund has closed its third investment vehicle at its ..
Philanthropic Investing:
Philanthropic investors multiply their impact assets with Beyond Meat's IPOImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, May 8 – Impact investments from donor-advised funds helped seed the growth of Beyond Meat, the plant-based meat company that ...
Opinion: Public investments in high-quality, affordable child care are long overdueVermont Biz
by Jeannette Hogan and Tom Johnson After decades of philanthropic investment in Vermont's early care and learning system, it is gratifying to see a ...
MIT Solve Announces Launch of Solve Innovation Fund
Yahoo Finance
First-of-its-Kind Philanthropic Venture Fund to Invest in Social Impact-focused Entrepreneurs Selected through Solve's Global Challenges.
Green Bond Funds:
Opinion: How green bonds can fund developmentDevex
One of climate change's great injustices is that the worst affected countries are the ones that have contributed least to the problem. In 2015, the world ...
New Mexico to market 'green bonds' for energy conservation
The Durango Herald
SANTA FE – New Mexico plans to issue specialized green bonds as it ... socially conscious investors including nonprofits and certain pension funds.
Investors snap up Nedbank green bonds
Independent Online
JOHANNESBURG – Nedbank reaped the rewards of its first green bond on the ... The JSE said the bank placed bonds worth R1.7bn last week to fund ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Scientific Beta's pension fund-friendly low carbon/multi-factor indicesETF Stream
Scientific Beta said being able to integrate ESG policies into investment strategies is now a prerequisite for pension funds as it announced the launch ...
Ottawa leaves small businesses to pay the heaviest price for its climate agenda
Financial Post
The government's $12-million grant to Loblaws from the Low Carbon Economy Fund has deeply offended small-business owners from coast to coast.
The Green New Deal isn't big enough
Washington Post
If carbon-based energy sources help them compete in the global ... cases, the technological capacity — to develop low-carbon electricity generation and .... to the Green Climate Fund could prevent carbon pollution equivalent to 51 ...
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