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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

How Coronavirus Could Change Beauty's Commitment to Sustainability
WWD
How Coronavirus Could Change Beauty's Commitment to Sustainability. Companies are doubling down on social issues over environmental.

Coronavirus and sustainability: how will fashion respond?
Drapers
Could sustainability be in danger of falling off the agenda? Or will a post-coronavirus shake-up trigger a renewed business and consumer focus on the ...

Ward 4 Ann Arbor council candidates discuss coronavirus outbreak, sustainability in forum
mlive.com
Ward 4 Ann Arbor council candidates discuss coronavirus outbreak, sustainability in forum. Updated 11:15 AM; Today 9:22 PM. 

Sector Based Decarbonization:

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Global Reporting Initiative:

A 'brave new world' for tax dodgers emerges after the pandemic
Responsible-Investor.com
2020 got off to a good start for responsible taxation: in mid-January, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) launched its tax standard. Even if voluntary ...

We need a green transition after COVID-19
Global Reporting Initiative
GRI welcomes continued commitment to achieving the EU Green Deal. ​ ... is being tackled, has been recognized by GRI chief executive Tim Mohin.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Why the coronavirus crisis could make Big Oil greener
Fortune
... on its “new energies” division, a unit that includes investments in solar, wind, ... Long before this spring's epic oil-price crash, the energy sector was ...

3 Top Renewable Energy Choices to Buy Right Now
Motley Fool
Mitigating the risks associated with investing in a single company, the Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF follows a conservative route to investing in ...

Green energy could drive Covid-19 recovery with $100tn boost
The Guardian
The International Renewable Energy Agency found that accelerating investment in renewable energy could generate huge economic benefits while ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

How to use Social Media to Drive Environmental Change: Why Zero Waste? (livestream)
SF Bay Area Indymedia
“How to us Social Media to Drive Environmental Change” will now be ... As the former Vice President and Board Director of the Northern California ... a former Vice President Al Gore's Climate Reality Project Climate Leader and her ...

Impact Investing:

The Week in impact investing: Trillions
ImpactAlpha
We're all impact investors now. From the top down, “universal owners” of some of the world's biggest pools of institutional capital are seeking to drive a ...

The Pandemic Makes the Case for Impact Investing
Barron's
When the lockdowns were initiated in response to the coronavirus crisis, I assumed that it meant I would get significant time back in my otherwise ...

Impact investing platform OpenInvest raises $10.5 million to go global
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, April 16 – OpenInvest launched in 2015 with the ambitious goal of democratizing impact investing. That turned out harder than expected ...

Energy Storage:

Diamonds shine in energy storage solution
Science Daily
Dr Haifei Zhan, from the QUT Centre for Materials Science, and his colleagues successfully modelled the mechanical energy storage and release ...

Need for Resilience Supports Energy Storage
POWER magazine
Need for Resilience Supports Energy Storage. Independent power producer Neoen Australia said an expansion of the world's largest lithium-ion battery ...

How AI is changing energy storage O&M
Solar Power World
But with the addition of energy storage systems (ESSs) to solar projects, an array of new use cases has arisen, fueled by incentive programs and ... 

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Ball Corporation Announces Approval of Science Based Targets to Reduce Greenhouse Gas ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
"These approved science-based targets demonstrate our commitment to help our customers reach their sustainability goals and deliver lower carbon ...


Thomson Reuters Aims for Net-Zero Emissions by 2050
Yahoo Finance
Thomson Reuters Aims for Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 ... to align to 1.5°C pathway, the most ambitious aim of the Science Based Targets initiative ... The new targets build on a decade of carbon reduction work at Thomson Reuters, ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Will Climate Change Threaten Earth's Other 'Lung'?
The Revelator
Acidification Winners and Losers. In simple terms, ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease of seawater pH caused by the absorption of atmospheric ...

Stocks climb as pandemic winners pull away on Wall Street
KGAN TV
Stocks climb as pandemic winners pull away on Wall Street ... Analysts see the separation of winners and losers as an encouraging sign for the market. ... health care to climate change as inconsistent with their church's teachings.

Microgrids:

Sustainability as a Driver for Microgrids: It's Real
Microgrid Knowledge
Ask almost any microgrid developer why customers choose to install microgrids and they'll cite three main reasons: electric reliability, cost reduction ...

IDTechEx Predicts $350 Billion in Off-Grid, Zero-Emission Microgrids
IDTechEx.com (press release)
IDTechEx forecasts exponential growth to a huge $350 billion in 2040 for clean microgrids. It will be driven by legislation, cost, increasing problems ...

Microgrids Offer Substantial Benefits to Hospitals Struggling with a Pandemic
Baystreet.ca
Some of the top companies leading the microgrid charge include CleanSpark, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLSK), Solaredge Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:SEDG), ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Op-ed: Investors will reward companies that take care of others in the coronavirus pandemic
CNBC
Acts of charity, compassion, and creative generosity may resonate with investors increasingly drawn to socially responsible investing. Corporate efforts ...

Why Bank of New York Mellon is a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock (BK)
Nasdaq
Why Bank of New York Mellon is a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock (BK). Contributor. BNK Invest BNK Invest. Published. Apr 21, 2020 8 ...

20 Minutes With: Cornerstone Capital Group's Erika Karp
Barron's
PENTA : At Cornerstone, you developed a framework around “access” for socially conscious investing, specifically to achieve the U.N. sustainable ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

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Sustainability Investing:

Most US Investors Haven't Heard of Sustainable Investing. The Coronavirus Pandemic Could ...
Barron's
Sustainable investing has made few inroads into retirement plans. Among employed investors with a 401(k), just 4% have heard about sustainable ...

Refugee ETF Wins 2020 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge
Odessa American
Now in its tenth year, the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge is an annual global competition designed to inspire future leaders to ...

Arizona Impact
ASU Now (press release)
It may include impact investing and incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment analysis. “In other words, our ...


Geoengineering:

A defense of geoengineering
GreenBiz
How far should humans go to save Planet Earth? That was my first question in early March, when a new book about geoengineering, "Hacking Planet ...

Geoengineering
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Green Bond Funds:

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Low Carbon Funds:

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