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Coronavirus and Sustainability:
Green freebies for coronavirus heroes and California's clean energy boost: The sustainability ...edie.net
As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from ...
How long coronavirus survives on surfaces - and what it means for handling money, food and more
World Economic Forum (blog)
Coronavirus lives longer on some surfaces than others. Research suggests it lives for up to 72 hours on hard, shiny surfaces. There are steps you can ...
Pocket-lint has planted 1000 trees: Welcome to sustainability month
Pocket-lint.com
For coronavirus it was 32 per cent. The way we treat our planet has become more important than ever. And although the coronavirus is having a huge ...
Microgrids:
Getting California's microgrids interconnected is even more important nowpv magazine USA
The hope is that microgrids will enable increased resiliency to cope with not only more wildfires but other crises too – such as pandemics. March 26 ...
COVID-19 Likely to Spur More Microgrid Development
Microgrid Knowledge
History tells us that disasters tend to spur new interest in microgrids. This pandemic is no exception as COVID-19 strains hospitals, data centers and ...
Lessons from Microgrids for the COVID-19 Crisis
Microgrid Knowledge
Trevor Gionet and Kay Aikin of Introspective Systems explain how flattening the COVID-19 curve is much like managing the grid with microgrids and ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
California Natural Gas Utilities Supporting State's DecarbonizationNatural Gas Intelligence
“We're supportive of California's decarbonization goals, and we believe ... gas (GHG) emissions, while the transportation sector contributes 40%. ... MW of additional renewable-based power, including 8,900 MW of battery storage, ...
Report: Bio and Synthetic LNG Could Contribute to Decarbonization
The Maritime Executive
The industry coalition SEA-LNG has released the latest in its series of ... These LNG-based assets can use non-fossil fuel methane such as LBM and ...
Decarbonization Is In
Building Indiana (press release) (blog)
Over the last few months, two leading entities in their respective industries have ... Columbus-based Cummins Inc. was ranked as the largest company ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Raising GRI's Capability in Global MarketsCSRwire.com (press release)
Thijs starts with GRI on 1 April, leading work to enable policy alignment to the ... The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent international ...
Open Call for Applicants: GRI's Multi-Stakeholder Ethos in Action
CSRwire.com (press release)
GRI is the world's leading sustainability reporting framework – and the only with multi-stakeholder working at the core of its governance and standard ...
Publication of 2019 Solvay Annual Integrated Report and Report on Payment to Governments
Yahoo Finance
... Integrated Report with the full “Understanding Solvay” section and the full Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index will be available on April 7, 2020.
Renewable Energy Investments:
Big Oil's interest in renewable energy investments expected to waver: reportTimes Colonist
But a report from consultancy Wood Mackenzie says that won't likely slow the overall investment in renewables — fossil fuel players really weren't ...
3 Top Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy Right Now
Motley Fool
These companies offer low-risk ways to invest in renewable energy. Matthew DiLallo. (TMFmd19).
Solar PV Balance Of Systems (BOS) Market 2019-2023 | Investments in Renewable Energy to ...
Business Wire (press release)
The investments in renewable energy will offer immense growth opportunities. To make the most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more ...
CDP Sustainability:
The backstory and purpose behind 5 leading ESG reporting frameworksGreenBiz
The idea behind the CDP was that if business considered environmental ... Jean Rogers, who transitioned into sustainability after working as a ...
HP UK boss: Deals are being won and lost on sustainability
www.channelweb.co.uk
Elsewhere, global environmental non-profit CDP awarded HP 'Triple A' status for taking climate actions, protecting forests and addressing water ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
California approves climate change target that critics say is far too weakLos Angeles Times
California approves climate change target that critics say is far too weak ... Deborah Behles, an attorney representing the California Environmental ... electricity providers “to show leadership and take the opportunity to plan for 30 ...
Professor Sees Climate Mayhem Lurking Behind Covid-19 Outbreak
Bloomberg
He said the first effects of climate change are disasters such as the wildfires in Australia and California, African hurricanes, South Asian typhoons and ...
Column: Amid an epidemic, Trump is still making decisions that could kill people
Los Angeles Times
It also designed the change as a direct challenge to California's leadership in auto emissions regulation, which has been followed by a dozen other ...
Impact Investing:
Private Impact Investing Likely to Outperform Public Markets in Crisis, Proponents SayBarron's
According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the size of the global impact market is about $500 billion. Sustainable investment strategies are ...
The Week in impact investing: Urgency
ImpactAlpha
The dispatch is the first in a new ImpactAlpha series featuring impact investors who are “walking the talk” by bringing impact and sustainable investing to ...
Want LDS Church money to change the world? Here are some impact investing strategies
Salt Lake Tribune
A more active type of impact investing happens outside the stock market. Some institutional investors place their money into privately held enterprises ...
Energy Storage:
NextEra's secret recipe for energy storage: PlanningUtility Dive
As a result, energy storage is considered the missing link between intermittent renewable power produced by technologies, such as solar and wind, ...
Why We Need More Public Investment in Energy Storage Technology
POWER magazine
How can we transition to using solar and wind to power the world when the sun isn't shining and the air is still? The answer is to improve energy storage ...
Pollution: IDTechEx on the Lockdown Effect and the Battery Energy Storage Solution
Yahoo Finance
The high energy content is given by the rocking chair principle of the Lithium ions. The charge battery stores Li-ions into the negative (anode) electrode, ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
N/AClimate Change Winners and Losers:
Coronavirus may get America to pass its biggest climate bill yetQuartz
Action on climate change in Washington, DC happens in tiny, arcane steps. A biofuels bill ... A few wins, it was hoped, could change the game. ... “[Politicians said] 'We're not picking winners and losers, we're picking the game.' And it ...
Some likely winners amid the lockdowns – FBNQuest Research
Vanguard (press release) (blog)
The loser is likely to be cash transactions for health reasons and for ... A huge international conference on climate change is planned for Glasgow ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Socially responsible investing and charitable givingFutureScot (blog)
Socially responsible investment (SRI), also known as 'ethical' or 'sustainable' investment, has developed significantly over the past 30 years.
Essential Guidelines For Investing In ESG Funds In 2020
Blue & Green Tomorrow
You need to do your part in every facet of your life, which includes making socially responsible investments. This can help encourage companies to ...
FirstEnergy a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 3.9% Yield (FE)
Nasdaq
... as being recognized by prominent asset managers as being a socially responsible investment, through analysis of social and environmental criteria.
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
GOP Climate Bill Does Carbon Capture and Storage Actually Reduce EmissionsCompetitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
The author, AEI economist Benjamin Zycher, reviews the Trillion Trees Act (H.R. 5859), the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Innovation Act ...
Department of Energy to Provide $22 Million for Research on Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Air
Energy.gov (press release)
... research and development on carbon capture, utilization, and storage and working with other DOE offices to accelerate the development of direct air ...
Rethinking the 45Q Tax Credit in the Face of Low Oil Prices
Niskanen Center (press release) (blog)
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology, for example, is years behind solar and wind, even though it will likely be important for ...
Sustainability Investing:
Generation Q&A: How the pandemic strengthens the case for sustainable investingImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha: What does the pandemic mean for Generation Investment Management's sustainability thesis? Colin le Duc: It strengthens it, ...
Sun Life Wins Sustainability Bond of the Year Award
Yahoo Finance
As part of Sun Life's investment process, we look at all investments through an ESG lens along with other non-financial considerations related to ...
Geoengineering:
Geoengineering Is an Option. Just Read the Fine PrintWIRED
To avert the worst, we may need to turn to geoengineering—the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the environment to counteract climate change.
Episode 213: The pandemic's impact on the clean economy, geoengineering geek-out
GreenBiz
These are some of the more extreme approaches to the climate crisis that fall under the category of geoengineering. Journalist Thomas Kostigen joins ...
Geoengineering could reduce climate change risks
Digital Journal (press release)
Geoengineering could reduce climate change risks. New research, from the UK, indicates that injecting the correct quantity of sulphur dioxide ...
Green Bond Funds:
UBS Says Investors Should Prefer Green Bonds Over Regular Debtadvisorperspectives.com
This can be of benefit because buyers like big pension and wealth funds allocate a certain amount of their investments to sustainable finance. These ...
As Europe fights coronavirus and climate, is 'green stimulus' the way?
Reuters
For budget hawks preparing to throw out the traditional fiscal rule book to fight the pandemic, green bonds - raising debt for funding projects such as ...
Look for the green bond label
GreenBiz
The Conservation Fund is using green bonds to conserve working forests. Defining “green”. The value of the global outstanding bond market in 2018 ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Are Sustainable Equity Funds Doing What They Claim to Be Doing?Morningstar.com
And of the 184 funds that receive a Morningstar Portfolio Carbon Risk Score, slightly less than half receive the Morningstar Low Carbon Designation, ...
Parliament pension fund cuts fossil fuel investments
The Guardian
A report from the £700m pension fund showed that almost a third is now being invested in low carbon and environmentally sustainable funds following ...
Coronavirus Chaos Torpedoes Municipal Bond Market
Chief Investment Officer
Howard says these factors will pose a risk for states with already lower ... The SEK365.8 billion ($35.8 billion) fund said the transition to a low-carbon ...
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