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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Nearly half of all prospective new car buyers are thinking of going electric
World Economic Forum
With COVID-19 bringing environmental concerns to the forefront of people's minds, EV sales are on the rise. Image: Unsplash/Andrew Roberts. This ...

WED AM News: Farming sustainability project results in lower pollution levels; Crop report ...
Wisbusiness.com
A new agriculture sustainability project being piloted in southwestern ... Wisconsin is seeing negative trends in a number of COVID-19 measures, ...

Analysis: Why nursing needs to act now on sustainability
Nursing Times
The coronavirus pandemic has placed a stark lens on the impact that health and care services can have on the environment, with nurses telling us ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonizing Our Toughest Sectors — Profitably
MIT Sloan
All of this will require an extensive recharging infrastructure. Until that's in place, e-trucks will be limited to major transit corridors or to fixed-base (out-and ...

Amory Lovins: Decarbonizing industry isn't just about costs, it's about profits
GreenBiz
In reality, argues Lovins, decarbonizing heavy industry isn't uniquely hard; it's just "differently hard." Rethinking deep decarbonization would "trigger ...

Why decarbonising industry is a team sport
World Economic Forum
We need to pull together to build the teams – across industry, government and finance – to deliver decarbonisation. Have you read? Decarbonising ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Driving Social Impact By Putting The 'S' In ESG
Forbes
In 2019, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) revealed that 93% of the world's largest companies by revenue already report on their ESG performance.

Khiron Publishes Inaugural 2020 ESG Report, Demonstrating Commitment to Sustainability and ...
Yahoo Finance
The report adheres to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and reflects the alignment of the Company's goals with the United Nations ...

Careful Considerations Associated with Disclosing EEO-1 Data
JD Supra
As Bloomberg Law recently reported, at least “[t]en shareholder proposals to ... For example, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards include a ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Carlyle's Pooja Goyal Mixes Finance With Sustainability
Bloomberg
The renewable energy veteran describes how her childhood and ... At the same time, the alternative energy investing group at Goldman, which was ...

US Alt-IMs Balance Risks/Returns of Transition to Renewable Energy
Fitch Ratings
Fitch Ratings-Chicago/New York-11 August 2021: Alternative investment managers (Alt-IMs) are slowly transitioning energy exposure in their funds to ...

Sky Kids' climate show and record renewable energy investment: The sustainability success stories ...
edie.net
ENERGY: Global renewable energy investment reach record high in first half of 2021 · RESOURCES: Wiltshire Farm Foods launches nationwide ...

CDP Sustainability:

This startup helps companies price carbon
GreenBiz
... CDP case study, Netherlands-based AkzoNobel, for example, uses a "social cost of carbon" figure of $160 per metric ton as part of its environmental ...

Today, measuring company carbon emissions is about doing your best
GreenBiz
Measurement is, of course, a core principle to addressing sustainability in a ... Julia Silberman, associate director of corporate engagement at CDP, ...

Hindustan Zinc commits to 'Long-term target to reach net-zero emissions by 2050' in alignment with ...
Udaipur Kiran
The Science Based Targets initiative is a collaboration between CDP, the United ... Hindustan Zinc has set Sustainability Development Goals 2025 for ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Climate change is no excuse for California's water issues
Washington Examiner
California's reservoir levels are at a record low as the state is once again in a drought. This is not due to climate change — feckless state leadership is ...

Statements on the Biden Administration's Steps to Strengthen American Leadership on Clean Cars ...
Whitehouse.gov
This represents a dramatic shift from the U.S. market today that can be ... move to boldly reduce climate pollution from cars, inspired by California's ...

Climate Scientists Reach 'Unequivocal' Consensus on Human-Made Warming in Landmark Report
Bloomberg
The scientists forecast no end to warming trends until emissions cease. ... and the early onset of large wildfires in the Western U.S. and Canada. ... The contribution to global warming of natural factors, such as the sun and ... IPCC leadership emphasized that the disparate effects of climate change are ...

Impact Investing:

Consultant Tideline offers impact investing labeling guide
Pensions & Investments
The guide also shows how the labeling framework can help investors compare different approaches to sustainable investing based on how they ...

How a Pritzker-Backed Philanthropy Channels Impact Investing Toward Private Schools in Ghana
Inside Philanthropy
Africa is far and away the world's youngest continent. The population of its mosaic of countries is expected to account for 42% of the world's youth by ...

Post from Community: Northwestern Mutual announces $100-million impact investing fund to ...
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
The Impact Investing Fund is intended to make measurable improvement in racial equity, while also generating a positive financial return for our ...

Energy Storage

New Bipartisan Energy Storage Caucus Has Green Hydrogen Up Its Sleeve
Triple Pundit
U.S. Representative Mark Takano (D-CA) launched the first bipartisan “Energy Storage Caucus” in Congress in 2019, with a strong focus on ...

Compressed air energy storage company Hydrostor nets CA$10m of growth capital
Energy Storage News
Hydrostor aims to build massive, long-duration energy storage systems, using electricity to compress air during charging which is then stored in sealed ...

ConEd, 174 Power Global Get OK for Battery Storage System in New York
Natural Gas Intelligence
Consolidated Edison Inc. (ConEd) and 174 Power Global are set to move forward with the East River Energy Storage Project, a 100 MW battery ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Orion Engineered Carbons Publishes Its 2020 Sustainability Report
Cadillac News
... science-based groups with the goal to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in the production of carbon black – an essential ingredient in tires, ...

FMC Corporation announces Net Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2035
PRNewswire
The company will use science-based targets aligned with keeping the ... FMC will pursue carbon neutral operations through emission Scopes 1, 2 and ...

5 key corporate net-zero considerations based on the latest IPCC report
edie.net
Echoing the conclusion of the UN's most recent 'emissions gap' report, the ... Earlier this year, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) confirmed it was ... that corporate net-zero carbon targets are aligned with climate science.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Here's how climate change could make future Red Tide blooms worse
Tampa Bay Times
“There's a lot of speculation that climate change is going to impact Red ... “There will be winners and losers, and right now the only obvious winners ...

Romney says infrastructure bill will 'deliver for Utah'; climate advocates say it's a start
KSL.com
"Climate change, it doesn't pick winners and losers, it just impacts different states differently," Wright said. "There's no partisanship in science and in ...

Does Greg Gianforte have a plan for climate change?
Montana Free Press
“We shouldn't be picking winners and losers, but we can get the friction out of the way so innovators and entrepreneurs can pursue [solutions].”.

Microgrids:

C&I Companies Benefit from Microgrid Innovation as Financing Becomes Easier
Environment + Energy Leader
Remote Microgrids Still Tops. Nevertheless, the leading market for EaaS innovation has been the remote microgrid segment, Guidehouse Insights says.

Only a Few Days Days Left to Apply to Speak at Microgrid California
Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrid Knowledge seeks speakers for “Microgrid California: Keeping the Power Flowing During Grid Disruption,” a one-day educational forum in ...

What's up with microgrids?
Boulder Weekly
Boulder Weekly (BW): How have you seen the field of distributed energy and microgrids change over time? Dr. Peter Lilienthal (PL): We didn't call them ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Blondin: Socially responsible investing goes mainstream
Rutland Herald
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 ...

Socially Responsible Investors Aren't Walking the Walk
ETF Trends
Socially responsible investment companies companies engage in environmental sustainability, alternative energy, or clean technology, while avoiding ...

Turiya Investments sets the benchmarks on socially responsible investing
Business Standard
Even as technology-based companies continue to draw big money and investors, there is a niche but growing interest among investors to fund socially ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Major German Corporate Group Partners With EIT Climate-KIC On Carbon Removal Program
Environment + Energy Leader
Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is an important component of achieving GHG emissions reductions goals globally. According to the ...

Japan's METI aims to start demonstrative carbon credit market in FY 2022-23
S&P Global
... via measures that include hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects for the scheme, which mostly cover renewables, ...
    
Pembina Bets on Growth Through CCUS, LNG and Pipeline Partnerships
Natural Gas Intelligence
... carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). The Calgary-based pipeline companies proposed building a northern pipeline network and storage ...

Sustainability Investing: 

As Labor reviews ESG rule, study says many 401(k)s don't reflect sustainability pledges
Roll Call
As House Democrats step up pressure on Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to clarify use of environmental, social, and governance-minded investing in ...

Carlyle's Pooja Goyal Mixes Finance With Sustainability
Bloomberg
Carlyle's Pooja Goyal Mixes Finance With Sustainability ... Group Inc., where she leads the renewable and sustainable energy team and co-heads the ...

Investing in the future of sustainable business
UNC Chapell Hill
The India Impact Challenge invites students worldwide to pitch sustainable investment strategies. By University Development, Wednesday, August 11th, ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering is needed to alleviate climate change | Column
Tampa Bay Times
Geoengineering does not substitute for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but it might be necessary until long-term solutions kick in.

Geoengineering marks scientific gains in UN report on dire climate future
Reuters
Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions that shift the climate, generally with an aim of cooling the earth. The United Nations panel addressed ...

Geoengineering Science Is Advancing, but Should We Use It?
The Wire Science
Geoengineering involves large-scale interventions that shift the climate, generally with an aim of cooling Earth's surface. PIN IT. The United Nations ...

Green Bond Funds:

Tokyo Means Green Business
Reuters
The initiative expands on TMG's existing green finance measures, such as the Tokyo Green Bonds, the Tokyo ESG Fund and the Sustainable Energy ...

The Holy Grail of Investments - The Green Bond
PRNewswire
Some investment funds are dedicated to investing using ESG principles. For them, Green Bonds are an obvious choice. A majority of investors who ...

European sovereigns explore sustainable bond agenda
OMFIF
Enhancing liquidity across its new green curve has been the central pillar of the German Finance Agency's (Finanzagentur) strategy in the green bond ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Why Clean Energy Funds Could Still Have a High Carbon Footprint
Barron's
“Renewable energy investing doesn't always mean low carbon or low ESG risks,” says Lefkovitz. He points to a few reasons for that. First, some utility ...

Where Are the Green Sovereign Funds?
Project Syndicate
And yet, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) – representing AUM totaling ... Between 2017 and 2020, the fund's low-carbon benchmark portfolio, which ...

Greenhouse Gas, Transportation Options Project Funds Allocated
Escalon Times
Caltrans announced earlier this month that it has approved nearly $82 million in Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LCTOP) funding for 134 ...