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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Safety, Data, and Green: Transport Sector's Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19
Modern Diplomacy
The transport sector must emerge from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic as a driver of sustainable growth with three critical factors in ...

Latest News 2020: Sustainability Tools Market by Coronavirus-COVID19 Impact Analysis With Top ...
Scientect
Sustainability Tools Market research report provides various levels of analysis such as industry analysis (industry trends), market share analysis of top ...

Coronavirus Pandemic Delays 2020 Earth Overshoot Day by Three Weeks, But It's Not Sustainable
EcoWatch
But due to the global coronavirus lockdown, 2020 has bucked the trend. ... Footprint Network founder and 2018 World Sustainability Award winner.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Tracking Decarbonization in the Southeast: Are we on track? (Part 1)
Clean Energy News
... answers the question of whether or not the power sector is decarbonizing at ... Typically, sectors are broadly categorized as electric power (utilities), ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Momentive Releases Sustainability Report
PRNewswire
With publication of a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) report, the company focuses on 2019 results while foreshadowing what is in store for the future.

Institutional investors say COVID-19 pushed ESG to forefront
Financial Management magazine
However, a recent collaboration between the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) holds promise ...

Daily ESG Briefing: GRI heading new sustainability charter for South East Asia
Responsible-Investor.com
The Global Reporting Initiative is working with experts in South East Asia on a Charter on Sustainability Imperatives, to be published “soon”.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Four reasons why investing in clean energy is essential for rebuilding the economy
Environmental Defense Fund
A big investment in clean energy, clean transportation, energy efficiency deployment and R&D can generate substantial returns on job growth and ...

How Investing Partnerships Can Fuel the Growth of Renewable Energy
Barron's
Two months after departing the hedge fund he founded, Jeffrey Ubben is putting more of his money—and energy—into clean energy. Last week ...

California renewable energy providers urge State investments in a more diverse, reliable mix of ...
REVE
“California's goal is to shift to 100% clean energy over the next 25 years while providing electricity safely, reliably, and affordably. Renewable energy has ...

CDP Sustainability:

Gibson Energy Announces Its Inaugural Submission to CDP and the Creation of Its Sustainability ...
GlobeNewswire
“Transparency is the foundation of our sustainability and ESG journey,” said Steve Spaulding, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Our CDP ...

Corporate Environmental Reporting Could Help Close the SDG Data Gap
IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub
By Pietro Bertazzi and Helen Finlay, CDP ... Juxtaposed to this lack of environmental SDG data, sustainability reporting among the private sector has ...

Crown Holdings Announces Sustainability Commitment with Twentyby30 Plan
And Now U Know
Crown will continue to report its progress of the Twentyby30 program goals annually through global reporting standards including CDP and its ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

This is climate change leadership?
OCRegister
California officials endlessly promote this state as “leading the world in the fight against climate change.” Yet as of this writing, many Californians are in ...

The Energy 202: Trump attacks Biden by blaming Democrats for California blackouts
Washington Post
California leaders suggested climate change is too big of a crisis to back down from its clean energy goals. In a press conference this week, Gov. Gavin ...

TRUMP hits CALIFORNIA on blackouts — KAMALA's big night — BECERRA sues over post office ...
Politico
Newsom and other Democrats are proud of California's national leadership on ambitious policies to battle climate change, like the mandate that we ...

Impact Investing:

The Week in impact investing: Agency
ImpactAlpha
Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures, or ALIVE, has raised $28 million to invest in them. MacArthur Foundation, as part of the Catalytic Capital Consortium, ...

Why busting the fiduciary duty myth is our top priority
Pioneers Post
Many investors and advisors are quick to justify why they won't consider investing in impact. But often their reasoning is based on misconceptions ...

Energy Storage:

Energy storage for EV charging can lower demand charges, Guidehouse reports
Utility Dive
Integrating battery energy storage into electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is one solution to the need for faster charging and a push to avoid peak ...

IHI Energy Storage updates name to Terrasun
Solar Power World
IHI Energy Storage has updated its name and incorporated as IHI Terrasun Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of IHI Americas Inc. IHI Corporation, ...

The engineer making energy storage more efficient
Nature.com
Yulong Ding, director of the University of Birmingham's Centre for Energy Storage, UK, explains how Chinese companies are keen to work with ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

L&G accelerates ESG agenda with commitment to new modern slavery protocol
Property Funds World
... is aligning its platform with science-based carbon performance targets, covering the period to 2030, as it looks to move towards a net zero future.

Rolls-Royce's low-emission engines and a science-based targets surge: The Sustainability ...
edie.net
Rolls-Royce's low-emission engines and a science-based targets surge: The ... It is now working to validate the technology's emissions performance and ... The commitment binds signatories to reach carbon neutral operations by ...

Counting the carbon cost to transform building
Planning, BIM & Construction Today
AECOM was the first US-based company in the engineering and ... our emissions reduction targets approved by the globally recognised Science Based ... For example, in Sacramento, California, we designed the world's first LEED ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

5 winners and 2 losers from night 3 of the Democratic convention
Vox
Winner: The youth. The first half-hour of Wednesday's presentation was dominated by two issues: gun violence and climate change. In both sections, ...

5 winners and 2 losers from night 2 of the Democratic convention
Vox
A number of the speeches were somber in tone, referencing the sacrifices of essential workers, the dangers of climate change, and the country's ...

Industry Voice: Potential Winners and Losers from Biden's Climate Plan
www.professionalpensions.com
The views contained herein are as of the date noted on the material and are subject to change without notice; these views may differ from those of other ...

Microgrids:

Microgrids Are The Past and Future of Our Electrical Consumption
Propmodo
Although back then electricity was for a few privileged individuals that could afford it, today microgrids, similar in principle to the first electricity systems ...

California Microgrids Flex Their Skills During Blackouts
Microgrid Knowledge
Stone Edge Farm's microgrid and three microgrids operated by Bloom Energy were among those that provided resiliency for their owners and ...

Jeffrey Ubben's new fund Inclusive Capital bets on microgrids amid California blackouts
CNBC
The new venture will develop and run on-site microgrids for commercial and industrial buildings. “My fund is looking at legacy businesses that are in ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

'Socially Responsible Investing': Understanding Future Trends
Seeking Alpha
ESG investing is not new – it's an outgrowth of SRI. The investment results of ESG funds are a point of contention. The Department of Labor is putting ...

ESG Investing: Not Just for 'Tree Huggers' Anymore
ThinkAdvisor
For decades, socially responsible investing was brushed off as a strategy ... The senior advisor maintains that ESG investing, also called sustainable ...

How to Invest in Things You Are Passionate About: A Primer on Socially Responsible Investing
Nasdaq
This raises the question: Why? Myths About Socially Responsible Investing. Most retail investors still don't know what's possible when it comes to ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

CCUS – Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
EnerCom Inc.
Adding that Saudi Aramco has been working with the auto industry to design more efficient engines, and to enable carbon capture on trucks, he said: “ ...

Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
MIT News
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies have the potential to play an important role in limiting or reducing the amount of CO2 in the ...

Adding the “U”: The role of carbon capture, utilization and storage in developing a circular economy
JWN
For all you know, that soap is made using captured carbon. Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) has earned itself a seat at the table as a key ... 

Sustainability Investing:

Statement from the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada on August 24, 2020
Yahoo Finance
While COVID-19 control measures can slow you down, COVID-19 can have a more harmful impact on you and those around you. This week ...

Can Interest in ESG Investing Hold Up During a Pandemic?
Morningstar.com
Interest in sustainable investing has grown tremendously in recent years, ... As Morningstar's director of sustainability research Jon Hale noted in his ...

Geoengineering:

Climate change is driving apple orchards higher up in the Himalayas, and geoengineering could ...
Research Matters
Although encouraging, there is a big caveat—once the spraying stops, the consequences could be worse. “Locally, geoengineering might help for a ...
 
Geoengineering Monitor
geoengineering.org
Sources: CO2 – BASED SYNTHETIC FUELS: NEW R&D COOPERATION'S AND PRODUCTION SITES. In May, Lufthansa Group signed a Letter of ...

Green Bond Funds:

Germany floats 11 billion Euros in “green bonds” to fund environmental projects
MercoPress
The finance ministry said it would raise up to 11 billion Euros in 2020 to support climate-related projects. The first issue in September of a 10-year bond, ...

What Germany hopes to achieve with its green bond auction
citywireselector.com
'Therefore the Finance Agency would avoid a front-loaded curve, in order to avoid the formation of different funding curves, the bund is offering an option ...

The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance
GreenBiz
The bonds alone come in a veritable rainbow of flavors: green bonds; climate bonds; sustainability bonds; social bonds; ESG bonds; blue bonds (related ...

Low Carbon Funds:

HSBC launches first low-carbon fund in Taiwan
台北時報
HSBC Global Asset Management Taiwan Ltd (匯豐中華投信) yesterday launched the nation's first low-carbon fund, which invests in bonds issued by ...

MSC funds low-carbon transportation research
H2 View
The Mobility Systems Centre (MSC), one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)'s Low-Carbon Energy Centres, will fund four new research projects that ...

Gevo and Trafigura enter into long-term contract for low-carbon premium gasoline and sustainable ...
Green Car Congress
We expect that our low-carbon fuels will enable certain of Trafigura's ... the agreement and closing a financing transaction for sufficient funds to acquire and ... For every gallon of low-carbon premium gasoline or SAF produced, Gevo ...

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