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Data Driven Decision Making, Covid & Community Climate Behavior: 

Business Insider
Marria shares how digital resilience and data-driven decision making will ... It's no secret that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a ... changing business and geopolitical environment — advanced analytics, ... to understanding relationships and behaviors of customers and third parties in the ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Can sustainability survive COVID-19?
Nutritional Outlook
So now, with the COVID-19 pandemic sowing further confusion in our lives, might consumers' commitment to sustainable consumption—and the ...

Covid-19 Gave Fashion the Chance to Change for the Better — But So Far, Results Are Mixed
Fashionista
Forty-five percent of respondents surveyed claimed to be making more sustainable choices that they intend to continue post-pandemic. A July survey by ...

Do These Coronavirus Vaccine Companies Have a Place in an ESG Portfolio?
Motley Fool
AstraZeneca goes further with its environmental policies, deriving 62% of its electricity use from sustainable sources. It also recycles 44% of its waste ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonizing the supply chain
REVE
Siemens Gamesa deployed?a decarbonization project for the tower supply ... which?was?verified by the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi)?this summer. ... learned that can be applied to other areas of the organization,?for sure.

Transport Decarbonization: How Do We Make the Economics Work?
World Bank Group
"Making the economics of transport decarbonization work is crucial not only to the ... Adding, “Ethiopia also has the need for data-based mobility decision. ... and how it helps or deters progress towards decarbonizing the sector.

Trend toward green energy, decarbonization is an opportunity for African mining
BusinessGhana
Trend toward green energy, decarbonization is an opportunity for African mining ... Africa's minerals sector should seize the opportunities presented by the ... its mineral resources strategically for broad-based, inclusive development.

Global Reporting Initiative:

The Purpose Of The IBC/WEF Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics Initiative: A Conversation With Brian ...
Forbes
Yes, companies have been reporting to GRI standards for many years and, more recently, to SASB's standards and the recommendations of the Task ...

Sustainability groups come together on prototypes of disclosure standards
Accounting Today
GRI's vision is of a sustainable future that is supported by global sustainability reporting standards, which inform all stakeholders — from investors ...

Towards circular economy: European manufacturers tend not to report on their actions

EurekAlert
GRI is an independent, international organisation that provides the world's most widely used standards for sustainability reporting. While selecting the ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Big Stimulus For Clean Energy: Covid Relief Bill Includes Green Tax Credits For Solar, Wind And ...
Forbes
The legislation contains several provisions designed to boost investment in clean energy. The new package, which is subject to final votes in the ...

Pipelines vs. Renewable Energy: Which Is Better for Dividend Investors?
Motley Fool
Pipelines vs. Renewable Energy: Which Is Better for Dividend Investors? Debating the buy thesis of two high-yielding energy infrastructure stocks.

Is Now the Time to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks?
Motley Fool
After getting a lot of attention from investors a decade ago, clean-tech companies went through a bit of a "solar coaster" -- some of the early high-flyers ...

CDP Sustainability:

Ontex Sustainability Efforts Recognized by Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
Yahoo Finance
Thierry Navarre, CEO, Ontex said: "The 2020 CDP sustainability ratings for Ontex rewards our investment in sustainability expertise and energy ...

Ferrari ranks among sustainability leaders according to CDP report
Automotive World
... annual report published by CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), the independent non-profit organisation specialising in environmental reporting and in ...

CDP Recognizes Scotiabank for Environmental Leadership
Canada NewsWire
TORONTO, Dec. 17, 2020 /CNW/ - Scotiabank is pleased to announce it has been awarded a grade of A- from the CDP (formerly known as the Carbon ...   

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Landmark Climate Policy Faces Growing Claims of Environmental Racism
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Polluters also may purchase offsets, such as funding to protect forests, that can substitute for some emissions reductions. Many California leaders still ...

Letters to the Editor: It's a shame Mary Nichols won't lead Joe Biden's EPA
Los Angeles Times
Under her leadership as chair of the state's Air Resources Board, California is the global leader in effective air pollution and climate change policies.

Here's how San Bernardino students can join the California Youth Leadership Summit
San Bernardino County Sun
Topics will include: climate change and sustainability; world peace and cooperation; racial equality and gender equity; and coping with the pandemic.

Impact Investing:

These US Policies Can Help Catalyze Impact Investing—And Address Historic Challenges, Says ...
Forbes
In the face of severe racial inequities and income disparities laid bare by the pandemic, U.S. society faces gargantuan challenges—and impact ...

Why the Growth of Impact Investing Depends on Data
Knowledge@Wharton
mic Listen to the podcast: Wharton's Katherine Klein talks with Harvard's Shawn Cole and Chicago Booth's Robert Gertner about the Impact Finance ...

These advisors actually 'walk the talk' when it comes to socially responsible investing
CNBC
The process entails an intense assessment of a company's impact on various stakeholders; results are then posted publicly. Besides their corporate ...

Energy Storage:

LevelTen's platform for connecting renewable energy buyers to wind and solar products is expanding through the RE-Store Energy Agreement, ... 

Department of Energy Releases Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap
Energy.gov
The Roadmap includes an aggressive but achievable goal: to develop and domestically manufacture energy storage technologies that can meet all U.S. ...

What Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Did, and Didn't, Get from Congress This Week
Greentech Media
Clean energy and energy storage advocates are still pursuing a list of federal policies that didn't make it into this week's spending and relief bill. 0. Clean ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Liberty Global Recognized for Sustainability Leadership
Odessa American
Liberty Global developed Science-based Targets to reduce carbon emissions in alignment with the 2015 Paris Agreement. Working in partnership with ...

Buildings-related carbon dioxide emissions hit record high: UN
Phys.Org
We have some far-reaching commitments under the Science-Based Targets Initiative by leading materials companies which can serve as examples ...

Decarbonizing the supply chain
REVE
Siemens Gamesa deployed?a decarbonization project for the tower supply ... which?was?verified by the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi)?this ... main material used for towers,?is a major source of carbon emissions worldwide.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

The Biggest Billionaire Winners And Losers Of 2020
Forbes
In February, he committed $10 billion to fight climate change, and he donated nearly $800 million to environmental organizations in November.

All Politics Is Local, Including Climate Politics
Bloomberg
The idea that climate change is a “collective action problem” has held back ... “Climate policies create new economic winners and losers,” the two ...

More winners and losers from the relief bill
Politico
Khosrowshahi also appealed to the new administration's emphasis on addressing climate change, highlighting Uber's sustainability pledges. A message ...

Microgrids:

PowerSecure Microgrids Delivered Impressive Resiliency in Reliability Performance in 2020
PRNewswire
16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PowerSecure, Inc, a Southern Company subsidiary, announced that its microgrid solutions achieved a 99.5% uptime ...

Community Microgrids Face Challenges, but Tides are Turning as States Embrace Microgrid ...
Microgrid Knowledge
The report points out that to develop community microgrids, microgrid providers can potentially partner with any of the more than 3,000 US electric ...

Third-Party Ownership Models for Modern Microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
We continue a special report series, courtesy of Sapling Financial Consultants and Scale Microgrid Solutions, that explores third-party ownership ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Responsible Investing
ETF Trends
Impact Investing. Impact investing differs from SRI and ESG investing in its level of focus on direct and measurable environmental/social initiatives.

Guest column: Sustainable investing is in the spotlight
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Sometimes referred to as socially responsible investing/SRI, impact investing or ESG investing (given the environmental, social and governance ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Worldwide Industry for Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Technologies to 2025 - Profiling ...
GlobeNewswire
Furthermore, it explains the major drivers and regional dynamics of the global carbon, capture utilization, and storage technology market and current ...

2020 Market Study on Global Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Technologies - How COVID ...
Business Wire
This report provides an analysis of the global market for carbon, capture utilization and storage technologies and current market trends. It uses 2019 ...

Biden administration's focus on climate could boost CCUS
Midland Reporter-Telegram
When the Biden administration looks at carbon capture, utilization and storage, the question is whether they support capture as long as it's not used to ...

Sustainability Investing:

Investing in the Future of Food: Food-tech investments target productivity, quality & sustainability
FoodNavigator-USA.com
Pandemic-fueled consumer demand for food that is healthier, more sustainable, ethically produced and easier to access has fueled a “burst of ...

Doing Good: Where Sustainable Investing Gets It Wrong
INSEAD Knowledge
Sustainable investing covers a wide range of strategies, from exclusion of firms on ethical or moral grounds, through ESG integration that seeks to ...

5 Ways The Biden Administration Can Drive Sustainable Investing In Its First 100 Days
Forbes
Like destructive floodwaters, the impact of the Trump administration's efforts to discourage sustainable investing will recede only over time. Although ...

Geoengineering:

Pandemic Leads Geoengineering Experiment to Move from US to Sweden
Scientific American
The geoengineering program is meant to prevent heat from building up in the atmosphere. Later tests would also analyze whether dispersing ...

Can We Use Geoengineering to Defend Ourselves?
Council on Foreign Relations
The world needs to consider geoengineering uses now before we are forced into a hasty decision with potentially disastrous consequences. Blog Post ...

Planned Harvard balloon test in Sweden stirs solar geoengineering unease
Reuters UK
“There are very many real concerns” about the risks of climate change and solar geoengineering, said David Keith, who is involved in the project and ...

Green Bond Funds:

Why Going Green Saves Bond Borrowers Money
The Wall Street Journal
A growing body of research shows that companies and governments that borrow using so-called green bonds can save a bit of money. The market for ...

NNIP predicts major European green bond growth in 2021
Funds Europe Magazine
ESG and green finance are really entering the mainstream. The pandemic has created a positive boost too, as a lot of countries clearly need more ...

US falls further behind Europe in fast-growing ESG market
Pensions & Investments
Europe dominates in the debt markets, where U.S. green bond sales fell 5% in a record year for global issuance, and in sustainable funds, where ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Third of low-carbon funds invest in oil and gas, think tank finds
FT Adviser
Warning bells have been sounded that investors could be misled when choosing climate-related funds as a third of low-carbon portfolios have been ...

Yi Gang: Supporting low carbon development with green finance
bis.org
It also means, to meet this climate objective, China needs to speed up its transition to low-carbon production and consumption. China has made great ...

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