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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Post-Coronavirus: Sustainability-Focused Investment As The New Normal?
Forbes
Denmark has a long tradition of putting sustainability and ESG at the top of its agenda. Danish companies are global leaders in building eco-friendly ...

'This industry is not dying': COVID-19 beauty innovation just needs to be sustainable
CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com
Beauty innovation during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic should continue, but it must be centred on sustainability because the health of people ...

China out to offset coronavirus impact with construction boom, but sustainability in doubt
South China Morning Post
China out to offset coronavirus impact with construction boom, but sustainability in doubt. China's industrial production data for May showed all ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

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Global Reporting Initiative:

SASB backs European plan to boost ESG reporting
Corporate Secretary
Guillot writes that SASB believes a revised NFRD 'could lead to a globally ... The SASB and GRI standards could provide a basis for relevant, ...

Kraton Corporation Publishes 2019 Sustainability Report
Tyler Morning Telegraph
... sustainability rating. Kraton's 2019 Sustainability Report is prepared according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. To view the report, ...

Integrated Corporate Governance: Six Leadership Priorities For Boards Beyond The Crisis
Forbes
Collective initiatives such as the World Economic Forum's Compact for ... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and CDP are providing guidance on more ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

First Nations Announce Over $25 Million in New Renewable Energy Investments to Decarbonize ...
Coast Funds
“The renewable energy investments we're proud to announce today are a testament to these sovereign Nations' leadership in stewarding and ...

Opportunity Shaping for Renewable Energy Projects: Selecting the Right Investments in a ...
Oil and Gas Facilities
To gain a firm foothold in the renewable energy project sector, international oil companies (IOCs) and other major industrial sector players have been ...

CDP Sustainability:

JBS reports on its $368 million investment in global sustainability initiatives for 2019
The Pig Site
CDP, the international platform for corporate sustainability information recognised JBS' efforts in the fight against deforestation and climate change.

Businesses must choose sustainability
Innovators Magazine
ENGIE Impact's analysis of CDP disclosures reveals that there has been a three-fold increase in average annual carbon reduction targets and that the ...

Global Customer Data Platform (CDP) Software Market Projected to Reach USD XX.XX billion by ...
Cole of Duty
The report further unveils pertinent details about segment contribution in coining ample revenue flow, sustainability and long term growth in global ... 

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

UC, UBC announce University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) leadership transition
University of California
University of California President Janet Napolitano and University of British Columbia President Santa J. Ono today (June 22) announced a transition ...

California re-evaluating its landmark climate strategy
CALmatters
California re-evaluating its landmark climate strategy ... It signals a shift in the administration's attitude and reflects problems posed by the ... Blumenfeld said in the letter that he would work with air board leadership to weigh “the ...

Climate-Change 'Lawfare': Texas Judges Take Swipe at California's Liberal Courts, Reluctantly ...
Texas Lawyer
Climate-Change 'Lawfare': Texas Judges Take Swipe at California's Liberal Courts, Reluctantly Ruling Against Exxon ... At the highest levels of the nation's judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has frowned ...

Impact Investing:

Talking to Clients About Impact Investing Doesn't Have to Be Awkward
ThinkAdvisor
There is a clear gap between investor interest and advisor support with sustainable investing. Advisor Adoption. Advisor adoption is happening, albeit ...

Impact Investing: What Every Advisor Needs to Know in the COVID-19 Era
ThinkAdvisor
For the financial advisor or firm who in the pre-crisis era might have resisted exploring impact investing options as a “nice to have” or on the (mistaken) ...

Financial Returns Boost Impact Investing
Markets Media (press release) (blog)
The Global Impact Investing Network this month released the tenth edition of its flagship report, The 2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey. The report said ...

Energy Storage:

EnergyHub partners with Vivint Solar as utility incentives for residential energy storage ramp up
Utility Dive
Dive Brief: EnergyHub announced Wednesday that it has partnered with Vivint Solar to help utilities access attached residential battery storage systems ...

Australia's Energy Storage Capacity to More Than Double in 2020: WoodMac
Greentech Media
Australia's Energy Storage Capacity to More Than Double in 2020: WoodMac. Front-of-the-meter battery deployments are surging in Australia, but an ...

Is This The Future Of Energy Storage?
OilPrice.com
Scientists have been trying for years to make lithium-oxygen batteries a viable energy storage solution by overcoming some of the challenges to the ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Ford expands climate change goals, sets target to become carbon neutral by 2050: Annual ...
Automotive World
Ford also is working to develop goals approved and defined by the Science Based Targets initiative for its Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

If COVID-19 Was A Quiz, Global Warming Will Be The Final Exam
CleanTechnica
... of picking winners and losers — even though that's what governments have been ... Today's winners wouldn't be in that position without government policies ... Hundreds of millions of climate change refugees will flee rising seas, coasts will ... Many of these attempts involved climate change science.

Climate change, new risks and opportunities for businesses
LifeGate
Businesses should evaluate the risks and opportunities of climate change and its mitigation to ensure their ... There will be winners and losers.

Winner and loser of the week: 5G for all amid Apple's App Store scandal
AndroidPIT
... understanding the impact of each product they buy has on global warming and climate change. ... Who were your winners and losers of the week?

Microgrids:

Data Microgrids on the Rise as the Colo Industry Deploys More Resilient Power Systems
Data Center Frontier (blog)
That's according to a new special report from Data Center Frontier in partnership with Microgrid Knowledge and distributer energy leader Enchanted ...

Guidehouse Insights Report Shows the Global Market for Utility Microgrids Is Expected to ...
Business Wire (press release)
“There is a growing recognition of how microgrids can overlap and integrate with platforms such as DER management systems and virtual power plants ( ...

What is Transactive Energy and Why is it Important to Microgrids?
Microgrid Knowledge
Aikin spoke at the Microgrid Knowledge virtual conference June 3 in the session, “How Microgrids Make Money.” In their paper, Monash University ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing can be like searching for fool's gold
The Conversation CA
The belief that ESG principles can help companies contribute to investment returns through long-term value creation. Their values are consistent with the ...

Personal Finance: Socially responsible investing comes of age
Chattanooga Times Free Press
But over the past decade, a more systematic approach to applying social responsibility to investment decision making has gone mainstream and is ...

Socially-Responsible Money Managers Commit to Investing Against Racism
Financial Post
The RJI, started in 2017, has more than 250 socially-responsible investors. Its members include Domini Impact Investments, one of the pioneers of ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon capture and reuse gain steam
Chemical & Engineering News
The DOE funds are part of the agency's Carbon Utilization Program, which ... carbon storage project in Norway has picked Aker Solutions to capture, ...

IEA outlines three-year plan for sustainable recovery
S&P Global
... use of fuels more sustainable; and boost innovation in technologies such as hydrogen, batteries, carbon capture utilization and storage and small ...

IRS issues proposed regulations on section 45q carbon oxide sequestration credits
Lexology
basic eligibility requirements for claiming the credit and use of defined ... of in secure geologic storage, and a credit of $10/metric ton for carbon dioxide ... Notably, Section 45Q applied only to carbon dioxide, and not to other forms of ...

Sustainability Investing:

ESG, Sustainable Investing's Inherently Active Process Helps Investors Align with Their Goals ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sustainable investing inherently involves active decision making, concludes a new white ...

Post-Coronavirus: Sustainability-Focused Investment As The New Normal?
Forbes
In the past, many investors thought that focusing on sustainability narrows the investment universe and could lead to lower returns. Increasingly ...

Talking to Clients About Impact Investing Doesn't Have to Be Awkward
ThinkAdvisor
Sustainable investing provides a clear opportunity to engage with the families you work with and create deeper, more meaningful intergenerational ...

Geoengineering:

The game theory of using geoengineering to fight climate change
Axios
Solar geoengineering would be much cheaper than drastically cutting carbon emissions, but it carries with it as yet unknown risks of side effects. That's ...

Climate Crisis: Keystone XL Supreme, Cap and Trade Takes Hit and California Geoengineering
The Real News Network
Climate Crisis: Keystone XL Supreme, Cap and Trade Takes Hit and California Geoengineering. By: Steve Horn | June 19, 2020.

Green Bond Funds:

PACE Funding Group Completes Inaugural 144a Securitization and achieves "Green Bond ...
PRNewswire (press release)
The "Green Bond" transaction represents the fourth asset-backed securitization completed by the Company and its first Rule 144a transaction, following ...

Daimler Plans Green-Bond Sale to Support Electric Mercedes Push
Financial Post
Funds will partly support the company's push to only sell carbon-neutral cars by 2039. Volkswagen AG also published a green-finance framework earlier ...

HKEX plans green bond platform
Expert Investor
Sustainable and green investment financing, and ESG-themed funds have grown throughout Asia-Pacific in recent years. Green bond issuance in the ...

Low Carbon Funds:

How much can financiers do about climate change?
The Economist
Others seek out “climate-solution firms” developing technologies that reduce energy demand. One popular green-fund category is “low-carbon”. Low- ...

Will Amazon's $2B fund really help clean energy?
E&E News
Amazon.com Inc. said yesterday it would create a $2 billion fund for investments in "visionary" companies working on low-carbon energy technologies ...

Government makes £5.5m investment in local renewables and low carbon heat
Scottish Construction Now
Additional funding of £5.5 million is being made available for renewables projects to contribute towards a green recovery following the coronavirus ...