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Microgrids:
Why Microgrids are at an Inflection PointMicrogrid Knowledge
Microgrid growth appears to have reached an inflection point, driven by demand for reliable energy, especially in California, as well as economic, ...
Microgrids as a Non-Spinning Substitute for Spinning Reserves
Microgrid Knowledge
PowerSecure, a subsidiary of Southern Company, has developed 125 advanced microgrids and manages more than 1,700 microgrids and advanced ...
Report Says US Will Emerge as a 'Prominent Market' for Microgrid Tech Through 2026
Environment + Energy Leader
Advantages of microgrid include reliability, enhanced energy efficiency, reduced consumption of electricity, security, cost-effectiveness, voltage control ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Who's afraid of 100%?Utility Dive
This is particularly true for the electricity sector, which likely will grow ... Operating a 100% carbon-free electricity sector by 2050 certainly is feasible. ... of fossil-based energy would increase if the overall volume of fossil-based ... available in time to decarbonize the last 20-30% of our electricity supply.
Global Reporting Initiative:
Transparency That Drives Impact – Where Next for GRICSRwire.com (press release)
Feb. 07 /CSRwire/ - GRI continues to deliver the most effective global sustainability standards, while it is focused on doing even more to support ...
European Green Deal 'must be transparent'
Ecotextile News
AMSTERDAM - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting organisation has backed the European Green Deal as a "global game ...
Communicating across the chasm: How companies can navigate the new investor ESG landscape
GreenBiz
... data reporting despite the existence of protocols from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
How to Get Income With Renewable Energy InvestmentsETF Trends
Finding dividends in the renewable energy space is difficult and many of the ETFs in this arena have low or no yields. The Global X YieldCo Index ETF ...
With California Voters Focused on Climate, Biden Touts Obama-Era Energy Investments
KQED
Included in the bill was a $90 billion investment in clean energy, the largest in U.S. history. The biggest renewable energy windfall went to California: ...
Trump's Proposed Budget Cuts Disaster for Public Health, Clean Energy Investments
Environmental Working Group
WASHINGTON – President Trump's 2021 budget proposal, released today, seeks deep cuts in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, the ...
CDP Sustainability:
Ecolab Named to CDP Water Security A List for Sustainable Water ManagementBusiness Wire (press release)
“Ecolab's inclusion on the A List is recognition of our work to advance sustainable and strategic water management with our customers and in our own ...
BMO Financial Group Recognized by CDP for Action and Transparency on Environmental ...
PRNewswire (press release)
The CDP, a not-for-profit charity, provides a global disclosure system for ... BMO Financial Group's commitment to creating a sustainable future also ...
Air Liquide Obtains the Highest Score From the CDP for Its Sustainable Water Management
Business Wire (press release)
Air Liquide has been named on the CDP “A-List” as one of the world's best-performing companies for sustainable water management. At the ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
What is California doing to fight climate change? Not enough to prevent catastropheSacramento Bee
With this in mind, we evaluated how California is doing in addressing climate change. Our state is thought of as a world leader in this fight. California's ...
California Senate Unveils Action Plan to Combat Wildfires and Climate Change
YubaNet
California Senate Unveils Action Plan to Combat Wildfires and Climate ... continue our leadership and track record on climate change, and provide ...
Opinion: Peninsula cities must lead the world on climate change
Pacifica Tribune
California Senate District 13, which stretches from South San Francisco to ... We are also a district that faces disaster if climate change is allowed to continue ... full capacity for invention and innovation, and provide climate leadership.
Impact Investing:
YOUR MONEY: Family offices lead the way on impact investingReuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When former investment manager Ron Cordes started a charitable foundation in 2007, he got frustrated because he could ...
Impact investing can actually unlock enormous good
Duke Chronicle
Across Duke, the term “impact” has been used so many times to self-characterize one's long term goals that it can feel trite. Thus, I wasn't particularly ...
YOUR MONEY: Family offices lead the way on impact investing
KFGO News
More than a quarter of family foundations are now engaged in impact investing in some form, according to a 2019 Global Family Office report from ...
Energy Storage:
EDF Asks DC Circuit to Uphold FERC Energy Storage OrderEnvironmental Defense Fund
(Washington, D.C. – February 10, 2020) EDF is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to uphold an order that permits energy storage to ...
Safety lessons from large-scale energy storage deployments
Solar Builder (press release) (blog)
It is well understood that large scale energy storage is the key to allowing us to achieve our clean energy utilization goals in the effort to fight back ...
FERC's Order 841 'essential' for energy storage to cut emissions, attorneys general argue
Utility Dive
The attorneys general of California, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Michigan and Rhode Island are defending some of the Federal Energy ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Legal & General appoints new Head of ESGProperty Funds World (press release) (blog)
With the UK legally required to meet net zero carbon emissions by 2050, ... a science-based carbon performance target covering the period to 2030.
So you've declared a climate emergency? Now architects need to walk the talk
The Fifth Estate
Get a carbon audit and offset your remaining carbon emissions. ... a series of rigorous, peer-reviewed, science based targets for building performance.
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Winners and Losers of the Democratic DebateThe New York Times
The only clear voice on putting climate change first. Michelle Goldberg (8/10) — He's the clear front-runner and many in the party have grave doubts ...
Who Won the Eighth Democratic Debate in New Hampshire? Analysis of the Winners, Losers and ...
Newsweek
Analysis of the Winners, Losers and Highlights ... unrivaled strength in his rhetoric on foreign policy, climate change, criminal justice and inequality, ...
The Winners and Losers From T-Mobile and Sprint's Merger Saga
The New York Times
The winners: ... The losers: ... But it had also gone through a carousel of management changes and tried raising prices ... Bill and Melinda Gates said their foundation's focus this year would be on climate change and gender equality.
Socially Responsible Investing:
The rise and profitability of socially responsible investingYahoo Finance
The rise and profitability of socially responsible investing ... John Streur argues companies don't need to sacrifice profits to have sustainable practices.
Watch out for this trend in ESG investments, Wharton's Jeremy Siegel warns
CNBC
... based on environmental, social and governance, or ESG, which many now see as synonymous with sustainable, socially responsible investing.
Millennials are demanding responsible investments, and big finance is listening
Macleans.ca
His money is in RBC Vision Funds, which are socially responsible mutual funds offered by RBC, Canada's largest bank. Redding says he's more ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Chevron, Svante Eyeing Carbon Capture Pilot in CaliforniaNatural Gas Intelligence
Chevron, Svante Eyeing Carbon Capture Pilot in California ... commercialize carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies that will be essential ...
House Republicans' big climate-change 'plan': Carbon capture and trees
Electrek
David McKinley (R-WV)'s Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Innovation Act wants to advance carbon utilization and direct air capture technology ...
Sustainability Investing:
Sustainability Called a Key New Trend in InvestingHawaii Business Magazine
Venture capital's investments in startups will focus more on sustainability in the coming decade, according to a diverse mix of investors, entrepreneurs ...
The State of Sustainable Investing in 2020
Investopedia
On the other hand, 75% say that it is too early to tell whether sustainable investing indeed delivers superior returns, and 49% indicate that finding ...
YOUR MONEY: Family offices lead the way on impact investing
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When former investment manager Ron Cordes started a charitable foundation in 2007, he got frustrated because he could ...
Geoengineering:
Ask the Weather Guys: What is geoengineering?Madison.com
A: Geoengineering literally means “Earth-engineering.” ... Current discussions of geoengineering focus on two broad categories to reduce global ...
How to get the carbon dioxide we shoved into the atmosphere back out again
The Irish Times
Environmentalists get nervous when they hear people talking about reducing carbon-induced global warming through “geoengineering”, the use of ...
Global warming and volcanic activity
INQUIRER.net
For instance, in Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program, scientists are exploring the possibility of injecting aerosols into the atmosphere ...
Green Bond Funds:
Toyota Motor Corp's Finance Company Offers First US Green BondETF Trends
As part of an even bigger ESG initiative, Toyota has a green bond program in place that will help finance new loans and lease contracts for eligible ...
Green bond fund AUM more than doubles in one year
Institutional Asset Manager (press release) (blog)
The rising popularity and issuance activity of green bonds is leading to significant growth in green bond funds – both in terms of the number of funds ...
Toyota prices inaugural unsecured US dollar green bond
Nasdaq
Funds from the green bond will be used to purchase new retail installment sales contracts and leases for the financing of Toyota's line of hybrid and ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Wiltshire Pension funds have been moved to low carbon passive equity portfolio managed by ...Wiltshire Times
Wiltshire Pension funds have been moved to low carbon passive equity portfolio managed by Brunel Pension Partnership. By John Baker Reporter.
Interested in Sustainable Investing? Here's What You Need to Know About Sustainable Funds
Morningstar.com
We'll guide you through how we classify sustainable funds and show you ... Impact funds are often focused on specific themes, such as low carbon, ...
Meet The Woman Fighting Climate Injustice Through Changing Passive Investment
Forbes
For example, the ETFs drive capital into banks that are lending for excessive carbon emissions.“The goal is to make low-carbon index funds the ...
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