In the News

Sector Based Decarbonization: 

Decarbonization in Caribbean maritime sector was in spotlight at regional workshop
PortNews IAA
Government and private stakeholders have expressed their support for climate action in the Caribbean, with a focus on decarbonizing the shipping ...

Siemens pressing ahead with eHighway solution to decarbonize transport sector
Balkan Green Energy News (press release) (blog)
Carbon emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, including lorries, buses, and coaches, represent around 27% of total road transport CO2 emissions.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Ecolab Ahead of Pace to Save Enough Water for 1 Billion People
Yahoo Finance
Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies, has ... The report summary and complete GRI Index are available at www.

CSL Releases Latest Corporate Sustainability Report
Yahoo Finance
The 2018 Report was prepared using the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 Sustainability Guidelines as a reference. The areas in which the report aligns ...

Hess Corporation Shows Continued ESG Commitment and Progress in 2018 Sustainability Report
Business Wire (press release)
GRI is an independent organization that provides the world's most widely recognized sustainability reporting and disclosure standards. Preparation of ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Global Renewable Energy Investment Falls In Wake Of Chinese Policy Shift
Forbes
Renewable energy investment fell back in the first half of 2019, with a 14% drop in funding for clean energy schemes around the world compared to ... 
   
Octopus Energy Investments rebrands as Octopus Renewables
www.businessgreen.com
Octopus Energy Investments has today announced a rebrand to become Octopus Renewables, in a move it claims will better communicate its work as ...

India requires $250 billion in green energy investments during 2023-2030: Economic Survey
Livemint
New Delhi: The Economic Survey 2018-19 presented on Thursday said that investments in India's emerging green economy will be around $80 billion ... 

CDP Sustainability:

Financiers urge brands to reveal climate impacts
Ecotextile News
... impact in sustainability reports – that is not enough on its own,” says Emily Kreps, global director of investor initiatives at not-for-profit CDP, formerly ...

Financial and non-financial reporting frameworks share common founding principles of ...
WebWire (press release)
CDP is an international non-profit that drives companies and governments to ... Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is an independent ...

Support in achieving your sustainability goals
CDP
Looking for support in achieving your sustainability goals this year? CDP's accredited solutions providers are available to help. They offer a range of ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Trump Saw Opportunity in Speech on Environment. Critics Saw a '“1984” Moment.'
The New York Times
“There's this factoid out there that the U.S. is a leader in reducing emissions,” ... But Mr. Trump made no mention of climate change, nor did he revisit a ...

On Politics: Trump Touts America's 'Environmental Leadership'
The New York Times
... withdrawing the United States from the international Paris climate change ... the California billionaire spearheading an effort to impeach Mr. Trump, ...

Billionaire anti-Trump activist Tom Steyer enters 2020 race with pledge to spend $100 million
CNBC
... crowded Democratic field late in the race with a pledge to focus on climate change and reforming the political system. ... On Monday, California Rep.

Impact Investing:

Using Biomimicry This Activist Is Turning Impact Investing Upside Down To Erase Racial Wealth ...
Forbes
Even in the context of impact investing generally, she says, “We're heading in the wrong direction where the wealth divide continues to get larger.”.

Impact Investing, Not Whitewashing: How Lumina's Venture Arm Works
EdSurge
“Impact investing” is a term that has become increasingly common—even trendy—in the education sector. Many investors, foundations and even ...

Energy Storage:

Energy Capital Partners Acquires Industrial Energy Storage Specialist Convergent
Greentech Media
Private equity firm Energy Capital Partners has bought its way into the energy storage development business with Convergent Energy + Power, the ...

Grid Scale Energy Storage: Innovations and Emerging Opportunities
Yahoo Finance
Grid-Scale energy storage solutions involve electrochemical storage such as batteries, supercapacitors, electromechanical storage solutions such as ...

Analysts: China's Energy Storage Market To “Skyrocket” by 2024
Greentech Media
China is set to become the leading energy storage market in the Asia Pacific region by 2024. That's according to new research from Wood Mackenzie ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Harrop: Climate change has minor winners and big losers
The Bakersfield Californian
There's no little irony in that the parts of the U.S. most devastated by climate change -- places seeing the worst flooding, heat waves and natural ...

Reflecting on the First Democratic Debates
Greentech Media
Also, who were the overall winners and losers? ... In this week's episode, we discuss how did candidates and climate change fared in the first round of ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Explore Choices in Socially Conscious Investing
The Ticker Tape
Socially conscious investing puts money into companies that prioritize initiatives considered beneficial for society. For example, some companies ...

ASU Foundation creates new socially responsible investment fund
Arizona State University
Establishing a socially responsible investment option allows donors to magnify their impact. Their gift supports the university and the investments will ...

Avoiding the greenwash in sustainable investing
Investment Europe
SRI (socially responsible investment), which emerged as an investment strategy in the early 2000s, is in part being superseded by risk-based models ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Senate advances Hoeven's USE IT legislation promoting carbon capture technology
Ripon Advance
The USE IT Act would promote the research and development of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology and would incentivize ...

Study touts affordability of carbon capture technology at San Juan Generating Station
Farmington Daily Times
Study touts affordability of carbon capture technology at San Juan ..... generation using carbon capture utilization and storage technology while ...

Total, IFPEN team up to accelerate carbon reduction R&D
WorldOil
A strategic R&D partnership on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) aims to reduce the cost of infrastructure and improve the CCUS chain's ...

Sustainability Investing:

The Business of sustainability: is the world of finance ready to go green?
Euronews English
Investors are increasingly keen on putting their money into sustainable ... Network, a “club” of investors focused on the so-called impact investing.

Green Voices of Nasdaq Nordic: How the Church of Sweden Integrates Sustainability into its ...
Nasdaq
Integrating sustainability aspects in investment decisions ... "Our ambition when we started investing in green bonds in 2015 was to support the ...

Remitly Announces $220 Million Financing, Accelerating International Growth
Yahoo Finance
Sustainability investors and financial institutions come together to back global digital remittance service. Remitly, the online international money ...

Green Bond Funds:

New green bonds scheme to finance responsible soy production
FeedNavigator.com
The world's first financial facility to offer green bonds for sustainable soy production in Brazil was launched yesterday [July 4] at London Climate Action ...

World's first green bonds scheme to finance responsible soy production in Brazil launched
UN Environment (press release)
LONDON, 4 July 2019- The world's first financial facility to offer green bonds for sustainable soy production in Brazil was launched today at London ...

Low Carbon Funds:

As Investors Increasingly Seek Out Low Carbon Investments, VanEck Rebrands an Energy ETF to ...
Yahoo Finance
“As this Fund was already investing at least 80% of its total assets in stocks of low carbon energy companies, we wanted to make this change to better ...

VanEck Rebrands Energy ETF to reflect underlying low carbon approach
ETF Express (press release) (blog)
“As this Fund was already investing at least 80 per cent of its total assets in stocks of low carbon energy companies, we wanted to make this change to ...

EU eyes harmonizing data for low-carbon goal
Pensions & Investments
Pension funds are engaging with investee companies to secure environmental data that they will need to meet their own requirements under an ...