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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

The Hill's Sustainability Report: Coronavirus could keep developing nations from key climate ...
The Hill
The Hill's Sustainability Report: Coronavirus could keep developing nations from key climate talks · Arizona: 512,000 acre-feet, approximately 18 percent ...

Rising sustainability leaders: How we embrace the 'S' in ESG
GreenBiz
This is the sixth cohort of rising young sustainability professionals that ... systemic racism and the disproportionate impact coronavirus has had on ...

Pfizer taps US investment-grade market with $1bn sustainability bond - The Irish Times
The Irish Times
Move will help fund Covid-19 vaccine expenses. about 2 hours ago Updated: about an hour ago.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Maritime shipping projected to triple by 2050. How will the industry decarbonize? | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
But such market-based measures, as they are known, could help level the playing field somewhat for clean fuels such as hydrogen or "green" ammonia, ...

Houston-based Cemvita Factory announces its initial closing of Series A, led by 8090 Partners, to ...
Yahoo Finance
Cemvita Factory secures funding to decarbonize chemicals, oil & gas, and mining sectors, leveraging its industrial-strength synthetic biology platform.

Houston tech firm Cemvita Factory raises Series A capital
Houston Business Journal
A Houston-based company using biotechnology processes to decarbonize ... "Decarbonizing heavy industry is one of the most critical challenges in ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

onsemi Releases Annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report With an Expanded ...
Yahoo Finance
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and includes reporting aligned with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) guidelines.

The IPCC Report – What Do Findings Entail For Duty Of Care? (2/2)
Forbes
These insights, on the back of Task Force for Climate Disclosure and the Global Reporting Initiative, will allow for proper gauging, recognizing, ...

Calpine Corporation Issues First-Ever Sustainability Report - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The report content and disclosures are in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standards and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Standard ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

APG, CalSTRS, ADIA acquire newly formed renewable energy firm | Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments
APG, CalSTRS and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority are acquiring Arevon Energy Inc., a new renewable energy company formed ...

Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and Build Back Better Agenda Present Bright Future for Solar ...
Whitehouse.gov
New Department of Energy Issue Brief Details How Solar Investments Create Good-Paying Jobs and Reduce Consumer Costs for Energy. Today, the ...

NY Green Bank Announces Andrew Kessler as Acting President
NYSERDA
Currently, NY Green Bank's ever-growing, diverse pipeline totals $790 million in clean energy investment opportunities, as presented in its inaugural ...

CDP Sustainability:

Wilson Sons joins the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
The company´s initiative reiterates the commitments to sustainability together with social and environmental policies adopted over the past years, such ...

Freshpet, Inc. Releases Inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Sustainability ...
Yahoo Finance
... we published a Sustainability Report and SASB aligned environmental metrics. Additionally, we completed CDP climate and water questionnaires.

SM Energy Publishes 2020 SASB Report and Certain 2020 ESG Performance Highlights
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Please visit the Company's website at http://sm-energy.com/sustainability/ to ... In July, the Company published responses to the 2021 CDP Climate ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California has a leadership drought
OCRegister
While climate change has contributed mightily to our current crisis, so has unwise forest mismanagement, foot-dragging on reservoir and off-stream ...

Environmental group targets Atkins + Who's in next recall debate? + Fentanyl deaths
Sacramento Bee
The California League of Conservation Voters has no more patience. ... Atkins in a statement defended her leadership on climate change.

Interview: Following Grim UN Climate Report, Experts Discuss What California Can Do
Capital Public Radio News
To understand more about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, ... A lot of that happened through Governor Schwarzenegger's initial leadership, ... But importantly, California is about 1.5to 2% of global emissions.

Impact Investing:

Summer Centered: Buying Into Impact Investing | Haverford College
haverford.edu
In collaboration with the Philadelphia Impact Investing Ecosystem, an important part of his work is figuring out how to effectively quantify the social and ...

Climate Crisis Drives Impact Investing
Mergers & Acquisitions
As might be expected, there has been a recent surge in clean energy deals and impact investment funds. In transportation, ChargePoint Holdings ...

The Week in impact investing: Smarter
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Smarter infrastructure. It could be the largest climate investment in history. With commitments to energy, water, transport and ...

Energy Storage

Michigan regulators push for utility pilots to test how energy storage benefits the grid
Utility Dive
Under the pilots, utilities can also participate in wholesale markets on behalf of customer-owned energy storage resources (ESRs), develop rates and ...

UL, Hyundai to partner on evaluation of EV batteries for energy storage | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
A handful of startups and utilities working in partnership with automakers have sought to repurpose those batteries for energy storage.

Energy storage from a chemistry perspective
MIT News
PolyJoule is a Massachusetts-based startup co-founded by MIT professors Ian Hunter and Tim Swager, that's looking to reinvent energy storage from a ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

First Solar Commits to Science-Based Emissions Targets, Net Zero Emissions by 2050
The Bakersfield Californian
The science-based targets further the company's previous 2021 GHG ... grid electricity, along with energy conservation and low carbon initiatives.

Carrier Reduces its Customers' Carbon Footprint by 68 Million Metric Tons in 2020
ACHR NEWS
Other highlights from the report include a commitment to setting company-wide science-based emissions reduction targets aligned with the goals of ...

We Need To Talk About ESG…Is It Fit For Purpose?
Forbes
As Kentaro Kawamori, CEO of carbon footprint management platform ... 3 emissions, reporting under the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) or ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Ways To Invest To Slow Climate Change
Forbes
"As climate change becomes more impactful, I would say over the past five years I really ... If it is even close to that proportion, that's a seismic shift. ... that our clients go out and try to pick the individual winners and losers," he says.

Investing in low-emissions energy is the key to the climate crisis
The Hill
Last week's release of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ... without choosing which energy sources will be “winners” or “losers.”.

Cities are making mammals bigger
Science Daily
Not all animals respond to human-induced environmental changes in the same ... The researchers also investigated how the effects of climate and ... be divided into "winners and losers," and mammal distributions may shift, he said.

Microgrids:

An Innovative Solar Microgrid Project Could Be a Win-Win-Win for Jackson, Tennessee
Clean Energy News
A renewable-energy developer was asked by members of the Jackson, Tennessee community to build a clean energy solar microgrid for their city. Its ...

The global microgrid market is estimated to grow from USD 24.6 billion in 2021 to ... - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
The growth of the microgrid market is driven by factors such as rising focus on decarbonization by various end users and government, increasing demand for ...

UK Minting It in Microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
It is one of up to seven microgrid projects under development by Infinite in south and west Wales, including its first energy center at the Rassau industrial ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How Venture Philanthropy Impacts Investment - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Socially responsible investors essentially add concerns about a company's social, environmental and governments practices to their requirements for a ...

How Can Sustainable Investment Make You Financially Independent?
NDTV Profit
This has led to the growth of purpose-driven companies and sustainable investments. Sustainable investing, therefore, is an evolution of traditional ...

ESG Investing: Does It Distort the Market?
Nasdaq
And not just any tech stocks. The big ones. Here was the lede from author Camilla Hodgson... Investment funds branded as “sustainable” are under fire ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Is carbon capture and utilization a lifeline for oil and gas? | Business - DW
Deutsche Welle
Amongst the emissions-reducing measures available today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects carbon capture, utilization, and storage ...

CCS uptake rising, but industry needs more government support - Offshore Mag
Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine
... or carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) plans to capture/offset it. One barrier to CCS uptake is a lack of relevant legislation and regulation.

Guest column/Carbon capture can't save us | News, Sports, Jobs - The Herald Star
The Steubenville Herald-Star
According to the Global Carbon Capture Storage Institute, the current ... The main use of the carbon dioxide captured is for enhanced oil recovery to ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Investing green is harder than you'd think
CNN
The ESG label is meant to make investing green easier by giving investors a simple way to allocate their money to good causes. And, indeed, there are plenty ...

Investing in surgical systems: From quick fixes to long-term sustainability
The Hill
Another, more sustainable approach has been to invest in local specialty surgical centers, or centers of excellence, that typically treat patients with ...

$35 Trillion in Sustainability Funds. Does it Do Any Good? - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Sustainable investment assets grew to $35.3 trillion globally last year amid mounting concerns about societal inequities and climate change. That's ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering is conspicuously absent from the IPCC's report
The Economist
Whether achieved through particles in the stratosphere, brightened maritime clouds or some other means, solar geoengineering would not be a simple ...

Babbage Why is the idea of solar geoengineering so controversial? - The Economist
The Economist
SOLAR GEOENGINEERING has the potential to help counteract global warming, so why are scientists so cautious about it? Host Kenneth Cukier also ...

Living Less Unsustainably: Geoengineering
KLCC FM Public Radio
Listen to KLCC's John Fischer talk geoengineering on Living Less Unsustainably. Congratulations to those of you who are flying less- or not at all, ...

Green Bond Funds:

What's a green bond?
Fortune
A more diversified way for retail investors to gain exposure to green bonds is through pooled investment vehicles, such as mutual funds or ETFs. As of ...

Green Bonds Proliferate but Lack of Standardization Will Hinder Growth
Environment + Energy Leader
At least one financial services group is attempting to accurately measure how green bond funds are used. Nomura is engaging in a new research ...

As green bonds grow more popular, it's time for clearer standards | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
How does this financial innovation affect me or my company? One answer is that as they gain volume, green bonds are entering most climate-finance ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Oil Giants Turn to Startups for Low-Carbon Energy Ideas - WSJ - Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
Some U.S. oil companies have also sought to boost venture investments. In February, Chevron committed $300 million to a fund focused on low-carbon ...

This Fund Will Benefit From Climate-Change Regulations | Barron's
Barron's
Institutional investors and hedge funds have used carbon futures as a diversifier due to their low correlation with traditional asset classes like stocks ...

Federal program to cut bus emissions gets a Senate mandate: Some buses must pollute
The Washington Post
The Senate infrastructure bill approved last week includes an unprecedented boost in funds for a Transportation Department program to reduce ...