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Coronavirus and Sustainability:
Sustainability of Ophthalmology Practice and Training During and Post the Pandemic of ...
Dove Medical Press
Purpose: To review and analyse the globally established ophthalmic practice protocols during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Methods: A literature ...
Can Green Finance Spark COVID-19 Recovery?
BusinessBecause
By focusing on sustainable, equitable, and long-term outcomes, here's why green finance initiatives could be key to coronavirus recovery. chat icon ...
As COVID recedes, ensure that workers and customers can get down to business in safety | Opinion
Miami Herald
As the global certification body for LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the premier global rating system for sustainability — Green ...
Dove Medical Press
Purpose: To review and analyse the globally established ophthalmic practice protocols during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Methods: A literature ...
Can Green Finance Spark COVID-19 Recovery?
BusinessBecause
By focusing on sustainable, equitable, and long-term outcomes, here's why green finance initiatives could be key to coronavirus recovery. chat icon ...
As COVID recedes, ensure that workers and customers can get down to business in safety | Opinion
Miami Herald
As the global certification body for LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the premier global rating system for sustainability — Green ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Accelerating Supply Chain Decarbonization
Mirage News
Accelerating Supply Chain Decarbonization ... every industry to decarbonize at the swiftest rate possible,” said Jules Kortenhorst, CEO of RMI. ... generation of harmonized emissions metrics based on data provided by the user.
Mirage News
Accelerating Supply Chain Decarbonization ... every industry to decarbonize at the swiftest rate possible,” said Jules Kortenhorst, CEO of RMI. ... generation of harmonized emissions metrics based on data provided by the user.
Global Reporting Initiative:
Beyond TCFD: Nature and Biodiversity Reporting Standards Launched
Banking Exchange
The global initiative will provide insight for financial institutions into emerging environmental risks and opportunities. The body's co-chairs are Elizabeth ...
ESG Oversight - New Focus for C-Suites, Boards and Finance
FEI Daily
... Disclosure Project), CDSB (Climate Disclosure Standards Board), GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), IIRC (International Integrated Reporting Council) ...
Alamos Gold Releases 2020 Annual ESG Report
Yahoo Finance
... Standard and the Global Reporting Initiative Standards (GRI) for sustainability reporting “Core” requirements. It focuses on economic, environmental ...
Banking Exchange
The global initiative will provide insight for financial institutions into emerging environmental risks and opportunities. The body's co-chairs are Elizabeth ...
ESG Oversight - New Focus for C-Suites, Boards and Finance
FEI Daily
... Disclosure Project), CDSB (Climate Disclosure Standards Board), GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), IIRC (International Integrated Reporting Council) ...
Alamos Gold Releases 2020 Annual ESG Report
Yahoo Finance
... Standard and the Global Reporting Initiative Standards (GRI) for sustainability reporting “Core” requirements. It focuses on economic, environmental ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
IEA: To reach net-zero, renewable energy investment in developing nations must increase sevenfold
edie.net
Some $150bn was invested in clean energy in developing economies last year, according to new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis. But the ...
World Resources Institute and Ørsted: How governments can scale up private sector investment in ...
REVE
Fortunately, much of what is needed to achieve the renewable energy transition is readily available today – the technologies exist, the momentum of net- ...
Finding positive impact and returns in clean energy investment
MIT Sloan News
Yancan “Lydia” Li uses low cost-of-capital funding to bring clean energy technologies across the “valley of death” between idea and application. Share.
edie.net
Some $150bn was invested in clean energy in developing economies last year, according to new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis. But the ...
World Resources Institute and Ørsted: How governments can scale up private sector investment in ...
REVE
Fortunately, much of what is needed to achieve the renewable energy transition is readily available today – the technologies exist, the momentum of net- ...
Finding positive impact and returns in clean energy investment
MIT Sloan News
Yancan “Lydia” Li uses low cost-of-capital funding to bring clean energy technologies across the “valley of death” between idea and application. Share.
CDP Sustainability:
Superior Industries Announces Publication of Inaugural UN Global Compact Sustainability Report
Business Wire
... in alignment with the Principles of the UN Global Compact and the CDP disclosure framework. “Environmental protection, as well as occupational ...
Indonesia's biodiesel program fuels deforestation threat, report warns
Mongabay.com
... misleading to claim that the biodiesel is “green fuel,” the CDP report says. ... Another policy contradiction is the government's Indonesia Sustainable ...
IndusInd Bank makes it to Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) list
ThePrint
The CDP list is a global environmental disclosure system that ranks companies worldwide basis contributions made towards encouraging ...
Business Wire
... in alignment with the Principles of the UN Global Compact and the CDP disclosure framework. “Environmental protection, as well as occupational ...
Indonesia's biodiesel program fuels deforestation threat, report warns
Mongabay.com
... misleading to claim that the biodiesel is “green fuel,” the CDP report says. ... Another policy contradiction is the government's Indonesia Sustainable ...
IndusInd Bank makes it to Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) list
ThePrint
The CDP list is a global environmental disclosure system that ranks companies worldwide basis contributions made towards encouraging ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
'A Wake for the Whales' Marks Bay Area Deaths, Calls for New Protections
Center for Biological Diversity
They also called for strong national action to address climate change, which ... We are calling on Speaker Pelosi and all California leaders to make ...
California Assembly Passes Groundbreaking Deforestation Bill
Natural Resources Defense Council
In a landmark vote on Wednesday, the California Assembly passed a ... the world's most indispensable natural allies in the fight against climate change. ... between the country's claims of leadership on natural climate solutions and ...
Letters: Bury lines | Reject recall | Officers' response | Countering big lies | Clean electricity
The Mercury News
California is reaching a tipping point in our fight against climate change. ... of our aging and disabled populations and is addressing this head-on.
Center for Biological Diversity
They also called for strong national action to address climate change, which ... We are calling on Speaker Pelosi and all California leaders to make ...
California Assembly Passes Groundbreaking Deforestation Bill
Natural Resources Defense Council
In a landmark vote on Wednesday, the California Assembly passed a ... the world's most indispensable natural allies in the fight against climate change. ... between the country's claims of leadership on natural climate solutions and ...
Letters: Bury lines | Reject recall | Officers' response | Countering big lies | Clean electricity
The Mercury News
California is reaching a tipping point in our fight against climate change. ... of our aging and disabled populations and is addressing this head-on.
Impact Investing:
US Impact Investing Alliance Publishes New Report on Community Investment and How to Drive ...
PRNewswire
NEW YORK, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance ("Alliance"), an organization dedicated to building the impact ...
Harvard MBAs Pilot First Student-Run Impact Investing Fund
Poets&Quants
Full-time MBA students piloted the first-ever student-run impact investing fund at Harvard Business School last year. The fund, which has raised ...
Impact investing reaches double digit growth in Switzerland – SSF study
IPE.com
The category of impact investing still enjoys the highest growth rate of all sustainable investment approaches, at 70%. “We know through our ...
PRNewswire
NEW YORK, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance ("Alliance"), an organization dedicated to building the impact ...
Harvard MBAs Pilot First Student-Run Impact Investing Fund
Poets&Quants
Full-time MBA students piloted the first-ever student-run impact investing fund at Harvard Business School last year. The fund, which has raised ...
Impact investing reaches double digit growth in Switzerland – SSF study
IPE.com
The category of impact investing still enjoys the highest growth rate of all sustainable investment approaches, at 70%. “We know through our ...
Energy Storage
Energy storage deployments slowed in Q1, but the sector is on track for 3x growth in 2021, report ...
pv magazine USA
The pace of energy storage deployment slowed in the first quarter as 910 MWh was brought online, following a blistering final quarter of 2020 when ...
Agilitas acquires New England Battery Storage, Maine battery portfolio
pv magazine USA
The portfolio includes a 5 MW/10 MWh front-of-the-meter battery system and brings Agilitas' total solar and storage development pipeline over 300 ...
We need interconnection reform to unlock the benefits of energy storage
pv magazine USA
Outdated interconnection policies remain a significant barrier to unlocking the full value of energy storage on the distribution grid. Here's how to fix it.
pv magazine USA
The pace of energy storage deployment slowed in the first quarter as 910 MWh was brought online, following a blistering final quarter of 2020 when ...
Agilitas acquires New England Battery Storage, Maine battery portfolio
pv magazine USA
The portfolio includes a 5 MW/10 MWh front-of-the-meter battery system and brings Agilitas' total solar and storage development pipeline over 300 ...
We need interconnection reform to unlock the benefits of energy storage
pv magazine USA
Outdated interconnection policies remain a significant barrier to unlocking the full value of energy storage on the distribution grid. Here's how to fix it.
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Yum China Commits to the Science Based Targets Initiative to Reinforce its Climate Action Efforts
PRNewswire
... establish science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and transform business operations to fit the future low-carbon economy ...
Why Company Carbon Cuts Should Include 'Scope' Check
Washington Post
The Science-Based Targets Initiative, a non-profit group that encourages companies to set emissions targets based on the latest available scientific ...
AP Moller – Maersk to provide end-to-end carbon footprint visibility
American Journal of Transportation
A.P. Moller – Maersk to provide end-to-end carbon footprint visibility ... The Emissions Dashboard will ensure full visibility for our customers to ... are in the process of setting – ambitious science-based or zero carbon targets for their ...
PRNewswire
... establish science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and transform business operations to fit the future low-carbon economy ...
Why Company Carbon Cuts Should Include 'Scope' Check
Washington Post
The Science-Based Targets Initiative, a non-profit group that encourages companies to set emissions targets based on the latest available scientific ...
AP Moller – Maersk to provide end-to-end carbon footprint visibility
American Journal of Transportation
A.P. Moller – Maersk to provide end-to-end carbon footprint visibility ... The Emissions Dashboard will ensure full visibility for our customers to ... are in the process of setting – ambitious science-based or zero carbon targets for their ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Climate policy models need to get real about people — here's how
Nature.com
Support for action can change radically on the back of success. ... decision makers need to understand how climate policy creates winners and losers. ... A negotiator at the COP26 climate-change conference in Glasgow, UK, this ...
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID
newgeography.com
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID ... as well as climate change, undermined the Roman empire, creating conditions that boosted ...
Societal divisions could hinder EU climate policy
EurekAlert
Achieving climate neutrality without exacerbating societal divisions within ... and communitarians are frequently characterized as "winners" and "losers" ... Indeed, it influences attitudes towards climate policy across all of the ... concerned about climate change than those in Western European countries.
Nature.com
Support for action can change radically on the back of success. ... decision makers need to understand how climate policy creates winners and losers. ... A negotiator at the COP26 climate-change conference in Glasgow, UK, this ...
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID
newgeography.com
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID ... as well as climate change, undermined the Roman empire, creating conditions that boosted ...
Societal divisions could hinder EU climate policy
EurekAlert
Achieving climate neutrality without exacerbating societal divisions within ... and communitarians are frequently characterized as "winners" and "losers" ... Indeed, it influences attitudes towards climate policy across all of the ... concerned about climate change than those in Western European countries.
Microgrids:
Microgrid advocacy group restructures as a nonprofit
pv magazine USA
A microgrid is a localized energy system that can operate together with the larger grid or disconnect from it and operate autonomously. MRC suggests ...
How to Bring Microgrids to Areas Without Electricity
Microgrid Knowledge
The challenges of bringing microgrids to the more than 800 million people who lack electricity include costs, technology and financing, according to ...
Microgrid Resources Coalition Reorganizes as Independent Non-Profit to Promote Essential Role ...
PRNewswire
A microgrid is a local energy grid with control capability that can operate with the traditional grid or disconnect from it and operate autonomously. Among ...
pv magazine USA
A microgrid is a localized energy system that can operate together with the larger grid or disconnect from it and operate autonomously. MRC suggests ...
How to Bring Microgrids to Areas Without Electricity
Microgrid Knowledge
The challenges of bringing microgrids to the more than 800 million people who lack electricity include costs, technology and financing, according to ...
Microgrid Resources Coalition Reorganizes as Independent Non-Profit to Promote Essential Role ...
PRNewswire
A microgrid is a local energy grid with control capability that can operate with the traditional grid or disconnect from it and operate autonomously. Among ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Money Matters: Socially responsible investing
WIS10
“This could be anything from environmental causes, maybe social change, even religious beliefs can be incorporated into investment themes or ...
Ethical investing now a $1 trillion business
Colorado Springs Business Journal
That's changed, said Lindsey Simek, a financial advisor at Colorado Springs-based Capstone Investment. Also known as sustainable, ethical, ...
Ethical practices or greenwashing? Investors and consumers scrutinize companies' claims as 'ESG ...
Seattle Times
What criteria need to be met for an investment to satisfy an environmental, social and governance screen known as ESG? Any company that says it is ...
WIS10
“This could be anything from environmental causes, maybe social change, even religious beliefs can be incorporated into investment themes or ...
Ethical investing now a $1 trillion business
Colorado Springs Business Journal
That's changed, said Lindsey Simek, a financial advisor at Colorado Springs-based Capstone Investment. Also known as sustainable, ethical, ...
Ethical practices or greenwashing? Investors and consumers scrutinize companies' claims as 'ESG ...
Seattle Times
What criteria need to be met for an investment to satisfy an environmental, social and governance screen known as ESG? Any company that says it is ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Opinion: A carbon neutral Texas can sustain environment and fossil fuels
Houston Chronicle
Their production and use can become carbon neutral through Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (“CCUS”). From the Editorial Board. Opinion.
Carbon capture expansion a key action in achieving net zero emission goals
pv magazine USA
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects must double every five years to achieve net zero, IHS Markit says in a new report. June 3, 2021 Ryan ...
Kinder Morgan urges new tax credits as midstream firms embrace carbon capture
S&P Global
"We are uniquely positioned to launch [carbon capture, use and ... inject it deep into subsurface saline aquifers, where it would be permanently stored.
Houston Chronicle
Their production and use can become carbon neutral through Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (“CCUS”). From the Editorial Board. Opinion.
Carbon capture expansion a key action in achieving net zero emission goals
pv magazine USA
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects must double every five years to achieve net zero, IHS Markit says in a new report. June 3, 2021 Ryan ...
Kinder Morgan urges new tax credits as midstream firms embrace carbon capture
S&P Global
"We are uniquely positioned to launch [carbon capture, use and ... inject it deep into subsurface saline aquifers, where it would be permanently stored.
Sustainability Investing:
Founders must show investors that sustainability is more than lip service
TechCrunch
Investors today view sustainability as an important pillar of any business model and are looking for entrepreneurs who “get it” from the beginning to ...
In shift, top US fund group backs sustainability disclosure rules
Reuters
Investors have poured money into funds that base investment decisions on sustainability criteria, in turn prodding big fund firms to support shareholder ...
Philippe Cousteau And Doug Heske Reimagine Impact Investing—$51 Billion Says It's A Great Bet
Forbes
In 2020, investors poured $51 billion into impact investing. This focus on ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) more than doubled from 2019 and is ...
TechCrunch
Investors today view sustainability as an important pillar of any business model and are looking for entrepreneurs who “get it” from the beginning to ...
In shift, top US fund group backs sustainability disclosure rules
Reuters
Investors have poured money into funds that base investment decisions on sustainability criteria, in turn prodding big fund firms to support shareholder ...
Philippe Cousteau And Doug Heske Reimagine Impact Investing—$51 Billion Says It's A Great Bet
Forbes
In 2020, investors poured $51 billion into impact investing. This focus on ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) more than doubled from 2019 and is ...
Geoengineering:
Solar geoengineering: Scientists decry a 'foolish' idea
Environmental Health News
Geoengineering is the deliberate, large-scale intervention of major Earth systems to blunt climate change's impact: adding sulfate particles to the ...
This Geoengineering Trick Could Maybe Save the Great Barrier Reef
Mother Jones
This Geoengineering Trick Could Maybe Save the Great Barrier Reef. Of course, you might have to repeat it twice a week—”for all eternity.” ...
Geoengineering: A worst-case Plan B? Or a fuse not to be lit?
Yale Climate Connections
Solar geoengineering is “the worst possible way to address climate change that we need to take seriously,” said Peter Fromhoff, chief climate scientist ...
Environmental Health News
Geoengineering is the deliberate, large-scale intervention of major Earth systems to blunt climate change's impact: adding sulfate particles to the ...
This Geoengineering Trick Could Maybe Save the Great Barrier Reef
Mother Jones
This Geoengineering Trick Could Maybe Save the Great Barrier Reef. Of course, you might have to repeat it twice a week—”for all eternity.” ...
Geoengineering: A worst-case Plan B? Or a fuse not to be lit?
Yale Climate Connections
Solar geoengineering is “the worst possible way to address climate change that we need to take seriously,” said Peter Fromhoff, chief climate scientist ...
Green Bond Funds:
How Green Are Green Bonds?
Forbes
But Amazon's green bond is different. First, Amazon does not need newly issued money to finance its investment in the environment. In fact, Amazon is ...
Tritax EuroBox EUR500m 'Dark Green' bond issuance six-times oversubscribed
Property Funds World
Nick Preston, Fund Manager at Tritax EuroBox, says: “We were confident that we would meet our financing targets with Tritax EuroBox's first green bond ...
Biden's Big Plans Bypass Green-Linked Debt That Investors Crave
ThinkAdvisor
For now though, he'll probably be financing it the old-fashioned way — with taxes and traditional bonds. None of the $21 trillion Treasuries market ...
Forbes
But Amazon's green bond is different. First, Amazon does not need newly issued money to finance its investment in the environment. In fact, Amazon is ...
Tritax EuroBox EUR500m 'Dark Green' bond issuance six-times oversubscribed
Property Funds World
Nick Preston, Fund Manager at Tritax EuroBox, says: “We were confident that we would meet our financing targets with Tritax EuroBox's first green bond ...
Biden's Big Plans Bypass Green-Linked Debt That Investors Crave
ThinkAdvisor
For now though, he'll probably be financing it the old-fashioned way — with taxes and traditional bonds. None of the $21 trillion Treasuries market ...
Low Carbon Funds:
PM seeks global funding for states with low carbon emission
DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged the world to fight back for ecosystem restoration during the next decade and urged the rich ...
Carbon Price Boom Attracts Investors to Emissions-Trading Market
The Wall Street Journal
Investors have piled into new carbon-credit-trading funds, helping make the ... Tighter government controls, a bitter European winter and low inventories of ... Other funds aimed at institutional investors are also targeting carbon.
EU and Bill Gates make joint push for $1BN to accelerate clean tech
TechCrunch
On the EU side, funding for the partnership is expected to come from the bloc's flagship R&D fund, Horizon Europe, and also via the low-carbon-focused ...
DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged the world to fight back for ecosystem restoration during the next decade and urged the rich ...
Carbon Price Boom Attracts Investors to Emissions-Trading Market
The Wall Street Journal
Investors have piled into new carbon-credit-trading funds, helping make the ... Tighter government controls, a bitter European winter and low inventories of ... Other funds aimed at institutional investors are also targeting carbon.
EU and Bill Gates make joint push for $1BN to accelerate clean tech
TechCrunch
On the EU side, funding for the partnership is expected to come from the bloc's flagship R&D fund, Horizon Europe, and also via the low-carbon-focused ...
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