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Global Reporting Initiative:

Sustainability Reports and the Limitations of 'Limited' Assurance
The CPA Journal
Three dozen comprehensive standards are published by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and 77 industry-specific standards are issued by the ...

Businesses Crucial to the Success of SDGs
Inter Press Service
Peter Paul van de Wijs is Chief External Affairs Officer for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the independent international organizations that helps ...

Minerals Technologies Publishes 2018 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report
Yahoo Finance
The report references the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Standards as a guide for identifying, measuring and reporting MTI's ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Corporate Investment In Solar Energy Surges
Forbes
America's top corporations are pouring investments into solar energy – led by Apple and Amazon— according to a newly released report by the Solar ...

Chinese renewable energy investment abroad soars – but coal still dominant
South China Morning Post
China has been building dozens of new renewable energy projects at home to reduce the share of coal in its total energy mix to 59 per cent by the end ...

Apple leads corporate American solar energy usage
TechCrunch
“Top companies are increasingly investing in clean, reliable solar energy because it makes economic sense,” said Abigail Ross Hopper, president ...

CDP Sustainability:

L'Oréal and Beiersdorf Lead Sustainable Palm Oil Sourcing Commitment
CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com
Non-profit environmental advocate and climate research provider, CDP, reveals how personal care household name, L'Oréal, and skin care name, ...

CDP Group named as a recommended supplier for cloud-integrated HCM systems by Gartner
PRNewswire (press release)
In the newsletter, CDP Group was featured as a recommended supplier for ... As an innovation leader in human capital management services, CDP ... to reduce the risk of enterprises by enhancing sustainability and replicability.

The adaptive data center will become essential to a sustainable planet
DatacenterDynamics
Concerns about rising average temperatures and sustainability have grown ... Last year, the CDP queried organizations to calculate how a warming ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Touring oil spill site, Newsom calls for greater oversight of California petroleum industry
Los Angeles Times
While praised for helping California become a world leader in combating climate change, Brown has come under attack for not reining in the state's oil ...

Automakers, Rejecting Trump Pollution Rule, Strike a Deal With California
The New York Times
Gavin Newsom of California said he was “very confident” that more ... hard for a rollback alongside groups that deny the science of climate change. ... That's where the leadership is coming from right now in the U.S. on climate.”.

Opinion: Jay Inslee on persuading Americans to save ourselves from climate change
Los Angeles Times
We won't make a final endorsement until shortly before the California primary, so we ... And then in 2019, we are now experiencing the sting of climate change, and I do .... This is a question of will and leadership, not just technology.

Impact Investing:

Meet The Berkshire Hathaway Of Impact Investing
Forbes
This summer, Neilson, CEO and co-founder of i(x) investments, a four-year-old company leveraging finance for socially- and environmentally-driven ...

Your impact investing journey: Finding the right financial advisor
ImpactAlpha
'Your impact investing journey' is sponsored by Tiedemann Advisors. This series will explore the role of a financial advisor in helping clients navigate ...

Impact investing: can funds achieve both social impact and returns at scale?
USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
Unlike socially responsible investment (SRI) or environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, impact investing is not just about avoiding “sin ...

Energy Storage:

Energy storage could reduce emissions that cause climate change
The Ohio State University News
Electricity grids that incorporate storage for power sourced from renewable resources could cut carbon dioxide emissions substantially more than ...

Tesla Announces the Megapack Energy Storage System
Yahoo Finance
The nascent energy storage business had a rare chance to grab some headlines on Monday when Tesla announced a new battery system called ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Next-gen membranes for carbon capture
Science Daily
Carbon capture can be done using so-called "high-performance ... Scientists led by Kumar Varoon Agrawal at EPFL Valais Wallis have now ... membranes that exceeds post-combustion capture targets by a significant margin.

Hard-to-abate no more? BHP, Cargill set new visions for decarbonisation
edie.net
BHP operates across three of the world's most carbon-intense sectors: ... BHP's new commitment will see the company develop a science-based target for its ... for aligning climate risks and opportunities with financial performance.

One bite at a time: tackling carbon neutrality
FoodNavigator.com
But it can also have a significant benefit on a company's performance, writes ... Target setting best practice now expects science-based targets (SBT), ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

3 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the July Democratic debates
Vox
There were candidates on the side of big change (Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders) and those vocally urging ... who fell behind, and where the primary discussion on everything from health care to climate change goes from here.

Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate
The New York Times
And I liked this line, about climate change: "We've got to be super-aggressive if we love our children." Liz Mair (5/10) — Sanders made the same ...

UW researcher contributes to paper about climate changes occurring faster than animals adapt
Gillette News Record
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 ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

ESG Bonds: Key topics and trends for 2019 and beyond
BBVA
More companies, as well as investors, are incorporating ESG (Environmental, social and corporate governance) objectives in their investment ...

Why Marketers Should Care About Consumer Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility
Adweek
Sustainable investing constitutes a major force across global financial markets. Socially responsible investing has grown by 34% to $30.7 trillion over ...

Investments have consequences
ObserverXtra
Moreover, the membership numbers are part of a broader shift to socially responsible investing, or SRI. A 2018 report from the Responsible Investment ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear
The Hill (blog)
Its includes ways to make fossil energy cleaner like carbon capture, utilization and storage, carbon removal technologies, catalyze major leaps in ...

Steel Sector Could Shrink in Value by 14% without Better Emissions Management
Environmental Leader
... direct reduction of iron oxides, and Carbon2value, a Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology to separate CO2 from waste gases.

Tata Chemicals Europe to assemble carbon capture and utilization plant
X Herald
Carbon capture, storage and use (CCSU) technology traps emissions from power plants and industry to allow them to be compressed and stored for ...

Sustainability Investing:

Morgan Stanley launches new tool to let advisors, investors measure sustainable investing goals
CNBC
Morgan Stanley is offering a new tool to help financial advisors and their clients measure sustainable investing choices and how they perform in their ...

Morgan Stanley Impact Quotient™ Offers Sustainable Investing Analytics, Reporting
SB News
Today, Morgan Stanley launched a new sustainable investing analytics and reporting application called Morgan Stanley Impact Quotient™ (Morgan ...

Municipal Bonds: A Holistic View Of A Community's Environment And Sustainability
Forbes
It appropriately started with Municipal Bonds: Investing In Our Communities. This piece looks at how municipal bonds fund green and sustainable ...

Green Bond Funds:

Japanese Company Sells Green Bonds To Fund EV Parts Production
CleanTechnica
A Japanese company successfully raised funds for the production of electric vehicle parts using green bonds. Meidensha Corporation (Meiden) ...

Can Sustainable Bonds Save the World?
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
The number of sustainable bond funds has grown quickly as investors recognize the potential credit implications of climate change, product safety and ...

Low Carbon Funds:

European funding for low carbon and active travel
Scottish Government News (press release)
A third round for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Low Carbon Travel and Transport Challenge Fund is now open and available for ...

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Strong ETF Right Now?
Yahoo Finance
Making its debut on 12/08/2014, smart beta exchange traded fund iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) provides investors broad ...

Caltrans gives millions towards zero-emission buses
fox5sandiego.com
The awards are part of a $146 million grant package from the state's Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, which funds projects that reduce ...

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