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Microgrids:
Microgrids, indoor agriculture go together like peas and carrotsGreenBiz
Bowery Farming is one of two vertical farming startups that has signed an energy as a service arrangement with Schneider Electric and Scale Microgrid.
What's Ahead for the Future of Microgrids?
Microgrid Knowledge
S&C Electric's Stephanie Pine describes the future of microgrids as they become more advanced, renewable, standardized, scalable and cybersecure.
California Ports Turn to Microgrids for Energy Security, Demand Flexibility
Greentech Media (blog)
In response to California's electrification push, the state's largest ports, including San Diego, Los Angeles, and Long Beach, are turning to microgrids ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Comprehensive ESG Backed by World's Largest Sovereign Wealth FundCSRwire.com (press release)
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent international organization that helps businesses and other organizations understand and ...
Outotec's sustainability report 2019: Experts dedicated to sustainable partnerships
Yahoo Finance
Outotec has published its 2019 sustainability report today. ... The report is prepared according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and is ...
Opinion: The ESG evolution: Clearing up misconceptions
JWN
This guidance is linked to GRI guidance. Currently, information is primarily communicated to investors in an annual report found on the company's ..
Renewable Energy Investments:
Why I Just Bought This High-Yielding Renewable-Energy StockMotley Fool
This Fool is adding Clearway Energy to his basket of renewable-energy investments. Matthew DiLallo. (TMFmd19).
IRENA Invites Renewable Energy Developers to Register Projects on Investment Platform
REVE (press release)
The International Renewable Energy Agency's (IRENA) contribution to the Climate Investment Platform, developed in response to country needs to ...
UBS hardens energy lending as 'sustainable' investments rise
Reuters
S) said the value of its 'sustainable' investments rose by more than 50% to nearly $500 billion in 2019, while lending to the energy and utilities sectors ...
CDP Sustainability:
Melco named Best First Time Performer by global environmental disclosure organization CDPGlobeNewswire (press release)
Melco received an A- score earlier this year from CDP, attaining one of the ... Melco is driven by a strong focus around environmental sustainability, ...
CDP report identifies the cities ramping up climate action ambitions
ESI Africa
This steep increase reflects the growing number of cities taking action to lead the transition to a low carbon, sustainable economy. Appleby added: “ ...
Worldline Has Been Awarded “A-“Rating For Its First Participation In The CDP
Exchange News Direct
As part of its robust strategy, Worldline is committed to implementing all the necessary actions, in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
AP VoteCast: Health care, climate top issues in CaliforniaLexington 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 ...
Five Women Setting Net-Zero Emissions Targets in States and Regions
The Climate Group
We need leaders such as those in the Under2 Coalition, to help us avoid ... "California has a long history of tackling air pollution and climate change ...
Impact Investing:
Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social EntrepreneurshipHarvard Business School Working Knowledge
The analysis yields two heuristics to guide impact investors. First, investments allow a financier to discipline inefficient spending. Second, investments ...
The Week in impact investing: Virtual reality
ImpactAlpha
Global Impact Investing Network Investor Council (New York) – canceled. Skoll World Forum (Oxford) – canceled. AVCA (African Private Equity and ...
Dutch impact investing ecosystem matures and diversifies
ImpactAlpha
Private Dutch funds driving emerging-markets impact deals include Goodwell Investments, which is looking to invest €100 million in social enterprises in ...
Energy Storage:
No Subsidies Please, Says Europe's Struggling Energy Storage SectorGreentech Media
Increased cross-border power trading has dented Europe's market for energy storage. 0. LONDON — Europe needs an ...
Toronto-based energy storage firm acquired by Blackstone
Power Engineering Magazine
“Battery storage will play an important role in the North American power grid and be critical to achieving ambitious renewable targets,” said Bilal Khan, ...
Energy Storage and our Unpredictable Future
Resilience
In this little excursion you've coped with variable energy flows, using technologies that allowed you to store energy for use at a later time. In short ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Ball Corporation achieves ASI certification and meets 100% renewables targetedie.net
The ASI Performance Standard is a measurement of environmental and social ... recycling, carbon reductions, water and waste management, human rights and ... In 2018, Ball Corporation set new science-based targets within the ...
Could Cadent's first UK 'transition bond' help turbocharge the journey towards net zero?
www.businessgreen.com
... "first ever" transition bond, an emerging financial asset class designed to help high carbon industries raise capital ... "Further, we anticipate firms will use science-based targets and key performance indicators to build investor trust.".
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
As flooding anniversary nears, majority of Nebraskans concerned about climate changeLincoln Journal Star
Several state senators, she said, have asked her whether climate change will produce winners and losers.
The Scientist Tackling the Deep-Sea Food Chain
OZY
And her research so far shows climate change will create “winners and losers” at the foundation of the food chain, with uncertain results for your ...
Kudos to Congressional Republicans for joining the climate conversation | PennLive letters
pennlive.com
Spurred by undeniable evidence of climate change and by voters' concerns, they ... That's picking winners and losers, which Republicans typically find ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
The Next Wave in Shareholder Activism: Socially Responsible InvestingWall Street Journal
The biggest activist hedge funds are jumping on the wave of socially responsible investing. Elliott Management Corp., known for waging campaigns ...
Why Investors Are Looking to ESG ETFs
ETF Trends
In comparison, traditional socially responsible investments were the primary term used to ... ESG is also more than a feel-good investment strategy.
ESG Study: How Institutional Investors Embrace Responsible Investing
advisorperspectives.com
Responsible investing frameworks such as socially responsible investing, positive screening, impact and thematic investing, and the integration of ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Energy & Sustainability Washington Updates — March 2020JD Supra (press release)
$546 million for Advanced Coal Energy Systems and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS);; $1.3 billion for the Office of Nuclear Energy; ...
US Senate's Proposed Energy Bill Hits Snag and Stalls
Environment + Energy Leader
Its key provisions focus on energy efficiency; renewable energy; energy storage; carbon capture, utilization, and storage; advanced nuclear; industrial ...
Carbon Storage for Sustainable Agriculture
Krishi Jagran (press release) (blog)
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) with the advantage of being flexible to ... gas to the atmosphere also facilitates the continued use of fossil fuels.
Sustainability Investing:
NRG's CEO talks sustainability to investorsGreenBiz
Our sustainability philosophy is guided by three core principles: accountability, transparency and engagement. Let me start with accountability. Good ...
FSIcon exposes students, professionals to sustainable investment
The Brown Daily Herald
Sarang Mani '21 and Arianna Markel '20 organized a sustainability conference with the goalsof showcasing what “investing and finance look like in the ...
The Next Wave in Shareholder Activism: Socially Responsible Investing
Wall Street Journal
Individual investors have moved billions of dollars into funds that prioritize issues like sustainability and diversity, and activists are hoping to tap into that ...
Geoengineering:
Geoengineering is a band-aid solution to the climate crisisMcGill Tribune
“There are two areas of geoengineering, and the distinction is important,” Roulet said in an interview with The McGill Tribune. “Soft geoengineering [ ...
The Super Tuesday Survivors
The New York Times
Technology: Mr. Sanders has called geoengineering (the deliberate manipulation of the climate to counteract the effects of global warming), nuclear ...
Who Will Regulate the Researchers?
The Good Men Project
Debate continues over whether geoengineering could prove a practicable way of averting the worst impacts of climate change. If it is to do so, a huge ...
Green Bond Funds:
6 Stocks, 3 Bond Funds That Are Good for the Environment and Your PortfolioKiplinger's Personal Finance
Its Diamond Green Diesel unit takes animal fat, used cooking oil and distiller's oils and turns it into diesel fuel. That renewable-diesel business is on track ...
Quality and Quantity Are Essential in Euro Green Bond Market
Traders Magazine
Green bonds are a way for issuers to raise money specifically for eco-friendly projects. As Europe's market for these fixed-income instruments grows, ...
Diverse green bonds will build the future faster
Investment Europe
Likewise, green bonds need to fund an abundant variety of innovative real world investment opportunities. 2. Diversification cuts climate and investor risk.
Low Carbon Funds:
NZ funds low-emission vehicle take-upITS International
It will pledge NZ$3.8 million of its NZ$7 million Low Emission Vehicle Contestable Fund (LEVCF) while successful applicants will contribute a total of ...
Funds That Prosper From Fighting Climate Change
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
IShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN, $128, 0.20%) gives greater play to companies with lower carbon emissions. But the strategy is ...
'Energy superpower' hub hopes dim as Germany, Australia stop funding
The Sydney Morning Herald
"If the Liberals were serious about reducing emissions they wouldn't cut funding to climate research," he said. The hub expanded beyond its core ...
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