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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Environmental Justice Plays a Key Role in Biden's Covid-19 Stimulus Package
InsideClimate News
President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief package includes a downpayment on his ambitious climate plan, including $100 million to address ...

L3Harris Technologies Publishes Inaugural Sustainability Report
Cadillac News
... company's response to COVID-19. “We are committed to delivering value to all stakeholders by driving excellence in environmental sustainability, ...

Savanna Recognized for Advances in Sustainability and Wellness Across 7 Million SF New York ...
News-Press Now
We responded accordingly and worked hard to ensure that our portfolio was appropriately positioned to accommodate tenants in a post-COVID ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Hydrogen has role in decarbonization of cogeneration: sector association
S&P Global
London — Hydrogen can play a role in decarbonizing energy in buildings through combined heat and power applications, Hydrogen Europe ...

2021 Could See Greater Progress On Decarbonization [Video]
Forbes
2021 Could See Greater Progress On Decarbonization [Video] ... Wood Mackenzie, the U.K.-based energy research and consultancy firm, predicts that more ... announcing ambitious plans to decarbonize the energy sector by 2035.

Hydrogen is currently the only solution to decarbonize some industries, RWE exec says
CNBC
"What makes us so optimistic is that, currently, hydrogen is the only technical solution to decarbonize parts of … energy intensive industry, aviation, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

IFAC pushes for accountants to measure sustainability
Accounting Today
The Global Reporting Initiative recently released its comments on the IFRS Foundation proposal. “GRI welcomes the direction of travel IFRS is taking, ...

The rise of social metrics in ESG reporting
GreenBiz
Along the way, multiple reporting frameworks have helped bring objectivity on some data points, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the ...

Sustainable Value Creation and the Professional Accountant
International Banker
... and the five leading reporting initiatives (the CDP, CDSB {Climate Disclosure Standards Board}, GRI {Global Reporting Initiative}, IIRC {International ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Apple provides details of its renewable energy investments
www.computing.co.uk
Tech giant funding green development via $4.7 billion green bond with aim to become carbon-neutral by 2030. Apple announces new investments in ...

My Top Renewable Energy Stock to Buy Right Now
Motley Fool
In essence, Brookfield Renewable serves as an investment vehicle for the asset manager's renewable energy investments. Increased focus on solar and ...

Climate Change: $131 Trillion Clean Energy Investments Needed to Avert Catastrophe, Report Says
OE Digital
Planned investment in clean energy must increase by 30% to a total of $131 trillion by 2050 to avert catastrophic climate change, with the need to ...

CDP Sustainability:

Enel X's sustainable energy solutions “Gold-Accredited” by CDP
Automotive World
As a CDP Gold Accredited Solutions Provider, Enel X is set to enhance its reach of companies to which it can supply advisory services on sustainable ...

Valvoline Increases CDP Score
AftermarketNews.com (AMN)
CDP is recognized as the gold standard for environmental disclosure, ... Schneider Electric also is a CDP Accredited Provider of global sustainability ...

Partner with Suppliers for Sustainability, Efficiency, Cost Savings
Environment + Energy Leader
The report found a combined $120 billion of increased costs among companies disclosing to CDP within the next five years from environmental risks, ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

How Californians Are Weaponizing Environmental Law
The Atlantic
Read: How climate change will affect where you live ... And what can California leaders do to get environmental review out of the way of saving the ...

California Voice: Cutting Green Tape initiative can make state more resilient
Marin Independent Journal
Today's environmental, economic and social challenges – climate change, wildfires, habitat loss and ... Having a bold sustainability vision and using new paradigms to achieve it demonstrate California's environmental leadership.

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing Leads the New Frontiers of Investing
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
The objective of impact investing is to align investment strategies with the intent to generate positive social impact while producing financial returns. The ...

Why track records matter in impact investing
GreenBiz
Alexa Blain (left) and Fernando Alvarado (right) of investment firm Deetken Impact. Leigh Anne Statuto: Impact ...

Impact Investing Is Sitting on a $30 Trillion Nest Egg
Triple Pundit
Wilcox said he began to question the impact of his own investments. Large institutional investors have access to research tools provided by MSCI or ...

Energy Storage

Maine lawmakers to consider improved energy storage systems
WAGM
Vitelli says her proposal would establish a state goal for energy storage system development of 100 megawatts by the end of 2025. (WAGM). By ...

Wartsila supplies 200MW Texas storage double
reNEWS
The Madero and Ignacio energy storage plants will deliver grid support to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Wartsila will supply its ...

Op-ed: Energy storage will boost Africa's energy transformation
ESI Africa
Africa's energy storage needs have never been greater. The continent's fast-growing population, which by 2035 will be adding more people of working ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Trane Technologies Plans to Cut Product Carbon Emissions in Half by 2030, Supporting the Paris ...
Business Wire
We urge other companies to join us in taking bold actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and backing them up with science-based targets.

Scania reports progress on climate targets
PRNewswire
... its Science Based Targets, the company reports on the progress on emission ... In its own operations, Scania has already decreased carbon emissions by ... This means Scania is well on track to achieve the target of a 50 percent ...

Ahold Delhaize successfully priced its inaugural Sustainability-Linked Bond
GlobeNewswire
SPT 1: Reduction of Scope 1 and 2 CO2e emissions by 29% from a 2018 ... The carbon emission goal is validated by the Science Based Targets ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Who are the biggest winners and losers of the COVID-19 pandemic?
The Africa Report
thinking about climate change, investing as much in digital networks as road networks, making spending transparent, convincing people to pay more ...

Texas Won't Pick Energy Winners, Just Defend Losers
Bloomberg
To be clear, city bans are not the optimal way to address climate change; Berkeley, for example, must grapple with the burden of high and rising ...

MNW: Harnessing technology for climate change
Bend Bulletin
It also means that best practices are more likely to prevail as government will not be picking winners and losers. — Brenda Pace, Bend. Facebook ...

Microgrids:

Camarillo, California Moves Ahead with Microgrids and Deeply Discounted Tesla Batteries
Microgrid Knowledge
Camarillo, California, has approved a contract with the Clean Coalition to oversee the design of solar-based microgrids at five critical city facilities that ...

Early look at Camarillo, Calif.'s hybrid solar microgrids at five critical community facilities
Solar Builder
The Solar & Storage Microgrid Feasibility Study found that the most feasible and economic solutions would be hybrid systems that incorporate solar, ...

Microgrids offer alternative power in Texas
KPRC Click2Houston
Microgrids offer alternative power in Texas. Could solar and battery powered energy be the solution to power outages in Texas? Tera Roberson, Special ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
TAPinto.net
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) ... Align your values and your investment strategy with a more personalized approach to investing. Join Marco Lima, ...

Impact Investing Leads the New Frontiers of Investing
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
The objective of impact investing is to align investment strategies with the intent to generate positive social impact while producing financial returns. The ...

Tidal Wave of ESG Funds Brings Profit to Wall Street
The Wall Street Journal
Exchange-traded funds that explicitly focus on socially responsible investments have 43% higher fees than widely popular standard ETFs. The ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Hoeven: Cracking the code on carbon capture, utilization and storage
Grand Forks Herald
Hoeven: Cracking the code on carbon capture, utilization and storage. "North Dakota and our nation are positioned to crack the code on CCUS. That ...

Cheney co-sponsors legislation to advance carbon capture, utilization and storage projects
Wyoming Tribune
“Anything we can do to advance carbon capture technology will ultimately allow for the use of more coal, which is why this legislation is so important to ...

Sustainability Investing: 

The Center for ESG and Sustainable Investing Launched by AIF Institute
Environment + Energy Leader
Natixis Investment Managers, who will join the Center for ESG and Sustainable Investing Faculty Board, say the rapid global adoption of ESG ...

Why track records matter in impact investing
GreenBiz
Alexa Blain (left) and Fernando Alvarado (right) of investment firm Deetken Impact. Leigh Anne Statuto: Impact ...

Vanguard is beefing up its ESG staffing – are more sustainable-investing funds on the way?
MarketWatch
Vanguard isn't known for its broad suite of environmental, social and governance investment funds. It has just five available in the U.S., versus dozens ...

Geoengineering:

8 states are tweaking the weather (and it might not work)
E&E News
GEOENGINEERING. 8 states are tweaking the weather (and it might not work). Chelsea Harvey, E&E News reporter Published: Tuesday, March 16, ...

How automation helps to fight climate change
Global Banking And Finance Review
Geoengineering, or climate engineering is the large-scale intervention in ... One area of geoengineer deals with carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from ...

Vacuuming CO2 'least bad' climate engineering option
chinadialogue
So Plan B from geo-engineers has been to find ways to remove CO2 from the air. So-called negative emissions technologies (NETs) have gone ...

Green Bond Funds:

Italy roundup: Pension funds seize first Italian green bonds offering
IPE.com
Hedge funds secured 3.6%, while fund managers acquired 53.1% of the total green bonds issued, with banks underwriting 18.5%. A total of 530 ...

Unanswered questions surround government's green bonds plan
FT Adviser
Laith Khalaf, financial analyst at AJ Bell says: “The new NS&I green bonds are likely to sell like hotcakes, seeing as environmental concerns are really ...

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