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Sector Based Decarbonization:

2020 Looks Like the Breakout Year for Building Decarbonization in California
Greentech Media
Or, as Building Decarbonization Coalition Director Panama Bartholomy put it to Greentech .... The electric vehicle industry, born here in California,” CEC chair David ... “Based on my experience in the Northeast,” Lis wrote in an email, ...

New Ceres Analysis Calls on Power Sector to Decarbonize Before 2050
CSRwire.com (press release)
Aug. 20 /CSRwire/ - A newly updated climate scenario analysis framework released today underscores the need for the U.S. power sector to ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Strengthening Services for Effective ESG Reporting
CSRwire.com (press release)
Aug. 27 /CSRwire/ - Mirjam Groten joins GRI as Chief Business Development Officer on 1 September. Mirjam will be responsible for services ...

Report: The European Market for Renewable Energy Reaches New Heights
Energy Manager Today
“Global reporting initiatives and standards like CDP and Greenhouse Gas Protocol form a critical foundation, by requiring Guarantees of Origin to be ...

Diamondback Energy, Inc. Releases 2019 Corporate Responsibility Report
Yahoo Finance
The report is informed by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and International Petroleum Industry ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Macquarie to raise $675 mn for renewable energy, tech investment
VCCircle
Australian investment bank Macquarie Group Ltd has targeted A$1 billion ($675.4 million) in its biggest capital raising to ramp up investment and take ...

Clean energy groups urge FERC to support transmission investment incentives
Utility Dive
Eighteen groups dubbed the Grid Advancement Coalition told federal regulators they support new policies to increase investment in the transmission ...

America Should Export Clean Energy, Not Climate Chaos
Natural Resources Defense Council
To start, we can do better at manufacturing and exporting clean energy through our investments and actions abroad. As Congress revisits America's ...

CDP Sustainability:

Sustainable Brands Community Explores Next-Generation Goals, Impact Metrics and Reporting ...
Yahoo Finance
Nasdaq, Moody's, Vanguard, CDP and others to educate on latest advances in goal-setting for sustainability at New Metrics '19. San Francisco, Aug.

The globe is warming - and so is pressure on companies to disclose climate risks to investors
Fora.ie
Under the criteria of CDP – which examines big names like Amazon, ... Dublin- and London-listed Glanbia adopted a sustainability policy in 2015, ...    
  
Recent sustainability reporting developments
IAS Plus
A summary of recent developments at the CFA Institute, CDP, SSE, and GRI.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

NEWSOM TO TRUMP: 'This is checkmate” — Another MASS SHOOTING foiled in SoCal? — DEMS ...
Politico
DEMS debate climate change in SF — SMOKIN'! ... is reveling in Trump's ire; he and other California leaders say it's the latest evidence the nation's ...

The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It's Gone
The Atlantic
But climate change is not the primary cause of the wildfires. Unlike, say, most California blazes—which are sparked by accident and then intensified by climate ... Because Brazil's political leadership has changed in the past year.

Bernie Sanders meets California fire victims, lays out Green New Deal
Reuters
“We cannot turn our backs on this crisis,” Sanders said. ... It aims to restore U.S. leadership and financial aid under the Paris Climate Agreement and ...

Impact Investing:

6 Tips To Get Family Offices Started With Impact Investing
Forbes
Impact investing has garnered the attention of many families, family offices and private investors alike in recent years. The idea that your investments ...

Energy Storage:

Energy Storage Developer Buy Texas Windfarms With Major Battery Retrofit Planned
Forbes
A U.S.-based energy storage developer this week bought itself a portfolio of eight North Texas wind farms. The move is a sign of the growing status ...

Demand charges, energy arbitrage and behind the meter energy storage payback periods
pv magazine USA
Research done by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on energy storage shows time of use billing allowing for energy arbitrage opportunities, ...

UC San Diego launches study on recycling EV batteries into energy storage
Utility Dive
Cummins, a manufacturing company, on Tuesday announced a multiyear partnership with the University of California (UC) San Diego and its battery ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Denver is behind on its climate change goals. Those goals don't match the science.
coloradopolitics.com
The plan is made up of "sector-specific goals" — for buildings, ... to achieve science-based goals to cut emissions in half by 2030 and achieve carbon ... and report their annual energy performance under the city's benchmarking law.

Sustainable Brands Community Explores Next-Generation Goals, Impact Metrics and Reporting ...
Yahoo Finance
“Mastering science-based targets not only in theory, but in practice, as well as ... South Pole Group is the official Renewable Energy and Carbon Offset ...

Molson Coors aims to make 100% of its packaging reusable, recyclable, compostable or ...
Bio Market Insights
Science-based targets offer a roadmap for companies to reduce their ... system for communities, government and industries and reducing carbon ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Winners and Losers: Here's What Ocean Warming Means for Fish
The Revelator
Climate change has been steadily warming the ocean, which absorbs most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, for 100 years.

Fresh Talk: Conservatives should be leading the fight against climate change. Here's how.
Hartford Courant
Finding solutions to climate change doesn't mean that conservatives need to sacrifice their ideas of small government, ... ideals of maintaining a free market society, while prohibiting the government from picking winners and losers.

Tropical fish spotted thousands of miles away in northern Canada as climate crisis escalates
The Independent
“There will be winners and losers in the ocean as it continues to warm with climate change. But overall biodiversity is expected to decline. There is ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Get the gun stocks out! ESG investing can get messy for socially conscious investors
USA TODAY
Investing by moral compass is getting more popular — but it's not always so easy. Take the recent blunder in Vanguard's US ESG Stock ...

Pitt to develop socially responsible investing strategies
University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
Chancellor Patrick Gallagher announced Thursday the University will begin developing socially responsible investing strategies for Pitt's endowment.

Invest in Nature - Socially Responsible Investing
Nature World News
Socially responsible investing is a method of allocating financial resources that takes into account non-economic considerations. The bottom line is ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Pricing Is Not a Fix for Climate Change
UT News | The University of Texas at Austin
There is much talk today about carbon pricing to reduce CO2 emissions and ... Carbon capture, utilization and storage; direct carbon capture from the ...

Northwestern New Mexico City Backs Deal to Keep Coal-Fired Power Plant Open
InsideSources
In June, Enchant released a study by Maryland-based engineering consultant Sargent & Lundy, which supports the use of carbon capture and storage ...

Hoeven, DOE officials visit North Dakota
AM 1100 The Flag WZFG
The program supports the development of commercial-scale CO2 storage facilities, an essential element of Project Tundra. Having the funding in ...

Sustainability Investing:

Family Offices: The Secret Weapon For Investing in Sustainability?
Forbes
In my 15 years of investing into clean energy and sustainability, I've repeatedly spoken with smart investment professionals who see intriguing new ...

Future Returns: Investing to Minimize Water Risks
Barron's
As investors become more concerned about the impact the companies they own are having on the world's water resources, they are designing ways to ...

Green Bond Funds:

Ever Thought Of A 100-Year Green Bond? French Railway Firm Is Pitching The World's First
Forbes
It seems green bonds, sometimes referred to as climate bonds, are ... The near €100 million in book value raised would be used to finance green ...

Green Bonds Can Solve Our Climate Crisis
Forbes
Investors are clearly aware of the challenges that we face from climate change, and green bonds have the power to finance our transition to a more ...

Utility E.ON joins ranks of Germany's corporate green bond issuers
Clean Energy Wire
The rising importance of green bonds as a commercial financing instrument illustrates the financial sector's growing role for climate action.

Low Carbon Funds:

Ausgrid and Melbourne Airport commit to emissions reduction targets
The Guardian
NSW Ports and Southern Cross Station also pledge to reduce emissions in line with Australia's Paris targets after push by infrastructure fund.

Bill Gates-led $1 billion fund expands its portfolio of startups fighting climate change
Quartz
Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), a $1 billion fund led by Bill Gates, ... Motif: A Boston-based startup that develops low-carbon alternatives for ...

Australian fund plans to cut carbon footprint by 10%
Pensions & Investments
IFM will use more electric and low-emission vehicles at its airports and seaports, install LED lighting, develop energy efficient office space and ...