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Coronavirus and Sustainability:
Early sustainability reporting lessons from COVID-19GreenBiz
COVID-19 has shaken all businesses, causing some to delay or scale back their formal sustainability reporting. Companies that recently released a ...
Coronavirus: We're in a Real-Time Laboratory of a More Sustainable Urban Future
Resilience
The coronavirus crisis has offered a new perspective on these problems – and the limits of the way we have run our urban world over the last few ...
COVID-19 Could Usher in a New Normal, Sustainability, Social Purpose
WWD
COVID-19 Could Usher in a New Normal, Sustainability, Social Purpose. Andrea Weiss discusses how to make the retail recovery more sustainable.
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Public-Private Collaboration Targets DecarbonizationCommercial Property Executive
Swett went on to say he hopes that collaboration rates between the private sector and public sector—currently based in conversations about how to ...
Marine Sector Turns to Ammonia to Decarbonize Shipping
Greentech Media
Ammonia produced with renewables is rising above hydrogen and synthetic diesel as the best route to decarbonization. Jason Deign May 21, 2020.
Geothermal brine as the final frontier in decarbonization of the transport sector
ThinkGeoEnergy
With better energy intensity, carbon free electricity, less footprint, geothermal lithium can be the final frontier in decarbonization efforts, so an article by ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Afya Limited Releases 2019 Sustainability ReportGlobeNewswire (press release)
In line with the methodology proposed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – Standard version, Essential option –, Afya classified 10 topics as ...
SEC Moves Closer to Requiring ESG Disclosures for Public Companies
ThinkAdvisor
Also, the report doesn't identify a single standard to use, but mentions the Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and ...
CSE and GRI host final workshop of the series 'Preparing a Sustainability Report' as an online event
Colombo Page
Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:30 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 21, Colombo: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in collaboration with ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
UC's investment portfolios fossil free; clean energy investments top $1 billionUniversity of California
At the same time, the office has surpassed its five-year goal of investing $1 billion in promising clean energy projects. Both moves are in accord with ...
Covid-19 Exposes the Folly of Push for Renewable Energy Investment
RealClearEnergy
The costly subsidies and infrastructure investments associated with renewable energy bring a burden that will undermine economic recovery and ...
GREENBACKER RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY LLC ANNOUNCES GROWTH IN 2019 FULL ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
Leading Provider of Renewable Energy Investments Positioned for Continued Strong Performance in 2020. Company Sees Surge of Interest in Assets ...
CDP Sustainability:
Demand for supply chain sustainability transparency on the riseLogistics Manager
The CDP, which counts companies such as Nike, Airbus, and Sainsbury's as members, said that more businesses were using its environmental ...
CDP Reports a 24% Jump in Companies Asking their Suppliers for Environmental Transparency
Environment + Energy Leader
Environmental non-profit CDP recently announced a 24% jump in the ... for the first time this year to help manage their supply chains more sustainably.
Hyundai Steel wins green award for climate change response
The Korea Herald
The CDP, recognized as a global sustainability assessment index along with the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, is a global project of over 92 ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
The Drilldown: Trudeau says 'clear leadership' needed on climate changeiPolitics.ca
Today's Drilldown is brought to you by resilientrecovery.ca. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build back a better Canada. A Canada with ...
UC Davis honors 55 women for their leadership
Woodland Daily Democrat
... species diversity and climate change impacts to California's grassland communities. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
As the Rest of the World Plans a Green Recovery, America Is Once Again Falling Behind
TIME
Increasingly, it seems, many of these leaders are pushing for a green future. The European Union has promised to make climate change the ...
Impact Investing:
The Importance Of Impact Investing In Times Of UncertaintyForbes
Impact investors take the risk of creating specific impacts because impact investments have the challenging variable that the company or project must ...
Impact Investing: Green finance and achieving measurable impact
HedgeWeek
The amount of investment dollars that is targeted or will be targeted by investors towards ESG, SRI and Impact Investing are staggering. In the US ...
The Week in impact investing: Pressure
ImpactAlpha
Impact Briefing. Stakeholders gonna stake. On ImpactAlpha's weekly podcast, Brian Walsh talks with David Bank and Amy Cortese about the new claims ...
Energy Storage:
Global Energy Storage to Rebound and Witness Strong Capacity Additions Despite Pandemic ...Environment + Energy Leader
South Korea, which was the global leader in energy storage solutions in 2018, is likely to drop a few positions but remain one of the top five along with ...
PG&E Poised to Expand Battery Energy Storage Capacity by More Than 420 Megawatts
Business Wire (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has requested approval of five energy storage projects totaling 423 ...
Three signs that battery energy storage is mainstream today
pv magazine USA
In 2004, PV systems installed without batteries outnumbered battery-based systems for the first time – by 2010, solar-plus-storage systems were ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Big jump in companies asking suppliers to disclose environmental impactsGreenBiz
With emissions in the supply chain being on average 5.5 times higher than a ... their own emissions and set science-based carbon reduction targets.".
Tate & Lyle aims to cut carbon emissions 30% by 2025 as reformulation lifts profits
FoodNavigator.com
Establish Science-Based Targets for Scope 1, 2 and 3 CO2e emissions reductions; Eliminate coal from our operations by 2025; Beneficial use of 100% ...
CDP: 24 per cent jump in corporates calling on suppliers to beef up green efforts
www.businessgreen.com
With the help of CDP, we're asking suppliers to disclose their own emissions and set science-based carbon reduction targets.".
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
May 22, 2020, Community HappeningsSitka Daily Sentinel
There are ecosystem-wide winners and losers associated with the impacts of climate change. We tend to focus on the ecological losers, but what ...
Todd Muller as Leader of the National Party – Winners & Losers
thedailyblog.co.nz (blog)
Climate Change: Muller is the man who managed to water James Shaw's meaningless climate change legislation into an even more pathetic ...
Microgrids:
US Department of Defense to Implement a Standardized Design for Resilient MicrogridsEnvironment + Energy Leader
Microgrid planning experts from the US Naval Facilities Command Expeditionary Warfare Center, Peterson Air Force Base, US Naval Submarine Base ...
Energy Storage System(ESS) in Microgrids Market Research Opportunities, Growth Analysis By 2026
Critics Sports (blog)
The Energy Storage System(ESS) in Microgrids market has been garnering remarkable momentum in recent years. Demand continues to rise due to ...
RFP issued for Santa Barbara School District microgrid projects
pv magazine USA
Six of the proposed sites are anticipated to host microgrids with two to six hours of available islanding mode backup built into the design. As for the ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Ask the Fool: Are your investment companies socially responsible?PostBulletin.com
Or, in the case of passively managed funds, you're simply investing in the same securities that are in a socially responsible index. Some will have the ...
Responsible companies are outperforming amid COVID-19. Why?
The Breeze
Environmental, social and governance investing is a relatively recent business trend where individuals and firms seek both financial returns and ethical ...
As boomers hand over the keys to the stock market, sustainability-minded younger investors let ...
MarketWatch
... and governance,” or ESG, investing category, a segment of the market also sometimes called sustainable, socially responsible or values investing.
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Fluor guiding front end engineering for Project Tundra carbon capture project at ND coal-fired stationPower Engineering Magazine
Clarion Energy Content Directors 5.20.20. Fluor Corp. will utilize its carbon capture technology in a North Dakota utilization and storage retrofit project.
Total partners with Cambridge Quantum Computing on CO2 capture
Green Car Congress (blog)
Total is stepping up its research into Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies by signing a multi-year partnership with UK ...
Total Is Exploring Quantum Algorithms to Improve CO
Business Wire (press release)
Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) is stepping up its research into Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies by signing a ...
Sustainability Investing:
As boomers hand over the keys to the stock market, sustainability-minded younger investors let ...MarketWatch
For many ESG investing advocates, the flow data is validation. Americans aren't just claiming to be interested in sustainable investing; they are putting ...
Sustainability factors weigh on UI investment decision
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
... new Illinois Sustainable Investing Act, which says that state and local government entities should integrate sustainability factors into their investment ...
Citigroup to Add Investment Banking Group for Environmental Sustainability
Motley Fool
The new Sustainability & Corporate Transitions group will be led by Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory Chief Strategy Officer Bridget Fawcett, and ...
Geoengineering:
We are testing geoengineering, and that is a good thingPalo Alto Online (blog)
(2) Solar geoengineering works by reflecting some of the incoming radiation, for example by injecting reflective aerosols into the stratosphere or by ...
Conversations: Thomas Kostigen, "Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us ...
kansaspublicradio.org (blog)
Conversations: Thomas Kostigen, "Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Remimagine the Future". Monday, May 25th, 2020, ...
Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels
DeSmog (blog)
... “all of the above” energy policy, and calls for creation of a “roadmap for implementing carbon dioxide removal,” a form of geoengineering, “at scale.”.
Green Bond Funds:
How Public Agencies Can Use Green Bonds to Finance ProjectsJD Supra (press release)
When the Hayward Unified School District looked to advance its sustainable energy plan, it turned to green bond financing to fund the installation of ...
Using Green Bonds to get Environmentally Driven Investors
JD Supra (press release)
The latest in green bond notes, which will fund significant sewer system improvement projects, were sold to international investors in the United States, ...
HSBC GAM and IFC raise $474m for EM green bond fund
Funds Europe Magazine
The HSBC Real Economy Green Investment Opportunity GEM Bond Fund (Regio)1 fund is designed to attract investments into emerging markets ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Strong ETF Right Now?Yahoo Finance
This particular fund seeks to match the performance of the MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target Index before fees and expenses. The MSCI ACWI Low ...
SJP to increase passive offering in low-cost push
FT Adviser
... a low-cost range of passive-style funds to create high-capacity, low-carbon ... The fund range is expected to be available within the next 12 months.
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