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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Lessons from the Great Recession for COVID-19 Green Recovery
CleanTechnica
Green Stimulus Spending: Great Recession vs. Coronavirus Recession. After the 2007–2009 financial crisis, governments announced about $520 ...

Black Friday may have undergone a 'fundamental change' due to the coronavirus pandemic
CNBC
Ex-Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon said he worries about the sustainability of online-focused Black Friday deals if people only buy what's on sale.

How the Covid vaccine success can fuel a sustainable UK economic recovery
The Guardian
Three-tier Covid plan for England: which lockdown level is your local area in? Effective from 2 December 2020. Source: gov.uk ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

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Global Reporting Initiative:

Corporate reporting bodies plan merger to harmonise standards
Reuters UK
It also follows a September agreement between the SASB, IIRC and peers including the Global Reporting Initiative, CDP and the Climate Disclosure ...

SASB and IIRC merger targets simplified sustainability disclosure
Corporate Secretary
GRI, an independent, international organization that helps businesses and other groups take responsibility for their impacts, co-founded the IIRC and ...

SASB and IIRC Announce Their Intention to Merge
Lexology
The Global Reporting Initiative, a co-founder of the IIRC, said the group welcomed the news of the merger. Whether the Value Reporting Foundation ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

3 Renewable Energy Stocks You Need to Know About Today
Motley Fool
Renewable energy stocks haven't quite hit the mainstream for investors the ... And as one of the few companies that will invest in energy efficiency, ...

Queensland's 'no surprises' budget reaffirms solar, wind and Renewable Energy Zone plans
PV-Tech
Roughly AU$8.5 billion has been invested in renewable energy projects in Queensland in the past five years, supporting 7,000 jobs, according to the ...

FG launches One-Stop Investment Platform for renewable energy investments
Nairametrics
The launch which is an inter-agency cooperation MoU on the Green Energy Investment Platform is guided within the Nigerian Energy Support ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

How Impact Investing in Asia Is Bringing Non-profits, Governments And Startups Together
Benzinga
After all, it was born out of a realization that if we don't change the status quo, humanity does not have a sustainable future. Impact Investing – A Quick ...

Hedge Fund Veteran Chris James to Start Impact-Investing Firm
Bloomberg
A company's ability to create long-term shareholder value depends on the investments it makes in workers, communities and the environment, the San ...

Ex Bank of England boss Carney: impact investors are alchemists for the world's 'insurmountable ...
Pioneers Post
Momentum on impact investing and action on climate change are among the few bright spots of 2020, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney ...

Energy Storage:

Tualatin firm Powin powers up in the energy storage race
Portland Business Journal
Tualatin firm Powin powers up in the energy storage race ... products, became Powin Energy Corp., a utility-scale battery energy storage company.

Global Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Market Report 2020-2027: Demand for Efficient, Reliable ...
GlobeNewswire
Utilities are staring at a severe cash crunch as revenues sharply decline and spot prices of electricity plummet. Energy storage deployments worldwide ...

What the US energy storage industry could look like under Biden-Harris
Energy Storage News
In a brief statement sent to media including Energy-Storage.news, Kelly Speakes-Backman said that Biden's election was in part a mandate to act on ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Prysmian Group accelerates in Race to net zero CO2 emission
PRNewswire
The project aims to set science-based carbon reduction targets for the ... Scope 1&2 (own organization) and Scope 3 (value chain) GHG emissions.

Carbon Care Asia partners with Solactive to launch first Asia-Pacific Green REIT Index
Property Funds World
Carbon Care Asia (CCA) has partnered with Solactive to launch the ... The Solactive CarbonCare Asia Pacific Green REIT Index is a rules-based index ... Emissions (NZE) target no later than 2050 or a Science-Based Target (SBT).

Wereldhave receives multiple recognitions for its CSR strategy
StreetInsider.com
Wereldhave committed earlier this year to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and mapped all carbon flows from building and material use to ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Are invasive insects better equipped for climate change than native species?
Massive Science
As bee population numbers plummet with climate change, 'winners' and 'losers' emerge. Different bees cope with heat and land use changes in their ...

Painting the blades of wind turbines helps birds avoid them
Massive Science
... numbers plummet with climate change, 'winners' and 'losers' emerge. Different bees cope with heat and land use changes in their own ways.

Top California air, climate regulator hopes to run Biden EPA
msnNOW
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Over four decades, Mary Nichols has been the regulator behind some of the nation's most ambitious climate policies and, ...

Microgrids:

PG&E Faces Backlash Over “Optional” Label for Microgrids in Certain California Fire Zones
Microgrid Knowledge
As part of the SB 1339 effort, PG&E is seeking approval for a Community Microgrid Enablement Program (CMEP) to provide technical and financial ...

Are Government Incentives a Good Idea for Microgrids?
Microgrid Knowledge
The microgrid community appears to have mixed attitudes about the importance of grants, loans and tax credits — at least when they are stacked up ...

10 Lessons Learned from Successful Community Microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
The Borrego Springs (California) community microgrid. Define the resilience threat. community microgrids. While microgrids can reduce electricity costs, ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Shareholders challenge the companies they invest in to promote good in the world
CNBC
Such is the job of shareholder advocacy, a primary strategy under the umbrella of sustainable/socially responsible investing. A small, but dedicated ...

Do socially responsible ETFs live up to their hype?
The Globe and Mail
I spoke about socially responsible investment (SRI) exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Perhaps that was my mistake. After all, I was in a city that, perhaps ...

Nicklaus: Do-good investing is gaining ground fast. Trump's Labor Department wants to slow it down
STLtoday.com
Regulators in Washington, though, seem leery of what's sometimes called sustainable or socially responsible investing. The Labor Department issued ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

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Sustainability Investing:

Why Big Brands Are Investing in Sustainability Start-Ups
The Business of Fashion
This year, Ralph Lauren and Lululemon have joined the likes of H&M Group, Kering and Chanel in pouring money into innovations that could reduce the ...

Sustainable investments one-third of US assets
Pensions & Investments
Sustainable investing assets now represent one-third of the $51.4 trillion professionally managed assets in the U.S., according to the US SIF ...

HSBC Survey: Sustainable Finance Gaining Steam Among Issuers and Investors, but Mismatch in ...
Business Wire
Over 80% of Canadian issuers report no obstacles to investing in the country's green and sustainable economy. Investors are more cautious: around half ...

Geoengineering:

The promises and perils of geoengineering
University at Buffalo Reporter
Geoengineering signifies things that humans do intentionally to make a large-scale difference in the climate. · Our book discusses two categories of ...

The most important book I've read this year
Vox
Some nations begin unilateral geoengineering. Eco-violence arises as people begin to experience unchecked climate change as an act of war ...

'Dim the Sun' to Save the Earth. Would It Work?
Science Times
One more major obstacle between global geoengineering and humanity is the reality that for one thing to be decided on, everyone would need to be ...   

Green Bond Funds:

US Steel closes on first green bond financing
Pennsylvania Business Report
U.S. Steel stated that proceeds from the green bonds will partially fund work related to the company's new environmentally preferred, low-emission ...

The Name's Bond…Green Bond
ETF Trends
It focuses on the resilience of ESG funds and the absence of a consistent 'greenium' a lower yield for green bonds compared with conventional bonds ...

Boris Johnson faces uphill battle to make UK global green finance hub
Financial Times
His 10-point economic plan unveiled in the Financial Times last month included vows to boost the City's role in green bonds and carbon trading and to ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Spain's Repsol cuts dividend, ups low-carbon spending
Reuters
... shareholder payouts and reduce investment in oil and gas production over the next five years as it channels more funds to its lower-carbon business ...

Europe's Green Opportunity
Project Syndicate
... earmarked for projects related to climate change, including research into low-carbon solutions. As this funding makes its way into the real economy, ...

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