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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

How Food Sustainability Is An Unintended Victim Of Coronavirus Pandemic
Benzinga
Some of the reasons that explain the drop in interest in keeping up with sustainability trends are related to the coronavirus, FBN quoted Ryan as ...

OU amid coronavirus: Student sustainability efforts on pause; quarantine shows positive impact to ...
The Oklahoma Daily
Student sustainability efforts grind to a halt. OU biology senior Gina Werdel, chair of the Student Government Association's Student Environmental ...

Vegetable growing and backyard chickens: Gardening, farming booms during coronavirus pandemic
USA TODAY
As people pick up new hobbies while they remain in self-quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in gardening and farming is experiencing ... 

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Siemens and Uniper develop joint decarbonization plan for power generation
WorldOil
Siemens and Uniper develop joint decarbonization plan for power ... It is important to look at the energy, mobility and industry sectors together, because ... says: “After the coal phase-out and the switch to a secure gas-based energy ...

Could Full Decarbonization Depend on New Nuclear or CCS?
Greentech Media
The major decarbonization pathways modeled by Afry (formerly AF Pöyry), ... two possible avenues to decarbonize Europe's power, heat and transport sectors. ... Based on Afry's analysis, a zero-carbon gas pathway looks like a more ...

Heightened focus on decarbonization likely post COVID-19 crisis
Utility Dive
... may be calls to hit pause on the pursuit of aggressive energy sector decarbonization and clean energy development to avoid raising electricity rates.

Global Reporting Initiative:

The Time Has Come For Tax Reporting Transparency—Thank You Global Reporting Initiative!
Forbes
“The GRI Tax Standard is the first global standard for comprehensive tax disclosure at the country-by-country level. It supports public reporting of a ...

GRI Reports on Target 12.6, Makes Recommendations for VNRs
IISD Reporting Services
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published recommendations on strengthening national-level progress on the SDGs with the use of corporate ...

Five Ways to Engage the Private Sector in the SDGs
CSRwire.com (press release)
GRI has set out recommendations to help policymakers work with companies ... The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent international ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Should we spend billions on clean energy? It worked during the last crisis
Los Angeles Times
She suggested an extension of clean energy tax credits as well as federal investment in new transmission lines, to help move solar and wind power from ...

Investors Run From Oil to Renewable Energy Stocks
Investment U
The bottom line is this: Investments in renewables have the best return on investment (ROI) in the energy sector. Solar, after a slow and rocky start, now ...

The Impact of the Coronavirus on the Renewable Energy Industry
Center For American Progress
A national survey of likely voters showed that 74 percent support public investment in renewable energy. If Congress does not support the maintenance ...

CDP Sustainability:

OMV Publishes Sustainability Report 2019
ReportAlert.info (press release)
The OMV Sustainability Report provides a detailed overview of the ... from Sustainalytics, and an A- (Leadership) in the CDP Climate Change.

What is Customer Data Platform (CDP)?
TechFunnel (press release)
Successful marketing depends on comprehensive and credible real-time data on consumer behavior to help lay a strategy for sustainability. In simple ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Cow poop could fuel California's clean energy future. But not everyone's on board
Los Angeles Times
Cow poop could fuel California's clean energy future. ... gas” and says it can help fight climate change by keeping methane out of the atmosphere, ... The Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability — a Fresno-based nonprofit ...

Editorial: States are on their own to fend off this pandemic. That may be a good thing
Los Angeles Times
California will spend as much as $1.4 billion in coming weeks to buy ... climate change data from its satellites, “California will launch its own damn ... Now that California is stepping into the leadership vacuum to help itself and other ...

Impact Investing:

How the global coronavirus response creates opportunities for impact investing
GeekWire
GW: How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect your investment strategy? ... around the globe, where do you see opportunities as an impact investor?


Does Impact Investing Always Come At A Price?
Forbes
I help family offices and banks solve strategy problems and innovate. impact investment, investor strategy. Heading into the space of impact investment ...

The Week in impact investing: Forgivable
ImpactAlpha
The Week in impact investing: Forgivable. Photo credit: Southern Bancorp. ImpactAlpha. TGIF, Agents of Impact! We're taking a “brief” break on ...

Energy Storage:

Are Flow Batteries The Future Of Energy Storage?
Yahoo Finance
One recent report from business intelligence firm IDTechEx, cited by Energy Storage News, noted there was about 70 MW/250 MWh in redox flow battery ...

Flow battery could make renewable energy storage economically viable
New Atlas
The USC researchers looked to an existing design that stores energy in liquid form. In the so-called redox flow battery, a positive chemical and a ...

Powin releases large-scale lithium energy storage system with 20-year guarantee
Solar Power World
Powin Energy has unveiled three new products, Stack225, Stack230 and Stack230P, its first products utilizing CATL battery cells. All three products ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Accelerating Climate Action in the Built Environment, CDL Is Changing the Climate to Change the ...
ReportAlert.info (press release)
Key Highlights of ESG Performance in 2019 ... Singapore to have its carbon reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), ...

CDL Integrated Sustainability Report 2020 discloses ESG performance aligned with global ...
Eco-Business
As the first real estate company in Singapore to have its carbon reduction targets assessed and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative ...

Michelin : Pr̩sentation Investisseurs РMichelin et la mobilit̩ durable
marketscreener.com
Our response has been in our purpose for over 130 years. &. BECAUSE WE ... performance with fewer materials and a smaller carbon footprint. Our services and ... Action plan under validation by Science Based Targets initiative …

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Daily on Energy: Winners and losers from the big global oil deal
Washington Examiner
WINNERS AND LOSERS: We brought together some in the brightest ... director of the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for ...

5 Visible Signs of Climate Change in Antarctica
CleanTechnica
Climate change is creating penguin winners and losers. Their fate hinges on how dependent they are on krill, which has declined by 70-80% in some ...

Stay Tuned column: Celebrities join forces to support frontline healthcare workers on 'One World ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
On Earth Day, PBS premieres new documentary “Climate Change: The Facts” (April 22, 8 p.m. ET). Hosted ... Report Card: Ratings winners and losers

Microgrids:

IDTechEx Predicts $350 Billion in Off-Grid, Zero-Emission Microgrids
PRNewswire (press release)
Chapter 5 concerns distributed ZE microgrids across farm, island and so on with six examples assessed. Chapter 6 "New microgrid harvesting formats: ...


Energy Storage Battery for Microgrids Market Till 2025 Major Manufacturers are – NGK Group, Saft ...
Science In Me
According to this study, over the next five years the Energy Storage Battery for Microgrids market will register a 7.8% CAGR in terms of revenue, the ...

Indian Microgrid Market Opportunity Report, 2020 Featuring DESI Power, Gram Oorja Solutions ...
Yahoo Finance
Microgrids utility will be beyond last-mile connectivity and will find its way into industrial captive power, commercial captive and even at the individual ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

What is Socially Responsible Investing?
Coinspeaker
Socially Responsible Investing, or investments that meet a standard of social responsibility, proved to have numerous societal and monetary ...

FOR Investment Partners Explains Benefits of SRI Investing
MyNorth.com
MKH: We specialize in socially responsible impact (SRI) investing. These days more people are familiar with investing with an eye to environmental, ...

Environmental Groups Urged To Buy Cheap Oil And Airline Stocks
Forbes
The call to invest comes from François Gemenne, director of the ... intervenes in the traditional debate between socially responsible investing, in which ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Cambridge Quantum Computing, Total Announce Collaboration to Develop Quantum Algorithms ...
HPCwire
Cambridge Quantum Computing, Total Announce Collaboration to Develop Quantum Algorithms for Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage. April 9, 2020.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage under the Paris Agreement
The Hill
Additionally, CCUS uniquely holds promise as a “negative” emissions technology — removing carbon dioxide from the air. Prior to the recent COVID-19 ...

Survey investigates carbon dioxide use in oil recovery and underground storage
Phys.Org
Besides being essential for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects, the results will be a valuable resource for conventional oil and ...

Sustainability Investing:

Watching for the Signals That Corporate Sustainability and Sustainable Investing Trends Continue ...
CSRwire.com (press release)
(2) what might be the impact of the virus crisis on the capital markets and investors' perspectives of the value of sustainable investing as the global ...

The coronavirus downturn has highlighted a growing investment opportunity — and millennials love it
CNBC
Sustainable investments — those focused on companies with strong ... Morningstar's head of sustainability research, Jon Hale, said that has a lot to do ...

2020 Is The Year That Climate And Investing Come Together
Forbes
Today, the cumulative issuance of sustainable debt exceeds $1 trillion. A similar argument for de-risking assets can be made to real estate investors, ...

Geoengineering:

The Coming Ecosystem Collapse Is Already Here for Coral
The New Republic
High-tech measures like geoengineering, assisted evolution, and robot-assisted reproduction are quickly turning into scientists' best bets. The current ... 

Green Bond Funds:

Fitch Rates New Jersey Infra. Bank Ser. 2020A-1 Environ. Infra. Bonds 'AAA'; Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings
--Approximately $18.2 environmental infrastructure refunding bonds, series 2020A-R1 (2002A, 2003A, 2004A and 2006A financing programs) (green ...

Green Voices of Nasdaq: How Trianon Is Building Social Sustainability in Malmö
Nasdaq
This story shines a light on how Trianon is funding sustainable housing projects through its first hybrid bond. Driven by the desire to find solutions to ...

Future Returns: Covid-19 Bonds Emerge as a Financing Tool
Barron's
Green bonds are a far more common version of these securities. Introduced about a decade ago, capital from green bonds is used to fund projects ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Chinese firms struggle to fund renewables projects overseas
chinadialogue
... to low-carbon power clearly underway. Yet overseas, and particularly in countries covered by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China's renewables ...

An Airline Bailout Is Taking Shape
The New York Times
The funds are intended to be used to pay employees, and the airlines that take them are ... pressured the company to reduce its carbon footprint and had been warned not to ... Energy stocks also fell, following crude oil futures lower. 

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