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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Industrial hub lockdown risks global supplies | TheHill
The Hill
China, one of the world's only countries with a “zero-COVID” strategy, is currently battling one of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreaks, with a surge ...

The state of the Sustainable Development Goals in the United States - Brookings
Brookings
... at home and abroad by embracing the Sustainable Development Goals. ... and the public on our response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) ».

The world needs a full stop on fossil fuels, sustainability analyst Holly Jean Buck says - C&EN
C&EN - American Chemical Society
But achieving net-zero emissions won't ensure that the planet is buffered from the environmental and health impacts of fossil fuel extraction and ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Government of Canada launches call to action targeting industrial decarbonization ... - Newswire.CA
Newswire.CA
The Net Zero Accelerator initiative is reaching out to the private sector for innovative projects in high-emitting sectors. OTTAWA, ON, March 18, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI launches coal reporting standard | Environment Analyst Global
Environment Analyst
The Global Reporting Initiative is set to produce standards for 40 sectors, starting with those with the highest sustainability impacts.

GRI launches new standard to manage the impacts of coal
World Coal
The Global Reporting Initiative GRI has launched a new standard to address sustainability challenges facing coal companies.

ESG reporting has evolved amid rising stakeholder expectations, says Berry Global's VP of ...
Yahoo News
The company reports to several common voluntary ESG disclosure frameworks, including GRI, SASB, and TCFD. This article is part of a series analyzing ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

The best renewable energy funds to buy now | MoneyWeek
MoneyWeek
The need to reduce reliance on Russian oil will boost renewables. Investors need to start taking note. Max King picks the best renewable energy ...

How to invest in renewable energy storage funds like GRID | This is Money
Money
A number of investment trusts are targetting an area of the market considered essential for the future of green power - energy storage.

PV - Ecosia invests $30 million into renewable energy
Renewable Energy Magazine
Environmentally-focused search engine Ecosia has announced an investment of $23 million into solar energy platform Zolar to help households speed up ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP notes growth in environmental data disclosure | Environment Analyst Global
Environment Analyst
It predicts an even greater take-up this year, as environmental reporting becomes mandatory in many jurisdictions. Every year since 2002, CDP has sent ...

MAS and CDP to jointly promote access to quality ESG data - Monetary Authority of Singapore
Monetary Authority of Singapore
3 CDP's environmental disclosure system allows investors, companies and cities to measure and manage their environmental impacts. CDP has one of ...

Financial firms urge companies to report environmental data via CDP | Corporate Secretary
| Corporate Secretary
CDP further notes, however, that with several mandatory environmental disclosure requirements coming in this year – including in the EU, Japan, New ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Campus Researchers, State Leaders Talk Secure Water Future for the Valley - UC Merced News
UC Merced News
“Extreme drought has been a staple of California for the past decade. Climate change increases the odds for extreme summer drought and ...

Dewan: Santa Clara County schools confront climate change - San José Spotlight
San Jose Spotlight
Providing access to safe, healthy, sustainable and resilient learning environments is a focus of policy makers and school leaders. In 2020, the United ...

Climate Change – and Transformative Urban Leadership – Set to Shape Atlanta's Future - Next City
Next City
In California, the state is attempting to add green amenities to low-income neighborhoods using cap and trade dollars, but is dealing with the ...

Impact Investing:

The Week in Impact Investing: Vision - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Eyes on the prize. It wasn't supposed to be like this halfway to the 2030 deadline to meet the Sustainable Development ...

Asia's immense opportunities for impact investing
Nikkei Asia
Alfonso Garcia Mora is IFC vice president for Asia and Pacific.Investors have always known their business decisions have a social and ...

ACE Act is a growth opportunity for impact investing - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
But many of the tactics proposed miss the mark – and an opportunity to put DAFs to work as impact investments, not just grants.

Energy Storage

Tesla Megapack selected for big new 300 MWh energy storage project to help renewable ...
Electrek
Edify Energy is behind the project called “Riverina and Darlington Point Energy Storage Systems,” which will consist of three clusters of battery ...

Michigan will need 4,000 MW of energy storage by 2040: report | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
“We hope the energy storage roadmap will inform investment and policies regarding energy storage and that it will lead to more discussions on actions ...

Batteries or fuel cells for energy storage? - Control Global
Control Global
For most of us, electricity storage means batteries, but in a decade or two, this might change. Why? Because one kilogram of a lithium battery can ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

The Science Based Target initiative: a business framework | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
The Science Based Targets initiative aims to help the world limit global warming to 1.5°C and reach carbon neutrality by providing real, ...

Ventas Commits to Achieve Carbon Neutral Operations by 2040 | Business Wire
Business Wire
This new pledge exceeds the Company's existing Science-Based Target ... net-zero carbon-aligned energy efficiency goals by property type by 2025.

E Ink Joins The Climate Pledge, Highlighting Company's Commitment to Being Net Zero ...
Business Wire
Company has also joined the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi ) ... all in goal of reaching net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Letters to the Editor: Big Oil scuttled a Fed nominee because of her climate concerns. We're doomed
Los Angeles Times
The role of the Fed is to be focused on inflation and employment, not global warming. The concern was that she would pick winners and losers, ...

Climate change is already disrupting the global supply chain. Here's how | PBS NewsHour
PBS
The impact of the COVID pandemic on the global supply chain has been widely reported. But extreme weather, from floods to wildfires, ...

House Ag climate hearing shows partisan differences | TheFencePost.com
The Fence Post
A House Agriculture Committee hearing Wednesday on the next farm bill and climate change programs displayed the differences between the Democrats ...

Microgrids:

SXSW: VMware pitches microgrids to keep power on - Austin American-Statesman
Austin American-Statesman
Microgrids reduce carbon emissions and prepare businesses and residences to weather extreme climate events, VMware VP Nicola Acutt said.

The Makings of a Modern Microgrid - Data Center Frontier
Data Center Frontier
A microgrid is a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources that acts as a single controllable entity concerning the grid. It can ...

How food producers can solve their energy problems with microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
Join Microgrid Knowledge and a panel of experts for a webinar on March 29 to learn how microgrids can provide energy reliability to the food ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

The Use of Blockchain in ESG - National Law Review
National Law Review
ESG, an acronym for Environmental, Social, and Governance, ... In so doing, it is very useful in helping socially responsible investors make their ...

Green bonds a socially responsible investment: CMA - Times of Oman
Times of Oman
Green bonds a socially responsible investment: CMA. Muscat: The Capital Market Authority (CMA) organised a seminar to highlight the Moroccan ...

Why ESG Investors Put Too Much Emphasis on the Environment - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Socially responsible investing has a broad and uncertain scope in the workplace. It includes things like closing the gender-based pay gap, company ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market to - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
The global carbon capture, utilization, and storage market is expected to witness a remarkable growth during the forecast period, owing to its ...

Every tool in the toolbox: Why we need carbon capture, utilization and storage in the fight ...
Canada's National Observer
They say that carbon capture and storage has the potential to make a big dent in cutting pollution, while creating sustainable jobs and economic ...

Fighting climate change with carbon capture and utilization technologies - UCR News
UCR News - University of California, Riverside
UC Riverside engineering professors Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz and Mihri Ozkan explain how direct air capture and utilization of carbon dioxide ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Including Sustainability into Investing Protects Our Economy - TriplePundit
TriplePundit
Employees want and deserve access to retirement investment options focused on sustainability, social impact and economic resiliency.

Weekly Wrap: Inflation Updates, Sustainable Investing Tips, and Cheap Wide-Moat Picks ...
Morningstar
Where investors stand two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine. ... Weekly Wrap: Inflation Updates, Sustainable Investing Tips, and Cheap Wide-Moat ...

Geoengineering:

Could spraying chemicals into the atmosphere 15 miles up reverse climate change?
Yahoo News UK
Climate 'geoengineering' technologies, where particles are sprayed into the stratosphere to deflect more sunlight away from a heating Earth, ...

Decryp'Terre: Here are the technologies used to modify the climate - Vaughan Today
Vaughan Today
solar geoengineering. There is also solar geoengineering which is still in the hypothetical stage. This method consists in artificially reducing the ...

Here's What's Missing in Climate Intervention Discussions - TriplePundit
TriplePundit
This theoretical geoengineering tactic sprays quantities of small reflective particles in the stratosphere to cool the planet by reflecting ...

Green Bond Funds:

Exploring the Green Bonds ETFs scenery in 2022 | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
The fund seeks to replicate the performance of the Solactive Green Bond USD CAD DM CAD hedged Index and invests primarily in investment-grade green, ...

Interesting Source of Potential Growth for Green Bonds | ETF Trends
ETF Trends
GRNB holds 325 bonds and sports a 30-day SEC yield well above what investors on many conservative domestic bond funds may enjoy. Even with that, GRNB ...  

Low Carbon Funds:

Spending deal undercuts Biden's UN climate pledge - Roll Call
Roll Call
The spending bill eliminated funding for the Green Climate Fund, ... and cut funding for the Clean Technology Fund, which finances low-carbon ...

KraneShares Hires Award-Winning Portfolio Manager Roger Mortimer For New Active ...
KraneShares
KGHG is an active ETF that aims to capture the low-carbon leaders of the future. The fund's focus includes companies in traditionally high ...