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Coronavirus and Sustainability:
Implications of COVID-19 for the Environment and SustainabilityBusiness Wire (press release)
In this paper IGES identifies key issues through the lens of the environment and sustainability, and recognises that the COVID-19 pandemic is closely ...
Coronavirus pandemic causes shift in environmental, sustainability efforts
TribLIVE
From a spike in hand-sanitizing wipes to paper towels to personal protective equipment (PPE), sustainability has been moved to the back burner. “In the ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Methane: Europe's missing link for effective energy decarbonizationEnvironmental Defense Fund (blog)
Methane: Europe's missing link for effective energy decarbonization ... The EU Sector Integration Strategy, expected in June, has become the top energy ... performance standard underpinned by robust, science-based assurance.
Hydrogen central to oil & gas industry decarbonization as expectations for market growth surge ...
Oil & Gas Technology
DNV GL supports governments with technical and market analysis to provide a knowledge base for decisions regarding national strategy and policy ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
New global waste standard to drive business circularityResource Magazine
A new global waste standard has been released by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to enable companies to track their waste generation and ...
3 Ways to Put Your Corporate Purpose into Action
Harvard Business Review
Frameworks for companies to report their performance on material ESG ... Corporations are adopting the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, ...
Spire releases new corporate social responsibility report, confirms commitments as trusted energy ...
Webster County Citizen
The inaugural report, which detailed Spire's fiscal 2018 GRI-informed index and its impact in four key areas —the environment, community, people ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
US becomes the 'most attractive country for renewable energy investment'Energy Live News - Energy Made Easy
The survey, which ranks countries on the attractiveness of their renewable energy investment and deployment, also suggests the renewables sector is ...
Turkey 7th top destination for foreign renewable investments in Europe
Daily Sabah
Turkey has taken several steps to improve its investment environment in the renewable energy sector over recent years especially through new ...
It is Time to Invest in India's Clean Energy Future
Natural Resources Defense Council
In the long-term though, strengthening IREDA, the leading public renewable energy financier, by funding the IREDA Green Window can be a decisive ...
CDP Sustainability:
CDP and Saipem promote energy transition in ItalyEnergy Global
The central focus of CDP's activities is the sustainable development of the Italian territory, supporting innovation as well as the domestic and ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Why Jerry Brown's Biographer Thinks 'Moonbeam' Is UnfairThe New York Times
Gavin Newsom announced that he and other leaders in the five members of the ... especially outside of California and particularly on climate change.
Governors can lead the way on climate too
The Boston Globe
The states' leaders can apply the solidarity they brought to the coronavirus ... Climate change deserves a similar sense of urgency, though it would ...
California Gov. Newsom formally endorses Biden for president
cbs4local.com
Earlier Friday, Newsom signed an executive order to send all California ... The U.N. chief warned that just like the pandemic, climate change can't be ...
Impact Investing:
Impact investing and COVID-19: A moment for growth or a flight from risk?Devex
But many impact investors are still investing, experts and investors told Devex, seeking to help companies they work with scale up in response to the ...
The Week in impact investing: Systemic
ImpactAlpha
As a COVID response, impact investors are beginning to rally to help CDFIs fulfill their mission. The Call will feature Calvert Impact Capital's Beth ...
White House stands up an impact investing arm to finance COVID-response suppliers
ImpactAlpha
“Just like we provide in the developing world, we can provide loans and investments in order to support some of those brought to the U.S. or to our allies ...
Energy Storage:
Energy storage poised to tackle grid challenges from rising EVs as mobile chargers bring new ...Utility Dive
Along with energy storage, Guidehouse says a new, more flexible approach to charger deployment will help meet demand. That means chargers ...
Prevalence grows for renewable energy plants with battery storage
talkbusiness.net
The number of solar and wind generation sites that include battery storage has risen from 19 in 2016 to 53 in 2019, according to the EIA. The trend is ...
Energy Storage Digital Summit: Long duration 'essential' but needs appropriate regulatory framework
Energy Storage News
Long duration energy storage is an “essential” technology to help accelerate renewable deployment, according to the US Department of Energy's Dr ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Report highlights how Mondi is contributing to a better world by making packaging sustainable by ...Packaging Today
The report illustrates how Mondi is meeting rising demand for sustainable ... of sustainable forestry, essential in the transition to a low-carbon and circular ... Mondi set its science-based targets in collaboration with WWF's Climate ... Mondi's sustainability performance has been recognised by a number of ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Budget 2020 winners and losersStuff.co.nz
Here are the winners and losers of Budget 2020. ... jobs” and boosts to rail and home insulation, climate change was not a big winner in the Budget.
The shift to a sustainable economy is irreversible
Lombard Odier (press release)
Or, businesses that are exposed to physical risks of climate-change are also being re-priced; in fact, we ... How do you identify the winners and losers?
NZ Budget 2020 Winners & Losers: The Mother and Father of All Budgets
thedailyblog.co.nz (blog)
The climate gets bugger all, if we were honest, this budget probably speeds global warming up. Peace – Thanks to the American Military Industrial ...
Microgrids:
How Hospital Microgrids can Solve Energy ChallengesMicrogrid Knowledge
Adam Dutka, vice president sales – healthcare, at PowerSecure, delves into how hospital microgrids can solve energy challenges in these critical ...
COVID-19 Providing a World of Research on the Grid and Microgrids: IEEE
Microgrid Knowledge
With their controls and ability to provide resilience, smart microgrids can solve numerous energy-related challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis, ...
Energy Storage for Microgrids Market to Make Great Impact in Near Future
Critics Sports (blog)
Energy Storage for Microgrids Market Research Study – The exploration report comprised with market data derived from primary as well as secondary ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
The Dawn of Responsible FinanceStanford Social Innovation Review
Since the Great Recession, leaders in finance and investing have aimed to make their industries more equitable, sustainable, and socially productive.
Is your pension invested in animal cruelty?
Corporate Knights Magazine
Socially responsible investing is undoubtedly a rising trend. ... $30 trillion invested in ways that take companies' environmental, social and governance ...
Where money and ministry merge
Winston-Salem Chronicle
While many tuck Biblically Responsible Investing under that broader rubric, BRI has a far different focus. “There are lots of socially conscious funds that ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
CCUS: Clean Coal Is So Last SeasonBloomberg
Carbon capture, utilization and storage -- taking CO2 out of the air and putting it underground or into products. The sector has had a few false starts, ...
Keep it in the Ground? It's Not a Simple Yes or No
Resources Magazine (blog)
Pairing very low methane emissions over the life cycle of natural gas with major advances in carbon capture, utilization, and storage would largely ...
There Are Green Jobs Hiding in the Oilfields
The New Republic
Carbon capture utilization and storage, or CCUS, is enormously controversial among climate groups, and for good reason. While it's been raised as a ...
Sustainability Investing:
Covid-19 Is Accelerating ESG Investing And Corporate Sustainability PracticesForbes
Sustainable investing – the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into analysis and decision making - has seen a ...
Investing in the Sustainability Sisterhood
The Business of Fashion
Investors Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Elaine Chen-Fernandez, Susan Rockefeller, Kamelia Kamel and investee Christina Dean | Source ...
U of I System makes lead investment in new BlackRock strategy
University of Illinois (press release)
The University of Illinois System has invested nearly $160 million of the system endowment into its commitment to sustainability, becoming the first ...
Geoengineering:
What If a Tech CEO Tried to Save the World With Geoengineering? An Excerpt From 'Veil'OneZero
As the climate crisis grows increasingly dire, a radical question is appearing on more politicians' lips: What if we geoengineer our way out of the mess ...
Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Altered Rainfall Patterns Thousands of Miles Away
Newsweek
Geoengineering is the idea that we could artificially manipulate natural processes to prevent or limit climate change. Projects range from wide-scale tree ...
Scientists Discover How Nuclear Bomb Tests Changed Rainfall Patterns
International Business Times
For the scientists, their findings could be used for geoengineering rainfall in order to control climate change. The new study was conducted by ...
Green Bond Funds:
Green bond issuance is growing across marketsBond Buyer
But one particular segment— the market for green bonds, or debt ... to generate sufficient demand for a green bond to fund fuel-efficient oil tankers, ...
Crisis nips bond momentum but optimism holds
Pensions & Investments
Meanwhile, for the quarter ended March 31, global issuance of green bonds, dedicated to funding environmentally friendly projects, dropped 37% ...
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