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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Retailers Are Reaping the Sustainability Benefits of RFID
RFID Journal
This is especially true in the wake of the pandemic. Turning to Sustainability During COVID-19. Among the many coronavirus-related changes the retail industry ...

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Presented by The American Petroleum Institute — When ... -

The Hill
“The current COVID-19 pandemic revealed the vulnerability of our food system and the need to address malnutrition issues and nutrition-security inequality,” ...

COVID shows importantance of domestic steel supply, Congressmen say - NWI Times
nwitimes.com
The failures of multiple supply chains during the coronavirus pandemic show how critical it is to sustain the domestic steel industry, Members of Congress ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Lux Research Introduces a Framework to Help Provide a Path to the Decarbonization of Industry
PRNewswire
Decarbonizing the cement, steelmaking, and chemicals industries alone will cut global industrial emissions by half, but these industries are projected to ...

RMI report maps out pathway for zero-carbon steel industry in China - Green Car Congress
Green Car Congress
The report maps out three steps for the industry's decarbonization: ... resulting in a significant decrease in fossil-fuel-based steel production, ...

How the decarbonization megatrend is disrupting mining investment
MINING.com
The decarbonisation megatrend will bring risks to the sector, ... In April 2021, Vale said it is exploring spinning off of its base metals business from the ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI revises universal sustainability standards, with focus on human rights | Accounting Today
Accounting Today
GRI anticipates the revised standards will be used by the more than 10,000 companies already using its standards for their sustainability reporting. The ...

Daily ESG Briefing: GRI launches latest reporting standards - Responsible Investor
Responsible-Investor.com
The Global Reporting Initiative has released updated universal standards, ... According to the GRI, the updated standards now “fully reflect due diligence ...

The crusade to achieve the SDGs and the role of accounting | ICAEW
economia
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework is not enough on its own, says Caruana, referring to the work she is doing with Giovanna Dabbicco (a researcher ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

REUTERS IMPACT-Flagging EM clean energy investment poses concern -fund CEO | 1330 ...
WHBL News
(Reuters) – Investments into clean energy projects in emerging markets have faltered in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis and policy reforms are needed ...

Oil and Gas Prices May Stay High as Investors Chase Clean Energy - The New York Times
The New York Times
Oil and Gas Prices May Stay High as Investors Chase Clean Energy. Even as more costly fuel poses political risks for President Biden, oil companies and OPEC are ...

4 Reasons to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
As pension funds and other large investors sell off fossil fuel investments, wind, solar, and energy storage should benefit. BlackRock's head of iShares ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP - Environmental Disclosure Platform Probing The E in ESG - Forbes
Forbes
Environmental justice and social equity, which are part of the environmental movement, are essential DNA to CDP's work. The sustainable transition has to be the ...

Businesses Asked to Make Science-Based Emissions Goals - Environment + Energy Leader
Environment + Energy Leader
There were 220 financial institutions that signed the request as sustainability goals are increasingly important to investors. Environmental non-profit CDP says ...

Climate change: Hong Kong orders managers of at least US$1 billion in assets to disclose ...
Yahoo Finance
The number of funds that met the SFC's requirements to be listed as green ... Sources: CDP Worldwide; Environmental Protection Department, HKSAR Government.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Gov. Newsom on $123B California schools plan, oil spill clean up and climate change - PBS
PBS NewsHour
It's long overdue in California, but I think it's foundational in terms of our educational capacity and leadership. Judy Woodruff: And, Governor, you know even ...

CA Democrats fail to pass meaningful climate change bills | The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee
California's Democratic legislators are redefining climate denialism with their ... elected leaders who feign empathy for victims of global-warming-worsened ...

Newsom Signs Toni Atkins' Bill Funding Local Efforts to Mitigate Sea Level Rise - Times of San Diego
Times of San Diego
“This is yet another demonstration of California's leadership in the fight against climate change and our commitment to protect California communities,” she ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing Donors Nearly Doubled in 3 Years - The NonProfit Times
The NonProfit Times
The number of affluent households where donors participated in impact investing nearly doubled compared with 2017, with minorities and younger individuals ...

5 years of ImpactPHL: 15 regional impact investing growth signals to accelerate - Technical.ly Philly
Technical.ly
Impact investing relies on investors thinking about and moving their money in new ways. ImpactPHL supports this work through hundreds of one-on-one ...

Does socially conscious investing mean leaving money on the table? Not anymore, proponents say
AZCentral.com
It all adds up to more attention paid to socially responsible investing, which also goes by terms including sustainable or impact investing or, ...

Energy Storage

LS Energy Solutions Introduces Its Next-Generation All-in-One Energy Storage System, the ...
Utility Dive
The AiON-ESS is a flexible, modular AC energy storage solution available in two models for 1-hour and 2- to 4-hour applications. The innovative AiON-ESS ...

ESS Inc signs 2GWh iron flow battery deal with Softbank's SB Energy
Energy Storage News
An ESS Inc Energy Warehouse being lowered into place. Image: ESS Inc via Twitter. A framework agreement for the deployment of 2GWh of iron electrolyte flow ...

Key Capture Energy places 390MW BESS order with Sungrow
Energy Storage News
A 390MW order for Sungrow's battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment has been booked by US energy storage project developer, owner and operator Key ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Companies won't reach their science-based targets without suppliers on board | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
The exciting part for me is that being the largest source of carbon emissions means Scope 3 also offers the broadest opportunity for carbon reduction. A ...

Spatial distribution and regional difference of carbon emissions efficiency of industrial ... - Nature
Nature.com
For example, Ding et al. find that the eastern zone is the most advanced in carbon emission efficiency in China. Although the studies mentioned above can obtain ...

Despite Heightening Investor Pressure, Few Companies Publicly Report on Sustainability ...
Yahoo Finance
... their sustainability targets, and even fewer—16%—have set emissions targets in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) framework.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Winner and Loser of the Week in Florida politics — Week of 9.26.21
Florida Politics
Now, it's on to our weekly game of winners and losers. Winners ... It would expand Medicare and put more money into fighting climate change.

Central Banking and Climate Change | Cato at Liberty Blog
Cato Institute
... to deal with climate change, which could seriously affect both objectives. Central banks have always picked winners and losers at their own discretion, ...

FEMA's new flood insurance plan is drawing the battle lines over climate adaptation - Grist
Grist
These changes will sharply raise the cost of flood insurance for many high-value homes in ... There are winners and losers, and that's not going away.

Microgrids:

Army Investing in Hybrid Power Microgrids - National Defense Magazine
National Defense Magazine
The backbone of the concept is the tactical microgrid standard, or TMS, Bohn said. TMS is a data and communications standard that categorizes the various power ...

Microgrids: Weathering the Storm of Grid Failure | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
Bloom will also share examples of rapidly deployed microgrids and how those examples are needed and could be replicated in today's state of unprecedented power ...

Why Don't More Companies Use Microgrids in their Climate Disaster Plans?
Microgrid Knowledge
Schneider, one of the most active companies in the microgrid arena, in September and October surveyed 100 global companies earning more than $250 million in ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing gets its turn in the spotlight - The Arizona Republic
AZCentral.com
Does socially conscious investing mean leaving money on the table? Not anymore, proponents say ... Social investing policies, like beauty, are somewhat in the eye ...

How I'm supercharging my savings with socially responsible investing (SRI) | U.S. PIRG
State PIRGs
After clearing those hurdles, I set more defined financial goals and plans in motion this year, including automatic deposits into new investment accounts.

How to Find a Socially Responsible Financial Adviser - WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
To help, some investors might be considering financial advisers who focus on ESG and are able to offer investment ideas that closely track their clients' moral ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Forum: Texas' carbon capture technology should be expanded
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
This is particularly true of carbon capture, utilization, or storage (CCS or CCUS) technology. Carbon capture initiatives were developed in the U.S. almost ...

Valverde Power Solutions Positions to be a Carbon Capture Leader Using Clean Energy ...
inForney.com
... is a privately held clean energy company employing leading-edge technology to deliver electric power and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), ...

Exploring the CCUS Opportunity Set - Enverus
Enverus
CCUS, or carbon capture, utilization and storage, is the process of capturing CO2 from industrial point sources and either sequestering it permanently ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior: 

Replica Partners with Cuebiq to Empower Cities and Businesses with Geospatial Insights to ...
Valdosta Daily Times
Replica will have access to Cuebiq's real-time offline behavior data, ... towns, and communities across the country, to empower informed decision-making, ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainability metrics: why it's time investors look in the mirror - The World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
Investors look for sustainability and non-traditional metrics from companies they invest in, but what if they held themselves accountable in the same way?

Executives Say Big Increase in ESG and Sustainability Investment Coming
Environment + Energy Leader
More than half of senior executives responsible for environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives as well as sustainability issues say their firms ...

Socially responsible investing gets its turn in the spotlight - The Arizona Republic
AZCentral.com
Does socially conscious investing mean leaving money on the table? ... It all adds up to more attention paid to socially responsible investing, ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering by Gernot Wagner review – a stark warning - The Guardian
The Guardian
Geoengineering is usually defined as large-scale interventions in our climate. ... The comparison he returns to most often is that of the ash from a volcanic ...

Social Studies: The downside of publicly financed campaigns - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
Social Studies: The downside of publicly financed campaigns, the promise of geoengineering, what's in baby names. By Kevin LewisUpdated September 29, 2021, ...

Opinion | Can Geoegineering Fix Climate Change? - The New York Times
The New York Times
To cool the planet in this century, humans must either remove carbon from the air or use solar geoengineering, a temporary measure that may reduce peak ...

Green Bond Funds:

Japan's NTT to issue $2.7bn green bond to fund emission cuts - Nikkei Asia
Nikkei Asia
The telecom company will issue about 300 billion yen ($2.7 billion) of green bonds, thought to be the largest single issuance of such debt in Japan by an ...

Kalamazoo paper mill sold green bonds amid record of odor violations - Detroit News
The Detroit News
To the investors who are pouring into environmentally friendly debt funds, the $100 million “green bond” sale for a paper mill in Michigan this month ...

Fitch Rates Indiana Finance Authority's 2021B SRF Bonds 'AAA'; Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings
--Approximately $215 million state revolving fund (SRF) program bonds, series 2021B (Green Bonds). Series 2021B primary bond proceeds will be used to fund loans ...

Low Carbon Funds:

EXCLUSIVE: New €1.5bn hydrogen investment fund will focus on 'low-carbon' H2 that may ...
Recharge
A new €1.5bn ($1.74bn) low-carbon hydrogen investment fund launched today — backed by €100m commitments from French anchor investors TotalEnergies, ...

UK pension funds Transport for London, Avon set net-zero goals
Pensions & Investments
Transport for London Pension Fund is aiming to reduce carbon emissions by more than half by 2030 and fully by 2045, the £13 billion ($17.8 billion) fund ...

GSFP: Good Timing in the Climate-Aware ETF Space | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
“Low carbon funds seek to invest in companies with reduced carbon intensity and/or carbon footprint relative to a benchmark index. These funds are well ...