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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

COVID-19 sharpens investor focus on sustainability
Pensions & Investments
The coronavirus pandemic has sharpened institutional investor focus on sustainable investing, with 52% of respondents to a survey citing it as a more ...

Credit Suisse CEO says sustainable investing no longer means lower returns
CNBC
... giant Credit Suisse told CNBC that the coronavirus pandemic had "substantially accelerated the trend towards ESG and sustainability" and sought to ...

Capstone Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report
Cadillac News
Capstone Mining 2020 Sustainability Report (Graphic: Business Wire) ... challenges such as the unprecedented COVID-19 world pandemic that still ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonize the power sector by 2035? 'I'm skeptical,' NRG VP says of Biden plan
Utility Dive
Dive Brief: Some power providers are doubtful that President Joe Biden's plan to decarbonize the power sector by 2035 can be achieved, though they ...

Why Reliance Industries giga-factory for hydrogen could be a game-changer
Livemint
Reliance Industries, the oil- and refining-heavy conglomerate that he ... Still, it bridges two aspects of decarbonization: technologies that exist today and are ... This week, California-based startup Fortera raised $30 million to fund the ...

Eni UK And Uniper Partner For Decarbonization Of North Wales Energy Sector
Eurasia Review
The MOU marks the latest in a number of agreements between Eni UK and companies based in the North West of England and North Wales as the ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Capstone Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report
Business Wire
The Sustainability Report is Capstone's fifth full sustainability report and was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") ...

UL Wins Top Product of the Year Award with 360 Sustainability Essentials ESG Reporting Software
Coatings World Magazine
Whether data is collected centrally or delegated worldwide, UL 360 ... (SASB), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ...

Capstone Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report
News-Press Now
... and was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") ... Capstone Mining 2020 Sustainability Report (Graphic: Business Wire).

Renewable Energy Investments:

MARK FLEMING & LAURIE BARNHART: Revving up NC's clean energy opportunities and ...
WRAL.com
In 2020 alone, RTI's researchers found that renewable energy project development investment was 62 times higher - $1.6 billion - than what occurred ...

Turkcell Accelerates Investments in Renewable Energy: Turkcell Enerji Signs Share Transfer ...
Business Wire
“In line with our sustainability approach, we continue to lead investments in renewable energy and target to become a company meeting its electricity ...

3 Reasons to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks
Motley Fool
The renewable energy industry is no longer a nascent industry driven by environmental concerns and subsidized by governments. It's a real force in ...

CDP Sustainability:

UL Wins Top Product of the Year Award with 360 Sustainability Essentials ESG Reporting Software
Coatings World Magazine
... Board (SASB), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), and UN Global Compact.

Hindustan Zinc awarded the 'Most Sustainable Company in the Mining Industry 2021'
Free Press Journal
... Sustainability Index for the third consecutive year and is among India's first companies to be included in The CDP climate change 'A List' for 2020.
    
PepsiCo 2019 Sustainability Report
PepsiCo
2020 Sustainability Performance Metrics · 2020 GRI Index ... PepsiCo 2020 Green Bond Report 2020 CDP Climate Change Submission · 2020 CDP ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California and Mexico sign agreement to open new border crossing by late 2024
Los Angeles Times
She called the agreement “a great example of California's leadership in combating climate change. The project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger personally reached out to Ford CEO Jim Farley
Detroit Free Press
After Arnold Schwarzenegger saw global coverage of the Ford F-150 ... leadership on environmental regulation as governor of California from 2003 to ... his Republican Party affiliation as a climate change leader, again praised Ford ...

California, Mexico sign agreement to open new Otay Mesa border crossing by late 2024
The San Diego Union-Tribune
“A great example of California's leadership in combatting climate change. The project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve mobility in ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing: Proven Financial Instruments And Strategies Beyond ESG
Forbes
In order to help the transition of capital into Sustainable & Impact Investing (S&II), there is a real need to learn more about such best practices, so we ...

A More Impactful Approach To Impact Investing
Forbes
Investors looking to maximize their positive impact should therefore think more broadly about their target causes by taking a systems approach to ...

Active Impact Investments closes $54M climate tech fund
Yahoo Finance
Active Impact Investments plans to add at least another 14 companies to its portfolio that are capable of achieving venture scale and profitability while ...

Energy Storage

Facebook told to rewrite energy storage contracts for New Mexico data centre
Energy Storage News
Facebook has been asked to renegotiate the terms of contracts with a New Mexico utility, signed for solar energy and energy storage facilities which ...

'Industry should propose solutions' to break down barriers for energy storage in Southeast Asia
Energy Storage News
Vietnam installed an enormous amount of rooftop solar PV in 2020, making it "ideal" for energy storage. Image: Sungrow. Energy storage can make a “ ...

Beyond weatherisation: Energy storage can give ERCOT the flexibility & resilience its networks need
Energy Storage News
Batteries: 'The ultimate diversifiers'. As the proportion of renewable electricity increases in the energy mix, so does the need for battery storage, to ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

As utilities risk missing carbon reduction targets, analysts stress need for organizational change
Utility Dive
More utilities need "ambitious, science-based" emissions reduction targets, with interim goals and detailed plans to achieve them, SEPA recommended.

Steel Dynamics aims for carbon neutrality by 2050
S&P Global
To aid in its emission targets, SDI said it will focus on improving energy management, renewable energy use, operational efficiency and research.

With New Sustainability Commitments, Allbirds Accelerates A 'Cradle-To-Grave Approach' That ...
Forbes
As a large collective source of carbon emissions, businesses have a key role to ... These goals translate to a science-based target to reduce absolute scope 1, 2, ... Now we are committing to reduce our per-unit or per-product carbon ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Heather Cox Richardson: Florida makes it harder to fight climate change
Palm Beach Post
They accused the Biden administration of “picking economic winners and losers” according to “Biden's own radical political preferences.” Coal, oil ...

A voice for the river
Science Magazine
As record-breaking heat bakes the western United States, climate change ... With other researchers, Schmidt catalyzed changes in how the river is ... and that policymakers will face tough choices sure to produce winners and losers.

As Biden's plans struggle in Congress, his back-door actions could get a jump on reshaping the ...
The Washington Post
Most of the initiatives address basic economic problems stemming from the pandemic and global warming. The idea is to use the executive powers of ...

Microgrids:

Why Microgrids Are the Key to Our Carbon-Neutral Future
POWER magazine
Microgrids, by common definition today, are smaller-scale self-sufficient generation and distribution systems. They allow the energy network to evolve ...

Public Utilities Commission approves Microgrid tariff for Hawaii
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A microgrid, Hawaii Electric said, can “generate, distribute, and regulate the supply of electricity to customers, but locally and on a smaller scale.” The ...

PG&E completes microgrid in Magalia to provide power to community services during power shut-offs
Chico Enterprise-Record
A distribution microgrid is a grouping of electric lines and infrastructure that PG&E can quickly isolate from the larger electric grid. PG&E can safely ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Commentary: Socially responsible investing goes mainstream
nwitimes.com
Investing in a socially responsible way is not limited to buying individual stocks or other investments. There are a variety of mutual funds, for example that ...

Down to business sustainably: Tools to help you invest while being kind to planet
Kansas City Star
In reality, few financial advisers have sizable funds in sustainable investing. Although I use sustainable investments personally, only a third of my ...
    
What's the difference between ESG and Socially Responsible Investing?
Morningstar India
Impact investing refers to attempts to measure the positive environmental or social outcomes of a given investment. Impact investors are focused on ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Sinopec Launches China's First Megaton Scale Carbon Capture Project
PRNewswire
... has initiated China's first megaton carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project, the Sinopec Qilu-Shengli Oilfield CCUS (the "Project").

Baker Hughes Revving Up Synthetic Natural Gas Technology, CCUS Options
Natural Gas Intelligence
“Meaningful decarbonization is not possible without carbon capture, utilization and storage, and this collaboration demonstrates how CCUS technology ...

Hoeven: ND to lead country with carbon capture project at Coal Creek Station
Minot Daily News
The 45Q tax credit provides a revenue stream for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects of up to $50 per ton for CO2 permanently ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Credit Suisse CEO says sustainable investing no longer means lower returns
CNBC
In a statement issued at the time, Audrey Choi, who is Morgan Stanley's chief sustainability officer and CEO of its Institute for Sustainable Investing, said: ...

US SEC to consider new 'sustainable' fund criteria, data disclosure rules
Reuters
"In investing, funds often disclose objective metrics as well," Gensler added. "When it comes to sustainability-related investing, though, there's currently a ...

Sustainability – Investors must be stewards
Investors' Corner BNP Paribas
Sustainability – Investors must be stewards. BNP Paribas Asset Management regards active stewardship as an essential part of its role as a 'Future ...

Geoengineering:

Fear of geoengineering is really anxiety about cutting carbon
The Australian Financial Review
Confusion and polarisation abound, because geoengineering is viewed through the same black-and-white lens as much of the rest of climate discourse.

E&T Promoted: Ask the experts: geoengineering
E&T Magazine
Geoengineering is the large-scale intervention of the earth's climate systems with the aim to counteract climate change. Could this solution reverse ...
    
Addressing climate change requires discarding the business as usual approach
The Indian Express
During the recent debates, geoengineering and nature-based solutions have emerged as potential options to offset the global impacts of climate ...

Green Bond Funds:

BBVA's social bonds issued in 2020 have helped more than 15100 businesses through ICO loans ...
BBVA
Likewise, 69 percent was allocated to companies located in areas with a high potential social impact. Strong growth in eligible green finance portfolio. In ...

Green Bonds on the Rise
Nasdaq
The proceeds are committed to finance environmental and climate-friendly undertakings, such as renewable energy projects, green buildings or ...
    
​IPD: Danish central bank must ensure green bonds OK for pension funds
IPE.com
All EU green bonds will have to be checked by an external reviewer, to ensure compliance and that funded projects were aligned with its taxonomy ...

Low Carbon Funds:

China's Hot EV and Solar Stocks Have More Room to Run, Funds Say
Bloomberg
For example, many provincial governments are setting “an even tighter target” than 2060 to reduce carbon emissions, BlackRock portfolio manager ...

BBVA's social bonds issued in 2020 have helped more than 15100 businesses through ICO loans ...
BBVA
BBVA placed €1.04 billion through two social bonds in 2020, the funds of ... Sixty percent of the loans identified originated in 2020 and 21 percent in 2019 ... in their transition to a low-carbon economy, while progressively contributing ...

LifeSight master trust commits to 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030
Pensions & Investments
... plan, pledged to cut half of its carbon emissions in its default funds by 2030. As part of its efforts to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Willis ... in firms seeking to transition their business models to the low-carbon economy or ...

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