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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

After COVID-19 Comes Sustainability
CMM
After COVID-19 Comes Sustainability. Short- and long-term sustainability lessons from the pandemic. by Stephen P. Ashkin February 23, 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: Adams looks to create urban farming sustainability in NYC communities hardest hit ...
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Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City. Brooklyn Borough President Eric ...

Sustainability to drive post-Covid travel: GNTB chief
Trade Arabia
Sustainability to drive post-Covid travel: GNTB chief. DUBAI, 12 hours, 6 minutes ago. Travel in a post-coronavirus world will be shaped by sustainability- ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

The Potential of Hydrogen for Decarbonization: Reducing Emissions in Iron and Steel Production
Resources Magazine
By evaluating decarbonized hydrogen against these other two options, we explore ... as well as policy mechanisms to reduce industrial and power sector emissions. ... The lower CO₂ emissions of natural gas–based DRI-EAF are a ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Here's why companies should assess double materiality
GreenBiz
The new definitions of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and the two papers published by the ...

ESG reporting in Canada doubled between 2016 and 2019, study finds
IR Magazine
The adoption of ESG reporting has increased significantly since 2016, with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) being the most-used reporting ...

CRE, Decarbonization and the ESG Challenge
Commercial Property Executive
Defined by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as “the principle that determines which relevant topics are sufficiently important that it is essential to ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Texas Didn't Protect Its Investments. Now Everyone's Paying the Cost.
Barron's
For years, the markets have been sending a clear message: Invest in renewables. Renewable energy companies have been growing so quickly that ...

3 Reasons to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks
Motley Fool
Growth in renewable energy is accelerating like never before as de-carbonization expands outside the energy industry. Companies in every sector ...

3 ways companies can tap into the rise of renewable energy in Colombia
GreenBiz
In the Latin America region broadly, these aggressive investments in renewable energy could directly create 3.2 million jobs, nearly 8 percent of the ...

CDP Sustainability:

Crown Recognized As Leader By CDP For Supplier Engagement In Managing Climate Risk
PRNewswire
CDP, a leading global environmental impact non-profit organization, has awarded Crown a Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) of A as part of its ...

Delta Named Supplier Engagement Leader in CDP's Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) for Its ...
PRNewswire
Mr. Jesse Chou, chief sustainability officer, Delta Electronics, Inc., said: "Delta ... The non-profit organization CDP's annual environmental information ...

LITEON Receives Ｍultiple International Accolades of the 2021 S&P Sustainability Yearbook Award
I-Connect007
... sustainability evaluation agency S&P Global. In addition, LITEON received the highest rating of "Leaderboard" in the newly announced 2020 CDP ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

How About Wind? California Explores Plan For Wind Energy Along Coast To Combat Climate ...
Capital Public Radio News
“We believe the state of California needs to take a leadership role,” he said. ... California's deep waters and changing winds will be a challenge, and ...

Farmers can help in battle against climate change
CALmatters
Farmers can help in battle against climate change ... 19, formally marking the reemergence of U.S. climate leadership on the world stage. ... roadblocks for states like California seeking to adopt more ambitious clean energy policies.

Continuing climate change fight, Virginia lawmakers commit to clean car standards
Virginia Mercury
Continuing climate change fight, Virginia lawmakers commit to clean car ... combat climate change when the Senate on Friday voted to adopt California ... That “extraordinary leadership” helped ease the bill's passage, said Virginia ...   

Impact Investing:

Partners Capital adds global head of ESG and impact investing
Pensions & Investments
Ms. Weldon will be responsible for ensuring that asset managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment decisions, building impact investment ...

Sustainable investing surges among institutional investors – survey
Pensions & Investments
More than a third of institutions engaging in sustainable and impact investing consider racial and/or gender equity in investment decision-making, and ...

Corporations Can Support BIPOC Communities by Putting Their Money to Work
SB News
Impact investing is a subset of socially responsible investing, but differs in that — instead of avoiding harm, it seeks to make a positive impact on society, ...

Energy Storage:

World's largest energy storage system proposed in Morro Bay
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
Texas-based company, Vistra Energy is proposing to build a 600 mega watt lithium-ion battery installation at the location of the old tank farm. "Providing ...

Launch of new AES Alamitos energy storage system marks historic milestone for renewable energy
Long Beach Business Journal - Long Beach News
The storage of energy is one of the deciding factors in achieving California's ambitious goal of transitioning to 100% carbon-free power sources by ...

New energy storage facilities in high demand in Germany
Deutsche Welle
Germany's energy transition hinges on the storage of power from renewables — and batteries come to the rescue. Solar panels. Solar power is gaining ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

What's Really Behind Corporate Promises on Climate Change?
The New York Times
In a report last month, Science Based Targets, which was started by the ... Businesses must reliably measure how much carbon dioxide and other ... At oil companies, for example, Scope 3 would include emissions from cars that use ...

Asset manager Amundi to seek climate specifics from companies
Reuters
Amundi seeks data on emissions reduction plans, targets. * Plans should win Science Based Targets initiative backing ... latest by a major asset manager to challenge companies over their plans to transition to a low-carbon economy ...

Camanchaca, BioMar and Skretting in feed sustainability pledge
FeedNavigator.com
Camanchaca wants to become carbon neutral by 2025. ... Skretting and Biomar must indicate targets, deadlines and KPIs, as well as attach ... (SBTI)​​ indicating that it would work to set a science-based emission reduction target.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Warmer Temperatures May Offer California Farmers a Rare Silver Lining: Fewer Frosts
InsideClimate News
There will always be winners and losers with climate change, but the study points to a potential benefit, said Lauren Parker, a coauthor and ...

EarthBeat Weekly: Pandemic, storms call us to make peace with the planet
National Catholic Reporter
Scientists don't link specific storms to climate change, but there are some ... there are climate change winners and losers, with burrowing mammals ...

Climate change and 'advanced nuclear' solutions
The Hill
As the dust continues to settle from the 2020 election, winners and losers are starting to appear. One victor could be carbon-free energy and storage ...

Microgrids:

Microgrids for Wildfire Safety, Reliability and Resiliency
Transmission & Distribution World
Microgrids for Wildfire Safety, Reliability and Resiliency. In this podcast, experts discuss microgrids as a solution for utilities to address reliability and ...

How Houston's microgrids fared amid blackouts
Houston Business Journal
But sometimes it was because of the presence of a self-powered microgrid. Two Houston companies, Enchanted Rock LLC and Sunnova Energy ...

PG&E installs microgrids in Colfax, Foresthill for Public Safety Power Shutoff events
Gold Country Media
A temporary microgrid is a grouping of electric lines and infrastructure that PG&E can quickly isolate, or island, from the larger electric grid. PG&E can ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

New year, new MITIMCo: MIT's chance to lead in socially responsible investing
The Tech
A second reason this move is encouraging is because it breaks MIT's history of complacency in responding to humanitarian and ethical investment ...

The challenges of being a socially responsible investor
Rochester Business Journal
“Socially responsible investing” has become a big business in the investment world. As it has grown in popularity with investors and become more ...

Humankind Investments Launches First Sustainable ETF, 'HKND'
ETF Trends
“Amid the increasingly crowded sustainable investing landscape, we launched Humankind to bring a fresh, unified, scientific approach to the ESG ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) 2021-2040
IDTechEx.com
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), or carbon capture and storage (CCS), refers to the set of technologies that trap carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Hoeven: Green Plains to build carbon capture pipeline network for CO2 storage in ND
Minot Daily News
The system is projected to have capacity for 10 million tons of CO2 storage per year from up to 40 ethanol plants. Construction is scheduled to begin in ...

Carbon Capture, Hydrogen, Fission Or Fusion: Which Can Take Us To Net-Zero By 2050?
Forbes
A lot of good news has emerged from the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) space. Today, it is possible to retrofit coal-fired power plants ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Blackstone Announces Appointment of Iain Conn, former Centrica CEO, as Senior Advisor for ...
Yahoo Finance
... today announced the appointment of former Centrica CEO, Iain Conn, as a Senior Advisor for energy and sustainability investing. Conn will bring his ...

When green investments pay off
Chicago Booth Review
Morningstar, the investment research company, rates a fund's sustainability according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and it ...

Blackstone Announces Appointment of Iain Conn, former Centrica CEO, as Senior Advisor for ...
Business Wire
We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work.

Geoengineering:

A first-of-its-kind geoengineering experiment is about to take its first step
MIT Technology Review
Harvard scientists plan to launch a balloon this summer to test the equipment needed for the first geoengineering experiments in the stratosphere. Cody ...

DIMMING THE SUN: Bill Gates and other Family Office Owners Allocate Capital to Solar ...
Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute
Solar geoengineering refers to proposed approaches to cool the Earth by reflecting solar radiation back to space. Some of these experimental ideas ...

Tucson Opinion: Government can help, but it's time to let the market loose on carbon
Arizona Daily Star
15 op-ed on global warming and geoengineering. Aside from nuclear proliferation, global warming is probably the most dire ongoing threat to human ...

Green Bond Funds:

Commentary: Here's how green bonds will take Singapore's reputation as a finance hub to the next ...
CNA
This move positions Singapore yet more firmly at the centre of the green bond market regionally, even as it compliments Singapore's already prominent ...

LGIM launches green bond ETF
Funds Europe Magazine
The fund implements ESG scoring and screening methodology, focusing on bonds that have been reviewed by the independent Climate Bonds ...

Connecting and developing markets
Environmental Finance
María Netto, principal specialist of the Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division at the IDB: When we started working on green bonds five to six ...

Low Carbon Funds:

US Financial Services Leaders Support Principles for Low-Carbon Transition
Insurance Journal
The support comes following the release of the Principles for a U.S. Transition to a Sustainable Low-Carbon Economy by the U.S. Climate Finance ...

Financial services group sets low-carbon transition principles
Pensions & Investments
Financial services members of the U.S. Climate Finance Working Group published their principles for transitioning to a low-carbon economy Thursday.

Nomura: helping to finance Asia's low-carbon transition
Environmental Finance
Environmental Finance: What were the highlights for the sustainable bond business at Nomura in 2020? Jarek Olszowka: We had a great 2020 in terms ...