In the News

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Renewable gas or electrification? Minnesota's high stakes experiment on building decarbonization
Utility Dive
Minnesota's high stakes experiment on building decarbonization ... One major emitter of focus is buildings — the industrial and building sectors saw ... but policy mechanisms should "value the RNG based on the emissions impact it ...

Coalition Supports Decarbonization of Shipping Industry
IISD Reporting Services
Coalition Supports Decarbonization of Shipping Industry ... A shared knowledge base of integrated decarbonization pathways to enable alignment ...

New Push to Decarbonize Aviation Sector as Consumers Consider Alternatives to Flying
Modern Diplomacy
As the carbon footprint of the aviation sector comes increasingly under the spotlight, consumers are thinking twice about how they make long-distance ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI Standards Launched in Italian
CSRwire.com (press release)
Sep. 30 /CSRwire/ - More companies in Italy will be supported to disclose their impacts using the world's leading sustainability reporting framework, ...

The Mind Bank: Tackling the crucial challenges that humanity faces
BBVA
The Global Reporting Initiative, or GRI, helps businesses and governments understand and communicate their impact on critical sustainability issues ...

Africa Practice Earns Global Reporting Initiative Trainer's Certification in Kenya
Soko Directory Team (blog)
Africa Practice East Africa Limited, a strategic advisory firm based in Nairobi has now been officially recognized as a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

'Massive appetite' for Caribbean renewable energy investments
BNamericas English
MPC Renewable Energies, a unit of MPC Capital, sees rising local private investments in Carribbean clean power. “There is a massive and growing ...

Virginia's Dominion Energy to Invest $594 Million in Clean Energy
Environment + Energy Leader
The initiative comes as the company continues its progress toward a clean energy future and amid Governor Northam's call for Virginia's electric sector ...

ACORE: 'Sustainability' Investments May Not Necessarily Drive Renewable Energy Deployment
North American Windpower
In a new white paper, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) explores the current state of environmental, social and governance ...

CDP Sustainability:

ADVA's science-based sustainability targets validated by SBTi
Business Wire (press release)
With its targets validated by the SBTi, a collaboration between CDP, the ... its longstanding commitment to sustainability and social responsibility.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Gov. Gavin Newsom blasts Trump at climate event: 'I'm absolutely humiliated'
Los Angeles Times
California is recognized as a world leader on climate policy, garnering ... “I'm very proud to be a new governor, replacing now, following Gov.

Greta Thunberg admonishes leaders as UN climate summit fails to deliver action
Los Angeles Times
Dozens of world leaders touted their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas ... The gathering came at a critical time, as climate change accelerates and its ... and more intense and destructive fires, ranging from the Amazon to California.

The Energy 202: California defiant as Trump administration threatens to halt highway funds over ...
Washington Post
California leaders are angry that the Trump administration took away ... of leadership on climate change at this week's United Nations climate summit.

Impact Investing:

Does Impact Investing Always Have To Be Higher Risk?
Forbes
Impact investments are designed to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return. They have become ...

Impact Investing: Solutions For People And Planet Through Alternatives
Forbes
Investors seek direct social and environmental outcomes beyond traditional environmental, social and governance (ESG). Impact investing is growing ...

Impact Investing — The Next BIG Thing In Life Sciences?
Life Science Leader Magazine
Ever heard of impact investing? If not, don't worry, you are not alone. I first heard this term earlier this year while attending a session at The Board ...

Energy Storage:

The future of energy storage is here: An Inside look at Rocky Mountain Power's 600-battery DR ...
Utility Dive
SALT LAKE CITY — The first residents of an all-electric and energy efficient community — the largest battery demand response project in the United ...

CATL's Energy Storage Systems Solutions Show Strong Momentum Following US Debut at Solar ...
PRNewswire (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), the world's leading battery manufacturer, ...
   
US energy storage R&D legislation receives approval in 'another milestone'
Energy Storage News
A legislative package for energy storage research and development (R&D) has been welcomed by the US Energy Storage Association, after receiving ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Climate Action: Sodexo Confirms Its 34% Carbon Emissions Reduction Target by 2025 With ...
CSRwire.com (press release)
Climate Action: Sodexo Confirms Its 34% Carbon Emissions Reduction ... “We're proud to be part of the Science Based Targets initiative and the ...

NRG Energy (NRG) Sets New Carbon Emissions Reduction Targets
Yahoo Finance
In 2015, it became the first power sector company that earned the endorsement of the Science Based Targets initiative for setting GHG emissions ...

Why Mars is making sustainability a business KPI
Marketing Week
Why Mars is making sustainability a business KPI ... Mars's operations only account for 6% of its carbon footprint, with the rest caused by its suppliers. ... if suppliers won't adopt science-based targets it will refuse to work with them.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

COMMENTARY: Is climate change changing the political climate?
Globalnews.ca
Climate change is said to be the challenge of our generation. ... Greening the economy cannot happen overnight and it will create winners and losers.

The Winners and Losers of a Clean Energy Economy.
Thrive Global
Who are the winners and losers of a worldwide clean energy policy? ... Their web page on climate change says clearly, “We believe that climate ...

What will it take to secure healthy fisheries in the face of climate change?
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
Climate change is already affecting fish populations and will scramble .... By striving to avoid the creation of winners and losers in the face of climate ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing catching on among sovereign funds: study
KFGO News
By Tom Arnold. LONDON (Reuters) - Almost two thirds of sovereign investors are making social and environmentally friendly investing part of their ...   
   
National expert to speak at MSU on socially responsible investing
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Some Montana State University employees want more socially responsible options when it comes to investing their retirement funds, so they can put ...

Bit by Bit, Socially Conscious Investors Are Influencing 401(k)'s
The New York Times
The idea of investing with a social purpose is gaining ground. The broad category of sustainable and responsible investing grew 38 percent in the ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

You Asked: Does Carbon Capture Technology Actually Work?
State of the Planet (press release) (blog)
In the above-mentioned carbon capture and storage facilities, the companies mainly use enhanced oil recovery, where CO2 is directly injected into oil ...

​Exploring the barriers to advancing 'game-changing' CCUS
JWN
Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies are emerging as new potential contributors to economic prosperity, and can play an ...

DTE Energy sets goal of 100% carbon neutrality by 2050
Michigan Radio
DTE Energy says it is committing to achieve net carbon neutrality by the ... for DTE Electric, says the path to 100% carbon neutrality will require utilization of ... "Things like carbon capture and sequestration, storage technologies, and ...

Sustainability Investing:

Bit by Bit, Socially Conscious Investors Are Influencing 401(k)'s
The New York Times
So far, most sustainable investments are held by institutional and high-net-worth investors. US SIF data showed that of the $12 trillion invested last ...

ACORE: 'Sustainability' Investments May Not Necessarily Drive Renewable Energy Deployment
North American Windpower
In a new white paper, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) explores the current state of environmental, social and governance ...

Cox Enterprises' Cleantech Team On Green Investing, Long-Term Sustainability, and Turning ...
hypepotamus.com
Rather than focusing on one vertical within sustainability, Cox Cleantech has ... Within those sectors, the team makes highly-targeted investments.

Green Bond Funds:

Bank of International Settlements will set up 'green bond' funds for central banks
Firstpost
The Bank of International Settlements said Thursday it had launched a fund to enable central banks around the world to invest in "green bonds", citing ...

The Conservation Fund issues $150 million green bond to save forests
ImpactAlpha
To ensure that vulnerable forests in the U.S. are preserved, The Conservation Fund is leveraging green bonds to finance the acquisition and ...

Japan's $1.5tn pension fund to go all in on green bonds
Nikkei Asian Review
TOKYO -- Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund will begin allocating substantial amounts of money to bonds with an environmental purpose ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Impact washing: Low-carbon funds may be knee deep in oil
Corporate Knights Magazine
Admittedly, there is currently no legal restriction to prevent a low carbon fund from investing in fossil fuel companies which means the funds analyzed ...

Pension Funds, Insurers Commit to Carbon-Neutral Investments by 2050
Chief Investment Officer
“We, as asset owners, will live up to our responsibility and, in dialogue with the companies in which we invest, steer towards low-carbon business ...

The Brief: Bloomberg's Global Business Forum, Fidelity's Ethic option, Aavishkaar's expansion ...
ImpactAlpha
“Not enough capital is flowing” toward the low-carbon transition, Michael ... Bloomberg's Climate Finance Leadership Initiative identified a lack of ...