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Microgrids:

A New Approach To Microgrids Passes Key Hurdle In New Mexico
Forbes
There is growing momentum to move toward a new approach to providing energy services in the form of modular microgrids, which offer resiliency in ...

Outlook on the World's Microgrid (AC, DC, Hybrid) Industry to 2025
Yahoo Finance
DUBLIN, March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Microgrid Market by Connectivity (Grid Connected and Off-Grid Connected), Offering (Hardware and ...

Sustainable: St. Thomas microgrid tests vision for future
Finance and Commerce
Opened last November, the St. Thomas Center for Microgrid Research is one of the few such institutions in the country exploring how solar energy can ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

European trade body EFET to lobby EU on market-based gas decarbonization
S&P Global
London — European energy traders' industry group EFET plans to engage EU policymakers on supporting market-based solutions to promote the ...

Decarb Madness: How Would You Build a Policy Bracket to Decarbonize the Power Sector?
Greentech Media
Welcome to Decarb Madness! The policy bracket game for energy wonks who don't want to play with our future. With March Madness just around the ...

AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Tied to GSMA Net-Zero Emission Pact
SDxCentral
The Toolkit provides guidance on how to set a science-based target aligned to the ICT sector decarbonization pathway to net-zero emissions by 2050. 

Global Reporting Initiative:

Norway wealth fund to push firms for more non-financial data
KFGO News
The world's largest fund, worth $1.1 trillion, was an early mover on ... starting with disclosures based on the Global Reporting Initiative Standards and ...

SEB's annual reporting 2019 published
Yahoo Finance
As a complement to the sustainability report, SEB publishes a Fact Book & Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index. The positive environmental impact ...

DNA Plc's Annual Report including Board of Directors' Report and Financial Statements for 2019 is ...
Yahoo Finance
Annual Report includes the Board of Directors Report and the Financial ... in accordance with the GRI Standards (Global Reporting Initiative 2016).

Renewable Energy Investments:

This High-Yielding Renewable Energy Stock Expects Supercharged Growth in 2020
Motley Fool
The renewable energy-focused company initially anticipated that it would be ... by reducing its dividend to make several growth-focused investments.

Head of Investments: Renewable Energy
ESI Africa
Recruitment agency AltGen is on the hunt of a strategic and intellectual Head of Investments to drive revenue streams across our client's West African ...

Clean Energy DC: Q&A with ULI's Billy Grayson
Commercial Observer
Because D.C. has invested through Building Code and other acts in requiring LEED for new construction in commercial office, and a fairly high energy ... 

CDP Sustainability:

Fayetteville shows how a city can go green in a red state
Curbed
Earlier this month, CDP, an international nonprofit that examines climate ... For Peter Nierengarten, the city's director of sustainability and resilience, ...

Better Late Than Never? Big Companies Scramble To Make Lofty Climate Promises
KCRW
Engie Impact, a sustainability company tied to a French energy group, analyzed CDP data and found "the intensity of the commitments is rising," as ...

L'Oréal recognized once again as a leader in sustainability
WebWire (press release)
CDP, a global non-profit organization (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project), carries out an annual assessment of corporate ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

AP VoteCast: Health care, climate top issues in California
Lexington Herald Leader
Nearly as many had climate change on their minds, according to a ... Similar numbers also considered strong leadership highly important. Nearly 7 in ...

Sierra Club program looks at tribal leadership in climate change
Davis Enterprise
Her work shows that from traditional land stewardship to interventions in state, national and international policy, California Indian nations are leaders in ...

UC San Diego, a leader in climate research, under pressure to slash its greenhouse gases
Los Angeles Times
UC San Diego, a leader in climate research, under pressure to slash its ... “Climate change is an existential threat to life on earth,” said Adam Aron, ... the school should be more aggressive than the University of California system, ... 

Impact Investing:

ESG Versus Impact Investing
Forbes
Impact Investing on the other hand, does not add value. Impact investing is a nice way to re-label “political investing”—investing with a specific political ...

The Week in impact investing: Blueprint to scale
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Listen in. Check out our new Impact Briefing podcast, a 10-minute (or less!) recap of the week in impact investing. Find this ...

The Brief: Impact investing without conferences, community wellness in Chicago, creative ...
ImpactAlpha
What is impact investing without conferences? We may be about to find out. Concern about catastrophic climate change was not enough. 

Energy Storage:

Morning brief: Oil billionaire pursuing perovskites, energy storage market to grow to $546 billion
pv magazine USA
Also in the morning brief: Arizona mandatory solar panel recycling bill, Sumitomo invests $46 million in long-term energy storage from Highview Power ...

Energy Storage Set To Charge Into Central Role In Global Markets
Forbes
Energy storage is set to take an increasingly central role in the global economy, growing almost tenfold over the next decade and a half, new research ...

Tesla, PG&E to Help Build World's Largest Energy Storage Facility in California
EcoWatch
A California county has given the green light to what officials say will be part of the largest renewable energy storage facility in the world. 

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

New, Standardized Guidelines Measure Plastic Leakage Across Corporate Value Chains
SB News
... on these pledges, we found ourselves wondering whether there would ever be science-based targets for plastic, as there are for carbon emissions.

Nilfisk Joins Science Based Targets Initiative
ThisWeekinFM (blog)
Nilfisk, the international cleaning equipment suppliers, has joined the Science Based Targets initiative and committed to reduce their carbon footprint ...

Legal & General's first Spanish renewables deal takes portfolio past £1.1bn
Business Leader (press release) (blog)
... beyond current legislation and practices, seeking to align its real asset portfolio with a science-based carbon performance target covering the period ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Innovation summit focuses on climate change
kinyradio.com
"All fisheries are not being impacted equally, there are going to be winners and losers in this climate regime change. Pollock so far is not a loser.".

Climate Change May Make The Snapping Shrimp Snap Louder
WFAE
STEVE SIMPSON: When we look at any type of global change, what we realize is that there will be winners and losers. SOMMER: Simpson is a ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

What's the deal with socially responsible investing?
Globalnews.ca
Socially responsible investing — also know as ethical, green or sustainable investing — is the new buzzword in the financial world.

VCF takes new approach to socially responsible investment strategy
Vermont Biz
Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Community Foundation announced that it has updated its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) pool ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

45Q&A: A Series of Comments on the 45Q Tax Credit for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage ...
Resources Magazine (blog)
This they have done, while updating the guidance for the specifics of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and recognizing how complex ...

CCS Set To Unlock A Low-Carbon Future
Forbes
The world will be emitting carbon for decades yet; the trick will be to capture and store it. Commercial, scaled-up CCS means we can use fossil fuels ...

Amendment protecting ratepayers from expensive Wyoming carbon capture costs fails
Oil City News
“Low carbon” would be defined as “electricity that is generated while using carbon capture, utilization and storage technology that produces carbon ...

Sustainability Investing:

Meeting at the Mill: A Conversation About a Sustainability Investment Fund
WBIW.com
(BLOOMINGTON) – Mayor John Hamilton and the Bloomington Common Council invite community members to participate in a discussion of a ...

Living Sustainably: Investing in sustainable economics benefits people, profit, planet
HollandSentinel.com
HOLLAND — In any conversation I have about “sustainability,” I can bring attention to benefits for corporate systems, environmental stewardship, and ...

Geoengineering:

Even if geoengineering can help mitigate climate change, is it ethical?
CBC.ca
But radical reductions aren't in place right now, which is why some scientists and policymakers are considering a controversial option: geoengineering ...

Gwynne Dyer says geo-engineering initiatives could help in battle against climate change
North Shore News
Journalist Gwynne Dyer talks about geo-engineering and climate change in CapU Speaker Series, Capilano University, March 4, 8 p.m. Tickets ...

A Cloud Seeding Experiment Dropped Snow On Nearly 1000 Square Miles of Idaho
TheInertia.com
Geoengineering is a frightening thing. In short, it's human intervention into the weather. It has enormous consequences, though, and those ... 

Green Bond Funds:

Boom time for green bond funds
Environmental Finance
The NN Green Bond fund saw assets under management (AUM) more than double to €1.215 billion ($1.3 billion) at the end of 2019, with inflows the ...

NN IP unveils corporate green bond fund
Investment Europe
NN I's flagship NN (L) Green Bond fund, which invests in corporate and sovereign bonds, is one of the largest open-ended green bond funds in the ...

Generali Investments launches first green bonds fund
International Investment
Generali Investments SICAV (GIS) Euro Green & Sustainable Bond offers a liquid and transparent investment strategy in bonds set to finance projects ...

Low Carbon Funds:

On the Issues: JPMorgan's New Climate Commitments, Hydrogen's Low-Carbon Potential, and More
Resources Magazine (blog)
Last week, the UK government pledged £28 million to fund five hydrogen production projects, two of which will be “low-carbon hydrogen production ...

'Urgent explanation' needed on funding for low-carbon energy projects post-Brexit
Energy Voice
I have just read about an “unintended consequence” of Brexit which involves sausages. Unless a derogation is achieved, Britain's sausage makers ...

Fidelity launches reduced carbon bond fund
Investment Week
The fund seeks to build a global corporate bond portfolio that limits exposure to firms with the highest carbon emissions intensity and largest carbon ... 

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