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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

NAHQ: Quality Professionals and Quality Work Essential During Crises Such as Coronavirus ...
HealthLeaders Media
A 'new normal' in healthcare appreciates that we must be dependent on sustainable systems, process and structure to ensure continuity in the face of ...

U.S. Travel Group Calls on White House and Congress to Help Accelerate Recovery - Skift
Skift
Ultimately, sustainability took center stage in this annual update. ... Tags: brand usa, coronavirus recovery, dei, jobs, labor, marketing, ...

Sustainable Sourcing in 2022 - New Guide to Kickstart Your Plans | SupplyChainBrain
Supply Chain Brain
Sustainability is under a global spotlight, and procurement can (and will) ... Wake up to Coronavirus Updates and the latest Supply Chain News!

Sector Based Decarbonization:

China plans national power market by 2030 to boost decarbonization efforts | S&P Global Platts
S&P Global
Deepens power sector reform to boost renewables adoption ... The country's existing fossil fuels-based power grids lack the capability to manage ...

Pathways outlined to enable shipping sector to achieve decarbonisation goals - Manifold Times
Manifold Times
A new evidence-based study outlines the need for large-scale deployment of new technologies and the use of low-carbon fuels to help the sector ...

The Asia-Pacific region's transport sector needs a big push towards decarbonization | ESCAP
United Nations ESCAP
The impact of decarbonizing urban transport systems through electric mobility depends much on the source of electricity. At present, electric vehicles ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

CGI releases its 2021 CSR Report demonstrating progress and adding new targets across ...
Yahoo Finance
... three global strategic priorities: people, communities and climate. ... CSR reporting in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) ...

Climate Change Disclosures: Is 2022 the Year? | NRDC
NRDC
There is the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) ...

ESG reporting in Pakistan's corporate sector - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
Dawn
A survey in 2019 showed only 17pc companies report using the Global Reporting Initiative standards in Pakistan.

Renewable Energy Investments:

PV - Genervest scales up its clean energy investment portfolio for 2022
Renewable Energy Magazine
The portfolio includes an investment platform focused only on renewable energy projects designed to democratise the energy transition by giving the ...

Multinationals and renewable energy: boosting innovation through foreign direct ... - LSE Blogs
LSE Blogs - London School of Economics
Multi-technology corporations making green foreign direct investments, such as in renewable energy, increase the capacity for innovation in their ...

Audi Weighs Green Energy Investment in China to Slash Emissions - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Audi is considering investments in clean energy for sites in China where the luxury car-maker is struggling to source enough power from renewable ...

CDP Sustainability:

Assurant Affirms Commitment to Sustainability, Environmental Transparency - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
... of the company's environmental impact and commitment. CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world's leading environmental disclosure platform.

How the UK can help deliver a global green economy - The CDP Blog - Edie
Edie
Environmental disclosure has become a key driver of the green economic transition – with the mantra that what gets measured gets managed. It is also ...

Environmental disclosure – so much progress, but so far still to go - Responsible Investor
Responsible Investor
Looking back to when we launched CDP over two decades ago, aiming to transform markets and address the climate crisis through the transparent ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

As California snowpack shrinks, will Gov. Newsom finally show leadership? - Visalia Times-Delta
Visalia Times-Delta
Especially given the realities of climate change. It's time for Gov. Gavin Newsom to get real about solving the state's short-term and long-term water ...

Working Families Party tapping into a new generation of progressives - CalMatters
CalMatters
The people of California have moved to the left of our elected leadership, ... tuition-free college and boldly address climate change.

California delays decision on rooftop solar policy reform | Regina Leader Post
Regina Leader Post
... warned of a sharp decline in installations which would harm California's efforts to combat climate change if the revisions were implemented.

Impact Investing:

ESG Vs. Impact Investing--Understanding Their Different Goals - Financial Advisor Magazine
Financial Advisor Magazine
ESG Vs. Impact Investing--Understanding Their Different Goals ... under management, according to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance.

Infrastructure: A direct route to impact investing - Responsible Investor
Responsible Investor
Sponsored by Generali Investments. As long-term essential assets with regular cash flows, investors have always valued infrastructure for its ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Horizons - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Students of tech's “hype cycle” may recognize the same pattern in impact investing. From their Peaks of Inflated Expectations, impact strategies and ...

Energy Storage

Inside Clean Energy: In the New World of Long-Duration Battery Storage, an Old ...
Inside Climate News
The LS Power-Diablo Battery Energy Storage System, a 50,000kW energy storage project located in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: LS Power ...

Microsoft and Google join Long Duration Energy Storage Council
Energy Storage News
Solar PV array outside a Google data centre in Belgium, at which the company is trialling the multi-application use of battery energy storage.

Hydrogen Energy Storage Market Surpass $23,103Mn by 2028 | - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
Hydrogen Energy Storage Market value is estimated to grow at CAGR above 6.3% over the forecast timeframe and reach a market value of around $23103 ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Tarkett launches 2030 Climate Roadmap / Independent - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
Science-based targets are designed to keep the planet within its global carbon budget in order to limit the increase of global temperatures and the ...

SITA commits to setting science-based targets | TravelDailyNews International
TravelDailyNews International
SITA, the global aviation IT company, has announced its commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard and Business ...

Konecranes presents new climate targets in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C - PortNews
PortNews
The new targets follow Konecranes' signing of the Science Based ... For Scope 3, Konecranes aims to reduce absolute carbon emissions by 50% by ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Biden Fed pick faces GOP fire on climate stances | TheHill
TheHill
Raskin added the Fed should not “choose winners and losers. ... current bid to join the bank over her previous statements on climate change.

Yellen Slows the Climate Change Train - AAF - The American Action Forum
The American Action Forum
Climate change risk can enter this business model in at least three ... to be asked about federal agencies picking regulatory winners and losers.

Raskin Faces Senate Questions Over Views on Climate Change, Regulations - WSJ
wsj.com
“It is inappropriate for the Fed to make credit decisions and allocations based on choosing winners and losers,” Ms. Raskin said Thursday, ...

Microgrids:

Microgrids, a $206.1bn market by 2031: Drivers - Smart Energy International
Smart Energy International
The microgrids market will increase by 11.3% between 2021 and 2031 resulting in an increase in revenue generation from $63.5bn to $206.1bn.

5 reasons why microgrids are worth it to utilities
Microgrid Knowledge
Tom Poteet, VP, corporate development at Mesa Solutions, outlines five key benefits utilities can unlock through the use of decentralized microgrids.

Army plans microgrids, electric vehicle fleet in first climate strategy | TheHill
TheHill
The Army plans to install a microgrid on all of its installations by 2035 and have a fleet of all-electric vehicles by 2050, among other efforts ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI): Understanding an EFT Like Vanguard's ESGV | The Ritz Herald
The Ritz Herald
Socially responsible investing is a reminder that how you manage and invest your dollars is not only important to you and your family, ...

Governance, Socially Responsible Investing & DEI Take Center Stage in the Board Room ...
Salamanca Press
The growth of socially conscious investing has led to increased support for companies with an environmental sustainability and clean energy or ...

ESG investing: Why sustainable investment strategies are on the rise - Portland Business Journal
The Business Journals
ESG investing incorporates elements of sustainable, socially responsible, and impact investing and is a method for evaluating ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Factbox: Biden administration sees carbon capture as key tool in climate fight | Reuters
Reuters
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) refer to the technology of capturing carbon dioxide directly ...

Here's what we know about the big carbon capture/storage hub initiative - Pittsburgh Business Times
The Business Journals
With Thursday's announcement that they had formed an alliance to help start a carbon capture and storage and hydrogen hub in Appalachia, ...

What are low-carbon emitting technologies? An expert explains - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Low-carbon emitting technologies such as carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, solar photovoltaics, etc can enable the ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Top 5 questions to ask about sustainable investing - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
The demand from investors for sustainable investment products has doubled in the past two years. With so many options available, ...
    
ESG by the Numbers: Sustainable Investing Set Records in 2021 - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
1. Total Assets. Global ESG AUM Outlook - 2022. Source: Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, Bloomberg Intelligence.

Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing: A Bridge to Shari'a-Compliant ... - JD Supra
JD Supra
It has been reported that some asset managers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) expect stronger inflows amid growing demand for environmental, ...

Geoengineering:

Trying to cool the Earth by dimming sunlight could be worse than global warming - The Conversation
The Conversation
Geoengineering aims to intervene in Earth's climate to fight global ... 60 scientists called for a moratorium on solar geoengineering last month, ...

Stop efforts to dim the Sun and cool Earth, say scientists - Mongabay-India
Mongabay-India
Solar geoengineering: Too much risk. Scientists know that aerosol particles can temporarily cool the earth's surface. Fine ash from the 1991 eruption ...

Ocean Geoengineering 'Not Rocket Science': Russ George - The Epoch Times
The Epoch Times
He compared iron fertilization favorably with other proposed forms of geoengineering, such as cloud seeding, or dimming the sun. “It's a nature-based ...

Green Bond Funds:

AXA IM unveils low volatility short-duration green bond fund - Investment Week
Investment Week
AXA Investment Managers has launched a green bond fund focusing on short-dated green bonds in a bid to minimise volatility.

Alibaba's sustainability bonds fund green power, Covid-19 relief projects in China | South ...
South China Morning Post
The e-commerce giant pledged to cut 1.5 gigatons of carbon emissions by 2035, in line with Beijing's goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.
    
Oil Producer Adnoc Mulls Green Bond as Gulf Firms Seek ESG Funds - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Abu Dhabi's state oil producer is considering a sale of green bonds for the first time, according to people with knowledge of the matter, ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Budget 2022: Top Steelmakers Seek Funds To Cut Carbon Emissions - NDTV.com
NDTV.com
Steel companies believe that government incentives for low carbon technologies, state funding of green pilot projects and a market for steel made ...

Canada launches applications for $200 million fund to support pollution-cutting projects ...
Newswire.CA
The Government of Canada supports new emissions reduction projects through the Low Carbon Economy Fund. (CNW Group/Environment and Climate Change ...

Sizewell C 'seed' funding a boost to UK's low carbon nuclear drive - Pinsent Masons
Pinsent Masons
The funding is a sign that the government recognises the importance of securing low carbon nuclear power as part of the UK's future energy mix, ...