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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Coronavirus: How can travel be more sustainable post-pandemic?
Deutsche Welle
The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled global tourism, but there's been a growing demand for a sustainable reboot of the sector as a whole. How do ...

YNAP: 'Covid has opened up people's eyes to sustainability'
Drapers
Drapers Sustainable Fashion Conference heard from Giorgia Roversi, director of sustainability and inclusion at Yoox Net-a-Porter Group, Clément ...

Can ESG adoption drive a sustainable coronavirus recovery in the Gulf?
Oxford Business Group
Adoption of ESG principles could aid a sustainable recovery from Covid-19 in the Gulf. The coronavirus pandemic has raised awareness among GCC ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

CERAWEEK: Oil, gas industry must hasten pace of decarbonization effort, Moniz says
S&P Global
But he was optimistic the sector would put its skill set to work in helping bring about pragmatic solutions to deep decarbonization. Moniz, along with ...

NREL Announces Strategy For Decarbonization In Transportation
The National Law Review
A strategy based on research and engineering, it aims to enable industry stakeholders, government bodies, communities, and early adopters to meet ...

BBVA announces coal phase-out
BBVA
According to the IPCC, coal-based electricity generation must be reduced to near zero to achieve a net carbon-neutral economy by 2050. ... with plans and targets to help the decarbonization of its clients in all sectors with intensive ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Global ESG Study Shows Miserable Environmental Transparency for Dow Jones Companies
Environment + Energy Leader
Other frameworks, like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also informed the study criteria.

IPG Releases Sixth Annual GRI Report
GlobeNewswire
IPG Releases Sixth Annual GRI Report. Report Reflects New Level of ESG Transparency for the Company as it Expands Emissions Measurements and ...

IFRS Foundation moves ahead on international sustainability standards board
Accounting Today
... an overwhelming need for global sustainability reporting standards. ... the International Integrated Reporting Council, the Global Reporting Initiative, ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Provincial 'green' announcement in step with MODG's renewable energy investments
Toronto Star
Provincial 'green' announcement in step with MODG's renewable energy investments. LR. By Lois Ann Dort, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ...

Energy Transition Jobs: Silfab Solar, Energy Department, Madison Energy Investments, GAF ...
pv magazine USA
Madison Energy Investments announced several hires as part of its efforts in the commercial and industrial solar and distributed generation markets.

Clean Energy, Total sign JV for renewable natural gas production
Reuters
U.S. oil major Exxon and Chevron are also investing in carbon-removal technology, as traditional global oil and gas firms attempt to invest more in green ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP launches world's first disclosure framework for banks integrating climate and forest impact
Eco-Business
Global environmental non-profit CDP today unveiled the findings of their Financial Services Climate Change and Forests Pilot Questionnaire: the very ...

Valvoline Increases CDP Score in First Year of Public Reporting
messenger-inquirer
... Sustainability Services to assist the company in its energy use tracking, greenhouse gas emissions calculations, CDP reporting and climate-focused ...

Essity Is Recognized Globally For Its Continued Leadership In Sustainability
The Delaware County Daily Times
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Imperiled California Fish
Center for Biological Diversity
Under Trump appointee leadership, the Service asserted that major threats such as the loss of spawning habitat, climate change, drought, and ...

How 'Cutting Green Tape' can make California more resilient
CALmatters
How 'Cutting Green Tape' can make California more resilient ... Today's environmental, economic and social challenges – climate change, wildfires, ... new paradigms to achieve it demonstrate California's environmental leadership.

Commentary: Interior leadership and Biden on Climate Change security
Farmington Daily Times
Change is not narrowly defined as “global warming.” It is set in such policy terms as “security.” What have the California forest fires in common with the ...

Impact Investing:

UNC's Impact Investing Club promotes climate resilience
The Daily Tar Heel
Impact investing is a strategy in finance that looks at a company's ethics as well as potential success when deciding whether or not to invest. Many ...

Temasek commits $500m to impact investing specialist LeapFrog
Financial Times
So-called “impact investment” assets reached an estimated $715bn at the end of 2019, according to the Global Impact Investing Network, an industry ...

How Pathstone's Latest Deal Will Boost Its ESG and Impact Investing Power
Barron's
Pathstone is certainly no stranger to ESG and impact investing, which are fast becoming must-have offerings for firms serving wealthy and ultrawealthy ...

Energy Storage

'It's gigantic': Battery storage grows exponentially
E&E News
Energy storage systems are often used to capture power when the supply of wind or solar energy exceeds demand. Electric utilities, businesses or ...

DOE Launches Design & Construction of $75 Million Grid Energy Storage Research Facility
Energy.gov
Grid Storage Launchpad at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Will Accelerate Energy Storage Innovation, Boost Clean Energy Adaptation and ...

Our top takeaways from Energy Storage Summit 2021: Technology, policy, regulation, finance and ...
Energy Storage News
The changing electricity system is beginning to realise the value of energy storage. The battery storage market in the UK has become a viable ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Wells Fargo to Deploy Additional $500 Billion in Sustainable Finance by 2030
Environment + Energy Leader
Setting a goal to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 ... Support science-based research to aid clients in their low-carbon transitions.

Anthesis targets three gigatons of carbon mitigation and removal by 2030
edie.net
Anthesis targets three gigatons of carbon mitigation and removal by 2030 ... The strategies will be informed by science-based targets. Through this ... In light of the fact that the average company's Scope 3 (indirect) emissions are ...

EcoVadis Announces the General Availability of its Carbon Action Module at Sustain 2021
Yahoo Finance
Thousands of companies are deepening commitments and stepping up to science-based targets to reduce emissions, helping to keep the 1.5C goal of ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Central banks don't have to pick winners and losers to fight climate change
MarketWatch
Mandates reinforce credibility Mandates matter. · Winners and losers Making climate change a portfolio consideration would be a big shift. · Sustainable ...

The oil industry is getting greener faster as US policy shifts to climate change
CNBC
Biden immediately put the U.S. back into the Paris climate agreement. He also ... I would also say government should not pick winners and losers.

Railroads tout trains over trucks in climate pitch
NNY360
... and Congress could create winners and losers across the U.S. economy. It also illustrates how the administration's focus on climate change is ...

Microgrids:

Iowans looking towards microgrids and other energy alternatives following derecho and Texas ...
KCRG
“You can think of a microgrid as a smaller version of the larger grid,” said University of California San Diego Professor Nicholas Abi-Samra.

Microgrids could become new energy solution for towns like Tarnagulla and Donald
ABC News
Microgrids are a smaller, self-sustaining part of the energy network which are more resilient to disruptions of the power supply. Tarnagulla is situated at ...

'Wearable Microgrid' Uses the Human Body to Sustainably Power Small Gadgets
UC San Diego Health
The wearable microgrid uses energy from human sweat and movement to power an LCD wristwatch and electrochromic device. Photos by Lu Yin.

Socially Responsible Investing:

An ESG Reckoning Is Coming
Harvard Business Review
As investors who helped launch Bain Capital's social impact fund, we applaud the commitment to reorient business toward the greater good. But we ...

Two Impact Investing RIAs to Merge
ThinkAdvisor
She also is a co-founder of the impact investing platform Return on Investment & Social Equity, or RISE, which helped form the Force the Issue project ...

Biden Scraps Trump's Roadblock for 401(k) Investments in ESG
Bloomberg
The rules created a roadblock to pursuing what's known as environmental, social and governance investments, or ESG. Such strategies are on the rise ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture Rising
JD Supra
... and webinars addressing issues related to carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), but this isn't the first time I've seen heightened interest in ...

Abu Dhabi eyes new partnerships for carbon capture and emissions cutting as oil price climbs
CNBC
"I see an opportunity and an important role for carbon capture and storage across sectors that are hard to decarbonize and that use the most energy, ...

Carbon Capture Technology Faces a Difficult Few Years, Finds IDTechEx Research
PRNewswire
Although each aspect of CO2 capture, utilization, and storage faces its own challenges, a common challenge facing all aspects of the industry is that of ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Climate Action Pursuit: Sustainability Investing, the Obstacles, and the Opportunities
Chief Investment Officer
Market experts gathered virtually at Climate Action Pursuit late last month to address the current investment landscape related to sustainability. Hosted ...

ESG investments surged in Asia-Pacific in 2020 as sustainable investing takes off, MSCI survey finds
CNBC
Sustainable investing is taking off in Asia-Pacific as institutional investors accelerated their environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments ...

Geoengineering:

What Is Geoengineering, and How Does It Impact Climate Change?
Treehugger
Geoengineering is controversial due to the uncertainty of the effects of various geoengineering actions. While scientists rigorously study the potential ...

Bubblers: A way to save Chesapeake Bay wildlife | READER COMMENTARY
Baltimore Sun
All these geoengineering interventions can restore the quality of the bay to the way it was 100 years ago. That should be the goal of the Chesapeake ...

Fact Check: Is Bill Gates Trying to Block the Sun?
Newsweek
Solar geoengineering, also known as radiation management, is based on the idea of using technologies to fight climate change by reflecting sunlight ...

Green Bond Funds:

Rishi Sunak to issue UK's first green bonds to accelerate UK's push to net-zero
Evening Standard
Money raised from the sale of the sovereign debt will be plowed into programs underpinning the transition to a low-carbon economy, create green jobs ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Exxon CEO Eyes Money-Making Potential of Low-Carbon World
Bloomberg
Exxon Mobil Corp. sees money-making opportunities in carbon offsets and partnerships with venture funds to finance carbon capture, Chief Executive ...

UK workplace pension scheme invests in LGIM's new low carbon funds
IPE.com
The LGIM Low Carbon Transition Index Equity Fund range leverages LGIM's climate scoring framework and will reduce initial exposure to carbon- ...

The Brief: Agents of impact inside Apollo, Kapor Capital's impact fund, Chevron's low-carbon fund ...
ImpactAlpha
The Brief: Agents of impact inside Apollo, Kapor Capital's impact fund, Chevron's low-carbon fund, alt-capital for diverse founders, Cornerstone Capital ... 

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