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Coronavirus and Sustainability: Macro Hive

WHO chief says China's zero-COVID policy not 'sustainable' | Reuters
Reuters
A woman wearing a face mask crosses a road at the Central Business District (CBD), amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, ...

Financing for sustainable development is clogged - Brookings
Brookings
What's left—approximating what is called country programmable aid—can be used for investments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If ...

Don't think China's 'zero Covid' strategy is sustainable: WHO - World News - WION
WION
Also Read: Child in China survives 66 days 'home alone' amid strict coronavirus lockdowns. Tedros informed that the WHO had spoken to Chinese ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonization in the retail sector: who will pay for climate resilience - The Times Hub
The Times Hub
There were a small number of large retailers in 2016, including Walmart, with a science-based goal of reducing carbon emissions. In just five years, ...

Decarbonization Service Market Global Industry Historical Background, Industry Structure ...
Queen Anne and Mangolia News
Decarbonization Service Market: A thorough analysis of statistics about the current as well as emerging trends offers clarity regarding the ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Investors Lead Demand for Businesses to Disclose Human Rights Impacts - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for ...

Rent-A-Center, Inc. Publishes Inaugural Sustainability Report - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
In addition to disclosing metrics to show alignment with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Global Reporting Initiative ...

Hurtigruten Group Launches ESG Report – Calls for More Transparency - Cruise Industry News
Cruise Industry News
Hurtigruten Group's ESG report for 2021 was developed in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard.

Renewable Energy Investments:

US is 30 years behind on renewable energy investments, says former Rep. Donna Edwards
YouTube
Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and former U.S. Congresswoman Donna Edwards, ...

This Renewable Energy Stock Continues to Generate Steadily Rising Passive Income
The Motley Fool
The company benefited from recent growth investments and strong production in its utility-scale solar portfolio. That helps offset lower than expected ...

EU Plans One-Year Renewable Energy Permits for Faster Green Shift - US News Money
US News Money
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CDP Sustainability:

Financial firms face $225 billion in water-related losses, analysis estimates | Reuters
Reuters
... of them doing nothing to assess the potential impact, a report by leading environmental disclosure platform CDP and Planet Tracker estimates.

Zain embarks on key corporate sustainability strategy - Trade Arabia
Trade Arabia
Duncan Howard, Zain Bahrain CEO, commented: "We are proud that our many sustainability initiatives have been recognised through this upgraded CDP ...

Report: Investors pumping $13bn into 'stranded assets' due to water risks - edie
edie
CDP and Planet Tracker warn that the financial support for key projects ... The controversial Keystone project has faced waves of environmental ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

As California burns, environmentalists find new tactic to halt development | Reuters
Reuters
California is closely watched both for its leadership on environmental issues and for lessons that other states can draw as they cope with wildfire ...

Climate Change the Focus for Environmental Policy | - CBIA
CBIA
Environmental policy made an appearance across various legislative committees in the ... to be amended whenever the California standards change.

'Devastating': Local, California Leaders React to Possible Overturning of Roe v. Wade - KCET
KCET
'Devastating': Local, California Leaders React to Possible Overturning of Roe v. Wade ... 4 Poems About Wildfire, Climate Change and Loss.

Impact Investing:

Profit vs. Good: How the Impact Investing Strategy Delivers Both | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
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Millennials Lead the Way in Impact Investing - Financial Advisor IQ
Financial Advisor IQ
While only a third of Fidelity Charitable survey respondents said they engage in impact investing, that rose to 61% among millennials.

Energy Storage

Investigation confirms cause of fire at Tesla's Victorian Big Battery in Australia - Energy Storage News
Energy Storage News
A liquid coolant leak caused thermal runaway in battery cells which ... Tesla Megapack battery energy storage system (BESS) units being installed.

What role is large-scale battery storage playing on the grid today?
Energy Storage News
UK/Ireland. Some 446MW of battery energy storage was deployed in the UK in 2021 bringing the total grid-connected power to 1,700MW at the time of ...

Tesla supplying Power Pack for SpaceX Starbase 8MWh BESS expansion - Energy Storage News
Energy Storage News
The Starbase launch facility in Texas. Image: Alexander Hatley/Wikicommons. Tesla looks set to supply its Power Pack battery energy storage system ( ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Trane Technologies Becomes One of the World's First Net-Zero Approved Companies with ...
Business Wire
... its net-zero carbon emissions targets approved by the Science Based ... on the company's environmental and social sustainability performance.

Utilizing Petroleum Residue to Create Carbon Fiber Composites - AZoM
AZoM
This research could lead to the large-scale use of carbon fiber ... From a purely performance point of view, pitch-based fibers can be made to ...

Intel Corporation pledges to emit zero emissions by 2040 | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
Tech juggernaut Intel aims to reduce the carbon footprint across its ... Since mid-April, Intel Corporation has stated goals to further reduce its ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

4 winners and 2 losers from the Ohio and Indiana primaries - Vox
Vox
Trump's primary endorsement gamble paid off with J.D. Vance's win. Plus, more primary winners and losers.

NASA climate research scientist wins World Food Prize | Nation & World | heraldbulletin.com
The Herald Bulletin
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a ...

At a glance: Winners and losers of historic Northern Ireland Assembly election - Belfast Telegraph
Belfast Telegraph
She was elected to South Belfast in 2016, making her Belfast's first ever Green MLA. Among her notable work was the introduction of the Climate Change ...

Microgrids:

What are microgrids – and how can they help with power cuts? - The European Sting
The European Sting
Microgrids are local power grids that can be operated independently of the main – and generally much bigger – electricity grid in an area.

Selecting the right partner is key to successful tribal microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
... senior business development engineer at Smarter Grid Solutions, offers guidance for Native American communities developing tribal microgrids.

Biden administration marries transmission and microgrid funding in $2.5 billion program
Microgrid Knowledge
The Biden administration kicked off a process yesterday to fund transmission and to build microgrids in certain states and territories.

Socially Responsible Investing:

What's Lost When We Talk 'ESG' and Not 'Sustainability'
MIT Sloan Management Review - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investment in so-called ESG funds has skyrocketed, with well over $1 trillion flooding into ESG funds in the past two years. ESG has been the language ...

Book Review: Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing - Articles - Advisor Perspectives
Advisor Perspectives
The job left me disillusioned with socially responsible, sustainable, ESG, impact investing – and whatever other words people used to identify this ...

Best ESG funds | Evening Standard
Evening Standard
This is an alternative term for a range of investment approaches including responsible, sustainable or ethical investing. It usually means that ESG ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Market to Register Substantial Expansion by 2031
Digital Journal
Normally, the carbon capture, utilization, and storage plant are introduced on high emanation sources like power plants, petroleum gas processing ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, And Storage Market Segmentation | - openPR.com
openPR.com
'Carbon Capture, Utilization, And Storage Global Market Report 2022 - Market Size, Trends, And Global Forecast 2022-2026' by The Business Research ...

Calgary energy company eyeing Pincher Creek for potential carbon capture hub | Globalnews.ca
Global News
Danica Ferris has more on the proposal, which suggests the project could fill a need for cabon captur

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable investing: 'People moving money could lead to huge change' - Positive News
Positive News
The sustainable investing platform Clim8 is on a mission to fix the 'dysfunctional' world of ethical investing. Positive News asks: how?

Integrating ESG initiatives to maximise investment value | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
Private equity has made significant strides in environmental, social, and corporate ... the firm's commitment to ESG investing and sustainability.

More CEOs Reckon Sustainability a Top Challenge – Study | Investing News
US News Money
Of the CEOs surveyed, more than 80% expect investments in sustainability to deliver higher business results over the next five years, ...

Geoengineering:

Solar geoengineering to cool the planet: Not if, but when - The Irish Times
The Irish Times
Austrian climate economist Gernot Wagner worries that geoengineering could create a moral hazard by encouraging politicians to give up on more ...

Space Mirrors, Ocean Fertilization, Cloud Thinning: Weighing Geoengineering Risks
Claims Journal
To slow down the accelerating pace of climate change, scientists are working on radical geoengineering technologies like space mirrors, ocean iron ...

Solar geoengineering – overstated claims - The Irish Times
The Irish Times
Unfortunately, a scientific understanding of solar geoengineering (via computer modelling of the global climate system) is conflated with the physical ...

Green Bond Funds:

ESG bond funds bypass ESG bonds | IFR
IFR
Article 8 funds are a less restricted “light green” category of sustainable investment defined under SFDR as promoting “environmental and social ...

Green Meets Munis in Brand New MBNE - ETF Database
ETF Database
More recently, many have been getting wise to green bonds, or debt issued to fund environmentally friendly projects. Those concepts meet in the SPDR ...

GRNB: An ETF to Consider for Climate-Focused Investors | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
Among fixed income exchange traded funds relevant to the climate change conversation, the VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSEArca: GRNB) is one of ...

Low Carbon Funds:

$2.2‑billion expansion of the Low Carbon Economy Fund to support projects like Northern ...
Newswire.CA
This project is a good example of what will be funded under the expanded Low Carbon Economy Fund, which in Canada's 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan ...

Beyond Highways: Funding Clean Transportation through the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
TheCityFix
But while the bill's investments could significantly lower transportation emissions, those reductions are not guaranteed. In fact, analysis from the ...

You can count value-oriented ESG funds on one hand. That's painful for investors as tech melts down
MarketWatch
What we're striving for here is a higher ESG score and a lower carbon emissions intensity with a very similar risk and return profile as a standard ...

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