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Microgrids:

Earthquake, Widespread Outages in Puerto Rico Test New Microgrids
Environment + Energy Leader
Despite the fresh destruction for an island still reeling from Hurricane Maria, solar plus storage microgrids installed at 10 schools continued running.

Policy & Regulatory Shifts Opening Door for Agriculture Microgrids, More in California
Microgrid Knowledge
Agricultural regions don't always have robust electrical infrastructure, fast internet and other key services needed for manufacturers and large ...
   
California Reservation's Solar Microgrid Provides Power During Utility Shutoffs
NPR
California's largest electric utility took the unprecedented step of shutting off power to millions of customers beginning last October. The decision was ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

A Long-Term Pathway to Decarbonization Requires Carbon Pricing
Niskanen Center (press release) (blog)
Much of this turnaround can be attributed to the electricity sector, where inexpensive natural gas and cheap renewables displaced coal generation by ...

Will deep decarbonization include nuclear? Possibly, with many caveats
Utility Dive
However, in the recent Utility Dive opinion based on the MIT report, "Too much ... Deep decarbonization requires nuclear", the word "requires" is an ... in spite of the nuclear industry's notorious and ongoing propensity for massive ...

UK Maritime Minister highlights decarbonization ambitions
Port Technology International
Ghani said that the DfT is stepping up its support to the industry as well as encouraging the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to be ambitious.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Sustainability: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
The National Law Review
Consultation of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) can also assist. Keep in mind that ...

Countries versus corporations: the great global tax race
Financial Times
Now the Global Reporting Initiative, a not-for-profit setter of sustainability standards, is seeking to enhance transparency in this area. In a new standard ...

Up to 85% less CO2 with MAM products, 75% of employees are women, over 10000 studies
Olean Times Herald
CSR report: MAM's contribution to a sustainable future ... criteria for a certified sustainability report according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Renewable Energy Investments:

Abu Dhabi-based agency calls for clean energy investments to double
FRANCE 24
Abu Dhabi (AFP). An international agency promoting clean energy called Sunday for investments in renewable energy projects to be more than ...

Geek of the Week: Maryssa Barron brings her (renewable) energy to clean tech and LevelTen
GeekWire
LevelTen's Maryssa Barron is inspired by people who have dedicated themselves to making renewable energy investment more efficient and ...

Why India is the new hotspot for renewable energy investors
World Economic Forum (blog)
As the world comes to terms with the enormity of the threat posed by climate change, India's emergence as home to one of the world's largest ... 

CDP Sustainability:

CDP Reports
Kumba Iron Ore
That is why we aim to work with a wide range of stakeholders to help create sustainable long-term value in the mining industry. This begins with our ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

She helped make California a clean air leader. Now Trump could upend that legacy
Los Angeles Times
California sued the Trump administration last year after it moved to revoke ... with making the state an international leader in fighting climate change.

Australia's Fires Are Terrifying. Will They Get World Leaders to Act on Climate Change?
TIME
... 7,000 miles away in California—have perhaps succeeded in sharpening the mind. ... But Australia's current leadership remains largely in denial about the ... He isn't contesting that climate change is real or that it has worsened the ...

Opinion: In Australia's raging bushfires, a climate-change warning to its leaders — and ours
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: In Australia's raging bushfires, a climate-change warning to its ... Prior to the annual conclave of leaders at last year's Pacific Islands Forum in ... action against states such as California that pursue their own fuel efficiency ...

Impact Investing:

A Next Gen Investor's Predictions On Impact Investing In 2020s
Forbes
We already see next generation investors stepping into impact investing, looking not only at financial returns but also social and environmental returns ...

Making Impact Investing Work
Project Syndicate
After decades on the margins of finance and philanthropy, impact investing is finally moving into the mainstream, with most major asset-management ...

The Week in impact investing: Power dynamics
ImpactAlpha
Local and regional impact investors say the real opportunities on the continent aren't traditional mainstays like oil and commodity exports. They're ...

Energy Storage:

New Coal-Killing Energy Storage Challenge Also Dings Natural Gas
CleanTechnica
On Wednesday, newly minted Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette announced an all-hands-on-deck initiative to push the energy storage envelope ...

What Would It Take for the US to Become an Energy Storage Manufacturing Powerhouse?
Greentech Media
U.S. entrepreneurs have led the world in creating new technologies for storing grid power, but they largely rely on other countries for their core ...

DOE launches Grand Challenge to accelerate US energy storage supply chain, deployment
Power Engineering Magazine
The U.S. Department of Energy is accelerating its commitment to developing large-scale energy storage technologies. DOE Secretary Dan Brouillette ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Introducing Planet Passionate: Kingspan's new 2030 Sustainability Vision
Cleanroom Technology
The World Green Building Council estimates that embodied carbon ... that deliver more performance and value, with clear targets to strive for by 2030." ... As part of this programme, Kingspan also joined the Science Based Targets ...

Worldwide: Climate Change: The Case For Businesses To Take Action Hots Up
Mondaq News Alerts
Scope 3 is intended to capture other indirect emissions (falling outside of ... science based targets have not set targets to reduce scope 3 emissions. ... These claims against the so called 'Carbon Majors', companies which have been ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

4 winners and 3 losers from the January Democratic debate
Vox
He solidly owned discussions of health care and climate change, and he solidified his status, recently regained from Warren, as the leading voice of ...

Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate
The New York Times
Winners and Losers of ... Nicole Hemmer (9/10) — Barbara Lee was the clear winner of the debate, repeatedly cheered for her lone vote ... Jorge Castañeda (6/10) — Decisive on issues like impeaching Trump and climate change.

Climate change and the future of salmon
Islands' Sounder
There are winners and losers of a changing ecosystem, Barsh said. While Chinook salmon are struggling to survive, increasingly supported by ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How to Get Socially Conscious Funds Into Your 401(k)
The New York Times
If you want to make a big difference in the world using your hard-earned money, you don't have a lot of tools at your disposal if you're not extremely ...

BlackRock CEO says sustainability is the 'top issue' for investors—here's what that means for your ...
CNBC
Investors, particularly younger generations that are beginning to accumulate more wealth, are particularly interested in socially-responsible investing, ...

7 Socially Responsible ETFs to Buy in 2020
Investorplace.com
Basic funds usually lead the annual flows race, but there are some other areas of growth in the industry, including socially responsible ETFs. Last year ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Report 2019: Focus on the Emerging Technologies ...
PRNewswire (press release)
DUBLIN, Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Emerging Technologies Advancing Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage" report has been added to ...

Emerging Technologies Advancing Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Yahoo Finance
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated and emitted into the atmosphere continues to rise as a direct result of a series of complex interactions ...

UAE to double renewable energy portfolio in next 10 years - ADNOC
Yahoo Finance
"We (ADNOC) will increase our carbon capture utilization and storage program by 500% ... to capture the same amount of C02 as 5 million acres of ...

Sustainability Investing:

BlackRock to Hold Companies and Itself to Higher Standards on Climate Risk
Wall Street Journal
It will expand the range of sustainable investment products as well as double to 150 the number of exchange-traded funds that address environmental, ...

World's Largest Asset Manager BlackRock To Build Around Sustainability In Investments
NPR
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Larry Fink — CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager — about his plan to put climate sustainability at the ...

BlackRock's Fink pressed to take action over words in dumping fossil fuels
MarketWatch
BlackRock's Larry Fink may believe that greater demand for sustainable investing leaves Wall Street “on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of ...

Geoengineering:

Can solar geoengineering mitigate both climate change and income inequality?
Phys.Org
New research from the University of California San Diego finds that solar geoengineering—the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth's ...

Why geoengineering may narrow global economic inequality
MIT Technology Review
Some scientists believe that geoengineering, the idea that we could spray reflective particles into the atmosphere to reverse global warming, may ...

Solar geoengineering could have big benefits (and also big risks)
Fast Company
Solar geoengineering is the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth's surface, which works to cool down the planet. It's an area of ... 

Green Bond Funds:

Kenya Gets on Board the Green Bond Train
ETF Trends
The green bond will help raise money to fund projects that focus on in renewable energy, energy efficiency, green transportation, and waste-water ...

National Grid places EUR-500m green bond
Renewables Now
National Grid places EUR-500m green bond ... its inaugural green bond, facing raising EUR 500 million (USD 555.8m) to finance transmission-related ...

Why governments need to issue just transition sovereign bonds and how they could do it
Responsible-Investor.com
One of the keys to success will be a significant increase in finance for the just ... The steps that governments need to take to issue sovereign green bonds are ... A sovereign just transition bond would bring together the classic climate ...    

Low Carbon Funds:

EU unveils €100bn fund for 'just' low-carbon transition - which excludes nuclear
edie.net
The EU's regional policy Commissioner Elisa Ferreira revealed on Tuesday (14 January) details of the €100 billion Just Transition Mechanism, a key ...

California governor plans $1B fund to invest in green businesses
The Hill
The Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund will contain $1 billion to help fund seed recycling, low-carbon emissions vehicles and sustainable ...

Pension Plans Will Boost Hedge Fund Investments in 2020, Study Says
Chief Investment Officer
Note that investing in an S&P 500 index fund, which costs a lot less than a hedge fund, ... “Comptroller DiNapoli's innovative Climate Action Plan puts New York's pension fund at the forefront of the low carbon economy,” Siwo said.