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Sector Based Decarbonization:

Are electric utilities living up to their promises to cut carbon emissions?
Clean Energy News (blog)
Decarbonization is the transition of our energy use to a sector that emits ... Goals that exclude emissions from purchased power or goals based on ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

New Global Reporting Initiative Podcast Series Kicks Off on Topic of Waste
Waste Management World
Global Reporting Initiative, a provider of a global sustainability reporting framework, has launched a new podcast series – with the first episode looking ...

Greif Awarded Gold Rating in EcoVadis CSR Assessment for Second Consecutive Year
Yahoo Finance
Greif reports its corporate responsibility efforts and progress in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards and fulfills UN Global ...

Hydro One releases 2018 Sustainability Report
PRNewswire (press release)
Hydro One's reporting was guided by its 2018 materiality analysis, the ... and the Global Reporting Initiative's Sustainability Reporting Standards.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Subsidies killing renewable energy investments in Nepal
Eco-Business
Around 30 per cent of Nepal's population is still without access to electricity. So why is the share of renewable energy in Nepal's electricity mix only 3 ...

Amazon announces new renewable energy projects in the US and Ireland
CNBC
Tech giant Amazon is to invest in two new renewable energy projects in the U.S. and Ireland. In an announcement Thursday, the firm said the projects ...

$40 billion of renewable energy investments at risk in Andhra
ETEnergyworld.com
AP is risking a long-term, low-cost and deflationary pipeline of 35-40 GW of new renewable energy investment for about 2 GW of relatively expensive ...

CDP Sustainability:

8th Global Footwear Sustainability Summit, Get Ready for Sustainable Development
PRNewswire (press release)
... CDP, Wolverine, Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production, WWF, ... For more information about Global Footwear Sustainability Summit 2019 ...

HanesBrands Submits Data For 2019 CDP Climate Change Report
SGB Media (press release) (blog)
HanesBrands Submits Data For 2019 CDP Climate Change Report ... For more information on Hanes' commitment to environmental sustainability, ...

Ayala lauded by FTSE4GOOD Index Seriesfour years in a row
INQUIRER.net
London-based FTSE Russell, a global sustainability index provider, first ... such as Robecosam, a sustainable investment specialist, and CDP (formerly the ... Ayala embraces a holistic view of sustainability that is instilled throughout ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Legislature Climate Watchdog Committee Has Little Bite
The Real News Network
California Legislature Climate Watchdog Committee Has Little Bite ... The California Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies met for the ... Hughes further knocked the joint committee leadership for not requesting an ...

Congressional hearing on campus highlights CU Boulder climate change leadership
CU Boulder Today
By 9 a.m. Thursday, a long line of attendees coursed through the lobby of Wolf Law and out onto the building's terrace. More than 250 people packed ...

Four Automakers Stand Firm With California Against a Trump Administration Rollback
Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)
Four Automakers Stand Firm With California Against a Trump ... and foremost, the automakers are acknowledging California's leadership on reducing ... If a future administration acknowledges the problem of climate change, we will ...

Impact Investing:

Why You Should Move Your Money To Impact Investing
Forbes
Everyone should consider impact investing, says Lori Chatman, SVP at Enterprise Community Investment. In this role, she oversees business lines ...
   
If Impact Investing Is The Future, What Comes Next For VC Investors?
Forbes
Financing good causes does not mean investors have to shun their expectations of profit. It is my belief that the best impact investing can create both ...

Impact Investing for Everyone!
The Crozet Gazette
One of the more exciting investment trends to emerge recently is a movement toward “impact investing.” It involves directing your investment dollars in ...

Energy Storage:

The Low-Carbon-Based Economy's Future Banks on Energy-Storage Systems
Electronic Design
The energy-storage market is the focal point of technological advances backed by the need for product innovation. The electric grid is one of the most ...


How much energy storage costs must fall to reach renewable energy's full potential
EurekAlert (press release)
The cost of energy storage will be critical in determining how much renewable energy can contribute to the decarbonization of electricity. But how far ...

Utility scale, rather than behind-the-meter batteries will drive energy storage take-up
pv magazine USA
BNEF has published its latest Energy Storage Outlook report and says large scale deployment will provide the majority of the 1,095 GW/2,850 GWh of ...

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:

4 winners and 3 losers from the second night of the July Democratic debates
Vox
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro brought the fight to Biden on immigration, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee did the same on climate change.

Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate, Night 2
The New York Times
Gail Collins (6/10) — Sort of sad when someone wins by not having a ... he succeeded in outlining why he's a force for change rather than for continuity. .... bleak rhetoric on climate change — “we are 10 years too late” and we need ...

Inslee a winner or loser in debate? Depends on who was watching
The Spokesman-Review
Rolling Stone gave him the grade of A- for confronting former Vice President Joe Biden on climate change, playing up progressive policies in ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

US fund managers grapple with socially responsible investing
Reuters
NEW YORK, Aug 2 (LPC) - Asset managers are increasingly making sustainable investment decisions that reflect their own corporate values and ...

Millennials seeking more socially responsible investments says Impax Asset Management President
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
John Keefe, President and CEO of Pax World Funds and President of its investment adviser, Impax Asset Management Group PLC (LON:IPX) tells ...

This mutual fund is now the largest owner of one of largest gun companies in US
CBS News
Mass shootings and the growing wave of socially responsible investing doesn't seem to be influencing behavior at one of the nation's largest mutual ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Enchant Energy disputes criticisms of carbon capture proposal for coal plant
New Mexico Political Report
“Should the [San Juan Generating Station carbon capture utilization and storage] project be deemed by investors anything but 'cost-effective,' Enchant ...

Compromise Can Promote Green Policy Goals
Wall Street Journal
Technologies like carbon-capture utilization and storage will finally have a predictable market price to justify large-scale deployment, allowing use of ...

Could Carbon Storage and Usage help the UK reduce its emissions?
Imperial College London
CCU differs from Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in that CCU does not aim nor result in permanent geological storage of carbon dioxide. Instead ...

Sustainability Investing:

McKinsey: It's time to simplify sustainable investing, which is now a $30 trillion market
CNBC
Sustainable investing, once a niche practice, is now a $30 trillion market. With so much capital at stake, investors want quality data on how companies ...

Changing the Conversation
The CPA Journal
Nearly half of the 600 largest publicly traded companies in the United States now formally communicate with investors on sustainability in some way, ...

Green Bond Funds:

Why Green Bonds Could Be Key to Fighting Climate Change
State of the Planet (press release) (blog)
By Andie Wang. Finance has a role to play in confronting climate change, and green bonds could be one of the tools to do it. The idea behind green ...

China's green bond issuance expands fast
Xinhua
The low-carbon transport sector attracted 37 percent of the investment funds raised from green bonds, the largest share in China, followed by ...

to-the-point: Japanese pension fund to invest in ADB green bonds
Renewables Now
The proceeds from ADB green bond issuances go towards climate mitigation projects across the Asia and Pacific region. Since 2015, the bank has ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Peak oil? A famed Texas oilman's ETF is going green
MarketWatch
... Response Fund, in mid-August, embracing a strategy that “seeks to identify companies that are leaders in the transition to a low-carbon economy,” ...

BlackRock fossil-fuel investments erased $90bn in assets: Report
Aljazeera.com
BlackRock, by far the world's largest fund manager, has $6.5 trillion in ... that BlackRock use low-emission index benchmarks for passive funds as a ...

CBA joins global push to limit emissions by cutting coal exposure by 2030
WSAU News
CBA will make A$15 billion ($10.07 billion) of funding available to low carbon projects by 2025, the lender said in its environmental policy framework.

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