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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Upstream Focus: Soorty's Muhammad Mansoor Bilal on Sustainability Costs, Speed to Market ...
Sourcing Journal
Which processes have you put in place due to Covid that you'd like to see continue even after the health crisis is behind us? Digital 3D sampling has ...

UnitedHealth Group Releases 2020 Sustainability Report
Cadillac News
Partnering with key stakeholders, we are advancing health equity, building healthier communities and supporting the ongoing response efforts to COVID ...

Why the Next Part of the Sustainable Fashion Conversation Will Be About Racial Justice
Vanity Fair
... of the coronavirus pandemic, only the fittest survived. And many who did are among those who have of late adopted a message of “sustainability,” a ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Shipping Industry Pushes for $5B Decarbonization Fund
The Maritime Executive
“We fully support the need to decarbonize and if the industry is to meet its goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050, large-scale investment in research ...

Aluminum industry faces big decarbonization challenges — report
MINING.com
Aluminum industry faces big decarbonization challenges — report ... which reflects the concentration of expansion in Asia, where coal-based power ...

LNG's value downgraded in global marine cargo decarbonization push
Business in Vancouver
LNG's value downgraded in global marine cargo decarbonization push ... the first LNG-powered ship in the fleet of Estonia-based shipping company Tallink. ... of a panel debating the global maritime shipping sector's progress on what will be an expensive and complex voyage to decarbonization.

Global Reporting Initiative:

SASB and IIRC complete merger to form Value Reporting Foundation
Accounting Today
They also intend to work with the International Financial Reporting ... to working with other ESG standard-setters like the Global Reporting Initiative, the ...

Disclosure norms for ESG funds, a step forward
The Hindu BusinessLine
International bodies such as the World Bank, European Union, and ... (Carbon Disclosure Project) or Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the future.

UL Ranked as a Top Provider for ESG Reporting Software in New Verdantix Report
PRNewswire
... Board (SASB), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), and UN Global Compact.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Investor confidence in renewable energy hits a high
Energy Global
A new analysis released by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) finds that confidence among both renewable energy investors and ...

Clean energy should be investment priority: IEA
World Nuclear News
10 June 2021. Share. Annual investment in clean energy in emerging and developing economies will need to increase sevenfold by 2030 if the world ...

Investors 'bullish about US renewables market'
reNEWS
Confidence among both renewable energy investors and developers is at “an all-time high” stated ACORE. Energy storage and utility-scale solar rank as ...

CDP Sustainability:

Google EMEA channel head latest to join CRN Tech Impact judging panel
www.channelweb.co.uk
Issuing $5.75 billion in sustainability bonds. Achieving a spot on CDP's Climate Change "A List" for the seventh straight year with our CDP Climate ...

Wellington Management and Woodwell Climate Research Center launch P-ROCC 2.0 ...
Business Wire
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world's environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. Founded in 2000 and ...

G-7 Stock Markets Imply Catastrophic Global Warming of 3°C
Bloomberg
The report was prepared for SBTi by CDP and the United Nations Global Compact, which encourages businesses to adopt sustainability targets.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Former Consumers Energy chief Patti Poppe tackling climate change challenges as CEO of PG&E
Crain's Detroit Business
Now California's fire season has arrived early. PG&E has spent the last three years trying to harden its system, installing insulated wires and stronger ...

California Resources Corporation Announces Appointment of First Chief Sustainability Officer
Business Wire
“His considerable leadership skills and experience in climate change and implementation of new technologies will help the Company deliver on our ...

Rachel Kippen, Our Ocean Backyard | Nonprofit organizations partner to address climate equity for ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
This spring, the organizations launched their “California Ocean and Climate ... BIPOC environmental justice leaders to inspire California to harness its vast ... I am terrified of how climate change has already affected me and my ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing grows to address problems raised by pandemic
Pensions & Investments
Impact investments are made with the intention of generating positive and measurable social, economic and environmental outcomes as well as a ...

20 Minutes With: Impact Investing Pioneer Jed Emerson
Barron's
At the time, and for most of his career, Emerson, 62, was advising investment firms and wealthy families around the world on what true impact investing ...

CaixaBank Partners With BlackRock on Impact Investing
MarketWatch
Impact investing aims to deliver financial returns and positive impacts in society, including toward the United Nations's 17 Sustainable Development ...

Energy Storage

More in common: Europe's energy storage associations' unified stance
Energy Storage News
“Energy storage is regarded as relatively new” in Ireland, Phelan says. The first projects to be handed contracts through the DS3 grid services scheme ...

Largo says vanadium for energy storage worth twice as much as for steel production at 'Battery Day'
Energy Storage News
Largo Resources has decided that the market for long-duration energy storage will be a high value opportunity and held a 'Battery Day' this week to ...

ROUNDUP: Long-duration energy storage investments and assessments
Energy Storage News
Corre Energy wants to use large underground salt caverns across Europe to store energy in the form of air compressed using hydrogen generated by ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

TELUS announces Sustainability-Linked Bond Framework, the first of its kind in Canada
GlobeNewswire
Science-based GHG emissions reduction targets approved by Science ... our ambitious goal of achieving operational net carbon neutrality across all ...

TELUS (TU) Reaffirms Sustainability Goals With Bond Framework
Nasdaq
On Jun 7, TELUS announced that it has set new science-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets, approved by the Science Based ...

Almost half back climate change proposal at Caterpillar
Corporate Secretary
... urging carbon-emitting companies to work toward reducing GHG emissions to ... 'Caterpillar's climate-related targets were set through the current year of ... to validate, their GHG targets through the science-based targets initiative.' ... targets and performance progress toward achieving climate-related ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Decisions, Decisions: Climate Change and Water
YubaNet
“With climate change, river flows will likely decrease—there will be winners and losers. Who gets the water and who's willing to pay the most for it?

Scientists call for solving climate and biodiversity crises together
Mongabay.com
Global climate change and the unprecedented loss of species currently ... this coupled environmental crisis, will have winners and losers,” said Unai ...

LEGISLATIVE WRAPUP | Winners and losers of the 2021 session
coloradopolitics.com
Despite the poorly taken shot at climate change enforcement, the environmental movement eked into the winner's circle this session on the back of ...

Microgrids:

Maldives islands receive 26 hybrid connected microgrids
Power Engineering International
The 26 island microgrids on the Shaviyani and Noonu Atolls in the north of the Maldives comprise approximately 2.65MW of solar energy capacity and ...

California PUC Law Judge Proposes Trimming Microgrid Standby Charges
Microgrid Knowledge
A key component of standby charges would be eliminated for microgrids in California that meet certain air emissions standards under a proposed ...

But What About Microgrids? CNN Host Probes Officials
Microgrid Knowledge
US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and other political leaders offered their insights into microgrids and the ongoing energy revolution last ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing isn't trendy; it's a smart strategy
Rochester Business Journal
Look again and you'll probably see stories around social justice, pay equity or environmental stewardship. These matters have always been important, ...

Fisher Investments Wins 2021 "US Equities" Award from Swiss Sustainable Funds
KHQ Right Now
Fisher Investments' US Small Cap Core ESG Fund recognized for performance and sustainable investment practices. "We are proud to receive this ...
    
Q&A: An ETF Tracking Companies' Impact on Humanity
U.S News & World Report Money
... Tracking Companies' Impact on Humanity. Advisors can help investors create portfolios for positive social change with a humanitarian ESG ETF.

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Burgum discusses carbon-related opportunities, drought with agricultural groups in Fargo
North Dakota Office of the Governor
... highlight economic opportunities for farmers related to carbon capture, utilization and storage, and to discuss the state's ongoing drought situation.

Carbon Capture & Storage: The Race To Net Zero
MarketScale
The energy industry landscape is being rapidly altered and shifted by advances in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology.

Qualifying Carbon Capture and Storage under 45Q: How Biden's Infrastructure Plan and ...
Lexology
Most significantly, the President's plan would reform and expand the bipartisan Section 45Q tax credit, “making it direct pay and easier to use for hard-to- ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Impact investing grows to address problems raised by pandemic
Pensions & Investments
Impact investments are made with the intention of generating positive and measurable social, economic and environmental outcomes as well as a ...

From green energy to cybersecurity, Citi names 'unstoppable trends' that investors can jump on
CNBC
Alternative and green energy are “very productive right now,” said Ken Peng, head of investment strategy for Asia-Pacific at Citi Private Bank, during a ...

Sustainable Investment Is Flooding the Market
Foreign Policy
Besides government initiatives, there has also been a recent proliferation of ESG funds directing capital to climate and other green investments. Global ...

Geoengineering:

Should Solar Geoengineering Be Considered in the Fight Against Climate Change?
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Solar geoengineering refers to strategies designed to cool Earth either by adding small reflective particles to the upper atmosphere, by increasing ...

The risks of solar geoengineering research
Science Magazine
Given the dangers of advancing solar geoengineering (7), including further concentrating power among elites (2) and deterring mitigation efforts (4), ...

Indigenous peoples urge Harvard to scrap solar geoengineering project
Eco-Business
Solar geoengineering "goes against the respect" with which the Saami are taught to treat nature and Mother Earth, said Ã…sa Larsson Blind, vice ...

Green Bond Funds:

Friday Funds: Varma pumps €230m into State Street climate bond funds
Responsible-Investor.com
Varma has invested €230m in State Street's new climate bond funds. The funds, which cover European and US corporate bonds, claim to be ...

State Street Global Advisors launches Climate Bond Funds
Institutional Asset Manager
This new fund range therefore enables bond investors to immediately set the direction and ambition for their climate-based investment goals, while also ...

Green Junk Bonds May Not Deliver Green Results
The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street is selling a record number of junk bonds meant to finance environmental projects, but many have an important catch: The borrowers don't ...

Low Carbon Funds:

United States: CFTC Officials Debate Agency's Role In Transition To Low-Carbon Economy
Mondaq News Alerts
... the CFTC's role in facilitating the transition to a low-carbon economy. ... futures commission merchants ("FCMs"), traders and funds; (ii) coordination ...

Opinion: Is an activist hedge fund's climate-linked coup of Exxon's board simply a case of ...
MarketWatch
Open Queue. Activist hedge fund Engine No. ... 1 hold Exxon stock for the decade or so it takes to accomplish a low-carbon transition? Moreover, the ...

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