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Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonization Factors
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
This paper contributes to a growing knowledge base about how climate change ... It provides actionable insights into how to decarbonize portfolios and ... decarbonization factors that go long low carbon intensity sectors, industries, ...

Gold has a role in global decarbonization — report
MINING.com
Gold has a role in global decarbonization — report ... climate impact and how the sector — gold mining in particular — might decarbonize, in line with ...

Decarbonization Offers New Shipping Finance Opportunities
Law360
If the shipping industry were a country on its own, it would be the sixth ... The main obstacle to industry-wide decarbonization lies with the industry's ... will benefit from this by making smarter investments, which will be based on a ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Call for Applicants to Support GRI's Standard Setting
CSRwire.com (press release)
Oct. 22 /CSRwire/ - The governance body with sole responsibility for developing and implementing the GRI Standards is looking for a new member ...

Tanger Issues Third Annual Corporate Responsibility Report
The Mountaineer
Tanger's reporting process has been guided by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards and was compiled using data available through current ...

LG Innotek Publishes the 10th Sustainability Report
PRNewswire (press release)
The 2018-2019 Sustainability Report is the tenth edition since its first ... It also complies with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

1 Solar Energy Growth Stock Dividend Investors Won't Want to Overlook
Motley Fool
Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE:BEP) operates one of the world's largest renewable energy portfolios. While it's diversified across several asset ...

NextEra Energy Earnings Soar on Renewables Growth
Motley Fool
NextEra Energy Earnings Soar on Renewables Growth ... thanks in large part to its investments in building new wind and solar energy projects.

Singapore's Temasek Ramps Up Push Into Renewables
Bloomberg
Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte is considering setting up a new unit to house renewable power projects as it increasingly eyes energy investments ...

CDP Sustainability:

Plans in for more than 700 flats in £140m scheme
Insider Media
Complex Development Projects (CDP) – the company behind the 1950s ... reduce dependence on car use, but improve sustainability more widely.".

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Justice Dept. Sues California to Stop Climate Initiative From Extending to Canada
The New York Times
Sues California to Stop Climate Initiative From Extending to Canada ... ability to take international leadership in curbing planet warming emissions. In a lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of California, the Justice Department said that ...

Letters to the Editor: California's decline has accelerated under Democratic leadership
Los Angeles Times
To the editor: Columnist Steve Lopez blames climate change, corporate profit mongering, and (of course) President Trump for California's woes, which ...

Conservationists seek to protect California Joshua trees from climate change
The Desert Sun
Conservationists seek to protect California Joshua trees from climate ..... Despite the state's leadership on environment policies, he said the state has ...

Impact Investing:

ESG & Impact Investing Not The Same
ETF.com
12-13 in San Diego, Dreizler will be giving a keynote speech titled, "The Future Is Sustainable Investing, But What Does It Mean for Fixed Income ...

Impact funds pour money into ed tech businesses
The Hechinger Report
The Branson-backed “impact investor” is monitoring not only Classcraft's revenues but also squishier, less quantifiable performance indicators such as ...

ImpactAlpha's cheat sheet to 10 impact investing themes at SOCAP19
ImpactAlpha
Indigenous impact. Creative economy. Refugee lens. Impact tech. Our opening salvo: “Impact washers” should fear real impact investors, not the other ...

Energy Storage:

Highview Power to Develop First Major Cryogenic Storage Plant in UK
Greentech Media
Highview Power is taking its unusual cryogenic or liquid air storage from ... Battery plants have begun supplying several hours of power in certain ...

Hydrogen Energy Storage Markets 2019 - Global Forecast to 2024
PRNewswire (press release)
DUBLIN, Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Hydrogen Energy Storage Market by State (Liquid, Gas, Solid), Storage Technology (Compression, ...

Jacksonville plant manufacturers energy storage for Australian company
Jacksonville Business Journal
Ergon Energy Network, an Australian electricity distribution network has deployed 20 Saft Intensium Mini lithium-ion energy storage system at 13 ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Letters: There will be real benefits of a climate battle; Unions (and their money) oppose school ...
The Denver Post
Like the ecological impacts of climate change, there will certainly be winners and losers as mitigation policies are implemented. But recent analyses ...

Dan Kurland: An invitation to action on climate change (Opinion)
Charleston Gazette-Mail
As with any change, there will inevitably be winners and losers. What sacrifices must be made for the greater good? Or to put it more bluntly: whose ...

The climate is apparently not getting 'worse' because some places, like Canada, will benefit
ABC News
There will be winners and losers from climate change, and that means the ... Last year's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing goes mainstream
Business in Vancouver
Divesting from a sector considered bad for humanity – whether tobacco, oil or firearms – is only one side of the coin when it comes to responsible ...

Money from socially responsible investors flows into US water stocks
CNBC
Share prices for U.S. water utilities are on the rise as investors inject more money into socially responsible companies. While most utility shares are ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Velocys and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures enter CO2-capture agreement for Mississippi biofuels plant
ChemEngOnline
OLCV has invested in a number of CO2 capture and utilization technology providers, including Cemvita Factory, Carbon Engineering and Net Power.

ExxonMobil Renews Support for MIT Energy Initiative's Low-Carbon Research
Yahoo Finance
Extend its membership in MITEI's Center for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage. Join MITEI's Center for Energy Storage, which seeks to develop ...

Aker Solutions Targets Growth in Low Carbon and Renewable Energy
PRNewswire (press release)
... renewable energy or removes or substantially reduces CO2 emissions. ... Aker Solutions offerings, including: carbon capture, utilization and storage ...

Sustainability Investing:

30 Business Titans Join UN Push to Scale Up Private Sector Investment for Sustainable ...
UN News (blog)
Convened by Secretary-General António Guterres, the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance is co-chaired by Oliver Bäte, ...

Study: Informed investors opt for sustainable funds
www.businessgreen.com
Investors show a "strong preference" for sustainable investment products when provided with information on their environmental impacts and are even ...

Different paths lead to sustainable investing
Environmental Finance
Though the terms ESG and impact investing are often used interchangeably – and one could argue that the end goal is the same, namely, a more ...

Green Bond Funds:

Larry Selzer on The Conservation Fund's Green Bond Offering
Conservation Finance Network
In September, The Conservation Fund announced the closing of its $150 million green bond. The environmental nonprofit offered the 10-year notes in ...

It's time to ditch your '60/40' portfolio — plus other top investing stories
MarketWatch
Investing in green bonds and other sustainable assets does not necessarily mean missing out gains from other funds, IMF report finds

Low Carbon Funds:

3 ETFs For Tesla Earnings
MarketWatch
For investors looking to play Tesla earnings via exchange traded funds, ... Tesla accounts for 9.63% of the VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF ...

Governors eye regional gas tax to fund transition from fossil fuels
Politico
The program is modeled on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which has reduced emissions in the power sector for several of the states mulling ...

Capital Plan for Clean Prosperity: Pumping energy efficiency into oil and gas
Corporate Knights Magazine
The urgent need to transition into a low-carbon economy is becoming ... the lack of detail and sufficient funding hinder the opportunity to ensure that ...

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