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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Mayor Larson's 2022 Focus: Economic Development, Public Safety, Connectivity, Sustainability
Fox21Online.com
– Duluth Mayor Emily Larson was face-to-face with fellow leaders and supporters Tuesday evening for her first in-person State of the City Address in ...

In Her Own Words: At DS Smith, Allison Berg accelerates transition to the circular economy
The Business Journals
Photo submitted by Allison Berg. Allison Berg Sustainability Manager, DS Smith, Atlanta ... Experts outlined a path for combating the coronavirus.

CF Industries Publishes 2021 Sustainability and Annual Reports | Illinois | wsiltv.com
WSIL-TV
This year's sustainability reporting includes a 2021 ESG Report tailored to the information needs of shareholders and other capital market ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

U.S. Can Get Close to Deep Decarbonization by 2050, Study Finds - UT News
UT News - The University of Texas at Austin
... analyzed midcentury emissions of greenhouse gases based on three ... “While the electricity sector is already decarbonizing at a fast pace, ...

These are the zero-emission fuels to decarbonize the shipping industry
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
– Investments will be primarily land-based (ammonia synthesis, storage, distribution and hydrogen production) [exhibit 1] with market-based measures ...

How to Accelerate Decarbonization in Three Easy Steps | Architect Magazine
Architect Magazine
Philadelphia-based firm KieranTimberlake renovated their offices in 2016, ... policies to eliminate carbon emissions from the building sector.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Global sustainable reporting standard moves closer - Environment Analyst
Environment Analyst
Under the agreement, the IFRS Foundation's International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), launched last year at COP26, and the GRI's Global ...

Major deal unveiled to align international sustainability reporting | The Actuary
The Actuary
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have agreed to co-ordinate their capital ...

Otis Releases Inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance Report - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Otis Worldwide Corp. ... Development Goals – and makes disclosures to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard and against ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Renewable energy investments becoming mainstream, from startups to global deals | Star Tribune
Star Tribune
Industry is investing to green operations because wind, solar and conservation technology are economical energy sources and combat climate change.

Investing In The Green Energy Transformation - Forbes
Forbes
For investors interested in capitalizing on this green energy transition, there are several options available. One could choose to invest directly ...

Managing Renewable Energy Risk During and After the Russia-Ukraine Conflict - Kroll
Kroll
What are the key considerations when evaluating renewable investments, especially in light of the current economic and political environment?

CDP Sustainability:

Robust regulation on environmental disclosure is key to a net-zero, resilient economy - Edie.net
Edie.net
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their ...

53 Companies Estimate Financially Impactful Climate-Related Risks At Rs 1,434 Billion: CDP Report
Outlook India
As compared to 2020 more companies disclosed information across CDP's three ... due to the growing customer and investor focus on sustainability, ...

Platform aims to raise the bar on climate action reporting for cities
Smart Cities World
CDP, the non-profit which runs the environmental reporting system for companies, cities, states and regions and ICLEI, a global network of 2,500 ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California's lead in science, technology is strong but vulnerable - CalMatters
CalMatters
Science and technology leaders are raising several issues that over time ... keep the door open to global talent, address climate change and its ...

Editorial: Newsom fails (again) to show drought leadership - The Mercury News
The Mercury News
Silicon Valley seems to be in complete denial about the water crisis. We may be at a climate-change tipping point, but in Silicon Valley we are in the ...

California gets D grade for climate inaction during crisis | | hmbreview.com
Half Moon Bay Review
This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report ... We can step up and reclaim California's place as a leader on climate ...

Impact Investing:

Call No. 40: How impact investors embrace political risk to keep progress flowing (video)
ImpactAlpha
And impact investments in a free press, humanitarian tech, financial inclusion and more may help mitigate such risks.

How to Measure the Impact of Impact Investing | Middle Market Growth
Middle Market Growth
Enhanced Capital's Michael Korengold discusses a data-driven approach to quantifying the effects of impact investing.

Impact investing: investors prioritise social factors over environmental ones | Fool UK
Fool UK
Social or environmental impact investing: which one do investors prefer? And is impact investing actually profitable?

Energy Storage

Grid-Level Energy Storage And The Challenge Of Storing Energy Efficiently | Hackaday
Hackaday
Today's battery-powered gadgets are an obvious example of such time-shifting, but energy storage plays a major role on the grid itself, too, whether ...

Inside Clean Energy: US Battery Storage Soared in 2021, Including These Three Monster Projects
Inside Climate News
Battery storage is quickly moving from the margins to near the center of the U.S. energy system. In 2021, the market added 3,508 megawatts of ...

Tesla secures big 200 MWh Megapack order for a new energy storage project in Australia - Electrek
Electrek
The state of Queensland and publicly owned generator CS Energy announced a giant new 100 MW/200 MWh energy storage project, and it selected ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Stellantis Demonstrates Strong Performance Across Key Metrics in First Corporate Social ...
Yahoo Finance
Roadmap supports ambitious goal to reach carbon net zero by 2038 ... grounded on science-based evidence and audited by independent third party, ...

Radisson Hotel Group commits to Net Zero by 2050
Hospitality Net
... to set science-based emission reduction targets, and by strengthening its performance with a net zero carbon future in sight by 2050.

NXP Semiconductors Releases Annual Sustainability Report Outlining Renewed ... - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
In early 2022, NXP formally committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Future Goals: Achieve carbon neutrality by 2035. By 2027:.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Winners and Losers in Putin's War | Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
Featured. Climate Change ... From 2009 to 2010, Professor Freeman served as counselor for energy and climate change in the Obama administration.

Climate change is one of Australia's biggest challenges. But according to the government ... - ABC
ABC
It wasn't top of mind in the government's budget, which included no major new funding for renewable energy generation. Budget 2022 winners and losers.

Grammys 2022: Winners and losers from the 64th annual primetime award show - Yahoo News
Yahoo News
Olivia Rodrigo is expected to be the darling of this year's Grammys, but there's always room for a “brutal” surprise. Follow along as we provide ...

Microgrids:

Cyber Threats Are One More Reason To Use Solar Panels, Storage, And Microgrids - Forbes
Forbes
But one way this country can fight back is to use more onsite generation with microgrids. They can operate independently of the primary grid and ...

Microgrids and EVs can make magic with the right market signals
Microgrid Knowledge
Electric vehicles (EVs) could become important microgrid assets that reap income by providing grid services. But there's a glitch — a lack of ...

This is why microgrids are becoming popular: Jigar Shah
Microgrid Knowledge
Power prices fell, while electric delivery costs rose over the last decade. This makes the case for microgrids as a non-wires alternative.

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investors should harness the power of the profit motive instead of fighting it
MarketWatch
If ESG investing is ever going to have a real-world impact, advocates will have to make the business case for doing the right thing.

Ethical investing: Put your money where your morals are - NPR
NPR
The idea that the money you invest can generate meaningful change and a profit is mostly referred to as ESG investing. THAKOR: ESG stands for ...

Fund manager to talk socially responsible investing - Sonoma Index-Tribune
Sonoma Index-Tribune
He is the founder and member of the board of the Calvert Family of Socially Responsible Investment Funds, the largest such portfolio of family funds ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Capito, McKinley, Manchin, Urge EPA to Expedite Approval for States to Expand Carbon ...
US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - Senate.gov
This process is an integral part of the deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). The members requested an update on the ...

New climate plan's reliance on carbon capture called 'not at all realistic' | Canada's National Observer
Canada's National Observer
Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) projects only capture 0.05 per cent of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, or around 3.55 million ...

Sarah Jensen: Colorado must employ carbon capture technology - Boulder Daily Camera
Boulder Daily Camera
Unsurprisingly, the state is not on track to meet those goals in part because Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technologies have ...

Sustainability Investing: 

An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing - Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Investing in sustainable funds that prioritize ESG goals is supposed to help improve the environmental and social sustainability of business ...

Study: Most Entrepreneurs Will Skip Money from Investors Who Fall Short on Sustainability | Inc.com
Inc. Magazine
On the financing side, investors finally realize that it's in their best interest to make bets on sustainable ventures. In fact, investors from Saudi ...

AAB Wealth: a greener, more sustainable look at investment | The Scotsman
The Scotsman
AAB Wealth: a greener, more sustainable look at investment · ESG is here to stay, and Ian Campbell has a vision of how investors can factor it in when ...

Geoengineering:

Is solar geoengineering inevitable? | Fixing Carbon newsletter - Anthropocene Magazine
Anthropocene Magazine
Few concepts have gone from science fiction to science news as swiftly as solar geoengineering (aka solar radiation management, or SRM).

From pseudo-volcanoes to carbon-sucking rocks. Can technology fix the climate? | Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nz
People use the word 'geoengineering' to mean both using technology to suck in carbon and store it, and tinkering directly with the climate, à la solar ...

Any plans to dim the Sun and cool the Earth must be led by those most affected by climate change
The Conversation
Solar geoengineering could temporarily address the worst impacts of global warming.

Green Bond Funds:

NextGenerationEU - European Commission
European Commission - European Union
The European Commission has today raised a further €6 billion in NextGenerationEU funds with its second NextGenerationEU green bond syndication.

Bond, green Bond: Opening likely in 2nd half of FY23 - The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced in her February 1 budget speech that the government will issue sovereign green bonds in FY23 as ...

From little acorns: how green bonds are setting treasurers on path to low carbon
The Global Treasurer
Issuing green bonds is proving to be a valuable – and enjoyable ... whereby firms make exaggerated or false environmental claims to raise funds.

Low Carbon Funds:

Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 invests in Adaptavate - Private Equity Wire
Private Equity Wire
Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2) has invested in Adaptavate Limited as part of a capital raising round of over GBP1.3 million.

Apple invests $4.7 billion in low carbon manufacturing, uses carbon-free aluminum in iPhone SE
Mint
Apple said that it has spent $4.7 billion as part of its Green Bond investment fund to support the development of new low-carbon manufacturing and ...

Governor Hochul Announces $34 Million in Federal Funds to Improve Energy Efficiency for ...
Governor Kathy Hochul - NY.gov
Awards Through New York's Weatherization Stimulus Program Will Reduce Energy Costs for Low-Income Homeowners and Renters; Advance Governor's ...