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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

'Endemic' Coronavirus: Cipla Defines Sustainability Of Gains
Scrip
The potentially endemic nature of the coronavirus could buoy gains for Cipla's COVID-19 portfolio, which now includes an antibody detection kit.

Concerns Over Debt Sustainability Rise in Sub-Saharan Africa Amid Covid-19
Global Trade Magazine
Zambia, Angola, Ghana, and other countries had concerns about debt sustainability even prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, many countries, ...

Post-Covid Recovery Could Benefit from Carbon Pricing, Research Shows
Environment + Energy Leader
Post-Covid Recovery Could Benefit from Carbon Pricing, Research Shows ... individuals, and firms to move away from more costly fossil-fuel intensive practices and toward long-term economic and environmental sustainability in an ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Siemens Energy partners with Linde Engineering to accelerate decarbonization efforts in the ...
ChemEngOnline
The downstream oil and gas industry is under intense pressure to improve efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, comply with strict ...

Neste and LG Chem to collaborate on decarbonization measures
ChemEngOnline
Neste and LG Chem to collaborate on decarbonization measures ... and Neste's sustainable solution based on renewable hydrocarbons, have come together in a ... to accelerate decarbonization efforts in the petrochemical sector

Global Reporting Initiative:

CenterPoint Energy issues 2020 Corporate Responsibility Report and 2019 GRI Index
PRNewswire
The report follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework and has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards: Core option. The ...

Archroma Releases Its Third Sustainability Report
Textile World Magazine
Prepared again in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, and covering Fiscal Year 2019, the report outlines the company's ...

Host Hotels & Resorts Publishes New, Expanded Corporate Responsibility Report
GlobeNewswire
Updated Global Reporting Initiative Index as well as new Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures Report and a full Sustainable Accounting ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Iberdrola to invest $88 billion in 'energy revolution' by 2025
Reuters
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish wind energy group Iberdrola IBE.MC plans to invest 75 billion euros ($88 billion) in its renewable energy production, ...

Cooke: Investing in clean energy is investing in students' futures
Rocky Mountain Collegian
Investing in renewable energy is one of the most crucially needed and immediately accessible steps we can take toward addressing climate change.

World needs more renewables, study says
Houston Chronicle
Investment in diverse renewables technologies must almost triple annually to $800 billion by 2050 to keep the rise in global temperatures within the 1.5° ...

CDP Sustainability:

Caverion launches its sustainability targets and actions
PR Newswire UK
For example, Caverion reports on its emissions annually to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and its sustainability impacts according to the Global ...

Non-financial Reporting: Total discloses its first SASB report (Sustainability Accounting Standards ...
WebWire
... A- for its response to the latest CDP Climate Change and Water Security questionnaires. * https://www.sustainable-performance.total.com/en/sasb.

Network Rail sets climate change targets
Railway Gazette International
UK: Following on from its recently published long-term environmental ... a collaboration between environmental non-profit organisation CDP, the ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

The US Left The Paris Climate Agreement This Week. Where Does That Leave California?
Capital Public Radio News
Nearly 70% of Americans said before the election that climate change is ... “But California was a leader before the Paris Agreement, and I expect ...

Fight climate change, preserve nature in one stroke
Capitol Weekly
Every scenario from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites ... There are 163 million dead and dying trees in California forests. ... this conservation legislation underscores California's climate leadership at the state and ...

Wildfires, disease and the need for insurance-industry leadership
PropertyCasualty360
Wildfires, disease and the need for insurance-industry leadership ... to what's happening in communities near California's millions of charred acres. ... If like the vast majority of scientists, you believe that climate change exists, you ...

Impact Investing:

How a Biden Administration Will Boost ESG and Impact Investing
Barron's
The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the U.S. is expected to have wide-ranging implications for investors who care about the environment ...

The 5 Misconceptions Standing Between Foundations and Impact Investing
Inside Philanthropy
Foundations differ from other types of impact investors in that they must answer to charitable foundation trustees. As a result, many foundations are ...

The Week in impact investing: Patience
ImpactAlpha
“We must use impact investing to close the urban-rural divide in America, using capital for good with the same intensity in rural America as we do in ...   

Energy Storage:

Europe's Energy Storage Market Is Fading, Right When It's Needed Most
Greentech Media
European energy storage deployment is set to shrink compared to other global markets, even as the need for flexibility on the grid increases, ...

Eos Energy Storage and Global Renewable Developer Hecate Energy to Deliver Over 1 GWh of ...
AltEnergyMag
The projects are a mix of standalone battery storage and storage paired with solar photovoltaics (“PV”) for renewable energy capacity. 11/05/20, 05:56 ...

Saft launches its new energy storage hub for renewables in Zhuhai, China
AltEnergyMag
... • Facility in Zhuhai expands Saft's production capabilities for energy storage solutions (ESS) to three continents, including existing sites in Bordeaux, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Huhtamäki Oyj - Managers' Transactions
StreetInsider.com
... science-based targets through the Science Based Targets initiative. Huhtamaki has been awarded the Silver medal by EcoVadis for performance in ...

Five Traits of an Effective Virtual Leader
Global Banking And Finance Review
Hogan's science-based assessments, such as the Hogan Personality ... need to allocate time and energy into re-defining activities, goals and deadlines. ... organisations to take full responsibility for their carbon emissions right now.

The journey to Net Zero and why a step by step process is not enough
Global Banking And Finance Review
The SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) can help a company set ... carbon reduction target and compensates for all its remaining emissions.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Trump's biggest corporate winners and losers
Axios
Big tech has been the biggest corporate winner of the Trump presidency, ... But fears of Trump picking individual winners and losers have proved largely ... threats of climate change, nuclear proliferation and an ongoing pandemic, ...
 
Why Is Fracking In The News So Much? The Short Answer: Climate Change And People's Health
Capital Public Radio News
... know that we are willing partners in California's climate future. The focus should be on reducing overall emissions, not picking winners and losers.”.

Can 2020 election turn the tides of climate change? Pensacola experts weigh in Monday
Pensacola News Journal
In an open-to-all online event Monday, five groups will discuss these recommendations, how election results could impact their implementation, what ...

Microgrids:

Energy for the People: Microgrids and the Democratization of Energy
Microgrid Knowledge
Lance Haines, chief technology officer – Microgrids, at Schneider Electric speaks on microgrids and modernizing the grid — and how the two are ...

How to Overcome Barriers to Community Microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
Despite their potential benefits, community microgrids face several institutional and financial challenges. Steve Hoffman, CEO of Hoffman Power ...

What Does a Joe Biden Presidency Mean for Microgrids?
Microgrid Knowledge
Biden's “Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice” makes several pledges that could influence the microgrid market: A “historic ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Upheaval in society has people turning to socially responsible investing
Newsday
He says SRI as an investment strategy has the goal of creating financial returns for the investor while also promoting ethical companies that make a ...

Future of socially responsible investing in SE Asia
Asia Times
Hence the importance of socially responsible “environmental, social, governance” (ESG) investing. Of the estimated value of $75 trillion of assets ...

How advisors figure out which ESG funds are a good fit for socially conscious clients and their ...
CNBC
Some investors see such investing as not only ethical but an exercise in risk-mitigation, avoiding poor corporate actors and other risks. Martin ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market (2020 to 2025) - Large Number of ...
Business Wire
“Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market by Service (Capture, Transportation, Utilization, Storage), End-Use Industry (Oil & Gas, Iron & Steel, ...

The global carbon capture, utilization, and storage market size is expected to grow from USD 467 ...
GlobeNewswire
The global carbon capture, utilization, and storage market size is expected to grow from USD 467 million in 2020 to USD 787 million by 2025, at a ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market Analysis, Applications, Sale, Growth Insight ...
Eurowire
The global Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage market is broadly analyzed in this report that sheds light on critical aspects such as the vendor ..

Sustainability Investing:

Sustainable investing is surging. How to decide if it's right for you
CNBC
Impact investing: targeted investments aimed at solving social or environmental problems.

SET Announces 124 Listed Companies For The 2020 Thailand Sustainability Investment (THIS) list
Exchange News Direct
SET has continuously equipped listed companies with sustainability knowledge and understanding, and enhanced investors towards responsible ...

How a Biden Administration Will Boost ESG and Impact Investing
Barron's
A related push by impact investors is to create more transparency around corporate environmental and social practices. The Sustainable Accounting ...

Geoengineering:

How to supervise geoengineering?
chinadialogue
Does the Chinese media's warm reception for the Dagu glacier experiment mean the “geoengineering” concept has arrived in China, and may even be ...

AU researcher receives massive EU grant to investigate alternative climate solutions
EurekAlert
The second focus, geoengineering, is a more extreme technology which aims to change or modify the Earth itself, or its atmosphere, to better withstand ...

Combatting climate change – how to best use new technologies?
Mirage News
The research team of the GENIE project (GeoEngineering and NegatIve Emissions pathways in Europe), funded by an ERC Synergy Grant, aims to ...

Green Bond Funds:

Tokyo Gas issues green bond to fund acquisition of 694 MW of PV
pv magazine International
It has issued a JPY 10 billion ($95.9 million) green bond to finance these transactions and support its other operations. November 4, 2020 Emiliano ...

QNB green bond a sign of what's to come as Gulf embraces ESG
S&P Global
Green bonds are debt instruments that finance or refinance environmentally friendly projects such as wind farms, solar power or energy efficiency ...

The City of London Is Late to a Bond Market Party
Washington Post
Sales of green bonds — debt whose proceeds are used to finance ... Pacific Investment Management Co., for example, launched a bond fund last ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Federal and Alberta governments put $280 million towards emission reduction programs
Daily Commercial News
The TIER fund will leverage $30 million in funds with public and private investment including $25 million from the federal Low Carbon Economy ...

$150 million announced for shovel-ready projects that cut costs and emissions in Alberta
GlobeNewswire
... and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund. Up to $50 million in additional funds will also be available from the federal Low Carbon Economy Leadership .

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