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Global Reporting Initiative:

Lost in translation: why global CSR reporting may not be as global as we think
Ethical Corporation Magazine
... were already providing CSR reports as part of their annual report or through separate reports using guidance from the Global Reporting Initiative.

Let companies tell their own sustainability stories
Shine News (press release)
The Global Reporting Initiative has strived to improve sustainability reporting by specifying the information that all firms must provide on their economic ...

Bunge Publishes 2019 Global Sustainability Report
WebWire (press release)
“Our latest sustainability report continues Bunge's commitments to ... on bunge.com/sustainability, and comply with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Fifth Third Bancorp Introduces New Investment Banking Capabilities for Renewable Energy Industry
Yahoo Finance
Based in San Francisco, the Renewable Energy Investment Banking Group composed of more than 10 professionals will report to Rob Schipper, head ...

How to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks
Motley Fool
An in-depth look at the best ways to invest in the massive market opportunity that ... That's just the tip of the proverbial renewable energy iceberg.
   
Opportunity zones could provide major boost for clean energy, sustainable development
GreenBiz
The higher return on Opportunity Fund investments, for example, could allow sponsors of clean energy projects to add features to projects or partner ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

How California can fight climate change by helping to save tropical forests
CALmatters
California already is a leader in the fight against climate change. Last year, our state's greenhouse gas emissions fell below 1990 levels, even as our ...

California's planet-warming emissions declined in 2017, even as its biggest pollution source keeps ...
Los Angeles Times
“California is proving that smart climate policies are good for our economy and ... will continue advancing the cause of American climate leadership.”.

California, other states sue Trump administration over changes to Obama's Clean Power Plan
USA TODAY
But California officials say the new rules will hurt both the climate and the ... will continue advancing the cause of American climate leadership.”.

Impact Investing:

The Surprising Leader In The Impact Investing Boom: Debt
Forbes
Impact investing—investing with the intention of generating positive social or environmental impact and measuring the impact—was once the domain ...

GIIN: Why Impact Investing Is A Natural Fit For Faith-Based Investors
Financial Advisor Magazine
However, more recently, some of these investors have aimed to go a step further. Impact investing enables investors to set out a proactive thesis on ...

Impact investing: Discussing opportunities in Asia and the Pacific
Devex
Lisa Cornish is a Devex Reporter based in Canberra, where she focuses on the Australian aid community. Lisa formerly worked with News Corp ...

Energy Storage:

Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap?
Vox
One faction believes that renewables can supply 100 percent of US energy, with sufficient help from cheap energy storage and savvy management of ...

Texas utilities poised to get ability to own energy storage assets
Utility Dive
Texas utilities poised to get ability to own energy storage assets ... be allowed to own energy storage facilities that sell energy and/or ancillary services ...

Energy storage earns more awards for KIUC
Thegardenisland.com
LIHUE — Kauai Island Utility Cooperative led the nation again in 2018 for interconnection of energy storage watts per customer, and ranked second in ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Heartland Weekly: Climate Conference Speakers Defend Climate Realism
The Heartland Institute
Keynote speakers at ICCC-13 said the high costs of policies proposed to fight climate change weren't justified by a scientific understanding of the ...

Climate Change Affects Due Diligence
Seeking Alpha
After six days of deliberation, the IPCC has presented its first special report on land use and climate change. Sustainable land management can be ...

Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the ...
Daily Mail
The plan sounds like science fiction — but could be fact within a decade; every day more than 800 giant aircraft would lift millions of tonnes of chalk ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially Responsible Investing, ESG Sparking Interest Beyond Millennials
National Association of Plan Advisors
While Millennials get much of the attention for driving socially responsible investing, a new study suggests they're not the only generation that's ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

The credible case for Texas and its clean energy solutions
The Hill
1 globally for carbon capture and storage projects and a leader in direct air ... a market for carbon dioxide that enables CCUS and direct air capture. ... incentivize methane reductions and require all operators to use innovative leak ...

Top Department of Energy Official to visit Wyoming to learn about state's carbon capture technologies
The Torrington Telegram
Stops will include the Integrated Test Center, the Wyoming Carbon Storage Assurance and ... The Office of Fossil Energy is the primary lead at DOE for advancing carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies, which ...

Carbon Capture: Part of the Climate Problem or Solution?
The Globe Post
... large scale deployment of solar and wind energy, the IPCC's most optimistic projections also rely on carbon capture for usage and storage (CCUS).

Sustainability Investing:

Norfolk Ikea leaders talk sustainability, investing in workers
Virginian-Pilot
Plisco and other Ikea employees spoke about the furniture store's local impact, as well as the company's commitment to its workers and sustainable ...

Taking sustainable investing beyond box-checking
Nasdaq
Investors today have made sustainable investing a fundamental part of their strategies. Yet sustainability and the environmental, social and ...

Ladenburg Thalmann invests in impact investing startup
InvestmentNews
Using Newday's digital platform, investors can invest as little as $5 in themes like environmental sustainability, animal welfare and gender equality.

Green Bond Funds:

Owens Corning Issues $450 Million Green Bond
Yahoo Finance
The company raised funds through the issuance of the green bond to finance tender offers for up to $450 million of outstanding notes (due in 2022 and ...

Power-Hungry Phone Companies Dial Into Surging Green Bond Market
Bloomberg
“Many more green telco bonds are likely,” Morgan Stanley analysts led by Emmet Kelly wrote in June. “Demand from funds that have incorporated ...

Experts urge Centre to go in for a sovereign green bond issue
The Hindu BusinessLine
A big backer of such a move is Sean Kidney, Co-founder and CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative, a NGO set up with funding from banks such as HSBC ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Funding for Annual UN Climate Talks Plummets as Mining Companies Slash Contributions ...
DeSmog (blog)
Chile is currently trying to pass a Climate Change Law that binds them to carbon zero emissions by 2050. The mining bureau have dismissed the ...

Australia will fund a $500m climate change package for the Pacific, PM to announce
The Guardian
The government also announced it had set aside $140m from the aid budget to encourage private sector investments in low-emission, climate-resilient ...

Flying Less Is Not a Solution to Reducing Carbon Emissions—Innovation Is
Foundation for Economic Education
These funds employ researchers, engineers, and manual workers and pay for the services of producers of lightweight metals, such as aluminum.