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This week's post features new items from Clean Energy News, Natural Resources Defense Council, Utility Dive, PRNewswire, Yahoo Finance, Supply Chain Management Review, Renewable Energy Magazine, The Highland County Press, ABC News, www.businessgreen.com, CDP, The New York Times, The Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, Mondaq News Alerts, GreenBiz, Forbes, Energy Storage News, Engineering News-Record, Fitch Ratings, Business Wire, Vox, The Guardian, Good Times Weekly, All About Circuits, and many many more...We scour the web so you don't have to!
Coronavirus and Sustainability:
How to Make Returns More Sustainable in the Age of COVID-19
Supply and Demand Chain Executive
The problem. Pre-COVID-19, consumer returns were an issue for retail sustainability and profits. Today, ...
How COVID-19 Is Damaging The Circular Economy
BusinessBecause
He has specific expertise in the circular economy, sustainable education, and green innovation. The school is at the forefront of research into ...
Walmart's regenerative approach: Going beyond sustainability
GZERO Media
Right now, India is the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. India is breaking world records for daily COVID infections (and the real number ...
Supply and Demand Chain Executive
The problem. Pre-COVID-19, consumer returns were an issue for retail sustainability and profits. Today, ...
How COVID-19 Is Damaging The Circular Economy
BusinessBecause
He has specific expertise in the circular economy, sustainable education, and green innovation. The school is at the forefront of research into ...
Walmart's regenerative approach: Going beyond sustainability
GZERO Media
Right now, India is the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. India is breaking world records for daily COVID infections (and the real number ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Tracking Decarbonization in the Southeast: Every Year Matters and Every Choice Matters
Clean Energy News
In fact, decarbonization of the power sector is a critical tool to reduce ... to reach zero emissions based on the resource plans utilities have submitted to ...
To Reach Historic Climate Goals, Decarbonize US Industry
Natural Resources Defense Council
Like the power, transportation, and buildings sectors, decarbonizing U.S. industry is ... and new jobs in a vital part of the American manufacturing base.
NextEra sees hydrogen as key to deep decarbonization, takes small steps for now
Utility Dive
Simply adding more and more renewables and battery storage to decarbonize the U.S. power sector becomes very burdensome for customers, " ...
Clean Energy News
In fact, decarbonization of the power sector is a critical tool to reduce ... to reach zero emissions based on the resource plans utilities have submitted to ...
To Reach Historic Climate Goals, Decarbonize US Industry
Natural Resources Defense Council
Like the power, transportation, and buildings sectors, decarbonizing U.S. industry is ... and new jobs in a vital part of the American manufacturing base.
NextEra sees hydrogen as key to deep decarbonization, takes small steps for now
Utility Dive
Simply adding more and more renewables and battery storage to decarbonize the U.S. power sector becomes very burdensome for customers, " ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Vista Oil and Gas Publishes its Inaugural 2020 Sustainability Report
PRNewswire
The report is aligned with the expectations and guidelines set forth by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting ...
Stantec Releases 2020 Sustainability Report—Revenue Aligned with United Nations Sustainable ...
Yahoo Finance
The report is compliant with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards and includes enhanced ESG metrics aligned to the Sustainability Accounting ...
Mandatory EU Reporting on Sustainability Impacts is Long Overdue
Supply Chain Management Review
Supply chain managers should welcome the support the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has given to a new Corporate Sustainability Reporting ...
PRNewswire
The report is aligned with the expectations and guidelines set forth by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting ...
Stantec Releases 2020 Sustainability Report—Revenue Aligned with United Nations Sustainable ...
Yahoo Finance
The report is compliant with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards and includes enhanced ESG metrics aligned to the Sustainability Accounting ...
Mandatory EU Reporting on Sustainability Impacts is Long Overdue
Supply Chain Management Review
Supply chain managers should welcome the support the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has given to a new Corporate Sustainability Reporting ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Co-Op Offering Low-Interest Loans to Farms for Clean Energy Investments
Renewable Energy Magazine
Investing in Clean Energy Is Investing in the Future. The future of agriculture will become sustainable and healthy as more farmers invest in clean energy ...
Amazon investing in local, global renewable energy projects
The Highland County Press
The company now has 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and ...
Renewable energy investment results in billion-dollar bidding war for Tilt Renewables
ABC News
As global leaders double down on their efforts to curb carbon emissions, investment in renewable technology is ramping up.
Renewable Energy Magazine
Investing in Clean Energy Is Investing in the Future. The future of agriculture will become sustainable and healthy as more farmers invest in clean energy ...
Amazon investing in local, global renewable energy projects
The Highland County Press
The company now has 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and ...
Renewable energy investment results in billion-dollar bidding war for Tilt Renewables
ABC News
As global leaders double down on their efforts to curb carbon emissions, investment in renewable technology is ramping up.
CDP Sustainability:
Carbon accounting: Why corporates are increasingly turning to internal carbon pricing
www.businessgreen.com
Now a report from environmental disclosure non-profit CDP published this morning has highlighted just how enthusiastically the corporate sector is ...
Looking to improve your disclosure and take vital action towards a sustainable economy? Our ...
CDP
When CDP launched the concept of environmental disclosure in 2002, ... Accuvio provides an Easy-to-Use Financial Grade Sustainability Reporting ...
www.businessgreen.com
Now a report from environmental disclosure non-profit CDP published this morning has highlighted just how enthusiastically the corporate sector is ...
Looking to improve your disclosure and take vital action towards a sustainable economy? Our ...
CDP
When CDP launched the concept of environmental disclosure in 2002, ... Accuvio provides an Easy-to-Use Financial Grade Sustainability Reporting ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Biden's Intelligence Director Vows to Put Climate at 'Center' of Foreign Policy
The New York Times
Biden's intelligence director tells world leaders climate is now 'at the center' of U.S. ... John Kerry, President Biden's global climate change envoy, said he ... Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.
Opinion: California must accelerate its climate leadership
The Mercury News
Climate change once felt distant, wonky and theoretical. No more. Now it's too close for comfort. Last year's wildfires, which charred 4.2 million acres ...
Have California Democrats abandoned climate change leadership? Sure looks like it
Sacramento Bee
The era of California's big climate ambitions is over, even as California's megadroughts and wildfires worsen. California's biggest climate bill of 2021 is ...
The New York Times
Biden's intelligence director tells world leaders climate is now 'at the center' of U.S. ... John Kerry, President Biden's global climate change envoy, said he ... Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.
Opinion: California must accelerate its climate leadership
The Mercury News
Climate change once felt distant, wonky and theoretical. No more. Now it's too close for comfort. Last year's wildfires, which charred 4.2 million acres ...
Have California Democrats abandoned climate change leadership? Sure looks like it
Sacramento Bee
The era of California's big climate ambitions is over, even as California's megadroughts and wildfires worsen. California's biggest climate bill of 2021 is ...
Impact Investing:
United States: Legal Innovation In Impact Investing
Mondaq News Alerts
United States: Legal Innovation In Impact Investing. 23 April 2021. by Susan H. Mac Cormac and Kaela M. Colwell. Morrison & ...
How treasurers can lead their company's impact investing
GreenBiz
By Catherine Berman. April 26, 2021. Impact investing. Shutterstock. When you think about who makes the greatest social and environmental impact ...
Healthcare-Focused Impact Investing: Another Way To Invest For Change
Forbes
However, a growing movement toward impact investing — where investments seek to provide financial returns, but also to have a positive social or ...
Mondaq News Alerts
United States: Legal Innovation In Impact Investing. 23 April 2021. by Susan H. Mac Cormac and Kaela M. Colwell. Morrison & ...
How treasurers can lead their company's impact investing
GreenBiz
By Catherine Berman. April 26, 2021. Impact investing. Shutterstock. When you think about who makes the greatest social and environmental impact ...
Healthcare-Focused Impact Investing: Another Way To Invest For Change
Forbes
However, a growing movement toward impact investing — where investments seek to provide financial returns, but also to have a positive social or ...
Energy Storage
'Longer-duration storage' and its role in the future of energy
Energy Storage News
UK transmission system operator National Grid ordered a 50MW overground liquid air energy storage (LAES) system with a five-hour discharge duration ...
Tesla aiming for 'comparable margins in energy storage as in vehicles'
Energy Storage News
In reporting its first quarter financial results for 2021, the company noted that its energy storage installations stood at 445MWh for the three month period, ...
Hitachi ABB Power Grids forms Americas battery storage partnership with Atlas Renewable Energy
Energy Storage News
Battery storage is among a broad suite of technologies offered for ... which produces its own branded energy storage system, Power Store, as well as ...
Energy Storage News
UK transmission system operator National Grid ordered a 50MW overground liquid air energy storage (LAES) system with a five-hour discharge duration ...
Tesla aiming for 'comparable margins in energy storage as in vehicles'
Energy Storage News
In reporting its first quarter financial results for 2021, the company noted that its energy storage installations stood at 445MWh for the three month period, ...
Hitachi ABB Power Grids forms Americas battery storage partnership with Atlas Renewable Energy
Energy Storage News
Battery storage is among a broad suite of technologies offered for ... which produces its own branded energy storage system, Power Store, as well as ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
AECOM CEO Unveils Expanded Push on Carbon Emissions Cuts, Diversity Targets
Engineering News-Record
... the launch of its Thrive with AECOM initiative that commits to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and science-based carbon emissions cut targets.
EU Green Taxonomy to Channel Capital to Sustainable Activities
Fitch Ratings
Science-based performance thresholds are included for more than 70 ... Paris Agreement targets, with access to capital for carbon-intensive industries ...
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Commits to Ambitious Climate Goals: Science-Based Target Across Its ...
Business Wire
Target Across Its Value Chain by 2030 and Carbon Neutral in Operations by ... that it is setting a science-based target (SBT) for emissions reduction across its ... carbon reduction commitments, please view our Science-Based Target ...
Engineering News-Record
... the launch of its Thrive with AECOM initiative that commits to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and science-based carbon emissions cut targets.
EU Green Taxonomy to Channel Capital to Sustainable Activities
Fitch Ratings
Science-based performance thresholds are included for more than 70 ... Paris Agreement targets, with access to capital for carbon-intensive industries ...
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Commits to Ambitious Climate Goals: Science-Based Target Across Its ...
Business Wire
Target Across Its Value Chain by 2030 and Carbon Neutral in Operations by ... that it is setting a science-based target (SBT) for emissions reduction across its ... carbon reduction commitments, please view our Science-Based Target ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
4 winners and 4 losers from Biden's climate leader summit
Vox
For now, here are the winners and losers of the first big climate change summit of the Biden era. Winner: Joe Biden. After four years of climate policy ...
Green – or envious? The winners and losers in Britain's climate change plan
The Guardian
Boris Johnson's plan to accelerate the UK's climate ambitions over the next 15 years, revealed last week, will hasten progress towards a ...
Climate Change Tax Reform Goal To Not Favor Particular Technologies Gets Bipartisan Support
Forbes
The mantras of no tech “winners and losers” and “technology neutral” in new laws to reduce carbon emissions were employed regularly by Senate ...
Vox
For now, here are the winners and losers of the first big climate change summit of the Biden era. Winner: Joe Biden. After four years of climate policy ...
Green – or envious? The winners and losers in Britain's climate change plan
The Guardian
Boris Johnson's plan to accelerate the UK's climate ambitions over the next 15 years, revealed last week, will hasten progress towards a ...
Climate Change Tax Reform Goal To Not Favor Particular Technologies Gets Bipartisan Support
Forbes
The mantras of no tech “winners and losers” and “technology neutral” in new laws to reduce carbon emissions were employed regularly by Senate ...
Microgrids:
New Bill Seeks to Incentivize Microgrids for Backup Power
Good Times Weekly
Why microgrids? Microgrids are small, independent energy grids that can disconnect from the main grid. They might use batteries, generators or local ...
Could Microgrids Be a Safety Net for Future Power Outage Disasters?
All About Circuits
Microgrids stand in contrast to their large power grid cousins, which provide a network of electricity transmission lines that connect multiple power- ...
The Top Microgrid Misconceptions Debunked
Microgrid Knowledge
“The virtue of a microgrid is the economics. A microgrid connects to the grid and is compensated for providing grid stability service — resulting in an ...
Good Times Weekly
Why microgrids? Microgrids are small, independent energy grids that can disconnect from the main grid. They might use batteries, generators or local ...
Could Microgrids Be a Safety Net for Future Power Outage Disasters?
All About Circuits
Microgrids stand in contrast to their large power grid cousins, which provide a network of electricity transmission lines that connect multiple power- ...
The Top Microgrid Misconceptions Debunked
Microgrid Knowledge
“The virtue of a microgrid is the economics. A microgrid connects to the grid and is compensated for providing grid stability service — resulting in an ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Investing with your conscience
Press of Atlantic City
There are a number of investment companies that have a policy of encouraging socially responsible or ethic policies for the companies that they invest in ...
Wealthfront gives green light to investment in cryptocurrencies
Reuters
Wealthfront, one of the largest digital wealth management firms known as “robo-advisers,” will also allow clients to choose from a range of socially ...
Ubiquity Retirement + Savings® Introduces ESG Funds to Small Business 401(k)s
Business Wire
Plan sponsors now have the opportunity to incorporate socially responsible investments into their plan's investment portfolios. “Ultimately, it's about the ...
Press of Atlantic City
There are a number of investment companies that have a policy of encouraging socially responsible or ethic policies for the companies that they invest in ...
Wealthfront gives green light to investment in cryptocurrencies
Reuters
Wealthfront, one of the largest digital wealth management firms known as “robo-advisers,” will also allow clients to choose from a range of socially ...
Ubiquity Retirement + Savings® Introduces ESG Funds to Small Business 401(k)s
Business Wire
Plan sponsors now have the opportunity to incorporate socially responsible investments into their plan's investment portfolios. “Ultimately, it's about the ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Big Oil is just one industry hoping carbon capture will help it survive the new green economy
NBC News
“CCUS technology (carbon capture, utilization and storage) is ready to deploy now,” Joshua Hicks, a spokesperson for BP, told NBC News in an ...
Exxon's $100 Billion Carbon Capture Plan: Big, Challenging And Needed
Forbes
The momentum behind carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) as a business opportunity with obvious synergies to the oil and gas industry ...
Barrasso: Wyoming is on the cutting edge of carbon capture research and innovation
KULR-TV
Barrasso: Wyoming is on the cutting edge of carbon capture research and innovation ... climate change, we will need carbon capture, utilization and storage. ... “The USE IT Act supports carbon capture utilization and sequestration ...
NBC News
“CCUS technology (carbon capture, utilization and storage) is ready to deploy now,” Joshua Hicks, a spokesperson for BP, told NBC News in an ...
Exxon's $100 Billion Carbon Capture Plan: Big, Challenging And Needed
Forbes
The momentum behind carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) as a business opportunity with obvious synergies to the oil and gas industry ...
Barrasso: Wyoming is on the cutting edge of carbon capture research and innovation
KULR-TV
Barrasso: Wyoming is on the cutting edge of carbon capture research and innovation ... climate change, we will need carbon capture, utilization and storage. ... “The USE IT Act supports carbon capture utilization and sequestration ...
Sustainability Investing:
BlackRock's former head of sustainable investing says ESG and sustainability investing are ...
GreenBiz
That is a bold claim about one of the hottest buzzwords in sustainable investing, but Fancy knows what he's talking about: He was recruited by the ...
UNC-Chapel Hill launches innovative sustainability programs thanks to new Champion ...
UNC News
“The Champion Sustainability Fund will open new doors for our sustainability work and allow us to invest in projects and practices that benefit our ...
Carolina launches innovative sustainability programs thanks to new Champion Sustainability Fund
UNC Chapell Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will soon get a big boost as it works to create a more sustainable campus. A $1 million investment from ...
GreenBiz
That is a bold claim about one of the hottest buzzwords in sustainable investing, but Fancy knows what he's talking about: He was recruited by the ...
UNC-Chapel Hill launches innovative sustainability programs thanks to new Champion ...
UNC News
“The Champion Sustainability Fund will open new doors for our sustainability work and allow us to invest in projects and practices that benefit our ...
Carolina launches innovative sustainability programs thanks to new Champion Sustainability Fund
UNC Chapell Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will soon get a big boost as it works to create a more sustainable campus. A $1 million investment from ...
Geoengineering:
Carbon capture and "dimming" the sun: Climate geoengineering poses technical and ethical ...
CBS News
So, many experts say drastic times call for drastic measures, arguing that technology like climate geoengineering should be part of the solution toolkit.
Geoengineering: A controversial solution that could help fight climate change
Yahoo News
But geoengineering, or the manmade manipulation of the climate, is not free of risks. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli ...
UCR ecologist on geoengineering: a new solution to the climate crisis
UC Riverside
Solar geoengineering involves alternate means of offsetting heat trapped by human-generated carbon emissions. One proposed way of accomplishing ...
CBS News
So, many experts say drastic times call for drastic measures, arguing that technology like climate geoengineering should be part of the solution toolkit.
Geoengineering: A controversial solution that could help fight climate change
Yahoo News
But geoengineering, or the manmade manipulation of the climate, is not free of risks. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli ...
UCR ecologist on geoengineering: a new solution to the climate crisis
UC Riverside
Solar geoengineering involves alternate means of offsetting heat trapped by human-generated carbon emissions. One proposed way of accomplishing ...
Green Bond Funds:
Greencells forms agrophotovoltaics joint venture after green bond issue
PV-Tech
... Greencells' chief executive officer, said that demand for green bonds from established solar industry players is “unbroken”. “With the bond funds, we ...
Hungary Is Seeking Buyers for the Longest Sovereign Green Bond
Bloomberg
“The debt agency should start small while trying to develop a yield curve, and investors will ultimately come,” said Andreas Rein, a money manager at ...
Sustainable Finance: The Next Frontier in Data Centers' Climate Response
Data Center Frontier
Equinix, Aligned and Digital Realty have all raised funds in the past year using green bonds or sustainability-linked loans. There will be more green ...
PV-Tech
... Greencells' chief executive officer, said that demand for green bonds from established solar industry players is “unbroken”. “With the bond funds, we ...
Hungary Is Seeking Buyers for the Longest Sovereign Green Bond
Bloomberg
“The debt agency should start small while trying to develop a yield curve, and investors will ultimately come,” said Andreas Rein, a money manager at ...
Sustainable Finance: The Next Frontier in Data Centers' Climate Response
Data Center Frontier
Equinix, Aligned and Digital Realty have all raised funds in the past year using green bonds or sustainability-linked loans. There will be more green ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Climate Fund Choices for Investors Are Multiplying
Bloomberg
Low carbon funds invest in companies judged to have a relatively benign carbon footprint. DNB Global Lavkarbon, Amundi IS Equity Europe Low ...
Ilmarinen invests €170m in AXA low-carbon HY bond fund
IPE.com
Finland's largest pension insurance company Ilmarinen announced it is investing €170m in a new low-carbon bond fund from AXA Investment ...
VanEck Announces New Underlying Index for Its VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF
Business Wire
... Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF (NYSE: SMOG), enhancing the Fund's ... MVIS Global Low Carbon Energy Index is the exclusive property of MV ...
Bloomberg
Low carbon funds invest in companies judged to have a relatively benign carbon footprint. DNB Global Lavkarbon, Amundi IS Equity Europe Low ...
Ilmarinen invests €170m in AXA low-carbon HY bond fund
IPE.com
Finland's largest pension insurance company Ilmarinen announced it is investing €170m in a new low-carbon bond fund from AXA Investment ...
VanEck Announces New Underlying Index for Its VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF
Business Wire
... Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF (NYSE: SMOG), enhancing the Fund's ... MVIS Global Low Carbon Energy Index is the exclusive property of MV ...
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