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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

BurgerFi president Charlie Guzzetta on the company as a leader in sustainability
Nation's Restaurant News
During the COVID-19-era of dining, when reusable menus are a thing of the past and individually wrapped plastic utensils have become more ...

SGA Sustainability Committee looks to make an impact on campus
College Heights Herald
Wininger stated that one of the hardest parts of getting a bill going, especially during COVID-19, is the process of communicating through email. SGA ...

Don't let this crisis go to waste: COVID-19 and the state of sustainability
Dailyuw
... ever-evasive status quo of our coronavirus-encumbered world. However, it does adequately and simply capture the campus' vision for sustainability.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

DHL and Smart Freight Centre support decarbonization of global freight transportation
The FINANCIAL
The concept of carbon insetting for the freight sector was developed ... for carbon inset accounting and reporting, based on the GLEC Framework, that ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Global Reporting Initiative Refreshes Board Of Directors, Appoints Nigerian Stock Exchange's ...
Exchange News Direct
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), provider of the world's most widely used sustainability reporting standards, has announced changes to its Board ...

GRI appoints NSE's Bola Adeeko as board member
Nairametrics
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the provider of the world's most widely used sustainability reporting standards, has announced the appointment ...

Amcor's responsible packaging strategy unlocks industry-leading sustainability progress
PRNewswire
Amcor's 2020 Sustainability Report has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core option and ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

IRENA report says tripling renewables investment required to reach 2050 climate goal
Green Car Congress
Renewable energy investment slightly declined in 2018, with modest growth through 2019. 

 

Driving Economic Growth By Democratizing Renewable Energy Investing
Financial Advisor Magazine
By opening up new avenues for American investors to participate in the development of green energy—or, to put it another way, by “democratizing” ...

Engie, Mitsui sell 75 per cent of renewable energy trust to Infrastructure Capital Group
ETEnergyworld.com
Investment in renewables must triple annually to $800 bn by 2050 to reach climate goal: Report. It added that while $1.8 trillion were invested during the ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP: Companies worth half of global market cap are now disclosing environmental data
edie.net
Non-profit CDP has revealed that a record 10,000 companies, cities, states and regions have reported environmental data during 2020, making it a ...

Boulder Recognized for Transparency in Climate Action
City of Boulder
The City of Boulder has been recognized as a global leader on environmental action and transparency by CDP, an international nonprofit that collects ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

How California Is An Example For Biden's Climate Change Fight
Capital Public Radio News
This could also be a moment, she says, to promote California leadership nationally in his cabinet or as heads of federal agencies. As a baseline move ...

Biden Plans to Move Fast With a 'Climate Administration.' Here's How.
The New York Times
“We have to re-establish American leadership globally on climate change, and re-establishing global ... Those California rules served as a model for Mr. Obama's federal climate policies, only to be rolled back by Mr. Trump. “It's going ...

After four years of battling Trump, California politicians welcome Biden-Harris win
Los Angeles Times
Respect our democratic institutions & renew America's place of leadership in responding to global threats like COVID & climate change. CA's own ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing Passes Its COVID-19 Trial By Fire
Bisnow
Those involved in real estate impact investing say the pandemic has brought to the fore both the resilience and the importance of impact investing. “ ...

Here's what you need to know about impact investing, where returns are not the only reward
CNBC
Impact investments generate specific, positive and measurable ... Growing rapidly within the socially responsible investing landscape is the world of ...

Energy Storage:

CS Energy triples energy storage business in 2020
Solar Power World
Large-scale solar contractor CS Energy announced it has tripled its energy storage installation business. With more than 315 MWh under construction ...

Long-duration energy storage milestones achieved by Lockheed, Eos and Form Energy
Energy Storage News
Lockheed Martin said this week that the first test of its commercial redox flow battery is underway, while zinc battery company Eos Energy prepares to list ...

Biden's infrastructure plans could boost startups
TechCrunch
He pointed to large-scale energy storage technologies as one solution, but management systems for utilities will be another area of interest.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Maple Leaf Foods Ranked Second Globally in 2020 Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index of ...
PerishableNews
... Producer Index of Environmental, Social and Governance Performance ... protein companies in the world to adopt science-based emissions targets, the ... Maple Leaf Foods is also committed to maintaining its net carbon footprint ...

OI Issues 2020 Green Bond Allocation Update
StreetInsider.com
... Development Goals and include science-based targets to reduce emissions. ... For example, for every 10 percent of cullet used in production, energy consumption is reduced by three percent and carbon emissions are cut by about ...

Hilton Recognized as Global Industry Leader in Sustainability by DJSI for Second Consecutive Year
Franchising.com
This marks the fourth consecutive year Hilton has been recognized for ... Development Goals and drive Hilton's positive impact through its operations, ... first major hotel brand to set science-based carbon reduction targets in line with ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Letters to the editor: Presidential election; COVID-19; climate change
The Daily Camera
I hope we can do this with honor and respect, both winners and losers, and build something better for the future. Peter Kleinman. Boulder. Robert Vissers ...

A Joe Biden presidency: The likely winners and losers among world leaders
The Irish Times
Justin Trudeau will also welcome the Biden administration's renewed focus on climate change and environmental protections. While investing in green ...

ELECTION 2020 | The winners and losers of the season that never ends
Colorado Springs Gazette
Loser, Climate change skeptics: Anyone doubting or denying climate change who lives or visits Denver won't be happy about paying a higher sales ...

Microgrids:

Collaborating for a resilient 'oasis' community microgrid
GreenBiz
Microgrids are one way to enhance the resilience of this infrastructure and, in turn, the infrastructures that rely on electricity (such as water distribution, ...

Key Players Shed Light on Why the Microgrid Market is Growing
Microgrid Knowledge
The natural disasters spurring microgrid growth include hurricanes and wildfires. In some cases, the wildfires have prompted utilities such as Pacific Gas ...

California Awards $3.5 Million for Microgrid at Frito-Lay Food Processing Plant
Microgrid Knowledge
The microgrid will be installed at a snack food processing facility in Rancho-Cucamonga, California, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to allow ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

5 Socially Responsible Funds to Be Grateful For
Investment U
You may have heard of “socially responsible investing” or “sustainable, responsible and impact” investing. It's also called “environmental, social and ...

Socially responsible investing (SRI): how to get started
Motley Fool UK
What is socially responsible investing (SRI)?. This is an approach to investing that integrates personal and social values with investment decisions. It ...

Future Returns: Sustainable Investing is Turning Mainstream
Barron's
The growth of assets in sustainable and impact investing strategies continues to soar, drawing in funds from a broad swath of retail and institutional ...   

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

LLNL, Total and Stanford Release Simulation Tool for Carbon Capture and Storage
HPCwire
Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies have long been a Holy Grail of the climate change mitigation community, as such ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market– Detailed Analysis Of Current Industry Figures ...
re:Jerusalem
Latest research report on “Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market” now available at high quality database of ReportsnReports.com with ...

Trending: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market Research Report 2020-2026 | Top ...
PRnews Leader
Trending: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market Research Report 2020-2026 | Top Players: Royal Dutch Shell, Aker Solutions, Mitsubishi ...

Sustainability Investing:

Going Green: The Rise of Sustainability Investing in China
Funds Europe Magazine
Recent times have seen a sea change in China's approach to sustainability investing. But although ESG awareness is on the rise in the country, fund ...

Future Returns: Sustainable Investing is Turning Mainstream
Barron's
Of the total, US$16 trillion is invested by money managers, institutional investors, and community investment institutions that use environmental, social, ...

Is green investing influencing the value of chemical companies?
Chemical & Engineering News
Is green investing influencing the value of chemical companies? Interest in sustainability-led investing has skyrocketed, but its impact on chemical firms ...

Geoengineering:

Simulations suggest geoengineering would not stop global warming if greenhouse gasses ...
Phys.Org
Geoengineering to reduce global warming would involve emitting particulate material into the stratosphere to reflect heat from the sun back into space.

Geoengineering Might Not Save Us From a Cloud Apocalypse
Gizmodo
Geoengineering is a radical climate change response that could backfire catastrophically. If it… Read more. Indeed, the research is a novel what-if to ...

Even More Scientists Say Geoengineering Can't Save Us
Futurism
Not Enough. A team of scientists built models simulating the planet's future — and they found that geoengineering alone won't be able to save us from ...

Green Bond Funds:

How green bonds will fund the coming energy transition
MoneyWeek
In spring this year, the Dutch government issued one of the largest green bonds to date: a €5.98bn green bond. The bond will be used to finance, ...

Jupiter AM: a transition bond label is unnecessary
Environmental Finance
"Green bonds do not finance green projects. They finance companies who make a promise to do green projects, in the future or, more commonly, [ ...

Explainer: What are green bonds? And how will the UK's first green gilts work?
City A.M.
“The government will not be able to use the funds to finance any policies they want, like employment or health, these will be just directed to renewable ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Cambridge, Oxford Universities to Help Start Low-Carbon Fund
BloombergQuint
The Amundi ESG Global Low Carbon Fund will aim to replicate performance on the MSCI All Country World Index. It will exclude fossil fuels and thermal ...

Governor Cuomo Announces $10 Million New York Climate Progress Program to Support ...
ny.gov
... Progress Program to Support Technologies That Lower Carbon Emissions ... Applications are due January 6, 2021 and up to $500,000 in funding is ...

New Funding in Alberta to Boost Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
JD Supra
The remaining C$100-million is being supplied by the federal government under the Low Carbon Economy Leadership Fund, which requires that ...