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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

What business can learn from the human costs of COVID-19
GreenBiz
Dow Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety Mary Draves said the company is recognizing the intersections ...

Coronavirus Student Testing, Expanded In-Person Learning, Internet Upgrade, 'Green' Recognition ...
Patch.com
City of Cambridge survey about COVID-19 Vaccine; CSUS/King Open Campus receives Green Building Award; Mental Health Supports from ...

Rogers Releases Inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance Report
Cadillac News
The Report includes details regarding the Company's carbon footprint, approach to Diversity and Inclusion, and COVID-19 response, which prioritized ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Industrial decarbonization picks up steam
GreenBiz
The industrial sector is the backbone of the economy, producing the ... for renewable options for all of its thermal loads as part of its science-based ...

Interview: Thailand's Precious Shipping advances decarbonization, explores ammonia potential
S&P Global
Once you have the appropriate laws in place, the bunker industry would have a time-based, goal-oriented vision and would rise to the challenge to ...

How the Gulf Coast Can be a Model for Industrial Sector Decarbonization
Niskanen Center
Emissions from heavy industry, mostly from chemical manufacturing facilities and oil refineries, account for over half of Louisiana's total GHG total ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

IFAC teams with IIRC on integrated reporting assurance
Accounting Today
... working with the Global Reporting Initiative and the Carbon Disclosure Project to harmonize their standards. Meanwhile, the International Financial ...

SASB moves forward on standard-setter consolidation
Accounting Today
... social and governance space — the Global Reporting Initiative, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board and the Carbon Disclosure Project — on ...

Rogers Releases Inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance Report
Valdosta Daily Times
The Report follows established sustainability and reporting frameworks, including those published by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

This High-Yielding Renewable Energy Stock Has Powerful Dividend Growth Ahead
Motley Fool
Clearway expects to invest about $215 million into this portfolio by the end of next year. While this investment will contribute minimal CAFD this year, it ...

Controversial renewable energy bill moves to Indiana Senate
Fox 59
His commercial wind and solar standards bill encourages renewable energy investments in Indiana. He says 34 counties have banned wind farms, ...

Illinois energy bill proposes 'green bank' as national movement builds
Energy News Network
... “green bank” to finance equity-focused clean energy investments under the ... Green banks can also leverage private investment by making it more ...

CDP Sustainability:

Turn your ambitious sustainability targets into action
edie.net
How can you best deliver on your energy sustainability ambitions? ... Centrica leads by example on sustainability and is recognised by CDP as an ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Bond proposed to help combat climate change
San Mateo Daily Journal
“The passage of a climate resilience bond must be the next step in California's climate leadership,” he said. “A crisis of this magnitude requires urgent ...

Biden says US, Canada 'doubled down' on efforts to fight climate change
Fox News
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina provides insight on 'America's Newsroom.' President Biden hosted his first bilateral meeting with ...

Ford's Chief Sustainability, Environment & Safety Officer Bob Holycross to Speak at RBC Global ...
Rome News-Tribune
He will address the company's long history of leadership in climate change, including reductions in CO 2 emissions toward its objective to be carbon ...

Impact Investing:

Wealthy Asian Families Are Pouring Millions Into Impact Investing
Bloomberg
Wealthy Asian Families Are Pouring Millions Into Impact Investing. I(x) Investments, a firm co-founded by Warren Buffett's grandson, is among those ...

Corporate Impact Investing in Innovation
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Corporate impact investors use a blend of traditional tools, including corporate venture capital, corporate social responsibility, and corporate ...

Crowdsourced Impact Investing Mobilizes Regeneration Effort in Portugal
SB News
GoParity — an innovative investment platform that finances sustainable projects through crowdfunding — has enabled the villagers of fire-ravaged ...

Energy Storage

Long-duration energy storage stymied by 'significant problems' in policy
Energy Storage News
Image: Highview Power. Energy market mechanisms must evolve in order to support long-duration energy storage, with the existing frameworks having “ ...

Spain and Portugal face regulatory hurdles to unleash energy storage potential
Energy Storage News
Image: Acciona. There exists a strong potential for energy storage to provide ancillary services in the Iberian Peninsula's booming renewables market, ...

Malta's energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million
TechCrunch
That's why technologies coming from companies like Malta, an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

“Science-based” corporate climate targets are no such thing, says former advisor
Climate Home
As the number of businesses setting 'science-based' targets surges, experts ... Then there are judgement calls about how to share the shrinking carbon ... “Our mission is to drive down corporate emissions for a net-zero, 1.5C world, ...

Airbus reveals planes sold in last two years will emit over 1bn tonnes of CO2
The Guardian
... set a science-based target for cutting its carbon emissions. The aviation industry has a non-binding target to reach net zero between 2060 and 2065, ...

Cargill partners with farmers to chart new course in seafood sustainability, reducing the carbon ...
PRNewswire
It is part of the company's overall carbon commitment, with a science-based scope 3 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent per ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Railroads Tout Trains Over Trucks in Climate Pitch to Biden
Bloomberg
Railroads Tout Trains Over Trucks in Climate Pitch to Biden ... and Congress could create winners and losers across the U.S. economy. It also illustrates how the administration's focus on climate change is spurring U.S. transportation ...

The World Needs a Ministry of Climate Modification
LA Progressive
Solar geoengineering is almost guaranteed to have both benefits and costs, winners and losers. Reduced sunlight may diminish agricultural productivity.

Microgrids:

Washington State Cooperative Installs First of Many Microgrids Planned for Islands
Microgrid Knowledge
Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (OPALCO) has set up a 500-kW solar microgrid on Decatur Island, one of several island microgrids planned for the ...

Russelectric launches packaged hardware and software solution to manage microgrids
Solar Power World
“This includes providing individual components for microgrids, such as switchgear, more integrated solutions such as the Advanced Microgrid Control ...

The Microgrid Market Continues to See Growth in Digitization, Decentralization and Decarbonization
Microgrid Knowledge
The advancement of microgrids is part of a larger trend bringing more digitization, decentralization and decarbonization to the power industry.

Socially Responsible Investing:

BU's Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing reconsiders steps toward fossil fuel ...
Daily Free Press
“These included seeking to curb new investments in coal and tar sand extraction companies and increase the number of 'green' investment managers ...

Socially Responsible Investment at the Heart of CIP Saint Lucia Covid-19 Relief Bond innovation
Rome News-Tribune
CASTRIES, St Lucia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 3, 2021--. In the light of the global socio-economic challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis, countries ...

Policing Your Plate: Another Aspect of 'Socially Responsible' Investment
National Review
“Socially responsible” investing (SRI), a movement that is nothing if not politically driven, is no exception. A recent article from the Financial Times, “ ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Armstrong Joins Bipartisan Effort to Spur Development of Carbon Capture Technologies
Devil's Lake Daily Journal
The International Energy Agency has also supported the use of carbon capture,utilization, and storage(CCUS) as a pathway towards net-zero carbon ...

Fukushima's Legacy: Japan's Hard Turn Toward Renewables
IEEE Spectrum
... tax relief, and deregulation in areas such as wind power; carbon capture, utilization, and storage; and the mass production of storage batteries.

We need innovation and reliable energy
Anchorage Daily News
These technologies include carbon capture, utilization and storage, high efficiency-low emissions technologies, and transformational technologies ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Reitan Convenience Invests in Sustainable C-Stores
NACS Online
March 03, 2021. Sustainable Reitan Convenience Store. STOCKHOLM—While many retailers paused their sustainability projects due to the pandemic ...

Sustainable, Thematic Investing Is a Potent Match. Just Check Out CTEC
Nasdaq
Last year, environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds packed on record assets, stoking more conversation about sustainable investing.

How Dole Asia's New $2 Million-A-Year Fund Is Seeking Solutions To End Malnutrition, Promote ...
Forbes
The initial focus areas include crop nutrition, upcycling solutions to reduce food waste, and environmental impact and packaging. The fund is ...

Geoengineering:

Dusting the upper atmosphere could help counter climate change
The Economist
Geoengineering is the grand (and still mostly hypothetical) idea of deliberately fiddling with the Earth's systems to try to counter climate change.

Carbon Capture Can't Solve the Climate Problem Without Individual Actions
Eos
Geoengineering projects focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions like large-scale tree planting, carbon removal, and carbon storage may ...

Green Bond Funds:

Small Business Green Recovery Fund to power US climate transition
Brookings Institution
The green bonds scheme will avail financing for green bond issuances by small and medium financial institutions that offer climate financing for small ...

Japan sets sights on another record year of green bond issuance
S&P Global
In Japan, the issuance of sustainability bonds, which allow issuers to allocate funds to environmental or social projects, totaled ¥600.5 billion in 2020, ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Earth-First Funds Are Soaring
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
The end result, according to the fund's website, is a portfolio with a total carbon footprint that's 86% smaller than that of the S&P 500. Tesla, Eli Lilly ...

Green, clean, low-carbon machine – Moneyhub presents the Sugi app
The Paypers
Moneyhub utilised Open Finance capabilities to support the creation of Sugi, an app that enables users to check the carbon impact of their investments ...

Green Financing: The Key to Japan's Post-COVID Recovery?
Tokyo Review
This makes low carbon projects less appealing in contrast to fossil fuel projects and clashes with traditional banks who carry reserves from deposits that ...

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