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Sector Based Decarbonization:
Cross-industry coalition to tackle decarbonizing shippingJOC.com
The newly formed Getting to Zero Coalition, comprising members of the maritime, energy, infrastructure, and financial sectors, will lead commercial ...
The Getting to Zero Coalition: a step further towards decarbonization
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
Action from all sectors. In the absence of real transformative action, we have no hope of meeting the temperature goals established by science and ...
Electricity heading the race for #CarbonNeutrality
EU Reporter
Power sector decarbonization is gaining pace in the EU. Updated ... Based on solid facts and figures, the Barometer makes recommendations on eight ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
How to simplify corporate reportingWorld Economic Forum (blog)
... the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Integrated Reporting Council and the Sustainability ...
Corporate Reporting Dialogue shows high level of alignment between major global reporting ...
WebWire (press release)
The Corporate Reporting Dialogue – an initiative bringing together the major standard setters and framework providers globally – released a report ...
GRI at UNGA74
CSRwire.com (press release)
This global gathering is a catalyst for high-level meetings, events and conferences, a number of which are very relevant to GRI's work to promote ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Google to invest record-breaking amount in renewable energyEngadget
Google today announced its intention to spend more than $2 billion in new renewable energy infrastructure across the US, South America and Europe ...
Renewable energy is now a compelling alternative as it costs less than fossil fuels, says Michael ...
CNBC
Renewable energy is now a compelling alternative as it costs less than ... Investments in clean energy technology are increasing, which means that ...
Virtual PPAs push AT&T clean energy investments to more than 1.5 GW
Power Engineering Magazine
AT&T has signed virtual power purchase agreements for 960 MW of wind and solar projects by Invenergy and Duke Energy Renewables, pushing the ...
CDP Sustainability:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces new 'Climate Pledge' ahead of employee protestsWashington Post
The president of CDP North America, Bruno Sarda, called the new Climate ... Amazon will also launch a new sustainability website to report on its ...
How to simplify corporate reporting
World Economic Forum (blog)
There are high levels of alignment between CDP, GRI and SASB for the ... to support a systemic shift towards a sustainable global financial system.
Sustainable Brands Spotlights New Tools and Practices for Measuring Stakeholder Value
Yahoo Finance
New Metrics 19 program features Nasdaq, CDP, Vanguard, Moody's, WWF, Microsoft and others. San Francisco, Sept. 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
As the world demands action on climate change, Governor Newsom and the California Air ...News Maven
Today the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to adopt the Tropical Forest Standard (TFS) despite outcry from Indigenous leaders from across the ... Tamra Gilbertson, Climate Change and Forest Policy Advisor, Indigenous ...
The University of California declares a climate emergency
University of California
The University of California declares a climate emergency ... In signing the declaration, UC leaders agreed to a three-point plan that includes ... “We have a moral responsibility to take swift action on climate change,” said UC ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom on California climate change and tech's role in fighting it
Marketplace.org
In this installment, we look at what California Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks about tech giants helping with the climate crisis. California has been a leader ...
Impact Investing:
Just Half of Wealth Advisers Say They Understand Impact Investing WellThe Chronicle of Philanthropy
Summary: Wealth advisers' understanding of impact investing is not keeping up with millennial and Gen X interest in the practice, according to a new ...
In Impact Investing First, LeapFrog Announces Audit on Impact Principles, Achieving Top Rating
Yahoo Finance
LeapFrog Investments today became the first impact investor globally to announce the results of an independent audit of its impact against the ...
Swedish investors forge advisory board to foster impact investing
IPE.com
The country's largest pension fund, Alecta, is one of 25 organisations forming The Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing, a non-profit ...
Energy Storage:
From Science Project to Money Maker: Energy Storage Hits Inflection PointGreentech Media
In 2014, the vast majority of storage projects Greensmith Energy was working on might have best been described as science projects, often dependent ...
Oil and Gas Investor EnCap Muscles Into Energy Storage Business
Greentech Media
Now, it's making its first investments into clean energy, with a goal of developing up to 2 gigawatts of utility-scale energy storage, either on its own or ...
CALT announces first-ever energy storage system
pv magazine USA
The global EV battery manufacturer is making its first foray into the American energy storage market, debuting residential systems at Solar Power ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Climate Action: Sodexo confirms its 34% carbon emissions reduction target by 2025 with approval ...PRNewswire (press release)
Climate Action: Sodexo confirms its 34% carbon emissions reduction target by 2025 with approval from the Science Based Targets initiative, joining ...
Salesforce's Sustainability Cloud aims for carbon accountability
ZDNet
It's one of multiple organizations, for instance, that has committed to set 1.5°C science-based emissions reduction targets aligned with a net-zero future ...
Climate Emergency And The Hospitality Industry: Are We On Track?
Hospitality Net
Writing on behalf of a hospitality company that set science-based targets for ... The challenge of reducing carbon emissions isn't a question of lack of ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Fishermen feel effects of climate change as world panel sounds alarm bellCBC.ca
The effects of climate change are being felt in the Maritimes' lucrative lobster ... there will be "winners and losers" when it comes to climate change.
Bees, butterflies could suffer as the world warms
WRAL.com
“A lot of the winners unfortunately will be the insects we regard as pests. And a lot ... Another potential loser is another important pollinator: the monarch butterfly. ... Sorenson says, “As the climate changes, we're going to see as time ...
Why an invisible gas needs a visible price
Chicago Daily Herald
Moody's Analytics now says climate change could result in $69 trillion in ... correcting for what is a large market failure, doesn't pick winners or losers ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
'Investing in a simple index fund is immoral' — why climate-change investing has been more talk ...MarketWatch
So it isn't surprising there's been a surge in interest in “socially responsible investing,” including funds which avoid major polluters like the fossil-fuel ...
Investopedia's 2019 Best Robo-Advisor Awards
Investopedia
Helping investors find the right tools and platforms to invest with is key to that ... Socially responsible investing (SRI) is the practice of investing in ...
3 Myths About Sustainable Funds
Morningstar.com
Sustainable funds perform on par with traditional funds, cost about the ... were common in what were then called socially responsible investing funds ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
US Department of Energy Invests $56 Million in Coal Technology ProjectsEnergy.gov (blog)
... Administration's commitment to strengthening clean coal technologies and cover a range of topics, including carbon capture, utilization, and storage; ...
Oil sector climate initiatives target Texas coast and Gulf of Mexico
Houston Chronicle
There are about 20 major carbon capture, utilization and storage facilities in the world now, but about 25 times more carbon dioxide must be captured ...
DOE awards $56.5M to 32 coal technology projects
Green Car Congress (blog)
The projects cover a range of topics, including carbon capture, utilization, and storage; rare earth element recovery; coal to products; crosscutting coal ...
Sustainability Investing:
Monetizing Millennial Consumers, from Sustainable Brands to Sustainable InvestingTriple Pundit (blog)
The survey finds that “interest and adoption of sustainable investing has grown steadily since 2015,” with 85 percent of individual investors in the U.S. ...
Principal Real Estate Investors' Leadership in Sustainability and Responsible Property Investing ...
Yahoo Finance
DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--. Principal Real Estate Investors is pleased to have received an overall A+ score on the annual Principles for ...
Investors talk the talk, don't walk the walk, on sustainability
Investment Executive
Many investors say that they believe in the value of sustainable investing, but they aren't necessarily putting their money where their mouths are, finds ...
Green Bond Funds:
Bonds That Do Good—and, Maybe, WellWall Street Journal
Last year saw the issue of about $147.9 billion of green bonds and $17.2 billion of sustainability bonds, which finance social and environmental ...
The Growing Green Bond Market
Seeking Alpha
A green bond is like any other bond, except that the proceeds are only used to finance environmentally friendly projects. In the vast majority of cases, ...
Tunisia mulls introduction of green bonds
The Arab Weekly
Despite its weak economy, Tunisia appears determined to shift rapidly to renewable energies by facilitating financing for local companies to build ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Retooling finance to accelerate the low-carbon transitionImpactAlpha
A group of 31 banks with more than $13 trillion in assets committed to “align their portfolios to reflect and finance the low-carbon, climate-resilient ...
A World Without Fossil Fuels Is Approaching. But You Might Not Live Long Enough to See It.
Barron's
And over the past year, low-carbon-footprint exchange-traded funds have been hard at the heels of the surging U.S. market: While SPY has risen more ...
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