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Sector Based Decarbonization

Community-Based Strategies for Building Decarbonization through Renewable Heating and ...
AltEnergyMag (press release)
Community-Based Strategies for Building Decarbonization through ... RH&C technologies can help communities decarbonize the building sector."

Japanese Solar Poised for Growth But Government's Long-Term Decarbonization Strategy Falls ...
Solar Magazine
Japan's long-term decarbonization strategy falls short on several counts, including ... plant in order to establish “a society based on renewable energy” and “to research, .... Figure 2-16 Coal Consumption by Japan's Power Industry

New carbon capture technology helps Drax, ag sector decarbonize
Biomass Magazine
Deep Branch Biotechnology, a leading tech start-up based at Nottingham University, will place a pilot plant within Drax's carbon capture usage and ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

CenterPoint Energy releases 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report
Yahoo Finance
Report details company's environmental, social and governance ... Legacy Vectren's 2018 GRI Index is available on the Investors section of www.

Cabot Corporation Publishes 2018 Sustainability Report
Yahoo Finance
The report was developed in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standards: Core Option and serves as a Communication on Progress in ...

Univar Solutions Releases Its 2018 Sustainability Report
Yahoo Finance
The 2018 Sustainability Report carries forward the "Our Home Our ... Report references the latest version of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Alternus Energy Closes $9.75 Million Financing from Leading European Renewable Energy ...
Yahoo Finance
Vincent Browne, Alternus Energy's Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman, commented, “We appreciate the investment and confidence of ...

Opportunity Zones Can Drive Development Of US Renewable Energy
Forbes
The race is now on to determine whether renewable energy developers can catch up to their ... “economically-distressed communities where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment.”.

3 Top Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy Right Now
Motley Fool
Renewable energy may be one of the highest potential industries in the world today, but it's been a land mine for investors over the past decade.

CDP Sustainability:

Accurately Reporting Climate Impacts – With ABN AMRO, CDP, Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels and ...
CSRwire.com (press release)
Accurately Reporting Climate Impacts – With ABN AMRO, CDP, Hongkong ... Janice Lao, Director Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, The ...

Shipping firms 'failing to invest in critical decarbonisation tech'
Energy Live News - Energy Made Easy
However, CDP notes most sustainability-driven actions being taken across the industry are only likely to deliver marginal improvements and will not be ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

The California climate policy no one is talking about
The Hill
California is often lauded for its commitment to confront the climate crisis and its leadership in developing innovative policy solutions. ... decarbonization, as noted by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In fact ...

Canada and California's Clean Cars Announcement Shows “Vision and Leadership”
Environmental Defense Fund
“Today's announcement by Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna and California's Air Resources Board Chair ...

Pete Buttigieg Proposes Pittsburgh For Climate Change Summit During Democratic Debate
CBS Pittsburgh
Climate change isn't theoretical. Parts of California are on fire, in Florida they're talking about sea level rise. In South Bend I had to activate the ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing's 'Third Phase': What New Challenges Lie Ahead?
Knowledge@Wharton
A dozen years have passed since the term “impact investing” was coined at a meeting of investors, entrepreneurs and philanthropists at the ...

'Impact Investing': Good For The Planet, Good For Profit?
WBUR
Foundations and pension funds are under pressure to do more "impact investing," focusing not just on the bottom line, but also on doing good for ...

Energy Storage:

Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid
Scientific American
The way the world gets its electricity is undergoing a rapid transition, driven by both the increased urgency of decarbonizing energy systems and the ...

Arizona lights up the energy storage market
AZ Big Media
“With energy globally, there is a big push to think about how we can invent more reliable energy storage for our grid,” said Chemistry and Biochemistry ...

Massachusetts sweetening the deal for energy storage systems
Axios
A new $3.5 million energy storage system went online last month in Ashburnham, Mass., continuing a statewide expansion of systems designed to ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Trending: Fashion Giants Lining Up with Science-Based Targets
SB News
Fashion Giants Lining Up with Science-Based Targets ... complete with aggressive science-based targets to reduce carbon emissions throughout its ...

Levi Strauss & Co agree IFC deal to help meet carbon goals
edie.net
Levi Strauss & Co agree IFC deal to help meet carbon goals ... and mills to reduce GHG emissions – and assist the suppliers with implementing renewable ... The targets, which have been approved under the Science Based Targets ...

Japan is leading on business climate engagement. Will ambitious policies follow?
Eco-Business
Sector emissions goals and science-based targets at the company level advance ... Science-based targets are corporate commitments to reduce GHG ... supporting Japanese company low-carbon innovation through a dedicated ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Winners and losers in world food production under climate change
Minnesota Public Radio News
Climate change is already affecting food production around the world, and it's unfolding in interesting ways. Researchers have been studying how ...

Democratic debate analysis: Candidates spar over immigration, taxes, climate change and guns
Los Angeles Times
Julián Castro called for reproductive justice. Elizabeth Warren weighed in on children and gun violence. Jay Inslee finally got to talk about climate ...

Here's how Republicans can win the climate change debate in 2020
The Hill (blog)
Here's how Republicans can win the climate change debate in 2020 .... bureaucrats in charge of picking winners and losers, incentivizing lobbying ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Public Pension Supporters Reconsider Socially Responsible Investing
WBUR
Socially responsible investing was once attractive to the directors of the California Pension Employees' Retirement System, or CALPERS, but they ...

'Socially responsible' & impact investing: What's the difference?
Aljazeera.com
Socially responsible investing and impact investing are both mission-driven investment strategies, but there are significant differences - semantic and ...

Dispelling Myths Around Socially Responsible Institutional Investment
Propmodo
This same institutional skepticism towards incorporating ESG considerations into investment decisions often carries through into real estate investing ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

ExxonMobil Partners on Tech for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Storage
dallasinnovates.com
“Advancing technologies to capture and concentrate carbon dioxide for storage and potential industrial use is among a suite of ExxonMobil research ...

FuelCell Energy to Provide a Carbon Capture Solution in UK
Yahoo Finance
To this end, FuelCell Energy's carbon capture technology has the capability to ... the power generation, which can be used for sequestration or utilization. ... the former adopting Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) ...

3 Key Innovations Aiming to Reduce CO2 Emission
Now. Powered by Northrop Grumman. (blog)
But a 2019 study from the Center for International Environmental Law warned that carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies, could slow the ...

Sustainability Investing:

Sustainable investing: How to avoid greenwashing?
The Corner Economic
Investing sustainably is also much more difficult than buying a set of ESG scores and applying it to a portfolio. There is more to sustainable investing.

An impact investing boom is under way
Aljazeera.com
With concerns about climate change, human rights and social justice dominating popular culture today, impact investing is experiencing a boom.

Green Bond Funds:

Finance ROUND-UP: JinkoSolar's loan boost, Etrion's green bond, ReNew's raise
PV-Tech
2 June: Going down the green bond route allowed Etrion Corporation to more than halve the financing costs of its Japanese PV project compared to ...

Dutch issue €6bn green bond
Public Finance International
Its green bond will fund a range of low-carbon projects but its focus is on sustainable water management – especially the use of “natural infrastructure” ...

Low Carbon Funds:

3 Funds with a Low Carbon Approach
Morningstar
And today I would like to talk to you about our low-carbon designation. It's a unique and innovative badge that we award to funds with low-carbon risk ...

New York protects $210B fund from climate risks, with Stanford assistance
Stanford Report
“This is a proactive plan to mitigate climate risk, capitalize on opportunities in the growing low-carbon economy and protect the fund's long-term value,” ...

Quest For Strategic Deployable Solutions Fuels BP's Venture Funding Arm, Says Its Boss
Forbes
... a lower carbon footprint. The senior executive leading that charge for oil major BP (LON:BP), via the company's venture capital (VC) funding arm BP ...

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