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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

How coronavirus is advancing luxury brands' sustainability plans
Glossy
In some cases, the coronavirus crisis is accelerating brands' sustainability plans. According to Boston Consulting Group, sustainability efforts are often ...

New Calm Created by Coronavirus Offers Southeast Asia Chance to Redo Sustainable Tourism
Skift
If the current crisis has taught us anything, it's that destinations must put sustainability at the top of the agenda to thrive. Will coronavirus be a turning ...

The coronavirus survival challenge for NZ tourism: affordability and sustainability
The Conversation US
The coronavirus survival challenge for NZ tourism: affordability and sustainability. May 3, 2020 8.18pm EDT. Sabrina Seeler, Nord University, Michael ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

5 ways to slow global warming that share the burden with the oil patch: McKinsey
MarketWatch
Nearly all of the fuels used in the sector today are oil based. To decarbonize, this sector would need to shift rapidly to a cleaner source of energy, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Coronavirus Underlines Why Employee Health Is a Pressing Sustainability Issue
CSRwire.com (press release)
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the international organization at the forefront of helping companies understand and disclose their sustainability ...

Showcasing a sustainable society: Tokyo 2020 releases its Sustainability Pre-Games Report
Olympics
The Report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core option, a set of international standards governing ...

Former GRI China head Yuan Yuan joins China-Britain Business Council
Eco-Business
Yuan Yuan, the former China head of sustainability standards non-profit Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), has been appointed by the China-Britain ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

3 Reasons To Invest In Renewable Energy Now
CleanTechnica
The renewable energy industry has not been spared. According to Wood Mackenzie estimates, 2020 global solar and energy storage installations are ...

Eastern Australia: Investments in renewables continue to plunge through 2021
Smart Energy (press release)
The continued decline in MLFs will add uncertainty to investment planning resulting in declines in cash flow for renewable energy developers and ...

At the cusp of historic energy investments in Virginia, COVID-19 handed us a lemon. Let's make ...
Virginia Mercury
First, it's worth remembering that nothing happening now will change the trajectory of clean energy. Solar and wind had banner years in 2019, ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP Recognizes Comprehensive Sustainability Program at NRG
CSRwire.com (press release)
Our recognition as a leader in environmental stewardship by CDP brings us great honor. Achieving an A- rating in Climate Change, Water Security, and ...

34 European cities reach CDP's A-List for their climate action and ambition
Innovation Origins
Designed to push cities to ramp up their climate action and ambition, CDP's ... Kyra Appleby, Global Director of Cities, States and Regions at CDP. ... to putting environmental sustainability at the heart of public decision-making, ...

SK hynix Inc. Wins the Grand Prize of Water Security 2019 Awarded by CDP
BusinessKorea
Meanwhile, CDP, a nonprofit organization established in the U.K. in 2000, is one of the most prestigious sustainability evaluating agencies along with ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Redwood Forests Can Play 'Exceptionally Large Role' in California's Climate Change Strategy ...
Lost Coast Outpost
Scientists of the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative intensively ... we will demonstrate California's leadership in building a more climate-resilient ...

States Are Laying a Road Map for Climate Leadership
Center For American Progress
States Are Laying a Road Map for Climate Leadership ... progress is important to preventing the worst effects of climate change, federal leadership is also critical. ... California has been in the vanguard on engaging in bilateral climate ...

Save the Redwoods League and HSU Research Confirms Redwoods' Role in Climate
Redheaded Blackbelt
And we will demonstrate California's leadership in building a more climate-resilient world.” There is still a lot more to learn about how climate change ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing: Build back better
IPE.com
This is known in the jargon as 'building back better'. Impact Investing special report IPE May 2020. Investors and asset managers serious about ...

Special report - Impact investing: Build back better
IPE.com
Investors and asset managers serious about addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are already thinking about how the world can ' ...

Impact investing in the time of COVID-19
Responsible-Investor.com
A year ago, a coalition of 60 asset managers and institutional investors adopted the Operating Principles for Impact Management: a set of clear market ...

Energy Storage:

DC Circuit Hears Argument about Vital FERC Energy Storage Order
Environmental Defense Fund
“FERC's order 841 creates an even playing field for energy storage to compete with traditional fossil fuel generators, which is an essential step to ...

Regulatory developments shaping energy storage in 2020 so far
pv magazine USA
Customized Energy Solutions and the U.S. Energy Storage Association have released a new report analyzing the regulatory, legislative and market ...

Global Battery Energy Storage Market
GlobeNewswire (press release)
New York, May 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Battery Energy Storage Market" ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Digital Realty Steps Up Its Sustainability Initiatives
Data Center Frontier (blog)
The Science-Based Targets Initiative sets carbon emission reduction ... precise targets by year-end, which will be designed to bring its emissions ...

April feed update: What did you miss?
All about feed
Solutions that help animal performance, health and welfare are ... Market interest in insects for feed is increasing, specifically insect oil for the pig sector. ... a letter of commitment with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) indicating that the ... The innovation reduces waste, primarily carbon dioxide.

Dig deeper: Most mining majors failing Paris Agreement test, investor-led report warns
www.businessgreen.com
... up new science-based climate targets, and Glencore's promise to cap coal ... climate targets to arrive at each firm's overall carbon performance.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

The Federal Reserve Is Accelerating the Climate Crisis
The New Republic
“Climate change,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told the Joint ... “The Administration should not be picking winners and losers among ...

Q&A: Senate District 19 Gregg Schmedes
Albuquerque Journal
... much political favoritism with politicians picking winners and losers in terms of which ... There is no evidence to support man-made climate change.

A questioning of inequities: The legacy of Covid-19
straits times (press release)
The pandemic is throwing up digital winners and losers, and intensifying ... Perhaps for climate change activists the pandemic has brought a brief ...

Microgrids:

Napa County To Soon Have 2 PG&E Microgrids
Patch.com
The Calistoga microgrid is among several being developed this year by PG&E across its service area, according to Debbie Powell, vice president of ...

California eyes expedited microgrid deployment to help with fire season power shut-offs
Utility Dive
"Microgrids using independent energy supply can provide essential backup and resiliency for communities affected," she added. The proposal is ...

Microgrids for EV charging are a 'low carbon, resilient, economically viable opportunity'
Energy Storage News
Andy Haun, senior vice-president and chief technology officer (CTO) at Schneider's microgrid division told Energy-Storage.news that in the transition ...    

Socially Responsible Investing:

Sustainable Funds Fell Less During the Selloff
Wall Street Journal
Funds that practice sustainable, also referred to as ESG, strategies typically base investments on environmental, social and governance criteria.

Who Put the 'S' in 'ESG' (and What Does It Mean)?
Washington Post
Strategies focused on avoiding companies seen as doing specific kinds of harm became known as socially responsible investing. Later, amid ...

Why Linde is a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock (LIN)
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:

Going Deep on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS), with Julio Friedmann
Resources Magazine (blog)
A leading advocate for expanding carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies, Friedmann contends that prominent concerns about ...

San Juan Generating Station carbon capture project receives federal grant
The Durango Herald
The funding will pay for comprehensive analysis of a site in northwest New Mexico to accelerate deployment of carbon capture, utilization and storage ...

Is The $110 Trillion Renewable Revolution Feasible?
OilPrice.com
In the Transforming Energy Scenario, annual energy-related CO2 ... in the challenging sectors, including carbon capture, utilization and storage ...

Sustainability Investing:

The new normal in sustainable investing post-COVID-19
GreenBiz
Many investment firms are modifying their strategies and valuation models over the long-term in the wake of the pandemic. Anecdotal evidence suggests ...

Geoengineering:

California And Trump Push Geoengineering—A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix
The Real News Network
California And Trump Push Geoengineering—A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix. May 6, 2020. California has endorsed the use of direct air capture to reverse ...
   
Finding the right "dose"
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.  

Green Bond Funds:

Green bonds are growing bigger and broader
GreenBiz
When the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Green Bond Index was launched in 2015, the largest category of projects funded by far were in alternative ...

Robeco launches its first global green bonds fund
citywireselector.com
Dutch asset management firm Robeco has launched a new bond fund focusing on green bonds, which is the firm's first strategy that is purely ...

Green bond slowdown seen as temporary
Nasdaq
Green bonds are expected to regain ground, however, as investor demand for sustainable investment continues to rise. Green bond funds have seen ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Two Investment Firms Launch Funds Aimed at Tackling Climate and Sustainability Challenges
Environment + Energy Leader
The Fund builds on the team's experience and insight into how the demands of the industrial sector can be met by low-carbon offerings. Current ...

Shell and BP Slash Spending but Renewables Largely Spared
Greentech Media
“A permanent dividend reset would also help fund an accelerated strategic ... “We've left our $500 million of low-carbon investment unchanged [and] ...

Ara Partners Closes $400 Million Fund
PRNewswire (press release)
The Fund builds on the team's diversity of experience and industry-rooted insight into how the demands of the industrial sector can be met by low-carbon ... 

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