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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Climate change could ruin Southern Louisiana | TheHill
TheHill
SHOULD COUNTRIES CLOSE URBAN WILDLIFE MARKETS? Following the coronavirus outbreak, China moved to close its wildlife markets like the one in Wuhan — ...

Eco-Friendly Soap Industry | At Scale - A Sustainability Podcast - Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Transcript. Audrey Choi: I'm Audrey Choi, Chief Sustainability Officer at Morgan Stanley and CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Investing. This ...

Pangolins harboring coronavirus underscored risk of wildlife markets | TheHill
TheHill
Equilibrium/Sustainability ... Following the coronavirus outbreak, China moved to close its wildlife markets — including one in the city of Wuhan ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonising buildings: achieving zero carbon heating and cooling | Climate Action Tracker
Climate Action Tracker
... in their buildings sector decarbonisation strategies, with a specific focus on achieving zero carbon heating and cooling. The report is based ...

Tools and fuels to transition shipping emissions to net zero - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
These are the zero-emission fuels to decarbonize the shipping industry ... land-based infrastructure implying a vessel by vessel transition; ...

What to Know About Midstream's Role in Decarbonization - ETF Database
ETF Database
With growing pressure to decarbonize, carbon capture and hydrogen could ... It was announced today that Alberta-based Inter Pipeline (IPL) and ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Global Reporting Initiative Publish Standard to Address Sustainability Impacts of Coal
Yahoo Finance
GRI is Driving Accountability for Companies in Coal Sector ... New sustainability reporting standard for coal sector from GRI.

ESG Has Arrived — But Frustration Over Inconsistent Standards Continues to Grow ...
Institutional Investor
Among respondents, the most commonly used indexes, in order, were the Global Reporting Initiative Standards, the United Nations 17 Sustainable ...

Dinant Sustainability Report Highlights Continued Success In Promoting Gender Equality ...
Yahoo Finance
Honduran Company Publishes First Sustainability Report Using GRI Standards Dinant Female Security Guard March 2022 Tegucigalpa, Honduras, ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Have some renewable energy? An investor would like to speak with you. | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
"At times it felt like there was more capital than good companies" to invest in, said Andy Lubershane, managing director of research for investment ...

2 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2022 - Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Increasing oil prices, inflation, and market volatility make now a great time to consider an investment in clean energy stocks.

Ecosia has started ploughing search ads profit into green energy | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
They added that Ecosia's goal for the green energy investments is to encourage more businesses to invest in renewables and speed up the transition to ...

CDP Sustainability:

HH Global increases our CDP sustainability rating - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Kevin Dunckley, Chief Sustainability Officer, commented "I'm delighted that our efforts to tackle climate change have been recognized by CDP. Our team ...

CDP, Climate Pledge Increase Corporate Sustainability Initiatives - Environment + Energy Leader
Environment + Energy Leader
CDP, which is a non-profit that runs an environmental disclosure system for businesses, municipalities and governments, says nearly 100 more ...

Nature must have equal footing in climate change policy, experts tell CDP Awards | Euronews
Euronews
The CDP event celebrates the companies and cities which are working to achieve greater sustainability, and the highlights are being broadcast on ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Editorial: California must resume leadership role on car emissions - The Mercury News
The Mercury News
... the way for California to resume its leadership role in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants that further climate change.

Should Newsom do more to fight climate change? + Water efficiency bill - The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Bee
“California must live up to its reputation of being a climate leader and invest in green energy solutions like offshore wind to ensure our energy ...

Biden Restores California's Power to Set Stringent Tailpipe Rules - The New York Times
The New York Times
California's leaders say they intend to write an auto pollution rule that ... The regulation of vehicles is central to combating climate change: ...

Impact Investing:

Does 'Impact Investment' Perform Better Than Evil Investments? - Lifehacker
Lifehacker
Impact investing is not charity, but it's also not an automatic route to higher returns.

Impact investing 'more vulnerable' to greenwashing - FTAdviser.com
FT Adviser
Rathbone Greenbank Investments follows a definition that impact investments are made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and ...

M&G's Catalyst impact investing team gets off to fast start
Pensions & Investments
Alex Seddon isn't ruling out additional fundraising from outside investors. The impact investment team that M&G Investments Management launched ...

Energy Storage

When will long duration battery energy storage take off?
Energy Storage News
Invinity's vanadium flow battery tech at the Energy Superhub Oxford. Image: Invinity Energy Systems. Energy-storage.news caught up with executives ...

How to store renewable energy | Live Science
Live Science
Batteries; Pumped hydro energy storage; Pumped thermal electricity storage; Gravity energy storage; Compressed air ...

140-year-old rusty batteries offer huge breakthrough for energy storage | The Independent
The Independent
New method could revolutionise energy storage for large-scale renewable operations.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Science-Based Targets Initiative confirms highest standard for the climate protection goals of Symrise
MarketScreener
SBTi mobilizes companies to set science-based goals in the transition to a low-carbon economy. By doing so, companies can both protect the climate and ...

Progressive science-based carbon pollution targets touted by regional district - Toronto Star
Toronto Star
The regional district has adopted “progressive” greenhouse gas emission targets that expect to hit 100 per cent carbon neutral by 2050.

BCE Dedicated to Creating a Sustainable Future - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
... Responsibility Report features continued commitment to ESG goals. ... Agreement and the Science Based Targets initiative, and achieve carbon ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Global warming combined with other changes in | EurekAlert!
EurekAlert!
Dr McLean said there are "winners and losers" of these environmental changes driven by rising temperatures. "For offspring number and body condition ...

More 'losers' than 'winners' among plants in the age of humans - ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily
From changing Earth's climate to destroying, degrading and altering ecosystems on a massive scale, human choices now largely dictate the ...

Sarah Bloom Raskin's climate views sank her Fed nomination - Axios
Axios
Why Raskin's climate change views sank her Fed nomination ... She played down the role of the Fed in picking energy winners and losers during her ...

Microgrids:

Floods left thousands without power. Microgrids could help communities weather the next disaster
The Conversation
Microgrids have traditionally been deployed around the world in places where supplying power from the main grid is too expensive or difficult. However ...

As electrification grows, car dealerships become prime candidates for microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
Car dealerships will need more power as they ramp up their electric vehicle offerings. Microgrids may offer the solution.

Resiliency-as-a-service via microgrids and smart city software
Smart Energy International
Honeywell and Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions will jointly develop and deliver energy resiliency solutions to targeted U.S. markets.

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing is turning into a covert war on fossil fuels | TheHill
TheHill
Once a practice rooted in religious beliefs, socially responsible investing, or ESG investing in today's lexicon, is about to become a secular ...

ESG Investing: The Only Way Is Ethics – Or Is It? – Forbes Advisor UK
Forbes
What is ESG investing? ... Professional fund managers typically put together equity investment portfolios – ones with exposure to stocks and shares – ...

'Nuance and Shades of Gray': ESG Pro Sees Debate Over What It Is - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
As Russia's war roils markets, industry veteran Steve Lydenberg says socially responsible investing is littered with subtleties.

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

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Sustainability Investing: 

What's an ESG mutual fund? Here's how to invest in equitable and sustainable companies - CNN
CNN
Inequality. Unrest. There's a lot to consider in today's world and you may find yourself wanting to invest only in companies that aim to do business ...

Sustainability LIVE talks ESG investments and governance
Sustainability Magazine
Businesses across all sectors are embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) into corporate strategies, but, like many other sustainability ...

Geoengineering:

New research study: 'Sky is not the limit' for solar geoengineering - Phys.org
Phys.org
Planning to fly hundreds of thousands of annual solar geoengineering deployment flights to altitudes inaccessible even to elite spy planes would not ...

'Sky is not the limit' for solar geoengineering - ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily
'Sky is not the limit' for solar geoengineering. Date: March 14, 2022; Source: IOP Publishing; Summary: There are practical limits to the height at ...

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, ...