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Coronavirus and Sustainability:
Pandemic has delayed sustainable development goals by decades, says former Unilever CEO
CNBC
LONDON — Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman has warned that the coronavirus pandemic has pushed back sustainable development goals 20-30 ...
Penn State students believe university is green but has a long way to go
The Daily Collegian Online
Ultimately, many Penn State students said the coronavirus has impacted Penn State's sustainability efforts. Grace Sibley said food waste and plastic ...
CNBC
LONDON — Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman has warned that the coronavirus pandemic has pushed back sustainable development goals 20-30 ...
Penn State students believe university is green but has a long way to go
The Daily Collegian Online
Ultimately, many Penn State students said the coronavirus has impacted Penn State's sustainability efforts. Grace Sibley said food waste and plastic ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
China's emissions trading system key to power sector decarbonization: IEA report
S&P Global
... carbon neutrality goals by using market-based mechanisms, with tighter regulations allowing for more rapid decarbonization of the power sector, the ...
LanzaJet takes a major step in further enabling the decarbonization of the aviation sector with the ...
GlobeNewswire
The versatility in ethanol, and a focus on low-carbon, waste-based, and non-food /non-feed sources, along with ethanol's global availability, make ...
The Innovation Imperative: Digitization and decarbonization are picking up speed and ...
Financial Post
At the same time, we are witnessing a rapid shift away from carbon-based ... Innovation policy must be aligned across all sectors of the economy to ...
S&P Global
... carbon neutrality goals by using market-based mechanisms, with tighter regulations allowing for more rapid decarbonization of the power sector, the ...
LanzaJet takes a major step in further enabling the decarbonization of the aviation sector with the ...
GlobeNewswire
The versatility in ethanol, and a focus on low-carbon, waste-based, and non-food /non-feed sources, along with ethanol's global availability, make ...
The Innovation Imperative: Digitization and decarbonization are picking up speed and ...
Financial Post
At the same time, we are witnessing a rapid shift away from carbon-based ... Innovation policy must be aligned across all sectors of the economy to ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
GRI and SASB reporting 'complement each other'
GlobeNewswire
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their ...
Mission Produce releases comprehensive sustainability report
The Packer
The release said Mission has committed to sustainability initiatives that ... the Global Reporting Initiative and aligned with the Sustainability Accounting ...
Introducing Down to Earth, our new project on the biodiversity crisis
Vox
Why a reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of an ... and species extinction pose a greater global risk in 2021 than the debt crisis.
GlobeNewswire
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their ...
Mission Produce releases comprehensive sustainability report
The Packer
The release said Mission has committed to sustainability initiatives that ... the Global Reporting Initiative and aligned with the Sustainability Accounting ...
Introducing Down to Earth, our new project on the biodiversity crisis
Vox
Why a reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of an ... and species extinction pose a greater global risk in 2021 than the debt crisis.
Renewable Energy Investments:
Is Now the Time to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks?
Motley Fool
The renewable energy trend is hot on Wall Street, but this energy giant is pulling back from new investments. Here's why you should care.
Ameren Missouri's proposed rate hike tied to wind energy investments
WSIL TV
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (WSIL) -- More than a million Ameren Missouri customers in the state are facing a rate hike spurred in part by renewable ...
South Africa plans 3 power ships, renewable energy investments to tackle crisis
ETEnergyworld.com
Rajasthan has attracted investment proposals of over 1.5 lakh crore in renewable energy: RRECL CMD Subhodh Agarwal. Rajasthan government aims ...
Motley Fool
The renewable energy trend is hot on Wall Street, but this energy giant is pulling back from new investments. Here's why you should care.
Ameren Missouri's proposed rate hike tied to wind energy investments
WSIL TV
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (WSIL) -- More than a million Ameren Missouri customers in the state are facing a rate hike spurred in part by renewable ...
South Africa plans 3 power ships, renewable energy investments to tackle crisis
ETEnergyworld.com
Rajasthan has attracted investment proposals of over 1.5 lakh crore in renewable energy: RRECL CMD Subhodh Agarwal. Rajasthan government aims ...
CDP Sustainability:
ASE Wins Sustainability Award
Business Wire
The company is also working with its supply chain to address scope 3 emissions. In addition, ASE earned a position on the CDP's A list for both climate ...
An extra helping of scrutiny
GreenBiz
For organizations that are lagging on sustainability, this shift presents a ... CDP, a nonprofit that runs a global disclosure system for companies and ...
Fifth Third Joins Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials; Commitment Furthers Bank's ...
CSRwire.com
For additional environmental disclosures, including the Bank's CDP questionnaire responses, environmental data tables, sustainable finance goal ...
Business Wire
The company is also working with its supply chain to address scope 3 emissions. In addition, ASE earned a position on the CDP's A list for both climate ...
An extra helping of scrutiny
GreenBiz
For organizations that are lagging on sustainability, this shift presents a ... CDP, a nonprofit that runs a global disclosure system for companies and ...
Fifth Third Joins Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials; Commitment Furthers Bank's ...
CSRwire.com
For additional environmental disclosures, including the Bank's CDP questionnaire responses, environmental data tables, sustainable finance goal ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Low-income Californians must help state set climate change, economic justice goals
Fresno Bee
Our leadership and regulators have to do more to close the expanding gap between wealthy Californians and disadvantaged, low-income communities.
San Jose's Ash Kalra Gets An 'A' On Climate Change
India Currents
Unfortunately, the state of California got a dismal C. The Scorecard is a comprehensive analysis of where the state's leaders stand on the environment ...
California to spend $500 million to fight off wildfires
The Hill
California plans to spend more than half a billion dollars on forest ... state legislature leadership to draw down $536 million to kick off projects to prepare ... America is changing faster than ever! ... You don't believe in climate change?
Fresno Bee
Our leadership and regulators have to do more to close the expanding gap between wealthy Californians and disadvantaged, low-income communities.
San Jose's Ash Kalra Gets An 'A' On Climate Change
India Currents
Unfortunately, the state of California got a dismal C. The Scorecard is a comprehensive analysis of where the state's leaders stand on the environment ...
California to spend $500 million to fight off wildfires
The Hill
California plans to spend more than half a billion dollars on forest ... state legislature leadership to draw down $536 million to kick off projects to prepare ... America is changing faster than ever! ... You don't believe in climate change?
Impact Investing:
The Church Pension Fund Invests $20 Million in Impact Investment Fund Designed to Preserve ...
Episcopal News Service
CPF's socially responsible investments around the world focus on economically targeted initiatives (urban redevelopment, affordable housing, ...
Five Things You Didn't Know about Impact Investing
JD Supra
Impact investments are financial investments that also consider how social or environmental factors contribute to the value of the investment, in addition ...
Social Impact Investing with Ellavoz Impact Capital
njbmagazine.com
Social Impact Investing with Ellavoz Impact Capital. A win-win for both investors and communities. By Jim Pytell, Managing Editor On Apr 14, 2021.
Episcopal News Service
CPF's socially responsible investments around the world focus on economically targeted initiatives (urban redevelopment, affordable housing, ...
Five Things You Didn't Know about Impact Investing
JD Supra
Impact investments are financial investments that also consider how social or environmental factors contribute to the value of the investment, in addition ...
Social Impact Investing with Ellavoz Impact Capital
njbmagazine.com
Social Impact Investing with Ellavoz Impact Capital. A win-win for both investors and communities. By Jim Pytell, Managing Editor On Apr 14, 2021.
Energy Storage
Spruce Power Partners with sonnen to Offer Energy Storage Upgrades, Develop Virtual Power Plants
inForney.com
With its virtual battery, which consists of digitally networked home storage systems, sonnen offers new and highly innovative energy services for network ...
Con Edison adds another battery energy storage system
pv magazine USA
Con Edison and GI Energy said they installed a 1 MW / 1 MWh battery storage system at a customer site in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
NYPA agrees to test a 1 MWh zinc-based energy storage system
pv magazine USA
The zinc particles are flowed to a storage tank and maintained in potassium hydroxide (KOH) electrolyte until required. Whenever power is needed, ...
inForney.com
With its virtual battery, which consists of digitally networked home storage systems, sonnen offers new and highly innovative energy services for network ...
Con Edison adds another battery energy storage system
pv magazine USA
Con Edison and GI Energy said they installed a 1 MW / 1 MWh battery storage system at a customer site in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
NYPA agrees to test a 1 MWh zinc-based energy storage system
pv magazine USA
The zinc particles are flowed to a storage tank and maintained in potassium hydroxide (KOH) electrolyte until required. Whenever power is needed, ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Putting the 'E' back in ESG: Lessons from the field
Utility Dive
Until the environmental (carbon reduction) and financial value of an ... The International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol (IPMVP) was ... It is used as the basis for the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) that ...
Nutrien Releases ESG Report, Launches Commitments to Drive Sustainable Agriculture and ...
Business Wire
Launch and scale a comprehensive Carbon Program, empowering growers and ... to set science-based climate emissions targets through the Science Based ... Nutrien's 2021 ESG Report is a valuable tool for investors and other ... Our 2030 commitments and ESG performance targets are ambitious, but ...
Analog Devices Advances Climate Strategy and Commits to Net Zero Emissions by 2050
Business Wire
Carbon Neutral by 2030 and Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 ... ADI's targets will be verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
Utility Dive
Until the environmental (carbon reduction) and financial value of an ... The International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol (IPMVP) was ... It is used as the basis for the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) that ...
Nutrien Releases ESG Report, Launches Commitments to Drive Sustainable Agriculture and ...
Business Wire
Launch and scale a comprehensive Carbon Program, empowering growers and ... to set science-based climate emissions targets through the Science Based ... Nutrien's 2021 ESG Report is a valuable tool for investors and other ... Our 2030 commitments and ESG performance targets are ambitious, but ...
Analog Devices Advances Climate Strategy and Commits to Net Zero Emissions by 2050
Business Wire
Carbon Neutral by 2030 and Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 ... ADI's targets will be verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish under climate change
National Science Foundation
Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish under climate change ... survival may get easier, some parts will get harder, and there will be winners and losers. ... The results show that multiple changes occurring in plants' leaves and ...
Florida Legislature: State to spend tens of millions annually fighting effects of rising seas
Daytona Beach News-Journal
READ MORE: Winners and losers emerging as state budget plans advance in Florida ... to apply for funding assistance to address sea-level rise issues. ... address sources of greenhouse gas emissions leading to climate change.
How the Fed Could Go Green Faster
Project Syndicate
It says it does not want to pick winners and losers, but it already does: ... True, even if the Fed was willing to incorporate climate change fully into its ...
National Science Foundation
Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish under climate change ... survival may get easier, some parts will get harder, and there will be winners and losers. ... The results show that multiple changes occurring in plants' leaves and ...
Florida Legislature: State to spend tens of millions annually fighting effects of rising seas
Daytona Beach News-Journal
READ MORE: Winners and losers emerging as state budget plans advance in Florida ... to apply for funding assistance to address sea-level rise issues. ... address sources of greenhouse gas emissions leading to climate change.
How the Fed Could Go Green Faster
Project Syndicate
It says it does not want to pick winners and losers, but it already does: ... True, even if the Fed was willing to incorporate climate change fully into its ...
Microgrids:
Helping Customers and Hometowns: PG&E Lays Groundwork for Permanent, Multi-Customer ...
Business Wire
A microgrid is an electric system that can operate independently from the central energy grid. “The Tulley Creek microgrid is a key piece of infrastructure ...
Microgrid Completed at Feather River Health Care Facility in Paradise, CA
Microgrid Knowledge
The microgrid includes 1 MWh of energy storage and 425 kW of installed solar power capacity. Designed for independent operation, the microgrid will ...
Australia's Northern Territory to Offer Competitive Tender for Remote Microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
This article, by Sophie Vorrath, first appeared in One Step off the Grid, a publication based in Australia. remote microgrids. By xtock/Shutterstock.com.
Business Wire
A microgrid is an electric system that can operate independently from the central energy grid. “The Tulley Creek microgrid is a key piece of infrastructure ...
Microgrid Completed at Feather River Health Care Facility in Paradise, CA
Microgrid Knowledge
The microgrid includes 1 MWh of energy storage and 425 kW of installed solar power capacity. Designed for independent operation, the microgrid will ...
Australia's Northern Territory to Offer Competitive Tender for Remote Microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
This article, by Sophie Vorrath, first appeared in One Step off the Grid, a publication based in Australia. remote microgrids. By xtock/Shutterstock.com.
Socially Responsible Investing:
Socially Responsible Investing Will Require Human Input, Not Algorithms
ETF Trends
As more investors around the world consider socially responsible investments that track environmental, social, and governance issues, Goldman Sachs ...
Doing right by clients and the planet with SRIs
Financial Planning
It seems like every day a new socially responsible fund pops up. In 2020 alone, 90 new funds were brought to market. Moving into 2021, there were ...
US SEC review of socially responsible funds finds 'potentially misleading' claims
Reuters
Socially responsible funds have grown more popular with investors in recent years. A record $51 billion flooded into sustainable U.S. funds in 2020 ...
ETF Trends
As more investors around the world consider socially responsible investments that track environmental, social, and governance issues, Goldman Sachs ...
Doing right by clients and the planet with SRIs
Financial Planning
It seems like every day a new socially responsible fund pops up. In 2020 alone, 90 new funds were brought to market. Moving into 2021, there were ...
US SEC review of socially responsible funds finds 'potentially misleading' claims
Reuters
Socially responsible funds have grown more popular with investors in recent years. A record $51 billion flooded into sustainable U.S. funds in 2020 ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Glencore, China Huaneng sign deal to fit carbon capture to Australian coal plant
S&P Global
The Carbon Transport and Storage Company (CTSCo) project at Millmerran coal plant is to use China Huaneng technology to capture a stream of ...
Glencore signs carbon capture deal for coal-fired power plant in Australia
Kitco NEWS
(Kitco News) - Glencore said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding for the cooperation on carbon capture utilization and storage ...
Oil companies invest in low-carbon materials
Chemical & Engineering News
Whereas LanzaTech has some commercial experience, Runeel Daliah, an analyst who covers hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization, and storage ...
S&P Global
The Carbon Transport and Storage Company (CTSCo) project at Millmerran coal plant is to use China Huaneng technology to capture a stream of ...
Glencore signs carbon capture deal for coal-fired power plant in Australia
Kitco NEWS
(Kitco News) - Glencore said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding for the cooperation on carbon capture utilization and storage ...
Oil companies invest in low-carbon materials
Chemical & Engineering News
Whereas LanzaTech has some commercial experience, Runeel Daliah, an analyst who covers hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization, and storage ...
Sustainability Investing:
What investors should know about the sustainability revolution
InvestmentNews
The impact of addressing sustainable issues, from climate change to racial and social justice, has become a compelling investment case and, just as ...
How Sustainable Investing Could Drive Inflation Higher
Barron's
The push to adopt sustainable practices and environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, investing, could drive inflation higher, in part by igniting ...
How To Incorporate Sustainable Investing Into Your Practice
Morningstar.com
Impact investing can also refer to public investments, with a focus on positive outcomes to the environment and society, usually within specific themes.
InvestmentNews
The impact of addressing sustainable issues, from climate change to racial and social justice, has become a compelling investment case and, just as ...
How Sustainable Investing Could Drive Inflation Higher
Barron's
The push to adopt sustainable practices and environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, investing, could drive inflation higher, in part by igniting ...
How To Incorporate Sustainable Investing Into Your Practice
Morningstar.com
Impact investing can also refer to public investments, with a focus on positive outcomes to the environment and society, usually within specific themes.
Geoengineering:
Ecological impacts of solar geoengineering are highly uncertain
Ars Technica
Called solar radiation modification (SRM), this strategy is a type of geoengineering that involves scattering particles into the sky to reflect sunlight back ...
Bill Gates Will Have to Wait a While to Block the Sun
Popular Mechanics
Geoengineering is the term for technologies that try to alter Earth's physical qualities on the largest scale possible. One example is cloud seeding, ...
Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled
Grist
It was poised to be one of the first outdoor experiments into what is known as “solar geoengineering”: the process of spraying particles into the upper ...
Ars Technica
Called solar radiation modification (SRM), this strategy is a type of geoengineering that involves scattering particles into the sky to reflect sunlight back ...
Bill Gates Will Have to Wait a While to Block the Sun
Popular Mechanics
Geoengineering is the term for technologies that try to alter Earth's physical qualities on the largest scale possible. One example is cloud seeding, ...
Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled
Grist
It was poised to be one of the first outdoor experiments into what is known as “solar geoengineering”: the process of spraying particles into the upper ...
Green Bond Funds:
Centre, states must tap into green bonds
Financial Express
They also contribute in gearing domestic financial markets for green transition. Government green bond issues are backed by those public assets that ...
Bond vigilante calls out credit investors on climate
InvestmentNews
He pushed Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager, into divesting bonds in an Indian bank that was financing a coal mine, shamed HSBC Holdings for ...
Financial Express
They also contribute in gearing domestic financial markets for green transition. Government green bond issues are backed by those public assets that ...
Bond vigilante calls out credit investors on climate
InvestmentNews
He pushed Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager, into divesting bonds in an Indian bank that was financing a coal mine, shamed HSBC Holdings for ...
Low Carbon Funds:
BlackRock Launches Two New Carbon Transition ETFs Underpinned by Proprietary Climate ...
Business Wire
For the two new funds, BlackRock systematically overweights or underweights individual companies relative to a benchmark based on their low-carbon ...
Axa IM debuts low-carbon US high yield fund
Funds Europe Magazine
Axa Investment Managers has launched its first low-carbon fund targeting US high yield and integrating ESG (environmental, social, and governance) ...
BlackRock Has Launched Two Behemoth Sustainable ETFs. What to Know.
Barron's
BlackRock (ticker: BLK) on Thursday launched the BlackRock U.S. Carbon ... that rates the companies' success at transitioning to a low-carbon economy. ... Around $500 million was invested in BlackRock World ex U.S. Carbon ... As recently as two years ago, sustainable funds were regarded as niche ...
Business Wire
For the two new funds, BlackRock systematically overweights or underweights individual companies relative to a benchmark based on their low-carbon ...
Axa IM debuts low-carbon US high yield fund
Funds Europe Magazine
Axa Investment Managers has launched its first low-carbon fund targeting US high yield and integrating ESG (environmental, social, and governance) ...
BlackRock Has Launched Two Behemoth Sustainable ETFs. What to Know.
Barron's
BlackRock (ticker: BLK) on Thursday launched the BlackRock U.S. Carbon ... that rates the companies' success at transitioning to a low-carbon economy. ... Around $500 million was invested in BlackRock World ex U.S. Carbon ... As recently as two years ago, sustainable funds were regarded as niche ...
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