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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Growing American leadership on the Sustainable Development Goals - Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
Kaysie Brown, Anthony Pipa, Krista Rasmussen, and Max Bouchet highlight new commitments and innovations from all segments of U.S. society that are ...

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Presented by Southern Company — NHL accused of exploiting ...
TheHill
An environmental watchdog is accusing the NHL of exploiting its ... been enduring a partial lockdown — not because of the coronavirus pandemic, ...

Savvy shareholders care about business sustainability - Mint
Mint
Sustainability and financial return is the new orthodoxy, and a groundswell of evidence is its firepower. We are in a virtuous cycle of capital ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Aluminium industry needs CBAM to help finance decarbonization, Century CEO says - Metal Bulletin
Metal Bulletin
... (CBAM) to help finance the sector's push to decarbonization, the chief executive officer of United States-based Century Aluminum said.

pm modi: India's ambitious climate goals: Why decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors will ...
ETEnergyworld.com
India's decarbonization action so far has had a pointed focus on ... and the announcement of the draft Market-Based Energy Dispatch (MBED) ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Sustainability Reporting: Where Do We Stand — and Where Are We Headed? | Corporate ...
Corporate Compliance Insights
Notable examples are the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, ...

New platform bids to provide impact management clarity, boost | News | IPE
Investment & Pensions Europe
... saying that a growing number of initiatives supporting different ... the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative, ...

Silvercorp Releases Fiscal 2021 Sustainability Report - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The Company's report has been prepared in accordance with the Core option of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, the China Corporate ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Investing in the backbone of the future energy system - Top1000Funds.com
Top1000Funds.com
Power prices will not fall to zero in a world of renewables and renewable energy generation ebbs and flows require smoothing and investment in ...

House Passes Blueprint for $500 Billion Investment in Renewables, “Resilience,” Grid - JD Supra
JD Supra
The bill includes over $500 billion in climate policy funding—largely focused on incentivizing renewable energy, reducing traditional energy ...

3 Stocks Set to Profit From Booming Infrastructure Investment | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
Tens of billions of federal dollars are going to flow into the renewable energy sector over the next decade, and these companies should get a ...

CDP Sustainability:

Boulder County recognized as international climate leader on CDP 2021 A List - Boulder County
Boulder County
County receives top score on climate action from environmental impact non-profit, CDP. Boulder County, CO —Boulder County has been recognized by CDP ...

Mayor's Office Press Release - City of Houston
City of Houston
Designed to encourage and support cities to ramp up their climate action and ambition, CDP's Cities A-List is based on environmental data disclosed by ...

Louisville named to CDP A List for second consecutive year | LouisvilleKY.gov
LouisvilleKy.gov
The global environmental nonprofit's list recognizes major progress in climate action and transparency, and less than one in 10 cities earned an A ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Opinion: California is missing the boat on climate change - The Mercury News
The Mercury News
Jerry Brown, long a climate leader, has called for increased forest biomass to energy as a way to reduce SLCP emissions from wildfires and controlled ...

California must ensure EV charging access for all - CalMatters
CalMatters
... achieve key agreements that will limit global heating to the crucial 1.5° C goal, it's vital that California step up our climate leadership.

Tackling climate change by prioritizing impacted communities - CalMatters
CalMatters
California created Transformative Climate Communities exactly for communities like this. The program empowers the communities most impacted by poverty ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing enters its difficult 'third act' | The Social Enterprise Magazine
Pioneers Post
We report from EVPA's Investors for Impact Forum in Porto. Impact investing has reached its “third act”, and advocates must now talk less about ...

The Week in impact investing: Convergence - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
“Now is the moment for impact investors and their partners to take decades of experience investing in the built environment and apply their ...

How impact investors are working together for a greener future - Raconteur
Raconteur
Impact investing describes investments that are measured according to the positive environmental and social impacts they deliver, as well as their ...

Energy Storage

Net-zero power: Long-duration energy storage for a renewable grid | McKinsey
McKinsey
As the world transitions to decarbonized energy systems, emerging long-duration energy storage technologies will be critical for supporting the ...

'Crucial to limiting climate change': Long Duration Energy Storage Council publishes first ...
Energy Storage News
'CO2 Battery' company Energy Dome from Italy is among the council's founder members. 

 

Energy Storage Is the Next 'Mega Theme;' These 2 Stocks Are Poised to Benefit - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Electric vehicles. Renewable energy. Wind farms and solar arrays. These are the technologies that will 'lead the way' of the next century's ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Bunge Announces New Commitment to Climate Action with Science-Based Targets to ...
Business Wire
The new science-based carbon emissions targets include: ... our partnerships with farmers to improve the productivity and environmental efficiency ...
    
Philips again a leading company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
... period assessed and approved by the Science-Based Targets initiative (STBi). Philips received further recognition for its ESG performance, ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

How climate change will affect Thanksgiving food - The Washington Post
The Washington Post
Climate change has officially arrived at our Thanksgiving tables. ... balance sheet of ecological winners and losers — and the winners could make ...

David Staples: Winners and Losers of David Suzuki-gate and the Coastal ... - Edmonton Journal
Edmonton Journal
David Staples: Winners and Losers of Alberta's $10-per-day child-care program · Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault speaks ...

Winners and losers from Patriots' suffocating win over Falcons - Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Sports
The Pelicans have poured resources, time and energy to protect Williamson's health. They have changed members of the staff and even changed some of ...

Microgrids:

What Can We Learn from How Indigenous Communities Develop Microgrids?
Microgrid Knowledge
In Canada, indigenous communities, developers and utilities work together to maximize the potential of microgrids to combat climate.

Chelsea and Chinatown are building microgrids to solve big energy, climate challenges - WBUR
WBUR
Microgrids are comprised of batteries and backup diesel generators that are switched on when main power off of the electric grid fails.

Dual Purpose Microgrids Provide Resilience and Grid Stability - Data Center Frontier
Data Center Frontier
Enchanted Rock explores how dual purpose microgrids can offer both value to site hosts as well as stability to the grid at large.

Socially Responsible Investing:

Where Will ESG Investing Be in Five Years? - WSJ
wsj.com
Investing based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors shows no signs of slowing down. Global sustainable fund assets almost ...

First USCCB Review In 18 Years Reinforces CBIS' Engaged Ownership Approach To ...
Yahoo Finance
(CBIS), a leading Catholic, socially responsible investment management firm and Registered Investment Advisor to Catholic investors around the world, ...

What is really behind Responsible Investing and ESG ratings? - Good Returns
Good Returns
Specifically, in our NZ Socially Responsible Investment Fund we target greater overweight exposures to companies that we believe are better ESG ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Alberta invests $131 million in carbon capture projects in bid to cut emissions | CBC News
CBC
Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) capture emissions, permanently storing carbon dioxide ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market is Predicted - openPR.com
openPR.com
Press release - Global Market Monitor - Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market is Predicted to See Lucrative Gains Over 2021-2027 ...

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Invests Billions in CCUS | Holland & Hart LLP - JDSupra
JD Supra
... carbon capture, utilization, and storage (“CCUS”) projects. Carbon capture offers the potential to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide (“CO2”) ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior: 

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Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainability Tip: ESG Investing | VailDaily.com
Vail Daily
ESG is one screen for people wishing to reduce the environmental, social, and governance impacts of their investments. Environmentally, an ESG fund ...

Massive growth seen in sustainable investing - YouTube
YouTube
Financial Advisor Bruce Allen explains how the stocks you choose to invest in might be able to impact climate change.

ESG investing has a sustainability blind spot: supply chains - Fast Company
Fast Company
By quantifying a company's actions and outcomes on environmental, social, and governance issues, ESG measures offer investors a way to make informed ...

Geoengineering:

Before geoengineering to mitigate climate change, researchers must consider some ... - Phys.org
Phys.org
But those clouds emerge in the troposphere, which ranges from the Earth's surface to about 10 kilometers up. Geoengineering using sulfuric acid would ...

Another Life: Are the risks of geoengineering worth bearing? - The Irish Times
The Irish Times
Geoengineering looks at ways of using the planet's natural workings to soak up more CO2 from the atmosphere or shield the planet from the rays of ...

Before geoengineering, some fundamental chemistry - Penn Today - University of Pennsylvania
Penn Today - University of Pennsylvania
chemicals representing geoengineering float over a city skyline Some scientists have proposed planetary-scale solutions to address climate change, ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green Issues: Green Bond proceeds finance positive environmental projects - The Economic Times
The Economic Times
While the overall size of the green segment is still tiny in comparison to the funds raised with conventional bonds, there is massive potential ...

Saudi Arabia and other oil producers are selling green bonds - Quartz
Quartz
Taking green bonds at face value is tricky when the entities issuing them—the governments, wealth funds and state-owned companies of oil-producing ...

Nuclear Energy Generator Splits ESG Buyers With Green Bond - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) -- A Canadian utility sold green bonds to help fund an overhaul of nuclear reactors, a rare use of proceeds that was seen as a test ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 invests in Weeding Technologies - Private Equity Wire
Private Equity Wire
Turquoise, a UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its 13th deal for the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 ...

Top steel firm China Baowu unveils global alliance to cut emissions | Reuters
Reuters
China Baowu Steel Group has set up a Global Low-Carbon Metallurgical ... cut emissions; Announces fund to invest 35 mln yuan a year in low-carbon ...

Best-selling climate funds not curtailing carbon exposure, study claims - Citywire Selector
Citywire Selector
Research into Europe's most popular strategies indicates that only a small number are delivering when it comes to carbon reduction.