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Microgrids:

Could COVID-19 Give Rise to the Home Microgrid?
Microgrid Knowledge
The coronavirus (COVID-19) could alter who needs reliable energy — and when — and place new importance on residential microgrids. residential ...

PG&E, SCE abandon big microgrid plans for temporary emergency measures as wildfire season ...
Utility Dive
But bids in response to solicitations by the state's two biggest investor-owned utilities (IOUs) found only temporary microgrid deployments are financially ...

Engie EPS Cites Earnings Uncertainty from Coronavirus. Sticks to Long-term Microgrid Strategy
Microgrid Knowledge
Engie EPS sees microgrids and energy storage as key to its growth, but expects a short-term disruption because its manufacturing facilities are in Italy, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

US Senators Join Call for OECD to 'Align With GRI Tax Standard'
CSRwire.com (press release)
“GRI sets reporting standards used by 78% of companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 75% of NASDAQ 250 companies, and the GRI ...

TPI Composites, Inc. Publishes Its First Sustainability Report Highlighting Its Target to Decarbonize ...
Yahoo Finance
The report was published in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Core Option and includes the Wind Technology & Project Developers ...

JLL arranges $991.77M financing for 17-property national portfolio
Benzinga
JLL Capital Markets is a full-service global provider of capital solutions for ... principles in its annual Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Report...    

Renewable Energy Investments:

Without Congressional Support, the Pandemic Could Stall Growth of Renewable Energy
Environmental Working Group
Clean energy investments topped $50 billion over the past five years, and new windmills and solar farms are now cheaper than natural gas. But now ...

Impact Investing: Clean & Renewable Energy and Your Portfolio
The Ticker Tape
Money has been plowed into clean and renewable energy investments. According to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI), ...

Monarch Private Capital Joins the American Council on Renewable Energy
Yahoo Finance
Investors look to Monarch to create, operate, and manage a variety of different funds, including investment opportunities that address ESG initiatives that ... 

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Climate Action Planning in a Federal Leadership Vacuum
Resilience
This policy is part of California's broader climate change agenda: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). California has also been a ...

Follow Her Lead: Catherine Reheis-Boyd
Comstock's Magazine
“We're the first oil and gas trade association that ever attended a climate change summit,” she says. “Because of the West and California's leadership ...

Newsom and PG&E strike deal to end company's bankruptcy
CALmatters
The company agreed to a number of changes, notably no shareholder ... mechanisms to redirect PG&E if it isn't reaching safety or climate change goals ... PG&E chief executive and president Bill Johnson said the company now ... replace it with a majority of Californians, including experts on utility safety.

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing: Clean & Renewable Energy and Your Portfolio
The Ticker Tape
According to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI), which tracks sustainable investments, climate change is the top ...

How To Invest And Have Impact Through Funds
Forbes
While many regard impact investing as a purely direct investment opportunity, few realize that they can put their capital to work in the impact space ...

The Week in impact investing: OMG
ImpactAlpha
13 last week to talk sustainable finance and impact investing education. Impact is disrupting professional education; the coronavirus pandemic only ...

Energy Storage:

Energy storage in Europe: Big things expected despited 2019 slowdown
Energy Storage News
Revenues and opportunities for large-scale battery energy storage to provide frequency services to the grid in the UK and mainland Europe, are ...

Capturing the full value of energy storage
pv magazine International
The International Renewable Energy Agency has devised a valuation framework to lay the foundations for successful storage deployment. As the ...

Global Renewables Battery Energy Storage Market (2020 -2026) With Top Growing Companies ...
Global Industry News 24 (press release) (blog)
Global Renewables Battery Energy Storage Market (2020 -2026) With Top Growing Companies : Boston Power, Enersys, ASystems, SAFT, Samsung ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Lenzing 'on track' to meet 2030 environmental goals
Ecotextile News
... as it looks to become a carbon neutral operation by 2050. “It's not easy if you are a company aiming for growth to understand science-based targets ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

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Socially Responsible Investing:

Many Funds Have Committed to Socially Responsible Investing—But Few Are Following Through
Kellogg Insight
After all, it's easy enough for money managers to attract socially conscious investors by advertising a fund as ESG-oriented—but what if some of these ...

Should your 401(k) have socially responsible investment options?
Smart Business Network
The meaning of the term socially responsible investing (SRI) continues to evolve as 401(k) plan participants look to align their investment portfolio with ...

Equity Residential a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 4.7% Yield (EQR)
Nasdaq
Equity Residential a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 4.7% Yield (EQR). Contributor. BNK Invest BNK Invest. Published. Mar 24, 2020 8 ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

NETL producing cost-effective methods of carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies
Daily Energy Insider
... Brian Anderson discussed methods being pursued to assure cost-effective, clean as possible carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies.

Republicans Offer Bills to Fight Climate Change
The Heartland Institute
The Carbon Capture Usage and Storage Act proposes extending existing DOE grant, loan, and tax deferral programs to “carbon capture, utilization, ...

It's time for Asia to give wings to its hydrogen dream, says industry expert
S&P Global
This means that carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies will need to be used if hydrogen from coal is to have a place in the era of energy ...

Sustainability Investing:

It's just numbers: A ROSI view of corporate sustainability
GreenBiz
Once again, the forum's focus was the Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) framework. Judging by the increased turnout (more than twice as ...

Coronavirus Is Making Business Leaders Rethink the Rules of Capitalism
Yahoo Finance
Two business school professors with outsize impact on this new field of ... Center for Sustainable Business on Return on Sustainability Investment was ...

As coronavirus infects markets, sustainable funds prove their mettle
Grist
For years, sustainable investing was viewed with suspicion. Could portfolios that avoided oil and gas companies, tobacco, and other profitable but ...

Geoengineering:

The right dose of geoengineering could reduce climate change risks, study says
Phys.Org
Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is the idea that adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere can reduce climate changes caused ...

Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Could be Useful for Mitigating Climate Change
AZoCleantech
The concept of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering involves adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere to decrease climate ...

Geoengineering might work best in small doses
Axios
A study suggests solar geoengineering could work most effectively by trying to blunt half of expected global warming, rather than all of it.

Green Bond Funds:

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Low Carbon Funds:

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