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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

COVID lockdown study: These are the environmental benefits of WFH - The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post
... the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the education sector, ... and its impact on sustainability in the context of smart cities.

Tackling PPE waste: Engineers propose sustainable recycling method - Newswise
Newswise
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Sustainability & ESG: 2021 Year in Review — Key Takeaways - Lexology
Lexology
In the aftermath of the initial effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, many wondered if the key ESG issues brought to light in 2020 would be pushed ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Indian steel sector calls for carbon capture, green procurement to support decarbonization
Metal Bulletin
To bookmark a price click on the 'Add to my saved prices' icon in Price Book. ... Apex. MB Apex contains leader boards of analysts based upon the ...

Artemis Technologies: Leading Maritime Industry Decarbonization - AZoCleantech.com
AZoCleantech.com
This has led to the newly established and innovative product the Artemis eFoiler, a scalable zero-emission vessel. The system is based on electric ...

DOE Releases RFI on Pathways for Industrial Sector's Decarbonization - ExecutiveGov
ExecutiveGov
AMO is also interested in technologies that can be used to achieve similar environmental goals in different sectors. Interested stakeholders can ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Opportunities for Alignment of Sustainability and Financial Reporting Standards - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for ...

AmerisourceBergen Releases 2021 Global Sustainability Report to Share Progress and ...
BioSpace
The 2021 report and microsite detail several notable milestones, including initiatives led by Alliance Healthcare, a leading pharmaceutical wholesaler ...

VelocityEHS Launches ESG Solution to Foster New Opportunities for Businesses Through ...
Yahoo Finance
31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VelocityEHS, the global leader in cloud-based ... Standards Board (SASB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Renewable Energy Investments:

A world record for clean energy investment and a new electric ferry - Edie.net
Edie.net
The report covers investment made in renewable energy, storage, electrified transport and heat, nuclear, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage ...

Renewable energy and EV sectors receive the highest global investments - - ESI Africa
ESI Africa
BloombergNEF's recent annual investment report records global investment trends in low carbon energy sectors and renewable energy.

Big Tech drove record clean energy purchases in 2021 - The Verge
The Verge
To do so, it's seeking different kinds of renewable energy investments and contracts other than traditional power purchase agreements.

CDP Sustainability:

CDP Report Suggests that Indonesia Should Sustain its Forward Momentum Towards a ...
CDP
(Jakarta, 27th January 2022) A new policy brief published by CDP today, the not-for-profit which runs the world's largest environmental disclosure ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Newsom says California is doing the 'hard work' to fight climate change, not just talking - CNBC
CNBC
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday said the state's in a “transformational moment” to tackle climate change and shift away from fossil ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom Outlines Historic $10 Billion Zero-Emission Vehicle ...
Sierra Sun Times
vehicles and fight climate change. This package is a critical part of Governor Newsom's overall plan to cement California's status as a world leader ...

Prepare students to lead on climate, environmental justice - CalMatters
CalMatters
She is also a Public Voices Fellow on the climate crisis with The OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Impact Investing:

How Impact Investing Could Move Family Offices Beyond ESG Screened Portfolios - Forbes
Forbes
Impact investing is the most recent development in the evolution of investors aligning their ethical standards with their portfolios. Over the years, ...

UA group focuses on impact investing - Talk Business & Politics
Talk Business & Politics
Impact investment includes investing into environmental issues, such as clean technology, or social issues, including ensuring access to capital ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Performance - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Demonstrating the impact of investments is how impact investors can distinguish themselves in an increasingly crowded market. “Impact drives alpha,” ...

Energy Storage

Have we found the missing link in the energy storage equation? - YouTube
YouTube
Utility scale energy storage solutions are evolving very quickly as more and more intermittent energy sources are being connected to global ...

Hydrostor CEO: 'Regulatory changes needed for long-duration energy storage to work everywhere'
Energy Storage News
Hydrostor believes it can get three advanced-compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) projects totalling 1.1GW/8.7GWh built in California and ...

Tesla deployed nearly 4GWh of energy storage in 2021
Energy Storage News
Tesla is ambitious to grow its energy storage business in 2022, after it reported a 32% year-on-year increase in battery storage deployments, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Stora Enso to Enhance Operational and Carbon Footprint Performance - Nonwovens Industry
Nonwovens Industry
With its science-based targets updated in 2021, Stora Enso commits to reducing absolute greenhouse gas emissions from operations by 50% by 2030, ...

UL Joins the Science Based Targets Initiative to Reduce Global Carbon Emissions - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- UL, the global safety science leader, today announced its commitment to set enterprisewide science-based targets to reduce ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

What climate change means for the future of coffee, cashews, and avocados - National Geographic
National Geographic
“Take your computer and type in climate change followed by your favorite food, ... and found a complex landscape of winners and losers.

The World's Farmers Need to Prepare for Serious Cash Crop Disruption - TIME
TIME
Climate change has its winners and losers. ... PLOS One zeros in on how climate change will impact some of the food and drink we love most.

Climate change is after our coffee (and other key food crops too) - ZME Science
ZME Science
The researchers found a dynamic of winners and losers, with large areas that won't be suitable for crops anymore and some that will benefit but ...

Microgrids:

How do we create the grid the future demands? - Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrids are a unique tool for policymakers and regulators seeking to solve both immediate and long-term challenges created by climate change. The ...

Global Microgrids Markets Report 2021-2030 with Focus on 6 Key Growth Opportunities
Yahoo Finance
DUBLIN, January 26, 2022--The "Global Microgrids Growth Opportunities" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Microgrid project using vanadium redox flow battery - pv magazine USA
pv magazine USA
SDG&E and Sumitomo Electric complete a pilot microgrid project in California that successfully powered utility customers solely with energy stored ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially Responsible Investing: Marketing Tool or Solution to ESG Problems?
MIT Sloan Management Review - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Socially responsible investing refers to an investment strategy aimed at both creating social change and generating financial returns for an ...

ESG Investing Needs More Rigorous Standards To Evaluate Corporate Conduct - Forbes
Forbes
If ESG ratings were grounded in more accurate assessments of corporate responses to both social and environmental challenges, and investors were ...

The effort to make socially conscious investing and capitalism compatible | Crain's Chicago Business
Crain's Chicago Business
ESG investing often is misunderstood because it's so broadly defined. The approach can involve screening out oil and gas companies and other ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

The Development of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology - AZoCleantech.com
AZoCleantech.com
Oxy-fuel combustion. However, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) also exists as an extension of CCS and has its own separate categories, ...

Sinopec Completes China's First Megaton Scale Carbon Capture Project - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
... of China's first megaton carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project, the Qilu-Shengli Oilfield CCUS (the "Project") on January 29, ...
    
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market Anticipated to Grow $7.0 Billion by 2030 ...
Digital Journal
According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market: Global Opportunity ...

Sustainability Investing: 

What's on the Agenda for Sustainable Investing in 2022? | Morningstar
Morningstar
Sustainalytics founder Michael Jantzi discusses climate change, net-zero emissions, and the role of individual investors.

M&G targets 'impact' investing, green buildings in sustainability drive | Reuters
Reuters
Money managers globally are looking to increase investments in companies focused on environmental and social problems, as issues such as climate ...

Why Now Is The Time To Invest In ESG And Sustainable Tech - Forbes
Forbes
And bank customers now have a wider variety of sustainable investment and banking products to choose from, right from ESG-linked bonds to funds ...

Geoengineering:

Solar Geoengineering Research Is a Risk Worth Taking - The Washington Post
The Washington Post
Solar geoengineering covers a range of proposals to cool the earth by reflecting some sunlight back into space, including with stratospheric ...

What if We Blotted Out the Sun to Fight Global Warming? - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a solar geoengineering project of Bloomberg Opinion's opinions. Sign up here.

Green Bond Funds:

Why a green bond label isn't a green light for investors - Citywire Selector
Citywire Selector
Not green enough. Compared with the wider universe of Euro bond funds, the Vontobel Green Bond fund has performed fairly well over the last 10 years.

AXA IM unveils transition-focused green bond fund for risk-tolerant investors - Investment Week
Investment Week
AXA Investment Managers has launched an actively-managed green bonds fund that seeks to finance the transition to a low carbon economy.

Axa IM expands green bond offering with new fund
Funds Europe
Axa Investment Managers (AXA IM) has launched the AXA WF ACT Dynamic Green Bonds fund, which aims to help finance the transition to a low carbon ...

Low Carbon Funds:

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