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Microgrids:
A collaborative network of microgrids could provide backup electricityUniversity of Miami
Industrial engineering professor Nurcin Celik is developing technology that would allow local power systems to 'talk' to each other and mitigate the ...
How Microgrids Help Businesses Reach Cost, Resilience and Climate Goals
Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrids provide businesses with a way to secure energy resilience, reduce costs and achieve climate goals. This excerpt from a new special report ...
USA Braces For Tsunami Of Microgrids As Defense Dept. Wades In — CleanTechnica Interview
CleanTechnica
The US Department of Defense has been exploring new microgrid technology for at least the past 10 years or so, and the massive agency is finally ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Mining Giants Embrace Renewables, But Decarbonization Remains a Steep ClimbGreentech Media
Mining Giants Embrace Renewables, But Decarbonization Remains a Steep ... carbon emissions, the industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, ... reliable and cost-competitive compared to fossil-fuel-based electricity, such as ...
Decarbonization, Bio Solutions Hold Keys to Future LNG Growth, Says Shell Exec
Natural Gas Intelligence
Industry has to on a path toward “decarbonizing gas, taking care of the ... offset using nature-based carbon credits that we buy from reforestation and ...
Sebastien Betermier on sustainable investing and progressive decarbonization
McGill Reporter (blog)
“The strategy proposed by McGill consists of progressively divesting from high-carbon industries, investing in renewable energies, increasing ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Businesses Around the World Provide Examples on Measuring SDG ImpactIISD Reporting Services
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and UN Global Compact launched a resource for businesses to measure and disclose their impacts on the SDGs.
Cogeco publishes its fifth Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Yahoo Finance
This report, issued once every two years, is produced according to the international Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines. It communicates our ...
What's Driving The New Push To Measure Companies On Social Performance
Forbes
Indeed, organizations like GRI and SASB now offer a good selection of E ... These shortcomings are especially pronounced in the context of global ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Renewable energy investments help AEP hit earnings targetsEnergy News Network
UTILITIES: American Electric Power expects to hit earnings growth targets through 2024 in large part through capital investments in renewable energy.
4 Tips to Invest in Renewable Energy Now
U.S. News & World Report
The number of sustainable energy investments is increasing as more interest has been generated among investors seeking additional renewable ...
AFC Invests in Djibouti's First IPP and Renewable Energy Project
Yahoo Finance
Oliver Andrews, Chief Investment Officer of AFC, added: "This is a significant project for Djibouti as its first renewable energy project and signifies the ...
CDP Sustainability:
LIXIL Earns Place in CDP's Water Security A List for Second Consecutive YearCSRwire.com (press release)
We are proud to receive this recognition two years in a row as we strive to enhance the sustainability of both LIXIL and the environment. We will ...
Sealed Air Earns Recognition Among Top Three Percent for Global Leadership in Addressing ...
Yahoo Finance
Company earns position on prestigious CDP Supplier Engagement ... for our leadership in sustainability and climate action," said Ted Doheny, Sealed ...
PLSA's voting guidelines calls for climate change accountability
IPE.com
... Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Sustainability Accounting Standards ... companies to behave in a way that ensures sustainable business success.
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Climate Action Planning in a Federal Leadership VacuumCommon Dreams
Climate Action Planning in a Federal Leadership Vacuum ... This policy is part of California's broader climate change agenda: California Global ...
Takeaways From Gavin Newsom's State of the State
The New York Times
For all the wealth and all the leadership the state shows in fighting climate change, Mr. Newsom said, California cannot ignore that it is also home to a ...
Cuomo's New Climate Change Plan is Ambitious but Short on Money
InsideClimate News
Cuomo's New Climate Change Plan is Ambitious but Short on Money ... well as his own—as a national leader in the fight against climate change. ... If New York were to adopt a broader carbon tax, it would follow California's lead.
Impact Investing:
Does This Investment Make Me Look Good?Bloomberg
One of the trendiest ideas in finance is something called “social impact investing,” which is the idea that people should put more money into socially ...
Carlyle Promises Impact Investing Across the Firm
Bloomberg
Carlyle Group Inc. is taking on an impact investing strategy that embraces the idea of ESG principles across the firm's investments. Bloomberg's Sonali ...
Carlyle Breaks From Pack, Promising Impact Investing Across Firm
Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) -- It was a curious moment last year when Carlyle Group Inc., once famous for bold bets on defense contractors, hired one of the more ...
Energy Storage:
WoodMac: Global Energy Storage Installations to Hit 15GW by 2024Greentech Media
The global energy storage market quadrupled last year to 4 gigawatts of new installations and will surge to a 15-gigawatt annual market in 2024, even ...
Energy storage roundup: Kore's 110 kw-hr rack, KiloVault's 7.5 kW-hr wall-mount, NeoVolta's 24 kw ...
pv magazine USA
Falling battery costs, shifting utility strategies and new PUC policies are drawing fresh entrants and incumbents into an invigorated energy storage ...
Report Says Energy Storage Market Will Grow to $546 Billion in Revenue by 2035
Environment + Energy Leader
“The energy storage industry is poised for a massive increase in annual revenue and deployment capacity as key innovative technologies, such as ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Press release: Nilfisk joins the Science Based Targets initiative - commits to reduce carbon ...Yahoo Finance
Now, Nilfisk joins the Science Based Targets Initiative, with the goal of ... is committed to reducing its carbon footprint resulting from direct emissions, ...
L&G commits to first clean energy investment in Continental Europe
Institutional Asset Manager (press release) (blog)
With Europe legally required to meet net zero carbon emissions by 2050 ... a science- based carbon performance target covering the period to 2030.
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Winners & Losers of Philadelphia's Snowless WinterNBC 10 Philadelphia
Winners & Losers of Philadelphia's Snowless Winter ... School kids, other government workers and private sector employees: Climate change is ...
Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate
The New York Times
Winners and Losers of ... Jamelle Bouie (10/10) — Unquestionably the winner, Warren was fiery and ... He picked up his stride on climate change and small-business empowerment but lost it all with his smug defense of his fortune.
Winners and losers from the South Carolina debate
The Hill
Seven Democratic presidential candidates took the stage Tuesday night in Charleston, S.C., for a fiery debate days before the state's primary on ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
On Climate and Conscience: An Essay and Pamphletadvisorperspectives.com
On how the investment industry commercialized “socially responsible ... of the meaning of “socially responsible investing,” steer it to a commercial end, ...
Pitt fossil fuel disinvestment activists begin occupation of cathedral
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
... comes a week ahead of a Pitt board of trustees meeting during which members may consider establishing a policy for socially responsible investing ...
Future Returns: Simplifying Sustainable Investing
Barron's
They also remain unconvinced that sustainable investing can create ... harken back to the origins of socially responsible investing, when investors ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Int'l Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization, StorageAsharq Al-awsat English
The International Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (iCCUS 2020) Conference and Exhibition will kick off in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on ...
IRS issues guidances on carbon capture tax credit
The Hill
Carbon capture technology, which helps remove carbon from the ... on issues ranging from secure geological storage to utilization to recapture of the ...
Carbon Capture Investors Say IRS Guidance Isn't Enough (1)
Bloomberg Tax
Carbon capture and storage is the process of trapping waste carbon dioxide ... “Nothing the IRS has issued to date has addressed the beneficial use ...
Sustainability Investing:
Investors to Berry: sell non-core units; show off sustainabilityPlastics News
Investment firm Canyon Capital Advisors is pressuring plastics packaging maker Berry Global Group Inc. to sell off businesses to boost its financial ...
Sustainability Disclosures, Meant to Protect, Could Create Additional Risk for Investors
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
The lead editorial in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal took on the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a non-governmental body that ...
Geoengineering:
Will rogue nations alter the atmosphere? Experts are lookingE&E News
One is to develop a research agenda for a step-by-step process to explore the potential benefits and minimize the risks of geoengineering. The other ...
How Geo-Engineering Could Slow Down Climate Change
NBC10 Boston
Climate change is here, but can it be slowed down? Some scientists say solar geo-engineering could be a solution.
Fact Check: Government Did NOT Finally Admit Chemical Geoengineering Via Chemtrail Operations
Lead Stories
Did the U.S. government finally admit to conducting chemical geoengineering using chemtrail operations? No, that's not true: An article claimed that a ...
Green Bond Funds:
Latin America wants in on green bondsFinance and Commerce
At least five Latin American governments and several companies are considering debt sales to fund environmentally friendly projects in what is ...
The Ascent Of Green Bonds
Seeking Alpha
Green bonds represent a financing vehicle to pursue climate mitigation policies, reduce a country's carbon footprint, and invest in renewable sources ...
What's really stopping Europe from a green bonds boom?
citywireselector.com
European green bonds have grown considerably in recent years but ... of funds structured to meet new European regulation covering green bonds ...
Low Carbon Funds:
For Asia, low-carbon energy is both a priority and one of the greatest regional challengesSouth China Morning Post
For Asia, low-carbon energy is both a priority and one of the greatest regional ... With regards to demand and awareness for low-carbon finance, ...
Off the track: transit funding and the low carbon transition
The Hill Times
The burden of reducing emissions will then fall more heavily on cities. But is the funding available proportional to the task at hand, or are municipalities ...
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