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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Climate change supply chain disruptions: How to prepare - CNBC
CNBC
Climate change will disrupt supply chains much more than Covid — here's how ... of science and research applications at The Sustainability Consortium.

How continental treaty can foster sustainable trade in biodiversity in Africa | UNCTAD
UNCTAD
It recommends ways of transforming the agreement into an enabler of sustainable trade in biodiversity and a key driver of post-COVID-19 recovery and ...

Maryland Designer Creates Princess-Style Dresses Focused on Sustainability – NBC4 Washington
NBC4 Washington
With fairy tales in mind, Nadia created the brand amid the coronavirus pandemic as a way to "escape to a magical world," she said.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Guyana petroleum sector will help lead country into greater decarbonization: VP | S&P Global Platts
S&P Global
Guyana's government will continue to advocate globally for decarbonization, even as its petroleum sector expands, he said. It has already put in place ...

SINAI Technologies, Decarbonization Startup, Raises $10M in Seed Funding Round | Science Times
Science Times
San Francisco-based decarbonization platform SINAI Technologies announced ... "reimagining trillion-dollar industries through a world positive lens.".

Barrick Gold : The mining industry is also striving for decarbonization | MarketScreener
marketscreener.com
(Herisau) Barrick Gold , for example, has also joined an industry-wide initiative to reduce emissions from open-pit mining operations.

Global Reporting Initiative:

How companies can future-proof materiality assessments | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
Now, the five reporting standards — CDP, Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Integrated ...

Pandemic Sees Business Sustainability Take Center Stage - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their ...

The Rise of the Chief Sustainability Officer - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
By Dr. Allinnettes Adigue, Head of GRI's ASEAN Regional Hub ... Against this backdrop, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), provider of the world's most ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

India's investments in renewable energy bounce back - Power Engineering International
Power Engineering International
India's renewables investments bounce back after COVID-19 slowdown · SoftBank's exit from the Indian renewables market in May 2021 with a $3.5 billion sale of ...

3 High-Yield Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy Right Now | The Motley Fool
Motley Fool
Organic growth is one thing that separates Brookfield Renewable Partners from most of its competitors. · A diverse asset base with contracted power agreements ...

SOUTH AFRICA: UK Climate Investments commits $34m to renewable energy | Afrik 21
AFRIK 21
UK Climate Investments is providing over $34 million to set up Revego Africa Energy. Backed by Investec Bank and Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, ...

CDP Sustainability:

ORIOR : reports significantly better first-half results; expansion of production capacity for ...
marketscreener.com
ESG: third Sustainability Report published, adoption of green hydropower, comprehensive revision of Code of Conduct, data for CDP reporting ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

CA Democrats prioritized big oil and gas over climate change | The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee
Instead, key leaders in the state Senate protected a status quo of fossil fuel reliance. Not coincidentally, three Democrats — Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg of ...

The California water question - POLITICO
Politico
Editor's Note: Morning Energy is a free version of POLITICO Pro Energy's ... THE FRAUGHT POLITICS OF CALIFORNIA WATER: As historic drought ... a vital opportunity to show leadership by aligning trade agendas with climate and ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing audit yields measurable results | Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments
Institutional investors increasingly are looking for quantifiable metrics surrounding ESG and impact investing. Do selected investment strategies deliver on ...

ESG Impact Investing | Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments
We hold investors accountable for the negative impacts they may be generating. So if their investments are generating positive impacts through sustainable ...

The Week in impact investing: Persistence - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Reality bites. System change, like nation building, relies on a large dose of magical thinking. That innovation is welcome, ...

Energy Storage

World's largest energy storage system completes Phase II in Moss Landing - Monterey Herald
Monterey Herald
Phase I of the project saw Vistra's 300 megawatt/1,200 megawatt-hours lithium-ion battery storage system in Moss Landing connected to the power grid, beginning ...

World's Largest Energy Storage System Just Got Larger - TriplePundit
Triple Pundit
As announced last week, Vistra's Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility switched on a 100-megawatt expansion, which brings the facility's total capacity to ...

Capital Dynamics spins out solar and storage development group Arevon - Energy Storage News
Energy Storage News
The company has launched with a portfolio comprising 4.5GW of operating, under construction and late-stage development solar and battery storage projects, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Climate experts are worried about the toughest carbon emissions for companies to capture - CNBC
CNBC
As companies lay out ambitious carbon reduction targets and net-zero ... Carbon Trust research shows that for most companies, Scope 3 emissions ...

The IPCC report was dreadful — now, let's get to work | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
For many businesses who have done the hard work to set science-based targets to reduce and eliminate their carbon emissions, the IPCC report's new ...

Valmet's climate program targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative
PR Newswire UK
Valmet is also improving the energy efficiency of its current technology offering by 20 percent. The baseline year for the CO2 reduction targets is 2019. " ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Letter: Carbon pricing part of answer | Letters | journalstar.com
Lincoln Journal Star
10), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reiterated that scientists agree climate change is ... This approach doesn't pick winners and losers.

Urbanization Is Causing Mammals to Grow Bigger in Size, Shows Study | The Swaddle
The Swaddle
Scientists had earlier warned that warming environments due to climate change are ... will divide mammals into “winners and losers,” researchers say.

Microgrids:

California Looks to Bigger, More Complex Microgrids as It Faces Capacity Shortfalls
Microgrid Knowledge
Gavin Newsom. multiproperty microgrids. By CW craftsman/Shutterstock.com. The proceedings are part of a larger attempt by the commission to spur ...

Utility Asks California Agency to Reverse Decision Waiving Standby Charges for Microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
The issue centers on the commission's mid-July decision to suspend the capacity reservation component of the standby charge for eligible microgrids.

Microgrids Power Through Haiti Earthquake
Microgrid Knowledge
Landslides had made roads impassable. Haiti microgrids. Earthquake destroyed house, but microgrid poles unharmed. Courtesy EarthSpark International. Fortunately ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Participants Prefer Socially Responsible Funds Over Traditional Investments | PLANSPONSOR
PLANSPONSOR
A recent Morningstar study found participants may be willing to trade in return gains for the opportunity to invest in socially responsible funds.

Federated Hermes acquires remaining shares in London investment firm | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The style is sometimes called sustainable investing or socially responsible investing. Socially responsible companies are those that have passed screening ...

UBS's Rich Asia Clients Poured Billions Into Sustainable Assets - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Feel-good investments gain traction with wealthy amid pandemic · UBS's sustainable managed assets in Asia jump to $4.5 billion ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Canadian carbon tax impacts: carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS ... - BOE Report
BOE Report
Canadian carbon tax impacts: carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) & environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. August 17, 2021 ...

California Resources Corporation Schedules Virtual Carbon Storage Update | Business Wire
Business Wire
Adoption of carbon capture technologies is critical to achieving greenhouse ... an update on CalCapture, the carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) ...

The Gaining Momentum Surrounding Carbon Capture Use and Sequestration - JD Supra
JD Supra
799) would provide grants to develop infrastructure for transporting CO2 from the capture site to use and storage sites. The SCALE Act also provides increased ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainability Trends Boost ESG Investing: 5 Green Picks - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
So far this year, ESG has attracted significant investments. In the second quarter, global sustainable mutual fund assets hit a fresh record high of $2.3 ...

Fifty shades of green: EU sustainable fund rules muddy the waters | Reuters
Reuters
LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - If you want to invest in a fund branded as sustainable under new European Union rules, you're spoilt for choice.
    
32 European sustainability leaders to follow on Twitter | Sifted
Sifted
Jakobsson is one of the founding partners of Pale Blue Dot –– Europe's first climate tech fund which invests in startups in any sector as long as their products ...

Geoengineering:

Unproven technologies, unknown risks: Top SA climate scientists sceptical humanity can
Daily Maverick
“So geoengineering has some very high potential to cause negative impacts, negative consequences while its primary objective of trying to reduce the energy ...

Can Geo-Engineering Cool our Burning Earth? [Live Recording] - The Good Men Project
The Good Men Project
Should we create geoengineering effects that are successful, would big business and the military stall on their commitment to climate mitigation and ...

How will the global community react if vulnerable nations pioneer solar radiation geoengineering?
Phys.Org
When a group of vulnerable nations resorted to geoengineering on their own to combat climate change, the geopolitical response of other nations depended on ...

Green Bond Funds:

Going Green with Bonds? Stick with One of the Originals - ETF Trends
ETF Trends
GRNB's underlying index holds dollar-denominated green debt “issued to finance environmentally friendly projects, and includes bonds issued by supranational, ...

Goldman Sachs boosts European, ESG footprints | Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments
... a global stage as it boosts Goldman's fund management and distribution with ... toolkit," such as green bond funds and certain European equity assets.

Fitch Rates Wisconsin's $100MM Environmental Improvement Fund Series 2021 Revs 'AAA ...
Fitch Ratings
--Approximately $100 million in environmental improvement fund revenue bonds, 2021 series A (Green Bonds). The bonds are expected to sell competitively the week ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Arbor Renewable Gas, LLC Secures Capital Commitment from EnCap Investments L.P. ...
Valdosta Daily Times
... biomass into low carbon intensity renewable gasoline and green hydrogen. ... We believe Arbor Gas has the right team, financing, and commercial ...

NEXT Energy Technologies Inc. Awarded $3 Million California Energy Commission Grant
Yahoo Finance
Per the program, NEXT will use these funds to produce pilot-sized ... firmly pivots California's buildings toward the clean, low-carbon technologies that ...

GSFP Can Skirt Climate Risk - ETF Database
ETFdb.com
A slew of exchange traded funds offer investors avenues for mitigating that risk, ... Investors should no longer view the transition to a low-carbon economy as a ... “It assesses that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are ...