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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Coronavirus could be a 'major turning point' for sustainable investing, says JPMorgan
CNBC
The coronavirus pandemic could lead to a greater adoption of ESG investing, ... are increasingly pricing in sustainability preferences," JPMorgan said.

Design Plus on sustainability and hygienic sampling post coronavirus
Cosmetics Business
Now more than ever, it's important that we continue to focus on both sustainable and hygienic solutions for our customers. With Covid-19 and on-going ...

Practising Mindfulness Can Help Us through the Coronavirus Pandemic
Nextgov
This relatively unexplored means of supporting sustainability progress has immense value to offer in times of crisis, particularly COVID-19. Get the latest ... 

Sector Based Decarbonization:

A new report outlines the shipping industry's plans for decarbonization
World Economic Forum
The shipping sector must cut its carbon emissions if we are to meet the Paris Agreement's climate change targets. A new report, based on interviews ...

New Analysis Shows Momentum Building to Decarbonize the Power Sector
Natural Resources Defense Council
The analysis is based on publicly reported generation and emissions data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the U.S. ...

HDF and Kenesjay to develop green-hydrogen project in Trinidad & Tobago
ChemEngOnline
... developed the first Caribbean based decarbonizing hydrogen project in an industrial context. HDF's experience in large scale development projects ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

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Global Cement
Typically they are members of various bodies like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) or the Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA) that give ...

SAIC Publishes Sustainability & Social Responsibility Report; Nazzic Keene Quoted
Executive Mosaic Media
The report has marked SAIC's first submission to the Global Reporting Initiative, the world's most widely used voluntary reporting framework. Notably ...

Engineering a Better Tomorrow, ON Semiconductor Publishes 2019 Corporate Social ...
ReportAlert.info
... ON Semiconductor has advanced from incorporating the global reporting initiative (GRI) report core version to comprehensive version for a second ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Northam launches new initiative to drive investment in renewable energy
WHSV
These clean energy policies require all carbon emitting sources of electricity to retire by 2045, while replacing them with new investments in solar, ...

The Next Energy Battle: Renewables vs. Natural Gas
The New York Times
They are also reluctant to invest in energy storage, arguing that it would cost too much to buy batteries that can power the grid when there isn't enough ...
   
CEEW Recommends Green Energy Investments in COVID Recovery Strategy
Saurenergy
Scaling up investments in distributed renewable energy could also create thousands of new jobs. Around 110,000 skilled and unskilled jobs could be ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Energy CEOs Drop Climate Change Talk to Stress Survival
Rigzone
Energy CEOs Drop Climate Change Talk to Stress Survival ... In January, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg lectured United Nations leaders about ... in climate change-related disasters, such as the 2018 Camp Fire in California ...

Impact Investing:

Why impact investing remains a key focus for investors in the post COVID-19 era
The Investor JLL
At the start of this year, BlackRock – the world's largest asset manager – said it is seeking a tenfold increase in sustainable investments over the coming ...
   
How To Tell Your Impact From Your Sustainable Investing — And Avoid Greenwashing
Bisnow
A greater and greater number of investors in the real estate world are factoring environmental, social and governance into their investment decisions.

Look how far we've come: Impact investing
Pro Bono Australia
The past 20 years have seen the birth of a movement distinct from other forms of ethical or socially responsible investment. Today, impact investing is ...

Energy Storage:

Australia's metal gurus engineer two energy-storage breakthroughs
pv magazine Australia
Energy storage is in high demand, to help manage a growing proportion of renewable energy in global electricity grids, to free off-grid communities ...

Deakin University set to steward new energy storage Research Hub
pv magazine Australia
A New Safe and Reliable Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies Research Hub is one of five grant recipients of the Australian Research ...


New nano-engineering strategy shows potential for improved advanced energy storage
Phys.Org
The researchers say this work heralds a promising strategy to utilize strain engineering of 2-D materials for advanced energy storage applications. "The ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

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Climate Change Winners and Losers:

In case you missed it: Twitter Chat Q&A transcript on climate change, warmer forests
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
A2: There will be winners and losers. Boreal species such as spruce, paper birch, fir, are already in trouble. Fast-moving opportunists like red maple ...

Why it will pay for investors to go green
The Sydney Morning Herald
The financial risks associated with climate change have immediate implications for investment ... Under both scenarios, there are winners and losers.

Microgrids:

How Microgrids Introduce New Data Center Economics
Microgrid Knowledge
With all of this in mind, let's take a few minutes to break some legacy paradigms around economics and the overall cost of today's microgrid solutions.

California CEC Looks at Future of Microgrids in Workshop Beginning Today
Microgrid Knowledge
A panel of microgrid owners and managers discussing operational successes and challenges. In addition, utilities will explain how microgrids are being ...

This Minneapolis microgrid could serve as a jobs training and resiliency hub
Energy News Network
The microgrid would help anchor a clean energy jobs training center under development in the underserved and racially diverse neighborhood.

Socially Responsible Investing:

Guide To Socially Responsible Funds: 23 Best Buys
Forbes
This survey of socially conscious investing identifies the best buys: 10 open-end and 13 exchange-traded funds with low expense ratios. It's a bit ...

In retirement plans, 'social responsibility' can't outweigh financial performance
Fortune
But what if the person managing your retirement savings made investment ... Under what is lately termed “socially responsible” investing, instead of ...

Coronavirus could be a 'major turning point' for sustainable investing, says JPMorgan
CNBC
ESG investing, or when a company's environmental, social and governance factors are considered alongside traditional financial metrics, saw record ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

A Net-Zero Future Full of Opportunities for a New North Sea
Journal of Petroleum Technology
Developing new technologies—including carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and also hydrogen—to unlock the potential of our assets and ...

Report: Ethanol, LCFS can help US meet net-zero goal
Ethanol Producer Magazine
Ethanol is also addressed in a portion of the report focused on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). According to the committee, CCUS has ...

Sustainability Investing:

Sustainable-investing flows have smashed all records in 2020. What's going on?
MarketWatch
Flows into investment products with an environmental, social, or governance focus — also sometimes called sustainable investments — are topping ...

JLL Sees 'Significant Progress in Impact Investing' on Horizon
GlobeSt.com
JLL Sees 'Significant Progress in Impact Investing' on Horizon. “The current crisis is refocusing decision-making on the sustainability of investment ...

Al Gore: where sustainable investing goes from here
San Antonio Express-News
At the end of last year, sustainable investing was having its biggest moment. Climate change was a hot topic and green energy stocks were hitting new ...

Geoengineering:

Democrats' Big Climate Plan Includes Studying the Risky Idea of Blocking Out the Sun
Gizmodo
The first mention of geoengineering—or as the plan calls it, “climate intervention”—comes on page 15 with very little context, noting solely that a pillar of ...

Solar Radiation Management as a Climate Intervention: An Extended Q&A from the RFF Live ...
Resources Magazine
Geoengineering Methods. Event attendee question: What are the specific geoengineering solutions that you're suggesting? Joseph E. Aldy and Richard ...

US Opposition's Big Climate Plan Includes Studying the Risky Idea of Blocking Out the Sun
Gizmodo UK
The first mention of geoengineering – or as the plan calls it, “climate intervention” – comes on page 15 with very little context, noting solely that a pillar of ...

Green Bond Funds:

Longer, Greener, Broader: Strategies for a World Awash in New Bonds
The New York Times
LONDON — Century bonds and green bonds, the first 20-year U.S. ... binge is forcing governments to think creatively to get the funds they need.

Xylem Closes $1 Billion Inaugural Green Bond
CSRwire.com
The proceeds will fund green projects that help improve water accessibility, water affordability, and water systems resilience, in alignment with Xylem's ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Allianz finances development of Europe's largest cross-laminated timber and low-carbon office ...
Property Funds World
Allianz is providing 46.3 per cent of the overall total financing of EUR432 million. Investors in the project include ICAWOOD, a fund specializing in low- ...

Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
EU News
The Innovation Fund (IF) contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction by focusing on: Innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy ...

Boosting the EU's green recovery
EU News
... programmes for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies, ... For the period 2020-2030, the Innovation Fund will allocate around €10 ...

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