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Coronavirus and Sustainability: Macro Hive

Vasta Releases Its First Sustainability Report | News | bakersfield.com
The Bakersfield Californian
SAO PAULO, Brazil, April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vasta announces the release of its first Sustainability Report.

Switching to sustainable surfactants - C&EN
C&EN - American Chemical Society
While most industries, including the chemical industry, are targeting net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the consumer product brands that make ...

Storm receives Innovate UK grant for development of SARS-CoV-2 drugs
Pharmaceutical Technology
The latest grant will aid the company in developing a drug that can act on a crucial coronavirus protein that is not targeted by present therapies.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Achieving Decarbonization of the Healthcare Sector
Modern Healthcare
By reducing carbon emissions, the healthcare sector can both improve human health and reduce costs. Learn about pathways for decarbonizing this ...

China's EAF capacity growth gathers pace in 2022 as steel sector tracks decarbonization goals
S&P Global
China has stepped up the pace of developing electric arc furnace based steelmaking capacity in 2022 to mark growing efforts from the steel ...

World Energy Awarded $2 Million Grant from the California Energy Commission for Clean ...
Yahoo Finance
... our California public sector partners for their support of our efforts to drive the frontier for California based decarbonization solutions.".

Global Reporting Initiative:

EU body sets out draft sustainability disclosure standards | Reuters
Reuters
Eelco van der Enden chief executive of Global Reporting Initiative, whose voluntary standards are used by many companies globally to show their ...

XPO Logistics Releases 2022 Sustainability Report - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The 2022 report details the company's ESG progress from January 1, ... with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting ...

Kingsoft Cloud Releases 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance Report - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
In this ESG Report, the Company leverages frameworks and standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, Sustainable Accounting ...   

Renewable Energy Investments:

WM'S RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENTS EXPECTED TO POWER OVER 1 MILLION ...
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Rounding out Earth Month, WM (NYSE: WM) plans to invest $825 million in its renewable energy footprint from 2022-2025 by expanding ...

Global Renewable Energy Market to Grow 8.5% Annually in Coming Years
Environment + Energy Leader
This is because countries such as China and India have experienced significant surges in power consumption owing to growing investment in renewable ...

2 Red-Hot Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy for 2022 and Beyond | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
Investing in shares of these companies is one of the best ways to make money off the renewable energy megatrend. Here are two such renewable energy ...

CDP Sustainability:

KPMG joins CDP as an Accredited Solutions Provider - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- KPMG LLP has earned accreditation by CDP and will be joining the ... CDP accredits environmental service providers who can support ...

EU body sets out draft sustainability disclosure standards | Reuters
Reuters
CDP said European companies will have to report on a far wider range of environmental issues under the draft standards than most are used to. "Just 5% ...

This Earth Day, cut through the corporate climate hype - The Verge
The Verge
Carrillo Pineda's initiative, a partnership between several environmental organizations including CDP, assesses climate pledges from companies, ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Final Pathways to 30 x 30 Report Shows Ambitious Work Ahead for California - Voice of OC
Voice of OC
Climate change is rapidly closing California's window of opportunity to ... thrilled with the California Natural Resource Agency's leadership in ...

The California startups taking on climate change
University of California
“I'm incredibly proud of the leadership California is displaying in moving beyond fossil fuels,” Hochschild said. “We're showing the world we can move ...

Kerry warns world will blow through critical climate change threshold unless global leaders step up
CNN
John Kerry speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, April 21, ...

Impact Investing:

What The Federal Reserve And Impact Investing Have In Common - Forbes
Forbes
Director of Responsible Investing at Federated Hermes, leading ESG integration and engagement across $650 billion in global assets. Bar chart.

Overview of Legal Issues Relating to Impact Investing - Lexology
Lexology
Impact investing has different characteristics from ESG investment, which aims to improve investment efficiency through negative screening of ...

World Changing Ideas Awards 2022: Impact investing finalists and honor - Fast Company
Fast Company
The impact investing category of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards honors impact funds, social impact bonds, and other investments in ...

Energy Storage

Feds conditionally commit $500M to Delta's Advanced Clean Energy Storage project | KUER
KUER
The operation, called the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project, is based in Delta. It would produce hydrogen through excess wind and solar energy ...

dynamic pricing in Ontario, Yotta & TWAICE funding - Energy storage news
Energy Storage News
battery yotta energy twaice ontario pilot tariffs energy storage Yotta project manager Thomas Gutierrez (left) gets hands-on, installing the ...

Dual membrane design key to low-cost and long-term energy storage - Innovation Origins
Innovation Origins
A new approach to battery design could provide the key to low-cost, long-term energy storage, according to Imperial College London researchers, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Ericsson's Approach to Environmental Sustainability - CSRwire
CSRwire
Figure 2, shows Ericsson's carbon footprint and climate targets. ... based on science and that improve the environmental performance of the sector ...

Crystal International publishes Sustainability Report 2021 - Knitting Industry
Knitting Industry
-Committed to net zero emissions by 2050 with interim target of 35% of absolute carbon reduction by 2030, in line with science-based target ...

Environmental Responsibility Manager (12 Month FTC) job with Stella McCartney | 206699
The Business of Fashion
... targets and roadmaps to achievement; including monitoring progress against Science Based Targets, carbon in setting and offsetting strategy, ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Scientists map living corals for the first time before and after marine heat wave - Phys.org
Phys.org
"We discovered coral 'winners' and 'losers. ... 10 potential coral refugia—habitats that may offer a safe haven for corals facing climate change.

Keilar Go, Ruffalo Smash, McCarthy Schism | Winners & Losers in Today's Green Room - Mediaite
Mediaite
... those hardships are a golden opportunity on fronts like climate change, including climate activist, podcaster, and Avengers star Mark Ruffalo.

Scientists map living corals for first time before, after marine heat wave | ASU News
ASU News - Arizona State University
“We discovered coral 'winners' and 'losers. ... potential coral refugia — habitats that may offer a safe haven for corals facing climate change.

Microgrids:

Microgrids as the next duct tape: The military's latest projects
Microgrid Knowledge
But the military is driving microgrid growth — and helping the concept reach scale — as it pursues a mission to improve energy resilience at its ...

A nuclear microgrid? National lab sets out to test the idea
Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrids use many kinds of energy but we've yet to see a nuclear microgrid. Now the US' top nuclear energy lab wants to change that.

Making smarter and more equitable solar-powered microgrids - UB Now
University at Buffalo
“A grid is what's used to deliver power,” explains Hall, who also serves as Atrevida's science adviser. “A microgrid would be like a smaller version ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How To Invest Your Self-Directed IRA In Socially Responsible Ways - Forbes
Forbes
Known as environmental, social and governance (or ESG) investing, this strategy allows you to invest your money in ways that align with your ...

Are Your Financial Transactions Morally And Socially Responsible? - Forbes
Forbes
Socially responsible investing means that a bank prioritizes working with companies that they believe are making a positive sustainable or social ...

Defining The Next Generation Of ESG Investing - Forbes
Forbes
It was originally coined as “socially responsible investing” and manifested in strategies like the boycott of companies who provided weapons used in ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Chevron to join Jefferson County offshore carbon capture and storage project - 12NewsNow.com
12NewsNow.com
Carbon capture and sequestration technology helps to safely isolate and ... vice president of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage for Chevron ...

IEEFA: Widespread adoption of carbon capture, utilization and storage... - Saur Energy
Saur Energy
Carbon, capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is increasingly attracting attention in South East Asia. However, in the...

Jobs Act Directs Private Activity Bonds to Clean Energy, Carbon Capture | Insights | Holland & Knight
Holland & Knight
Carbon capture, utilization and storage equipment, and direct air capture technologies are eligible for private activity bond financing through a ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Yes, Sustainability Is Important to Investors | Morningstar
Morningstar
Returns-minded investors also think companies with good sustainability strategies make good investments.

3 steps to invest in companies doing good, according to a financial planner - Business Insider
Business Insider
Ethical investing starts with ESGs: Environmental, Social, and Governance. ESG mutual funds and ETFs are available, as well as ESG scores.

Why Climate Literacy is Critical to Green Investing - Investopedia
Investopedia
Expect more showdowns on climate goals and sustainable investing inside shareholder meetings this spring as proxy advisors are joining the battle.

Geoengineering:

How could geoengineering worsen the tropical malaria outbreak? - Open Access Government
Open Access Government
A geoengineering strategy to inject aerosols into the stratosphere could have repercussions - the worsening of a tropical malaria outbreak.

Climate change: How India and China can work together on a geoengineering governance ...
Firstpost
In layman's terms, geoengineering refers to the human involvement made in the Earth's natural processes to counteract the effects of climate ...

Tinkering with the Earth's thermostat at the cost of human lives - Interesting Engineering
Interesting Engineering
Geoengineering the climate would have massive repercussions for the health of billions of people at risk of malaria. Colin Carlson, lead author of ...

Green Bond Funds:

Sustainable fund Q1 inflows dip, but less than broader market | Reuters
Reuters
Green bonds issued by companies to finance projects with environmental benefits face the same headwinds as other bonds, such as rising inflation. In ...

Green bond index loses $2bn in Q1 as passives top sustainable outflows - Citywire Selector
Citywire Selector
The latest sustainable fund flows report from Morningstar indicates the sharpest slowdown of money flows into the space over the last three years.

PwC: Green bonds to make up 50% of EU issuance by 2026 - Investment Week
Investment Week
The latest Calastone Fund Flow Index (FFI) revealed that at the outbreak of war in Ukraine, when investors were largely pulling money out of markets, ...

Low Carbon Funds:

EU's Innovation Fund launches €100M call for innovative low-carbon projects - Offshore Energy
Offshore Energy
The Innovation Fund is one of the world's largest funding programs for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. The Fund aims to ...

Private credit's pivotal role in low-carbon transition - Top1000funds.com
Top1000funds.com
Private credit will play a vital role in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy. According to Rob Horn, global head of the Blackstone ...

The Transition To A Low Carbon Economy | Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Within the Sustainable Advantage Large Cap Core Fund, we focus on a sector-neutral approach to sustainability that aligns with the future economy ...