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This week's post features new items from the Niskanen Center, Argus Media, Pacific Coast Business Times, Accounting Today, Yahoo Finance, Business Wire, Power Engineering International, The Business Journals, ESI Africa, Environment + Energy Leader, Financial Times, GlobeNewswire, Climate Home, Noozhawk, Biomass Magazine, Worth, GreenBiz, Times of San Diego, Energy Storage News, www.businessgreen.com, WFMZ Allentown, PR Newswire, The Australian Financial Review, WLRN, and many many more...We scour the web so you don't have to!
Coronavirus and Sustainability:
Report: How the Pandemic Has Strengthened Fashion's Sustainability Purpose
Sourcing Journal
After a year of Covid-19, it's become clear that the coronavirus crisis hasn't dampened the fashion industry's commitments to sustainability. On the ...
How to Navigate the Post-Covid Landscape
Entrepreneur
1. Create the in-person experience online · 2. Adopt tech tools to deal with backlogs · 3. Prepare for a hybrid future · 4. Refocus on sustainability.
Bloomberg forum moves back to Singapore amid concerns over press treatment in China
Reuters
16-19 event will be limited to 400 participants, with sustainability as well as COVID-19 and how countries can recover from its impact among topics for ...
Sourcing Journal
After a year of Covid-19, it's become clear that the coronavirus crisis hasn't dampened the fashion industry's commitments to sustainability. On the ...
How to Navigate the Post-Covid Landscape
Entrepreneur
1. Create the in-person experience online · 2. Adopt tech tools to deal with backlogs · 3. Prepare for a hybrid future · 4. Refocus on sustainability.
Bloomberg forum moves back to Singapore amid concerns over press treatment in China
Reuters
16-19 event will be limited to 400 participants, with sustainability as well as COVID-19 and how countries can recover from its impact among topics for ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Briefing: Deep Decarbonization of the US Industrial Sector
Niskanen Center
As the United States aims for midcentury decarbonization, it is critical we develop an understanding of the regional, technical, and economic realities ...
Brazil favoring biofuels over EVs to cut emissions
Argus Media
... maps out its long-term decarbonization strategy for the transport sector. ... has expressed its commitment to a biofuels-based darcarbonization plan, ... Biofuels sector executives say plug-in EVs are unlikely to take off in Brazil ...
Opinion: California's road to decarbonization
Pacific Coast Business Times
One particularly important and stubborn sector is transportation. ... One team, based at the UC Institute for Transportation Studies, studied the demand ...
Niskanen Center
As the United States aims for midcentury decarbonization, it is critical we develop an understanding of the regional, technical, and economic realities ...
Brazil favoring biofuels over EVs to cut emissions
Argus Media
... maps out its long-term decarbonization strategy for the transport sector. ... has expressed its commitment to a biofuels-based darcarbonization plan, ... Biofuels sector executives say plug-in EVs are unlikely to take off in Brazil ...
Opinion: California's road to decarbonization
Pacific Coast Business Times
One particularly important and stubborn sector is transportation. ... One team, based at the UC Institute for Transportation Studies, studied the demand ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
SASB develops new ESG standards as the SEC calls for better disclosure
Accounting Today
I'm looking forward to the foundation taking bold initiatives going forward.” ... Meanwhile, SASB has been working with the Global Reporting Initiative ...
Pan American Silver Releases 2020 Sustainability Report
Yahoo Finance
The 2020 Sustainability Report is our 11th published report and has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") ...
Alcoa Releases 2020 Sustainability Report
Business Wire
“Our latest sustainability report highlights the important work we ... has been prepared in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.
Accounting Today
I'm looking forward to the foundation taking bold initiatives going forward.” ... Meanwhile, SASB has been working with the Global Reporting Initiative ...
Pan American Silver Releases 2020 Sustainability Report
Yahoo Finance
The 2020 Sustainability Report is our 11th published report and has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") ...
Alcoa Releases 2020 Sustainability Report
Business Wire
“Our latest sustainability report highlights the important work we ... has been prepared in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.
Renewable Energy Investments:
Ten best regional markets for renewable energy investment
Power Engineering International
Indra Mukherjee, senior analyst, global clean energy technology and renewables, IHS Markit, said: “The ongoing transition to competitive procurement ...
KeyCorp unit creates renewable energy investment banking team
The Business Journals
KeyCorp unit KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) said it's created a new six-person renewable energy investments team. KBCM is the corporate and ...
MENA energy investments to exceed $805 billion over next 5 years
ESI Africa
The outlook forecasts MENA emerging as a major blue and green hydrogen-exporting region thanks to low-cost gas resources and strong renewable ...
Power Engineering International
Indra Mukherjee, senior analyst, global clean energy technology and renewables, IHS Markit, said: “The ongoing transition to competitive procurement ...
KeyCorp unit creates renewable energy investment banking team
The Business Journals
KeyCorp unit KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) said it's created a new six-person renewable energy investments team. KBCM is the corporate and ...
MENA energy investments to exceed $805 billion over next 5 years
ESI Africa
The outlook forecasts MENA emerging as a major blue and green hydrogen-exporting region thanks to low-cost gas resources and strong renewable ...
CDP Sustainability:
Amazon Issues $1 Billion Sustainability Bond
Environment + Energy Leader
Amazon has announced the issuance of a $1 billion sustainability bond. ... Amazon continues to stimulate investment in the development of green technologies and low carbon products and services that will ... #carbon @CDP
STMicroelectronics - 2021 Sustainability Report: STMicroelectronics steps up its sustainability ...
GlobeNewswire
ST's inclusion, for the first time in 2020, in the CDP1 “A list” for climate change recognizes the company's commitments and actions, including: Setting the ...
Environment + Energy Leader
Amazon has announced the issuance of a $1 billion sustainability bond. ... Amazon continues to stimulate investment in the development of green technologies and low carbon products and services that will ... #carbon @CDP
STMicroelectronics - 2021 Sustainability Report: STMicroelectronics steps up its sustainability ...
GlobeNewswire
ST's inclusion, for the first time in 2020, in the CDP1 “A list” for climate change recognizes the company's commitments and actions, including: Setting the ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
California is the biggest producer in the world planning to go beyond oil
Climate Home
Globally, even would-be climate leaders like the UK, Canada and Norway have yet to set fossil-fuel phase out dates. Oil Change International ...
UCSB Expands Leadership on Coastal Issues With Revival of Ocean & Coastal Policy Center
Noozhawk
“But now our state is confronting climate change, and huge environmental ... “California is understood as being one of the leaders in protecting and ...
Carbon-50: Leaders push for 50-state solution to climate change
Biomass Magazine
The project is co-chaired by former House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., Director Emerita at the Environmental & ...
Climate Home
Globally, even would-be climate leaders like the UK, Canada and Norway have yet to set fossil-fuel phase out dates. Oil Change International ...
UCSB Expands Leadership on Coastal Issues With Revival of Ocean & Coastal Policy Center
Noozhawk
“But now our state is confronting climate change, and huge environmental ... “California is understood as being one of the leaders in protecting and ...
Carbon-50: Leaders push for 50-state solution to climate change
Biomass Magazine
The project is co-chaired by former House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., Director Emerita at the Environmental & ...
Impact Investing:
A Quick Guide to Socially Conscious Investing
Worth
Sustainable investing is an investment approach that uses ESG criteria to help choose companies to invest in. ESG criteria are a set of standards for ...
Morgan Stanley exec breaks mold on impact investing
GreenBiz
How is Morgan Stanley entering the sustainable and impact investing space and communicating that impact to clients? Lily S. Trager is an executive ...
Opinion: Impact Investing Can Help Underserved California Communities Emerge from COVID
Times of San Diego
Such impact investments in the San Diego area have helped secure small business loans for an Oceanside-based café as well as a cleaning company ...
Worth
Sustainable investing is an investment approach that uses ESG criteria to help choose companies to invest in. ESG criteria are a set of standards for ...
Morgan Stanley exec breaks mold on impact investing
GreenBiz
How is Morgan Stanley entering the sustainable and impact investing space and communicating that impact to clients? Lily S. Trager is an executive ...
Opinion: Impact Investing Can Help Underserved California Communities Emerge from COVID
Times of San Diego
Such impact investments in the San Diego area have helped secure small business loans for an Oceanside-based café as well as a cleaning company ...
Energy Storage
VIDEO: Optimal strategies for making money from battery storage in the US
Energy Storage News
Decarbonising the grid is becoming big business and as renewable energy grows and fossil fuels decline, battery storage is a key technology within ...
Google gets round-the-clock renewable energy at Virginia data centres with help of energy storage
Energy Storage News
Google will procure energy from a US$600 million portfolio of renewables and energy storage assets specially-designed to enable the search engine ...
Retrofit and community energy projects to add 1200MWh of battery capacity to California grid
Energy Storage News
Containerised battery energy storage systems (BESS). Image: Mitsubishi Power. Mitsubishi Power Americas and Powin Energy have been appointed to ...
Energy Storage News
Decarbonising the grid is becoming big business and as renewable energy grows and fossil fuels decline, battery storage is a key technology within ...
Google gets round-the-clock renewable energy at Virginia data centres with help of energy storage
Energy Storage News
Google will procure energy from a US$600 million portfolio of renewables and energy storage assets specially-designed to enable the search engine ...
Retrofit and community energy projects to add 1200MWh of battery capacity to California grid
Energy Storage News
Containerised battery energy storage systems (BESS). Image: Mitsubishi Power. Mitsubishi Power Americas and Powin Energy have been appointed to ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Catering giant Compass plots plant-based food shift in 2030 net zero drive
www.businessgreen.com
As such it is working on a plan to offer its customers carbon neutral and ... carbon emissions in line with Science-Based Targets initiative criteria," the ...
Johnson Matthey announces new net zero targets as it opens new state-of-the-art Battery ...
WFMZ Allentown
Johnson Matthey announces new net zero targets as it opens new ... Matthey's portfolio of high-performance battery materials will enable electric ... Amidst the ongoing debate about the carbon intensity of battery production, ... of COP26, and has announced the following science-based targets (SBTs):.
The 3 Areas Manulife Will Focus on to Reach Net Zero by 2050
Environment + Energy Leader
Manulife is net zero in its operations due in large part to the carbon removals ... The company will take steps such as enhanced efficiency measures, fuel ... Manulife has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative to guide the ...
www.businessgreen.com
As such it is working on a plan to offer its customers carbon neutral and ... carbon emissions in line with Science-Based Targets initiative criteria," the ...
Johnson Matthey announces new net zero targets as it opens new state-of-the-art Battery ...
WFMZ Allentown
Johnson Matthey announces new net zero targets as it opens new ... Matthey's portfolio of high-performance battery materials will enable electric ... Amidst the ongoing debate about the carbon intensity of battery production, ... of COP26, and has announced the following science-based targets (SBTs):.
The 3 Areas Manulife Will Focus on to Reach Net Zero by 2050
Environment + Energy Leader
Manulife is net zero in its operations due in large part to the carbon removals ... The company will take steps such as enhanced efficiency measures, fuel ... Manulife has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative to guide the ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Report Says Climate Change Summit Highlights The US Return To The Agreement, And Ups The ...
PRNewswire
The report, "The Leaders Climate Change Summit: A Decisive Decade To Cut ... winners and losers," said S&P Global Ratings analyst Michael Ferguson. ... or change the sectors you receive press releases on, please click here.
Winners and losers from the 2021 budget
The Australian Financial Review
But at a time when Australia is under global pressure to seriously lift its efforts to combat climate change, the budget doesn't appear to offer much.
'Think About A Silent Morning.' Migratory Birds Are Struggling To Keep Pace With Climate Change
WLRN
“That leads to this situation where we have winners and losers,” said Morgan Tingley, a University of California, Los Angeles ornithologist whose lab ...
PRNewswire
The report, "The Leaders Climate Change Summit: A Decisive Decade To Cut ... winners and losers," said S&P Global Ratings analyst Michael Ferguson. ... or change the sectors you receive press releases on, please click here.
Winners and losers from the 2021 budget
The Australian Financial Review
But at a time when Australia is under global pressure to seriously lift its efforts to combat climate change, the budget doesn't appear to offer much.
'Think About A Silent Morning.' Migratory Birds Are Struggling To Keep Pace With Climate Change
WLRN
“That leads to this situation where we have winners and losers,” said Morgan Tingley, a University of California, Los Angeles ornithologist whose lab ...
Microgrids:
DC Microgrids, building infrastructure for energy's future
Inhabitat
Energy resilient net-zero communities are exactly what DC Microgrids is all about. Working with Ryerson University, WZMH Architects has launched a ...
Study Finds 570 Ideal Sites for Nanogrids and Microgrids in Kentucky
Microgrid Knowledge
Study finds ideal microgrid sites. The study evaluated 6,640 critical infrastructure facilities for potential microgrids. The SEPA analysts used two main ...
Microgrid Knowledge Names Finalists for Greater Good Awards
Microgrid Knowledge
From the six finalists, three winners will be chosen and announced June 1, as part of Microgrid 2021: The World Awakens to Microgrids, a free virtual ...
Inhabitat
Energy resilient net-zero communities are exactly what DC Microgrids is all about. Working with Ryerson University, WZMH Architects has launched a ...
Study Finds 570 Ideal Sites for Nanogrids and Microgrids in Kentucky
Microgrid Knowledge
Study finds ideal microgrid sites. The study evaluated 6,640 critical infrastructure facilities for potential microgrids. The SEPA analysts used two main ...
Microgrid Knowledge Names Finalists for Greater Good Awards
Microgrid Knowledge
From the six finalists, three winners will be chosen and announced June 1, as part of Microgrid 2021: The World Awakens to Microgrids, a free virtual ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
A Quick Guide to Socially Conscious Investing
Worth
Socially conscious investing is the general term for an investment that has both financial and social/environmental objectives. It's important to note that ...
Investment Committee publishes first Socially Responsible Investing progress report
McGill Reporter
The plan included the Investment Committee's commitment to publishing an annual Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Report beginning in spring ...
4 steps to take to achieve socially responsible investment goals, according to a consultant
CNBC
With sustainable investments becoming an increasing part of the international agenda, pressure is piling on businesses to ensure they have a suitable ...
Worth
Socially conscious investing is the general term for an investment that has both financial and social/environmental objectives. It's important to note that ...
Investment Committee publishes first Socially Responsible Investing progress report
McGill Reporter
The plan included the Investment Committee's commitment to publishing an annual Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Report beginning in spring ...
4 steps to take to achieve socially responsible investment goals, according to a consultant
CNBC
With sustainable investments becoming an increasing part of the international agenda, pressure is piling on businesses to ensure they have a suitable ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Can Canada's oil-rich Alberta capture a low-carbon future?
Reuters
For Alberta, capturing and storing carbon could prove a key tool for cutting those ... invested in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects, to cut ... Shell's Quest facility has stored 5 megatons of CO2 from oil sands ...
Federal grants add momentum to Wyo carbon capture movement
WyoFile
... lobbied for federal buy-in to the idea that with the right investment, the technology called carbon capture utilization and storage — or CCUS — could ...
Big Oil Mines Carbon Capture Technology to Mitigate CO2 Contribution
Plastics Today
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) involves a set of technologies that capture CO2 emissions at the source, preventing them from entering ...
Reuters
For Alberta, capturing and storing carbon could prove a key tool for cutting those ... invested in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects, to cut ... Shell's Quest facility has stored 5 megatons of CO2 from oil sands ...
Federal grants add momentum to Wyo carbon capture movement
WyoFile
... lobbied for federal buy-in to the idea that with the right investment, the technology called carbon capture utilization and storage — or CCUS — could ...
Big Oil Mines Carbon Capture Technology to Mitigate CO2 Contribution
Plastics Today
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) involves a set of technologies that capture CO2 emissions at the source, preventing them from entering ...
Sustainability Investing:
Industry 'first' debut for psychometric sustainable investing questionnaire
International Investment
Dynamic Planner is to launch the industry's first psychometric Sustainable Investing questionnaire on 7 May, aimed at all advice firms and clients using ...
OPTrust reports on effort to integrate responsible investing across portfolio
Pensions & Investments
OPTrust, Toronto, focused on climate change and diversity, and integrated a cross-portfolio responsible investing approach in its externally managed ...
NTAM selects first global head of sustainable investing and stewardship
Pensions & Investments
The position is new, and Ms. Moret oversees the firm's sustainable investing and global engagement policies. She's also responsible for fostering ...
International Investment
Dynamic Planner is to launch the industry's first psychometric Sustainable Investing questionnaire on 7 May, aimed at all advice firms and clients using ...
OPTrust reports on effort to integrate responsible investing across portfolio
Pensions & Investments
OPTrust, Toronto, focused on climate change and diversity, and integrated a cross-portfolio responsible investing approach in its externally managed ...
NTAM selects first global head of sustainable investing and stewardship
Pensions & Investments
The position is new, and Ms. Moret oversees the firm's sustainable investing and global engagement policies. She's also responsible for fostering ...
Geoengineering:
Give research into solar geoengineering a chance
Nature.com
Give research into solar geoengineering a chance. There is no substitute for aggressive cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. But the risks and benefits of ...
Even Research Into Tinkering With the Sky to Fight Climate Change Needs Public Support
Slate Magazine
Solar geoengineering research cannot succeed without robust governance and public engagement. Advertisement. Two of the leading solar ...
Column: 'Geoguessing' is here
The Salem News
So what exactly is this geoengineering? Essentially, it refers to efforts to design and implement interventions – ultimately at massive scales – in the ...
Nature.com
Give research into solar geoengineering a chance. There is no substitute for aggressive cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. But the risks and benefits of ...
Even Research Into Tinkering With the Sky to Fight Climate Change Needs Public Support
Slate Magazine
Solar geoengineering research cannot succeed without robust governance and public engagement. Advertisement. Two of the leading solar ...
Column: 'Geoguessing' is here
The Salem News
So what exactly is this geoengineering? Essentially, it refers to efforts to design and implement interventions – ultimately at massive scales – in the ...
Green Bond Funds:
German 30-yr green bond bucks market selloff with record demand
Reuters
“These are being bought by life insurance and pension funds and there are few alternatives,” Sorensen said. Germany will raise another 6 billion euros ...
Amazon raises $1 billion sustainable bond for climate, social causes
Reuters
The money raised through the sustainability bond is a fraction of the total debt Amazon issued on Monday - some $18.5 billion. The company said it ...
ESG Credit Quarterly - 1Q21
Fitch Ratings
Tighter data privacy regulations have increased the financial costs of data breaches. Rising “Greenium” Shows Green Bond Demand and Stakes of ...
Reuters
“These are being bought by life insurance and pension funds and there are few alternatives,” Sorensen said. Germany will raise another 6 billion euros ...
Amazon raises $1 billion sustainable bond for climate, social causes
Reuters
The money raised through the sustainability bond is a fraction of the total debt Amazon issued on Monday - some $18.5 billion. The company said it ...
ESG Credit Quarterly - 1Q21
Fitch Ratings
Tighter data privacy regulations have increased the financial costs of data breaches. Rising “Greenium” Shows Green Bond Demand and Stakes of ...
Low Carbon Funds:
ESG BS detector: iShares Low Carbon ETF
Corporate Knights Magazine
In many instances, “existing mutual funds are cynically rebranded as 'green' – with no discernible change to the fund itself or its underlying strategies – ...
Sovereign Wealth Funds Invest In Climate Technology, Renewables
Bloomberg
IFSWF said though sovereign wealth funds “are rarely trendsetters,” technologies that help reduce carbon emissions or help economies adapt to the ...
Houston still a tough sell for renewable energy funding
Houston Chronicle
They eventually found partners in Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and BHP, but other energy-tech start ups in Houston also struggle with a relative lack of ...
Corporate Knights Magazine
In many instances, “existing mutual funds are cynically rebranded as 'green' – with no discernible change to the fund itself or its underlying strategies – ...
Sovereign Wealth Funds Invest In Climate Technology, Renewables
Bloomberg
IFSWF said though sovereign wealth funds “are rarely trendsetters,” technologies that help reduce carbon emissions or help economies adapt to the ...
Houston still a tough sell for renewable energy funding
Houston Chronicle
They eventually found partners in Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and BHP, but other energy-tech start ups in Houston also struggle with a relative lack of ...
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