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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Watch: How the Pandemic Affects Supply Chain Sustainability | 2021-12-02 | SupplyChainBrain
Supply Chain Brain
Watch: How the Pandemic Affects Supply Chain Sustainability · Podcast | How the Coronavirus Affects Supply-Chain Risk: Three Perspectives · Watch: The ...

Be natural, cozy and sustainable: Outdoor decorating important with emphasis on home ...
The Mining Journal
Be natural, cozy and sustainable: Outdoor decorating important with emphasis on home during coronavirus pandemic. House To Home. Dec 2, 2021. Kim Cook.

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Big Island blizzard beckons 'volcano skiing' | TheHill
TheHill
Today we'll turn to another typically warm-weather region across the world, where the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted achievements made at ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonization of the Shipping Industry - gCaptain
gCaptain
Decarbonization is an issue that is currently affecting shipping, ... framework allowing for a risk-based approval approach demonstrating an at ...

Rolls-Royce exec: Decarbonization is a warfighting opportunity for industry and its customers
Defense News
It's time for us in industry to innovate once again by focusing on sustainability and viewing ... 1 for all of us in the defense-industrial base.

Steel industry to shift from coal to hydrogen on path to decarbonisation - BNEF - Renewables Now
Renewables Now
According to BNEF, the sector should also consider starting to blend hydrogen in existing coal- and gas-based plants to lower the cost of green ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Barry Callebaut : Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Report | MarketScreener
MarketScreener
Barry Callebaut AG's 2020/2021 GRI Index is based on the. For further information please contact: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.

EFRAG and GRI to Co-construct Biodiversity Standard - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Judy Kuszewski, Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), which has responsibility for setting the GRI Standards, said: “Co- ...

Why sustainability should be key enterprise risk management - Intelligent Insurer
Intelligent Insurer
Dr Allinnettes Adigue, Global Reporting Initiative; Constant Van Aerschot, ... used standards for sustainability reporting – the GRI Standards.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Investments in clean energy are the ideal response to high fossil fuel costs | TheHill
TheHill
Even better, efficiency and renewable energy are less costly than the fossil fuels they will replace. This is just as true for our cars and trucks as ...

IFC leading 10 GW of renewables projects in emerging world | Reuters
Reuters
Investment group International Finance Corporation (IFC) has driven projects financing more than 10 gigawatts of renewable energy in the emerging ...

Jeff Bezos climate fund gives millions to energy efficiency start-up BlocPower - CNBC
CNBC
Companies should invest in renewable energy credits in the streets of Chicago, Seattle and low-income communities instead of in the Brazilian ...

CDP Sustainability:

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California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

The Future Of Global Impact Investing - Forbes
Forbes
The once-niche domain of impact investing has now become mainstream. Companies and institutions are finding it more difficult to ignore the call ...

Is backing Tesla—'a car for rich people'—impact investing? - Fortune
Fortune
Investors debate the definition of "impact investing"—from backing products from mobile phones to Tesla—at Fortune Brainstorm Tech.

Impact investing grows 26 % annually last decade, but 97% inflow from offshore players
The Financial Express
The 3% of family offices and high networth individuals (HNIs) comprise 83 such entities who have been active in impact investing till the decade ...

Energy Storage

Salt breakthrough could halve the cost of storing solar energy - Sifted
Sifted
The team at nuclear startup Seaborg found out that their research findings could be used for renewable energy storage. Photo: Seaborg.

Trends to watch in energy storage in 2022 | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
​​There's much to celebrate in energy storage as we ring in the New Year, and we're pleased to see that 2022 is expected to bring continued growth at ...

ROUNDUP: Long-duration energy storage news from CellCube, Malta, Gelion - Energy ...
Energy Storage News
Image: CellCube. 6 December 2021: CellCube flow battery storage 'made bankable' by insurance provider Munich Re. Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB) ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

International Paper Receives SBTi Approval for its Science-based Carbon Reduction Target
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- International Paper (NYSE: IP) today announced our 35% Greenhouse Gas reduction target has been approved by Science Based Targets ...

Ricardo Announces Approved Science-based Targets as We Advance Towards Net Zero ...
Business Wire
We are taking positive action to achieve our ambitious carbon-reduction targets, which have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative ...

International Paper Receives SBTi Approval for its Science-based Carbon Reduction Target ...
Citizen Tribune
"We created something that not only has the world class 'Shine 'n Jam performance' people have come to trust, but that also has youthful energy in the ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Democrats wrangle to keep climate priorities in spending bill | TheHill
The Hill
We shouldn't use everyone's tax dollars to pick winners and losers,” Manchin said last month. One of the bill's primary climate components, ...

Democrats' subsidy for union-made electric vehicles faces a bumpy road in the Senate - The ...
The Washington Post
A battle is brewing in the Senate over another key climate provision in ... We shouldn't use everyone's tax dollars to pick winners and losers,” ...

Adding substance to Vietnam's climate commitments - East Asia Forum
East Asia Forum
There will be both winners and losers in the energy transition, ... adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Microgrids:

Microgrids and Solar Reduce Risk of Power Outages - EurekAlert!
EurekAlert!
New research on microgrids and solar backup systems, and a wildfire outage ... A microgrid can provide electricity to a subset of an urban area, ...

Tesla Powerpacks power new comunity microgrid pilot project in Canada - Electrek
Electrek
If successful, it could lead to more microgrids in Canada. Ever since the launch of Tesla Energy and its stationary energy storage products, Tesla ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investors amplify the positive externalities of regulatory enforcement - Vox EU
Vox EU
Whether socially responsible investors have any impact on the environmental, social, and governance policies of portfolio firms has become a ...

How to identify a socially responsible future $1 billion company | Wealth Professional
Wealth Professional
Find a tenacious team with affordable products and invest in 'need' versus 'want', says Pender Ventures managing partner.

Is Socially Responsible Investing Profitable? - Real Daily
Real Daily
Are you an investor that is socially conscious, "green" or ethical? Someone who wants to make sure your investment goes into a company that makes ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Market to 2027 Featuring Skyonic, Basf ... - EIN News
EIN News
Stratistics MRC report, Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Market Forecasts to 2027 – Global Analysis Application, Key Players, Types, ...

CCUS: Understanding The Class VI Permitting Process | Opportune LLP - JDSupra
JD Supra
... federal regulators for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) ... why not all carbon dioxide is created equal, and why capturing and ...

Bipartisan Senate Infrastructure Bill Promotes Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration
Law.com
Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (“CIFIA Program”). ... Carbon Storage Validation and Testing.

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior: 

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Sustainability Investing: 

Why sustainable business needs better ESG ratings | MIT Sloan
MIT Sloan
As the financial community enthusiastically embraces environmental, social, and governance investing, there are two things it should know:.

Why ESG investing is not at risk of becoming a bubble - The National
The National
On the other hand, investing in sustainability themes involves investing in companies, technologies and projects that target specific ...

New retirement planning rule gets it right: Sustainable investing is here to stay | TheHill
The Hill
We define “sustainable investing” as an investment philosophy that seeks to generate financial value by incorporating environmental, social and ...

Geoengineering:

Climate Scientist Warns That Countries Are Going to Start Geoengineering the Earth - Futurism
Futurism
A climate scientist believes that since geoengineering the earth to cool down the climate is so affordable, countries will inevitably start doing ...

Amazon Assists Research Into Solar Geoengineering to Lower Temperatures - EcoWatch
EcoWatch
Solar geoengineering has long been a controversial climate solution. It has the potential to cool the atmosphere, and this has happened ...

Climate expert says it's cheap and easy to geoengineer the weather—and results could be ...
The Hill
Using geoengineering to help combat the effects of climate change could actually further harm the planet.

Green Bond Funds:

EU Next Gen Bonds: A Green Bond Game Changer? - TheStreet
TheStreet
The latest example is the funding of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) budget, aimed at supporting economic recovery in those states most severely ...

With Demand Soaring, Get Answers on Green Bonds | ETF Trends
ETF Trends
The VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSEArca: GRNB) turns five years old in ... Green bonds can be used to fund an array of projects such as solar ...

Is The Green Bond Premium Here To Stay? | Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
We believe that green bond premium—already significant in some fixed income ... Investments in hedge funds and private equity are speculative and ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Bond versus bank financing in the transition to a low carbon economy | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
VoxEU
One of the concerns in the debate on climate change is whether financial flows contribute to the reduction of emissions. This column looks at the ...

Carbon Offsets May Slow Global Warming. But the Math Can Get Tricky. | Barron's
Barron's
A small number of funds is trying to get to net zero on carbon emissions for ... because the Change Finance ETF has a low-carbon portfolio. Funds ...

Exxon Stock Jumps On Low Carbon Spending Boost, Emissions Targets - TheStreet
TheStreet
The plans followed a meeting with executives at Engine No. 1, the activist hedge fund that won a proxy battle for seats on the board at Exxon Mobil ...