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Microgrids:
Microgrids Deliver Resiliency, Security and SavingsIoT World Today (blog)
The term microgrid suggests thinking small, but the big picture for these IoT-based energy technologies is how they could revolutionize the distribution ...
BoxPower Supplies Two Portable Microgrids For Use In Puerto Rico
CleanTechnica
BoxPower is a company in California that makes portable solar powered microgrids. They come in two sizes — one fits inside a standard shipping ...
Microgrids to the Rescue?
JD Supra (press release)
Facing this new normal, "microgrids" have emerged as a potential tool to ensure that crucial facilities maintain power during the inevitable PSPS ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
How decarbonizing shipping could unlock a global energy transitionWorld Economic Forum (blog)
How decarbonizing shipping could unlock a global energy transition ... Shipping is considered a hard-to-abate sector, and the decarbonization of ... and ship-based energy-efficiency technologies; and land-based investments, which ...
Tall Mass Timber: More than just a way of decarbonizing the construction sector
Archinect
There is cross-laminated timber (CLT), which looks like inch-thick strips of heartwood arranged like a Jenga set to produce a block that is pretty much ...
Study puts cost of decarbonizing shipping by 2050 at ~$1.4-$1.9T; largest investment needed in ...
Green Car Congress (blog)
If shipping is to fully decarbonize by 2050, this will require further ... the largest share of investments is needed in the land-based infrastructure and production ... This makes the challenge of decarbonizing the shipping sector a whole ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Tax transparency essential to tackle $600bn avoidance billAccountancy Daily
Sustainability standard setter, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), has issued its first global standard for public reporting on tax, GRI 207: Tax 2019, ...
Tax Probes Require Public Disclosure By Cos., Group Says
Law360
At an event in London, the Global Reporting Initiative highlighted its report from December, which presented a new standard for companies to ...
Nasdaq Announces ESG Reporting Technology Solution
Yahoo Finance
Sustainability reporting frameworks supported by the platform will include the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ISS, MSCI, RobecoSAM, the ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
US hit record $55.5B renewables investments in 2019Utility Dive
The U.S. hit a record $55.5 billion in renewable energy investments in 2019, as overall global investments beat out 2018, thanks to a flurry of wind ...
Electric Dreams -Green Energy Climbs The UK Investment League
Forbes
The biggest of these was a $260 million investment in OVO Energy by the Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan - a deal that pushed the British green ...
UAE's Al Nowais Plans $500 Million Renewable Energy Fund
Bloomberg
United Arab Emirates businessman Hussain Al Nowais is planning a $500 million fund to spur renewable energy investments across the Middle East ...
CDP Sustainability:
PMI Recognized for Its Climate Leadership with Six Consecutive Years on CDP's 'A List' for Climate ...Yahoo Finance
Being placed on CDP's A List for climate change validates the progress we are making in our commitment to sustainability and environmental ...
Capgemini named on CDP's prestigious 'A List' for leading effort to address climate change
Yahoo Finance
Achieving a place on the A-list is a significant endorsement of Capgemini's environmental sustainability strategy to decarbonize its operations through ...
Schneider Electric's commitment to sustainability recognized in two leading rankings
Yahoo Finance
The Group is ranked in the Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations, and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 'A-List'.
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Bonds on the ballot: Will billions of dollars help California cope with climate change?CALmatters
Given California's international leadership in addressing climate change, it isn't surprising that voters will be asked this November to approve billions ...
California Financials are in the Right Direction
Sonoma County Gazette
"California has been the leader in combatting climate change since AB32 was signed into law in 2006," Treasurer Ma said. "As the State's Banker, I'm ...
Sonoma County Winegrowers Begin Comprehensive Climate Certification Program with California ...
wineindustryadvisor.com
“Climate change is a critical concern, but we don't know yet what role agriculture ... The program meets both the State of California's climate goals and the ... of farmers, families and community members dedicated to being leaders in ...
Impact Investing:
Tiedemann Advisors to Offer an Impact-Investing Cash SolutionBarron's
Tiedemann Advisors is offering a new program to help clients put their cash to work in impact investment, the New York-based independent ...
Impact investing moves money from 'do no harm' to promoting social good
National Catholic Reporter
It's called impact investing. As defined by the Global Impact Investing Network, "impact investing is unlocking significant sums of private capital to ...
Citi Launches $150 Million Impact Investing Fund
Business Wire (press release)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citi announced today the launch of the $150 million Citi Impact Fund that will make equity investments in “double ...
Energy Storage:
Utility Scale Energy Storage Platforms and Nanotechnology, 2020 Market Report - Storage ...Yahoo Finance
DUBLIN, Jan. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Utility Scale Energy Storage Platforms, and Nanotechnology: Market Shares, Market Strategies, and ...
Global Compressed Air Energy Storage Market Analysis & Trends to 2028 - Gaelectric, LightSail ...
Yahoo Finance
The Global Compressed Air Energy Storage market is poised to grow by 2028. Some of the prominent trends that the market is witnessing include the ...
California Finalizes Plan Shifting Key Energy Storage Incentive Toward Blackout Resilience
Greentech Media
California regulators have finalized plans to direct more than half a billion dollars in behind-the-meter battery incentives over the next four years to ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Groupe PSA Confirmed as One of the Global Leaders of the Low-Carbon Transition by the Non ...Yahoo Finance
The Group is distinguished for its actions to cut emissions, mitigate climate risks ... the necessary disruption of consumption habits that scientists recommend, ... Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a collaboration between the Carbon ...
Data Shows Corporate Emissions are Falling, But Not Fast Enough
Environment + Energy Leader
This indicates that not enough companies have set science-based targets, and that ... While targets do not directly equate with emissions reductions, such ... that companies manage their emissions in line with global carbon budgets.
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
4 Climate Change Myths DebunkedCFO Magazine
To mitigate climate risks at the pace needed to create real change, corporate and ... In reality, climate change will create winners and losers.
DealBook: Winners and Losers of the Trade Deal
The New York Times
Winners: • Mr. Trump. He is claiming a political victory for negotiating a deal that he says his ... Climate change could spell the end of Alpine skiing.
California's trees could shift as global warming forces birds to move out
Popular Science
Forests are critical to slowing climate change because they soak up huge ... Recently, he reported a disturbing trend — climate change is prompting ... In this way, Furnas says, climate change managed to create winners and losers.
Socially Responsible Investing:
Socially responsible and faith-based investing come together in new Quantified Common Ground ...PRNewswire (press release)
The fund employs sophisticated risk-management methods while seeking capital growth. - The fund will be used within FPI's principled-investing ...
BlackRock Muddies the Social-Investing Waters
Washington Post
A key aspect of social investing that is widely misunderstood is that the movement comprises two distinct camps. On one side is socially responsible ...
Why We Place Our Family Foundation Assets in Socially Responsible Investment Vehicles
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
It reveals just how far socially responsible investing has crept into the mainstream and indicates that funds focused on environmental, social, and ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
UAE's ADNOC, Eni to collaborate on CO2 storageS&P Global
UAE's ADNOC, Eni to collaborate on CO2 storage ... an agreement with Italy's Eni to explore collaboration on carbon capture, utilization and storage in ...
Carbon capture plan could save Four Corners economy
Albuquerque Journal
Option 2: Sell SJGS to Enchant Energy and the city of Farmington for $1 and keep the plant open with proven Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage ...
UAE's ADNOC, ENI to collaborate on CO2 storage amid push for lower emissions
S&P Global
... with Italy's ENI to explore collaboration on carbon capture, utilization and storage as the state-owned company seeks to lower its CO2 emissions.
Sustainability Investing:
Fashion's Transition Toward Sustainability Could Create US$30B in Investment Opportunities ...Barron's
Under growing pressure from consumers, sustainability will be at the top of the fashion industry's agenda in the coming decades. And the transition ...
BlackRock CEO Makes the Case for Sustainable Investing
Morningstar.com
Sustainable investing strategies vary, but most of them are trying to identify companies that are pursuing stakeholder value, avoid those that aren't, ...
QTS Named Most Sustainable Company in the Data Center Industry by World Finance Magazine
Yahoo Finance
Sustainability investing is growing rapidly with an increasing numbers of investors committing to universal codes related to sustainability investing, ...
Geoengineering:
Could Geoengineering Help Save the World's Ice?Sierra Magazine
He and his colleague John Moore have studied a number of geoengineering strategies to prevent or slow the collapse of Thwaites Glacier.
Scientists study new techniques to fight climate change
RiverTowns
Another idea for fighting climate change is solar geoengineering, Keith explained. This could involve adding aerosols to the stratosphere to reduce the ...
Money Diary: A 21-Year-Old Geo Engineer In Durham On 20k
Refinery29
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking a cross-section of ...
Green Bond Funds:
Going Green Gains Momentum in the Bond MarketETF Trends
GRNB tracks the S&P Green Bond Select Index, which is “comprised of labeled green bonds that are issued to finance environmentally friendly ...
First Kenyan shilling green bond lists on London Stock Exchange
Euromoney magazine
The proceeds will be used to finance the construction of six green-certified student properties in Nairobi. It is the first non-governmental green bond ...
Green bonds forecast: investments to break through $1trn
Expert Investor
Among the green bond investors is the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund, with ¥161.7trn (€1.32trn) of assets under management
Low Carbon Funds:
IEA: Oil and gas firms investing less than 1% of funds in low-carbon transitionedie.net
IEA: Oil and gas firms investing less than 1% of funds in low-carbon ... to low-carbon energy systems, both within their own operations and through ...
Making the Low Carbon Call With ETFs
ETF Trends
The iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (NYSEArca: CRBN) is one of those funds. CRBN and the rival SPDR MSCI ACWI Low Carbon ...
British Pension Schemes Warn on Cost of Fossil Fuel Divestment
The New York Times
Manchester said it was moving 2.5 billion pounds of the fund's assets into a low carbon strategy. However, London Pensions Fund Authority said it ...
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