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Sector Based Decarbonization: 

Operational gains path to early shipping decarbonization
JOC.com
Operational gains path to early shipping decarbonization ... While some industry experts say operational efficiencies, such as reducing ship ... provider ranked 18 of the shipping sector's largest publicly listed companies based on ...

Study of Decarbonization Efforts in Massachusetts Authored by Analysis Group Consultants Shows ...
PRNewswire (press release)
The study points out that energy and environmental policies affecting the electric sector are increasingly aiming to reduce the carbon intensity of ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Nigerian Stock Exchange, Global Reporting Initiative Host Roundtable On Sustainable ...
Exchange News Direct
X-Academy, a knowledge platform of The Nigerian Stock Exchange (“the Exchange” or “NSE”) partnered with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ...

Project examines sustainability impact on business reporting
Accounting Today
The Global Reporting Initiative, a sustainability reporting standard-setter, has begun a project to see how the United Nations' Sustainable ...

Trinseo Releases 9th Annual Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Yahoo Finance
Company completes its first full year utilizing Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework for sustainability reporting. Trinseo (TSE), a global materials ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

At $20 billion in 2018, India's green energy investments surpassed thermal power
Livemint
New Delhi: In what is being marked as a turning point for India's green economy, investments in the country's renewable energy sector doubled over ...

IEA sees hike in India's renewable energy sector investment
Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects India to revise its renewable energy capacity addition target in the coming ...

New York climate plan sets 30-year goal for 100% renewable energy
Los Angeles Times
New York climate plan sets 30-year goal for 100% renewable energy ... state now promotes with rebates and investments in charging infrastructure.

CDP Sustainability:

Call to action, secretive companies, sustainable fashion: 3 stories you may have missed
Conservation International (blog)
The Story: In an article reported by Matthew Green from Reuters, the charity CDP stated that 70 percent of 1,500 large companies failed to report data ...

Scotiabank Boosting Sustainability Commitment with Closing of Inaugural Green Bond Offering
Yahoo Finance
... in 2018; Reporting sustainability results annually to CDP since 2004; Supporting the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

Republic Services Unveils 2030 Sustainability Goals
Yahoo Finance
Company's New Sustainability Report Highlights Alignment with the United ... to the Company's most important sustainability risks and opportunities. ... Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) Global Climate and the Supplier Climate ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

New York climate plan sets 30-year goal for 100% renewable energy
Los Angeles Times
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act requires the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 85% below 1990 levels by 2050 and ...

POLITICO Playbook PM: What Republicans are saying in private about Ilhan Omar and 'send her ...
Politico
THE DCCC on Wednesday hit California GOP candidate Young Kim ... “During a breakfast meeting with Republican leaders, multiple members said .... of a sweeping plan on how to respond to climate change that was finalized in the ...

Local politicians sign letter to governor against fossil fuel use
Sonoma West
We appreciate that you have made addressing climate change a priority of ... the leadership we need for a safe, healthy, and prosperous California.

Impact Investing:

Opinion: How impact investing can create affordable housing
MarketWatch
But this is something that investors can do something about. That's right, affordable housing is an issue that is ripe for impact investing strategies, more ...

9 Things Beginner Investors Should Know About Impact Investing
U.S. News & World Report
Impact investing, or the pursuit of making tangible positive change through your investments, has become a hot topic in the investment world.

Energy Storage:

Northeastern States Primed to Be the Next Major Energy Storage Market
Greentech Media
Northeastern states have enacted a dizzying array of policies to promote energy storage development alongside the growth of renewables over the ...

Taking Aim at PJM's 10-Hour Duration Capacity Rule for Energy Storage
Greentech Media
Over the past year and a half, the U.S. energy storage industry has been getting into arguments with grid operators over their plans to implement ...

The Safety Question Persists as Energy Storage Prepares for Huge Growth
Greentech Media
The safety of energy storage systems is under scrutiny after firefighters were injured in an Arizona battery plant explosion in April, and it emerged that ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

UW Researcher Contributes to Paper About Climate Changes Occurring Faster Than Animals Adapt
University of Wyoming News
Although animals do commonly respond to climate change, such responses are, ... Tarwater adds that it is clear from single species studies that there will be “winners and losers” when it comes to climate change, meaning some ...

South Africa's carbon tax matters for the economy and tackling climate change
Phys.Org
Despite the fact that there will be winners and losers, overall, the tax should ... These changes—simply referred to as climate change—have led to ...

This week's biggest Winners & Losers
City & State
For a few slightly less controversial Winners & Losers, read on. ... How about signing landmark legislation on MWBEs, climate change and farmworker ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Report examining socially responsible investing at Pitt released
University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
The 61-page report weighs the positives and negatives of factoring Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) considerations into managing the University ...

3 Tips to Align Your Portfolio with Your ValuesKiplinger's Personal Finance
That's admirable, but just like with any other investment decision, ... socially responsible investing, values-based investing, impact investing and so on.

Do Politicians Put Their (Investment) Money Where Their Mouth Is?
Forbes
First, as stated, liberal politicians exhibit a preference for firms that rank high on measures of social responsibility. They are also less likely to invest in ...  

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Markets, 2018-2019 & 2026 – Market is Expected to ...
EnerCom Inc. (press release) (blog)
Dublin, July 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Market Analysis 2019" report has been added to ...
 
Carbon capture act passes Senate committee
Midland Reporter-Telegram
The challenge has become promoting the use of the nation's growing .... economywide deployment of carbon capture, transport, use and storage as ...

Carbon Removal — Will This Technology Overcome the Funding Hurdle?
Lexology
The second removes CO2 in the atmosphere directly from the ambient air. Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage. Carbon Capture, Utilization, and ...

Sustainability Investing:

Sustainable fund? Index fund? More investors choose both
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The first trend, sustainable investing, is nothing new. Funds focused on companies seen as doing well on environmental, social and governance ...

Move Over EPS, Jim Cramer Has a New Investing Term
TheStreet.com
Cramer explains what impact per share is and why investors need to sit up and pay attention to what companies are doing about sustainability.

Green Bond Funds:

Demand for green bonds crimped by lack of supply
Pensions & Investments
Issuance of green bonds is much exceeded by demand for them. ... with lack of issuer variety and liquidity prevail for most pension funds, preventing ...

Scotiabank Boosting Sustainability Commitment with Closing of Inaugural Green Bond Offering
Yahoo Finance
The net proceeds from the Green Bond offering will be used to fund the financing or refinancing, in whole or in part, of eligible green assets, which ...

Greenko raises $950 million through Asia' largest green bond
Livemint
The bond raise followed after the two sovereign wealth funds agreed to pump in an additional $329 million in Greenko Energy Holdings. Mint reported ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Innovative funding models and technologies to drive investment in new wave of low carbon energy
GOV.UK
new funding approach could help deliver nuclear power and carbon capture technology, key to delivering net zero emissions, at the best possible ...

CORRECTED-Funds managing $2 trillion urge cement makers to act on climate impact
CNBC
... global warming, engage with policy-makers to ensure an orderly transition to a low carbon economy, and increase their reporting of climate risk.

Schroders eyes global low-carbon energy shift with new launch
citywireselector.com
Schroders is targeting opportunities in the fast-changing world of energy transition, with a new globally-focused fund overseen by its head of ...