In the News

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonizing the power sector
EurekAlert (press release)
"A main winner of decarbonisation is human health: switching to renewables-based electricity production could cut negative health impacts by up to 80 ...

How to assess candidates' decarbonization and climate resilience plans
GreenBiz
How to assess candidates' decarbonization and climate resilience plans ... A plan that covers all bases touches every sector of the economy and ...

Ditching Fossil Fuels Could Cut Health Costs Of Power Generation By 80 Percent
IFLScience
... has explored the range of benefits of decarbonizing the power sector, ... winner of decarbonization is human health: switching to renewables-based ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Global Reporting Initiative Appoints NSE's Orojimi to Boost Council
THISDAY Newspapers
Goddy Egene. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Amsterdam, Netherlands, has elected the Head of Corporate Communications of the Nigerian ...

Happy Birthday, GRI — Time Now to Put the Horse Before the Cart
SB News
The timing is right for taking concrete steps to standardize a set of generally accepted triple-bottom-line accounting principles, and for making GRI and ...

Leadership Built on Diversity of Experience
CSRwire.com (press release)
Nov. 13 /CSRwire/ - GRI, provider of the world's leading sustainability reporting standards, will welcome four new members to its Board from 1 January ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Harvard Study Shows Where Investments In Renewable Energy Can Be Most Effective
CleanTechnica
In regard to siting new renewable energy projects in the United States, it used a similar analysis to determine that it is a more efficient use of capital to ...

REV working with Welch to extend renewable energy tax credits
Vermont Biz
The Renewable Energy Extension Act will extend the current tax credit for investments in renewable energy and expand it to include energy storage.

House Ways and Means Tax Package Would Help Maintain the Nation's Clean Energy Momentum
Union of Concerned Scientists
Establishing a stand-alone energy storage investment tax credit would enable utilities to use more wind, solar and other renewable energy sources, ... 

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

Women in developing nations need impact investing
InvestmentNews
As impact investors use their funds to bridge gaps in development and finance, several groups — especially women in underserved communities ...

Nuveen names co-heads of private-market impact investing
Pensions & Investments
Rekha Unnithan and David Haddad were named co-heads of impact investing in private markets by Nuveen on Monday. The positions are new, part ...

4 apps that help you invest in clean tech, gender equality, and a healthy planet
Business Insider
Robo-advisers have empowered a whole new generation of consumers to enter the investing market — and facilitated the rise of socially responsible ...

Energy Storage:

New battery storage on shaky ground in ancillary service markets
Utility Dive
Key to the conventional wisdom around investment in new battery energy storage systems (BESS) has been the lucrative earning opportunity in ...

How intelligent DERMS controls at multiple levels maximize the impact of energy storage
Utility Dive
The Austin SHINES program set out to establish a working business model for distributed energy resource (DER) optimization in grid, commercial and ...

Encouraging signs: interconnection rules in the age of distributed energy storage
Energy Storage News (blog)
As US states work to address and enable the swift growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), including solar and energy storage, the issues ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Net Zero: Environmental bodies back science-based targets in support of 2050 goal
www.businessgreen.com
"The transition to net zero carbon emissions is the defining challenge of our time," he said. "We are fully supportive of the environmental services ...

Cummins Unveils New Environmental Sustainability Strategy to Address Climate Change ...
Business Wire (press release)
By 2050, Cummins is targeting net-zero carbon emissions. .... “The plan is science-based, has transparent goals and metrics to measure progress, and ...

What's missing from BC's climate change legislation
The Globe and Mail
But the science is clear – as is the message from our youth: We simply can't afford to ... It will also mandate the creation of an interim emissions target, by the end of next year, ... The new accountability requirements will get even more specific with carbon pollution reduction targets for each sector, to be ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Is This Fish Winning Climate Change?
FiveThirtyEight
We received many, many, many climate change questions. ... “I guess my point is that it's difficult to say what is a winner and what is a loser,” said Brett ...

Climate-resilient fisheries require fairness and equity
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
It is time to push our collective understanding of climate change to identify not only the likely winners and losers, but also to find ways to make sure that ...

Commentary: Make climate solutions economically rational
Albany Times Union
Responding to demands of their political base, climate change has become a favorite topic ... By embracing an "all-of-the-above" energy approach, while removing the government from picking winners and losers, lawmakers can ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

JumboCash: What is 'socially responsible' investing?
Tufts Daily
With many socially conscious investors seeking to avoid fossil fuels with their own money, asset managers have begun creating new funds investing in ...

ESG index funds are hot. That may be a risky thing for investors
CNBC
I am not against the socially responsible investing approach and I've told clients that if owning ESG funds is the only way you'll stay invested, then it's ...

Beyond Profit: Tips For Socially Responsible Investing
Blue & Green Tomorrow
Over the past decade, this has seen a shift with the rise of Socially Responsible Investing, or SRI. SRI is a way of investing that considers not just ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

The Top Five Legal Barriers To Carbon Capture And Sequestration In Texas
Forbes
The U.S. Energy Information Administration and the International Energy Agency, for example, have identified carbon capture, utilization and storage, ...

Valuable and Viable
Ethanol Producer Magazine (press release)
In carbon capture, utilization and storage, CO2 is captured, compressed and dehydrated at the source. It is then transported to the injection facility and ...

Lawmakers visit National Carbon Capture Center
Daily Energy Insider
Lawmakers visit National Carbon Capture Center ... new research and development programs for carbon capture, utilization, storage and removal.

Sustainability Investing:

Is Sustainable Investing Moving Into the Mainstream?
Harvard Business Review
Sustainable investing, which incorporates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria into investment decisions, has been gaining more ...

How an Asset Manager and a Bank Revolutionized Impact Investing With Sustainability-Linked ...
Forbes
Mariner Investment Group, a $10bn hedge fund focused on fixed income relative value and credit strategies last month completed a $3.4bn impact ...

Sustainable Investing: Debunking 5 Common Myths
Visual Capitalist (blog)
It began as a niche desire. Originally, sustainable investing was confined to a subset of investors who wanted their investments to match their values.

Green Bond Funds:

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Low Carbon Funds:

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