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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Sustainability in the COVID-19 era: an underlying issue - The Rider News
The Rider News
... more environmentally friendly options have been at the forefront of public attention within the past few years, however, the response to the coronavirus ...

Organizations Have Deprioritized Risk Management Due to Pandemic Pressures, Refinitive Finds
Environment + Energy Leader
On the environmental front, respondents reported greater concern as a result of the pandemic. 43% ranked “green crime” a greater priority following the ...

The Covid Crisis Is Now a Garbage Crisis, Too - The New York Times
The New York Times
But because fears of Covid-19 have led to work stoppages at recycling ... get back to circularity, sustainability, plastics recycling,'” Mr. Michelsen said.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

New technology needed to meet utility decarbonization goals, EEI, others warn | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
Industry leaders and executives at the National Clean Energy Week conference warned Tuesday that completely decarbonizing the U.S. electric grid will ...

Over 150 industry leaders and organizations call for decisive government action to enable ...
Yahoo Finance
The private sector is already taking important steps to decarbonize global ... our industry, we need a market-based measure to close the competitiveness gap ...

Vanderbilt Report Charts Challenges To Decarbonizing Inland Waterways - The Waterways Journal
The Waterways Journal
“Decarbonizing the inland waterway sector will likely require new regulatory or market-based incentives, similar to those emerging in other economic sectors ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Renew Power helped India avoid 10 million metric tons carbon emissions says its - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The report, prepared in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) sustainability reporting standards has been assured by a globally ...

Kraton Corporation Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraton Corporation (NYSE: KRA), a leading global ... Report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) ...

Tenneco Meets 2021 Sustainability Goals Early and Announces New Goals - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Titled "Making Tomorrow Better," Tenneco's report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and covers ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Renewables shine as Turkey's clean energy investments hit $66B | Daily Sabah
Daily Sabah
According to the Renewable Energy Investors Association (GÜYAD), the investment value per MW is dependent on the source, area where it is generated, ...

'Greatest threat facing our generation:' Local officials support investments in clean energy ...
Leader-Telegram
Knight and Dunning were two of the speakers at a Wednesday press conference who discussed the need to invest in clean energy jobs to better ...

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth on the oil giant's lower-carbon investments - CNBC
CNBC
Chevron said the investments will help the company meet goals for its new energy businesses, including expanding production capacity for renewable ...

CDP Sustainability:

American Water Announces Publication of Latest Sustainability Report - Valdosta Daily Times
Valdosta Daily Times
American Water prepared the Sustainability Report in accordance with the Global ... Sustainability Assessment (CSA) and CDP Climate Change annually.

WorldGBC Update Urges Construction Industry to Focus on Sustainable Construction and ...
Environment + Energy Leader
The World Green Building Council's (WorldGBC) recent update to its Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment encourages investment through energy efficiency ...

MOWI - Make your next step about making a difference. - Fish Farmer Magazine
Fish Farmer Magazine
Our salmon has already been rated the most sustainable animal protein in the world. ... in corporate sustainability by global environmental non-profit CDP, ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Biden addresses climate change impacts on California wildfires during visit to Sacramento ...
Woodland Daily Democrat
“California leadership is demonstrable and its leadership has been challenged in the last four years, but those tailwinds are now tailwinds with the Biden ...

Biden discusses wildfires, climate change and federal collaboration during California trip
Stockton Record
“California's leadership has been challenged in the last four years but those headwinds now are tailwinds with the Biden administration,” Newsom said. “We are ...

'Leadership matters': Biden says results of California recall will be felt nationally - MarketWatch
MarketWatch
Before the rally, Biden toured wildfire damage in Northern California. He praised Newsom's leadership on responding to climate change, which is contributing to ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing in the Healthcare Technology Sector | Barron's
Barron's
With some $715 billion in capital designated to impact investments, healthcare represents the third-largest impact category behind financial services ...

Impact investing in the healthcare technology sector | HealthLeaders Media
HealthLeaders Media
Impact investors have been accelerating development in the healthcare technology sector at a stunning pace in recent years, thanks to a confluence of rising ...

The Week in impact investing: Shareholder power - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Welcome to The Week in impact investing. Enjoy this edition of ImpactAlpha's weekly roundup, compliments of Morgan Stanley ...

Energy Storage

Stem Inc's Smart Energy Storage, Virtual Power Plants to Bring Numerous Benefits to South ...
Environment + Energy Leader
Additionally, its distributed energy storage stabilizes electricity grids by supplying power from numerous sources, protecting against spikes in ...

Salt River Project connects 25-MW Bolster energy storage facility to Arizona grid - Power Engineering
Power Engineering Magazine
Arizona-based municipal utility Salt River Project connected its largest battery storage facility into the grid this month. SRP has placed the 25-MW energy ...

World Energy Storage Day: 'This decade is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight climate ...
Energy Storage News
Dr Rahul Walawalkar, the founder and executive director of the India Energy Storage Alliance said that 2021 – 2030 can be “a decade for energy storage,” in his ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Interface Receives Third-Party Validation of Science Based GHG Reduction Target ...
Johnson City Press
This innovation helps customers reduce their Scope 3 emissions with carbon negative alternatives. Furthermore, all the flooring products that ...

Johnson Controls Issues First $500 Million Sustainability-Linked Bond - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Sustainability-Linked Bond will target greenhouse gas emissions reduction ... goals, which were approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative.

L'Oréal USA Achieves Carbon Neutrality Across All US Sites: Here's How They Did It
Environment + Energy Leader
L'Oréal USA reached carbon neutrality for Scopes 1 and 2 emissions across its US ... These goals were set in accordance with the Science Based Targets, ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Wildlife managers foresee winners, losers as climate change alters Minnesota forests | Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Wildlife managers foresee winners, losers as climate change alters Minnesota ... by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa wins approval, ...

Mānoa: Coral reef biodiversity predicted to shift as climate changes | University of Hawaii News
UHM News
The ultimate outcome of this shuffling in response to climate change will depend critically on the ecological roles that winners and losers play.

A Stock Trader's Guide to Germany's Election: Winners and Losers - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Support across political parties for more investment and public opinion backing for tougher climate policies could prove a boon for stocks, especially companies ...

Microgrids:

Utility Dive
Enhancing community microgrids to offer resilience opportunities within the initial community microgrid footprint. Expanding community microgrids to larger ...

Wisconsin regulators fund projects to study use of microgrids to weather disasters | State ...
Lake Geneva Regional News
Established earlier this year with federal Department of Energy funding, the grant is intended to promote pre-disaster mitigation through the use of microgrids ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Which Fund Company Is Winning the Race for Socially Responsible Investors? - WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
BlackRock has the most ESG assets, thanks to a blitz of new ETFs · BlackRock's sustainable mutual funds and ETFs hit $58.8 billion in assets in June ...

ESG, SRI, Sustainable, and Green Investing: What's the Difference? - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Enter socially responsible investing, or SRI. SRI is any investment strategy that seeks to maximize financial return while at the same time advancing an idea, ...

For this adviser, socially responsible investing comes first - InvestmentNews
InvestmentNews
For this adviser, socially responsible investing comes first. James Katz tailors his RIA, Humankind Investments, to serve clients who place the greater good at ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Exxon-Led Carbon Capture Project Is Key To Sustained U.S. Economic Growth - Forbes
Forbes
... its venture into the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) space would be no exception. As one Exxon executive involved in the company's CCUS ...

Cassidy Announces University of Louisiana at Lafayette to Lead $6 Million Carbon Capture ...
Senator Bill Cassidy
The project aims to improve infrastructure by establishing a “Tri-State Institute of Manufacturing” to advance carbon capture, utilization, and storage ...

Op-ed: We don't have time for another fossil fuel bridge
Environmental Health News
Carbon capture utilization and storage involves removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, either at the source of production like a power plant or pulled ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable Investing Works | Morningstar
Morningstar.com
Damodaran asserts that sustainable investing is based on expectations that it can measure “goodness” in companies, despite widespread disagreement ..  
    
EU not leading by example on green investing, auditors say | Reuters
Reuters
The EU's sustainable finance taxonomy has triggered a battle between its member states, who disagree on which investments should be labelled "green".

3 questions to ask your financial adviser if you are serious about sustainable investing MarketWatch
Interested in sustainable investing but not comfortable tackling all the extra due diligence that goes into picking stocks and funds?

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering by Gernot Wagner review — a new, quick way to avert a climate ... - The Times
The Times
Solar geoengineering sounds like the dreams of a Bond villain, but this fast and cheap solution to global warming is a real option. James McConnachie. Sunday ...

Blocking the sun to control global warming - Phys.org
Phys.Org
Solar geoengineering is exactly what it sounds like, where various technologies are used to block sunlight and cool the Earth.

Scientists Are Planning To Cool The Earth Using Geoengineering - Here Is How
Wonderful Engineering
The proposal was first spotted by Interesting Engineering that highlights a theoretical method of geoengineering that is known as “marine cloud ...

Green Bond Funds:

U.K. Green Bond Smashes Records in Blockbuster Market Debut - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The U.K.'s green bond debut broke records as investors jumped on the most anticipated sterling debt sale of the year. The nation sold 10 billion pounds ...

How Bond Investors Can Also Jump on the ESG Train - WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
Vanguard ESG US Corporate Bond fund (VCEB) has about $217 million in ... which offers VanEck Vectors Green Bond (GRNB), a $99 million ETF that was ...

European Green Bonds and Sustainability-Linked Derivatives - A Brief Update | Akin Gump ...
JD Supra
Prior to issuing the bonds, issuers will need to publish an externally reviewed “green bond factsheet,” setting out funding and environmental objectives; ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Eni (E) to Divest Power Division to Fund Low-Carbon Transition | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
The divestiture is part of Eni's efforts to fund its low-carbon transition. The company is undergoing a major restructuring, which aims at separating its ...

DOE Announces Funding For Reducing Aviation And Shipping Sector Emissions
The National Law Review
The projects target high-impact bioenergy technology RD&D to increase foundational knowledge and scale up systems to produce low-carbon biofuels at lower ...

Many Green Funds Don't Live Up to Their Claims, Report Finds | Time
TIME
Adopted in 2015, the pact calls on countries to do their best to reduce emissions to keep global temperatures to less than 2°C above pre-industrial ...

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