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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Will we continue to value sustainability in a COVID-19 era? Yes: say innocent & SodaStream
BeverageDaily.com
Sustainability had moved to the forefront of consumers' minds in recent years – but has the coronavirus pandemic changed all that? Beverage brands ...

Sustainability Is Key to Bringing Customers Back into Stores After Covid-19
Sourcing Journal
Forty-two percent of respondents said that customers are more vocal about sustainability since Covid-19, and just over half said that they think there is ...

Has COVID-19 dampened corporations' sustainability ambitions?
Lexology
As the pandemic hit global markets back in March, many expected this to be the end of corporations' sustainability efforts. As Ryanair CEO Michael ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Can Joe Biden Decarbonize The US Power Sector By 2035?
Forbes
This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. He ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Consistency sought in sustainability, corporate reporting through global effort
Journal of Accountancy
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). It's hoped that by sharing and collaborating, these ...

Plan to create unified sustainability reporting standards
Accountancy Daily
The five bodies are CDP, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Integrated Reporting ...

Sustainability Leaders to Work on Common Corporate Reporting Standard
Chief Investment Officer
... the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Integrated Reporting ... “We know that businesses globally are already using a mixture of our ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Software is eating renewable energy markets: cleantech investment roundup
pv magazine USA
Software is eating renewable energy markets: cleantech investment roundup. Here are five companies that have raised more than $50 million in funding ...

Volery Capital Partners Announces Growth Equity Investment in Leading Clean Energy Focused ...
Business Wire
SDCL is a leading clean energy investment, project development and advisory asset management business headquartered in London. Under the ...

Solarise Africa lands $10m Series B investment to advance clean energy on the continent
GlobeNewswire
09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- nnovative renewable energy leasing solutions attract significant global investment. Pan-African energy leasing ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP: Fashion Companies Slow to Recognize Water Pollution Risks
Environment + Energy Leader
... global director of water security for CDP. Lamb shared key takeaways from the new report for sustainability leaders in the fashion and textile industry ...

Groups join forces on sustainability reporting
Pensions & Investments
GRI, SASB, CDP and CDSB set the frameworks and standards for sustainability disclosure, including climate-related reporting, while the IIRC provides ...

Standard-setters Kick Off Initiative to Harmonise Sustainability Reporting
Regulation Asia
GRI, SASB, CDP and CDSB set the frameworks and standards for sustainability disclosure, including climate-related reporting and the TCFD ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Frustrated California Governor Gavin Newsom Surveys Fire Zone, Rips “Ideological BS” Around ...
Deadline
Frustrated California Governor Gavin Newsom Surveys Fire Zone, Rips “Ideological BS” Around Climate Change & “Absence Of National Leadership”.

Newsom Vows to 'Face Climate Change Head On' in California
The New York Times
... obligation and a sense of purpose to maintain California's leadership not only nationally but internationally to face climate change head on,” he said.

Trump Downplays Climate Change in California Wildfire Visit
Courthouse News Service
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Weeks after assigning blame for California's disastrous wildfire season on poor leadership and not climate change, ...

Impact Investing:

Apollo announces leaders for new impact investing group
Pensions & Investments
Marc Becker and Joanna Reiss were named co-leads of impact at Apollo Global Management. 
 
Amy Novogratz fought back from a brain tumor that could have killed her to build the world's largest ...
Forbes
Older sister Jacqueline is founder and CEO of pioneering impact-investing venture fund Acumen and is married to TED Talks head Chris Anderson.

Apollo Names Leadership Group for Dedicated Impact Investing Platform
GlobeNewswire
Lisa Hall, a recognized impact investment leader, has been named Impact Chair, helping to develop and oversee the new platform. The Apollo Impact ...

Energy Storage:

NYISO allows full participation for energy storage in wholesale power markets
Utility Dive
Dive Brief: The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) Sept. 8 announced it would allow full participation of energy storage resources in ...

Rooftop Solar And Energy Storage Units Could Help During Emergency Blackouts
KPBS
Airth said solar companies these days usually offer a package with both solar panels and a battery. But the cost of energy storage systems remains high ...

FERC Order May Undermine Renewables, Energy Storage in New York's Capacity Markets
Greentech Media
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected the latest proposal from New York's grid operator to allow renewable energy and batteries to ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Corporate action: SBTi unveils plans for global standard for net zero target setting
www.businessgreen.com
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has unveiled plans to develop the ... net zero and carbon neutral goals continues to accelerate, bolstering global ... The paper concludes that offsetting emissions can work as companies ...

Large-Scale Virtual Power Purchase Agreement to Cover 100% of Henkel's Electricity Demand in ...
CleanTechnica
These were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as ... For more information on Henkel's sustainability strategy, performance and ...

Wilmar, Swire Pacific secure sustainability-linked loans
The Asset
The performance indicators will help in ensuring that Wilmar's operations are ... targets that have been set based on the list of performance indicators. ... unveiled a carbon reduction target approved by the Science Based Targets ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

'You have to protect the grapes from getting sunburn'
BBC News
"The reason in large part is climate change," says the 35-year-old. Jack Everett ... But where there are winners, there are also losers. In many parts of ...

A socially and environmentally just way to fight climate change
The Hill
A majority of the public is in favor of action on climate change, and putting a fee or tax on ... It is revenue-neutral and does not pick winners or losers.

The Best Stocks to Buy If Biden Wins the Election
Money Morning
The Best Stocks to Buy If Biden Wins the Election ... If he does win in November, the investing climate will change dramatically. ... Among these proposals is where we'll find the potential winners and losers in a Biden administration.

Microgrids:

Extensible Energy releases DemandEx load flexibility software for microgrids
Solar Power World
Extensible Energy has released DemandEx for Microgrids, an AI load flexibility software that integrates with a microgrid controller to manage and ...

Vanderbilt researchers extend software-development efforts for sustainable microgrids through ...
Vanderbilt University News
“Microgrids often are very green sources of energy, and are of interest to organizations looking to enhance their sustainability initiatives or decrease ...

Bills to fund microgrid research, encourage diversity in telecom ownership OK'd by House panel
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The funding is aimed at helping rural communities produce their own reliable and clean electricity through microgrids, which are essentially miniature ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Milton Friedman On The Social Responsibility of Business, 50 Years Later
Forbes
Moreover, the rise of socially responsible approaches to business and investing has refocused the priorities of both corporate leadership and many ...

Pension fund, MIT launch social investing project
WWLP.com
As socially responsible investing expands rapidly across the globe, the ...

Greenvest becomes a Certified B Corporation
Vermont Biz
Greenvest provides personal consulting on socially responsible investing (SRI) and creates custom investment portfolios that align with each client's ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Detailed overview of pros and cons of carbon capture
Boing Boing
Matt Farrell delves into what carbon capture utilization storage (CCUS) can and can't do for reducing greenhouse gases. There are several big issues.

Project Tundra demonstrates 'can-do' spirit
Minot Daily News
Not long ago, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) was ... Petra Nova is a carbon capture project that uses the CO2 for enhanced oil ...

Scaling CCUS: Catalyzing policy and financial innovation
Atlantic Council
... climate goals would require adding some 2000 carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) facilities by mid-century—up 100-fold from today.

Sustainability Investing:

UBS is first to make sustainable investments the preferred path for clients of its $2.6 trillion wealth ...
MarketWatch
UBS clients currently have nearly $500 billion invested in its “core” sustainable assets, such as green bonds and low-carbon index funds, according to ...

Diverging US, EU ESG Regulations Could Impact Fund Returns
Fitch Ratings
The pandemic has done little to deter the expanding focus on ESG investing, as fund managers increasingly seek to invest in sustainability-conscious ...

UBS pushes wealth clients to choose sustainable investing first
Financial Planning
UBS will offer sustainable investments as its preferred solution for wealth management clients worldwide as the COVID-19 crisis underscores the need ...

Geoengineering:

Who rules climate intervention on the high seas?
Eco-Business
With a range of marine geoengineering field trials moving forward, attention is turning to how research and eventual deployment should be governed.

Machine Learning + CleanTech + Climate Risks, Part II — CleanTech Talk Podcast
CleanTechnica
Mike then moved the conversation toward geoengineering, which Paul believes needs more attention. Mike sees a fundamental problem in ...

Who rules climate interventions on the high seas?
India Climate Dialogue
With a range of marine geoengineering field trials moving forward, attention is turning to how research and eventual deployment should be governed ...

Green Bond Funds:

JP Morgan enters green bond push with $1 billion debut debt deal
MarketWatch
JP Morgan Chase & Co. entered the green-bond world on Wednesday, offloading the bank's first set of bonds specifically to fund projects with a ...

Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to tap the red-hot green-bond market to fund its EV ambitions
Fortune
Volkswagen AG is making its green-bond debut, about two weeks after Daimler AG, as automakers tap socially responsible investors to help pay for ...

Spain's Audax issues green bond to fund 40 MW of PV projects
Renewables Now
... (BME:ADX) has completed the issuance of its first green bond, the proceeds of which will finance 40 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in Spain.

Low Carbon Funds:

4 Low-Carbon Mutual Funds to Ride the Green Transition Wave
Yahoo Finance
4 Top Picks. With the push to transition into a greener global economy that brings high growth prospects, we have selected four low-carbon mutual funds ...

EPRI, GTI and Universities Awarded DOE Funding to Support Hydrogen Technology Training
PRNewswire
"To more broadly enable low-carbon resource applications across the economy, EPRI will apply a variety of existing and emerging approaches to safe ...

Super funds are feeling the financial heat from climate change
Phys.Org
ANZ, for example, this month announced it expected the 100 biggest-emitting customers to have a plan to adapt to a low-carbon economy—something ...

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