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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Has coronavirus made us more ethical consumers?
BBC News
"Covid has heightened people's awareness of environmental issues," says ... I think the experience has escalated the sustainability movement.".

Oklahoma Human Services announces Child Care Services Sustainability Plan
KOKH FOX25
“We realize that the COVID-19 crisis has presented many unexpected challenges over the last year and are proud of Oklahoma's commitment to support ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Maritime industry players join forces to realize the decarbonization potential of solid oxide fuel cells
gcaptain.com
... solution with the scalability to support marine industry decarbonization. ... When based on fuels such as ammonia, hydrogen or bio-methane, SOFCs ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Three GRI Standards Come Into Effect for Sustainability Reports in 2021
ReportAlert.info
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their ...

Amcor demonstrates packaging industry leadership by reporting to SASB standards
Yahoo Finance
Reporting sustainability metrics in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core option for the last nine years;. Reporting ...

Luxembourg: Mapping the EU's path to sustainable tax governance
International Tax Review
However, a significant number of voluntary best practices exist as put forward by bodies such as the B Team and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Renewable Energy Investments:

Why I Still Love This Scorching-Hot Solar Energy Stock
Motley Fool
However, thanks to rapidly falling costs, solar energy investments are generating strong investment returns. That led Brookfield to start building out its ...

CPPIB Invests $650 Million in Real Estate, Renewable Energy
Chief Investment Officer
CPPIB Invests $650 Million in Real Estate, Renewable Energy. Canadian pension giant targets US multifamily and European wind farm investments.

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

Impact investors getting savvier, more efficient – report
Pensions & Investments
Impact investors are getting more sophisticated and efficient as they make performance and capital allocation decisions, according to a report ...

Impact investing finances companies that aim to do good in the world — here's how it works and ...
Business Insider
What is impact investing? · Poverty · Hunger · Education gaps · Climate change · Pollution · Child or forced labor · Wage inequality · Diversity ...

How to Add Impact Investing to Client Portfolios Through CDFI Loans
Morningstar.com
How to Add Impact Investing to Client Portfolios Through CDFI Loans. These loans can steer money to communities and causes that clients care about.

Energy Storage:

Stem, Inc. Awarded Project to Deliver Smart Energy Storage to Massachusetts Water Resource ...
GlobeNewswire
(“Stem” or “the Company”), a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven energy storage systems, today announced the Company has been ...

Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America Announce Launch of Solar + Storage ...
Utility Dive

Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America Announce Launch of Solar + Storage Webinar Series. Posted Jan 14, 2021. PORTLAND, ...

California project to assess long-duration energy storage technologies awarded US$5m grant
Energy Storage News
Indian Energy and construction partner Webcor will begin the creation of a handful of what have been dubbed 'Hybrid Modular Storage Systems' that ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Indra To Reduce Energy Consumption Emissions 50% By 2030, To Become Carbon Neutral By 2050
Eurasia Review
... emissions in accordance with measurable and science-based targets in ... well as the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi), which Indra has joined. 

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Is climate change impacting fish along the NC coast?
WRAL.com
The tropical fish might be the “winners." The losers? They have found large changes in the distribution of Summer Flounder. Asch says we are seeing ...

In veto letter, Baker objects to a lot in climate change bill
CommonWealth magazine
“My administration believes that rather than choosing clean energy winners and losers, we should instead let resources compete in a manner that ...

Winners, losers from James Harden to Brooklyn blockbuster trade
NBC Sports
Winners, losers from James Harden to Brooklyn blockbuster trade ... league moving at a glacial pace, the climate changed quickly in the last few days.

Microgrids:

California Sets $200M Budget for 'Complex, Multi-Property Microgrid' Projects
Greentech Media
California regulators are directing $200 million in utility funding to build microgrids that can power communities during fire-prevention blackouts. 1.

Microgrids – design and financing options
Smart Energy
Microgrids are growing in popularity at both public and private levels for applications ranging from enhancing resilience to reducing electricity costs ...

Solar Microgrids for Santa Barbara Unified School District Move Forward
Santa Barbara Edhat
On 12 January, the SBUSD Board voted unanimously on a contract with Engie Systems for Solar Microgrids at six school sites and standalone solar at ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Got Investing Questions? We've Got Ethical Answers
The Source Weekly
Socially responsible investing means adding investment criteria to find companies that do business in accordance with your values, while still ...

Biden's Boom: The $30 Trillion ESG Sector Is Set To Explode In 2021
Yahoo Finance
With trillions of dollars pouring into ESG funds last year, 2020 has been called the “tipping point” year for this mega-trend. But many are predicting that ...

What the US return to the Paris Agreement means for investors
ImpactAlpha
This is an example of socially responsible investing (SRI), which seeks to align portfolio holdings with an investor's values by either removing or ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

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Sustainability Investing:

BlackRock invests in sustainability analytics and data platform
Pensions & Investments
"Investors are galvanized around sustainability as a critical consideration in managing immediate and future risks, and better data is foundational to ...
BlackRock invests in sustainability analytics firm Clarity AI - Seeking Alpha

Thirteen Predictions For 2021 In Sustainability Private Equity (Part Two)
Forbes
In times in the past when there were upticks in early stage clean energy investing, the newly-minted “cleantech” entrepreneurs and investors tended to ...

Breakingviews - New World sets better template for climate bonds
Reuters
Borrowing to fund sustainable projects is all the rage and global issuance of green bonds last year doubled to $521 billion. Most funds raised are ...

Geoengineering:

As the planet warms faster, scientists study controversial ways to lower temperatures
The Boston Globe
... of highly controversial tests of what's known as solar geoengineering, a way to reduce global warming by spreading particles in the atmosphere to ...

An Existential Necessity: Floodgates in the World of Climate Crisis
fireisland-news.com
The Royal Society of Great Britain, the oldest national scientific organization in the world (its roots go back to 1660), defines geoengineering as “the ...

Bill Gates-Funded Solar Dimming Project Risks the Lives of Millions and Must be Stopped
PR Web
'Solar dimming' geoengineering would inject sulphur dioxide particulate matter into the atmosphere, thus creating a human-caused 'cloud' to dim the ...

Green Bond Funds:

Great interest in Scania's first Green Bond
PRNewswire
15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Scania has now issued its first green bond. About 30 Nordic banks, insurance companies and pension fund managers ...

Colombia to Cash in on ESG Boom With Monthly Green Bond Auctions
Bloomberg
The peso notes will fund renewable energy generation, fleets of fuel-efficient vehicles and projects that fight deforestation, Arias said in an interview on ...

Peeking into 2021: Green bonds to reach US$500 billion per year, solar on track to outrank oil and ...
pv magazine International
Green bonds are a type of debt financing instrument aimed to match investors seeking decarbonization projects with borrowers who want to finance ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Climate Adaptive Infrastructure Funds Hydroelectric Projects at 22 Existing Non-Powered Dams
Business Wire
“The Rye Hydro investment is a perfect fit with CAI's mission to fund large-scale, low-carbon infrastructure projects that withstand the policy risks and ...

Banks Make a Climate Offering
The Wall Street Journal
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) has been circulating a draft statement titled “Financing a U.S. Transition to a Sustainable Low-Carbon ...

Federal funds for new SFU centre to help Metro Vancouver cut carbon emissions
Yahoo News Canada
Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says the funding will bolster ongoing innovation as the city reduces carbon emissions from buildings and ...