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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Air pollution linked to more severe COVID-19: study | The Hill
The Hill
Several common air pollutants are linked to more severe outcomes following a coronavirus infection, a new study has found.

Pfizer CEO predicts 'constant waves' of COVID-19 because of complacency about the ...
Business Insider India
Almost 11.5 billion doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been given globally, according to the data, but the rate at which people are getting ...

Environmental Sustainability: 2022 Country Performance and Product Claims Report | News
The Bakersfield Californian
This report brings together insights from the publisher's Sustainability Index, which ranks 97 markets (which in 2020 represented 97.2% of global GDP ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

For steel sector, China's decarbonization is a costly quest | S&P Global Commodity Insights
S&P Global
Reducing emissions at blast furnace-converter route would also be costly and challenging. A quest for hydrogen-based zero-carbon steel. Over 2021-2025 ...

A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry - Nature
Nature
To achieve decarbonization, the sector requires deep transformation as current technologies ... Source: own illustration based on data from ref.

Middle East Power & Energy Market Outlook Report 2022: Strong Growth in Electricity ...
PR Newswire
... Supply Security Drive the Industry While Decarbonization and Expanding ... a move away from other fossil fuel-based power generation sources, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

CEM Benchmarking Announces Launch of the New Global Reporting Standard for ... - Business Wire
Business Wire
... has agreed to participate in a CEM Benchmarking initiative to create a new global reporting standard for institutional investors (GRSii).

Vinci Partners Publishes Its First ESG Report - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
The document was prepared based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, in the Essential option, and follows the best practices of ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

This Renewable Energy Stock Is Plugging Into 2 Potentially Massive Market Opportunities
The Motley Fool
Brookfield Renewable also sees a bright future in carbon capture. That recently led it to invest in a leading North American modular carbon capture ...

Clean energy faces its latest test: Rising interest rates - E&E News
E&E News
The cost structure of wind and solar projects, in particular, is also different from their fossil fuel brethren, with most of the investment needed to ...

BMW Exploring Energy Investments to Reduce Dependence on Natural Gas - US News Money
US News Money
Geothermal power is more stable than weather-dependent renewables but has not seen growth or investment comparable to wind or solar partly due to high ...

CDP Sustainability:

Report: $80bn at risk in forest commodity supply chains, due to lack of action on deforestation - edie
Edie.net
These firms are disclosing environmental data through CDP annually in some shape or form, and all either produce or source one or more of the ...

Sustainability In The Manufacturing Industry Is A Work In Process - Forbes
Forbes
The CDP—formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project—calls itself the “gold standard for corporate environmental reporting.”.

The climate is right for environmental disclosure - Edie.net
Edie.net
Last year, 3,380 companies disclosed through CDP on water security, and 865 on forests. This neglect of nature risks is a grave oversight. The IPCC ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Governor Newsom, Attorney General Bonta, and CARB Lead Coalition in Defense of ...
Gavin Newsom - CA.gov
“California's standards are some of the best tools we have to reduce emissions, fight climate change, and protect public health.

Launch of the UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity - University of California San Francisco
University of California San Francisco
Climate change is the biggest health crisis of our time, and it's ... educate tomorrow's climate-health leaders, build climate-resilient health ...

California, multi-state coalition file motion to protect clean car standards - JURIST - News
Jurist.org
California's clean car standards “result in emissions reductions of ... of California's and other states' plans to fight climate change and ...

Impact Investing:

APPEAL OF IMPACT INVESTING REACHES ALL-TIME HIGHS - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Impact investing is financial investments designed to have a positive impact on society, while providing potential long-term returns. The 2021 survey ...

An Impact Investing Guide for Private Foundations | Kiplinger
Kiplinger
In recent years, investors and their advisers have taken a new approach to socially responsible investing, one that involves “positive screens.” ...

The Week in impact investing: Building - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
May 20, 2022 | The Brief. The Week in impact investing: Building. The team at. ImpactAlpha. TGIF, Agents of Impact! Time to build.

Energy Storage

Will energy storage live up to the hype? - Solar Power World
Solar Power World
Despite many renewable energy options emerging, such as solar, wind and even hydrogen, there is one common theme: we need innovative energy storage ...

Renewable energy that uses recycled energy storage solutions | World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
Recycling can counter the hazardous impacts of renewable energy projects while solving the energy storage conundrum; battery storage is key to ...

Part 2: Will energy storage live up to the hype? Trends beyond five years
Solar Power World
As a result, energy storage and renewable energy technologies will be necessary building blocks of the grid, not just nice-to-have technologies, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Air Liquide's 2035 CO2 trajectory validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
Business Wire
The Group aims at global carbon neutrality by 2050, and has therefore initiated an extensive review of its Scope 3 emissions. This is further ...

AECOM announces next phase of its Sustainable Legacies strategy, including ambitious net ...
Business Wire
“Following the meaningful accomplishments we have made over the past year, including the approval of our net zero targets by the Science Based ...

easyJet announces interim science-based carbon reduction target “35% by 35” - Aviation24.be
Aviation24.be
This is complemented by flight efficiency partnerships with key stakeholders such as Airbus, Collins Aerospace, NATS and Eurocontrol. Airspace ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

HSBC and Its Discordant Climate Songbook - The Washington Post
The Washington Post
Kirk was explicit that he accepted the science of climate change. ... will be corporate winners and losers in both fossil fuels and clean energy.

Federal election 2022: Who are the winners and losers? - ABC News
ABC
A new government in power, a new Liberal leader and a host of fresh faces heading to Parliament House. Who are the winners and losers from this ...

Winners and losers from Tuesday's primaries - Yahoo News
Yahoo News
Here are the big winners and losers. Winners Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) Former President Trump went all-out to oust Kemp, who had resisted ...

Microgrids:

Economic trends converge to make microgrids more attractive
Microgrid Knowledge
Demand for microgrids is accelerating as a convergence of government, industry and economic trends work in the technology's favor.

Microgrids: a critical solution towards powering a net-zero world - Wood PLC
Wood PLC
Modern microgrids have been deploying renewable energy sources, using available new ... “By developing microgrid power resources at a local level, ...

Microgrids drive a net-zero future for electrified fleets
Microgrid Knowledge
Don Wingate of Schneider Electric discusses what digitization and electrification mean for fleets and where microgrids fit into the evolution.

Socially Responsible Investing:

If Tesla isn't ESG, what is? | Wealth Professional
Wealth Professional
Socially responsible investing expert explains why you have to look beyond company's EV leadership.

EXPLAINER: ESG Investing and the Debate Surrounding It | Business News - USNews.com
USNews.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Here's the latest sign ESG investing is now mainstream after starting as a niche corner of Wall Street: It's become the target of ...

Is it time to rethink what ESG investing means? - Fast Company
Fast Company
The concept of ESG investing grew out of socially responsible investing, a strategy that investors use to make more ethical choices; but the ESG ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market Grows At Large Rate Over 17% - Benzinga
Benzinga
The CCUS market sees heavy growth potential with support from investments and government initiatives. LONDON, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- North ...

Carbon Capture And Storage Market Will Expand At 5.8% CAGR Till 2030 Due To ... - Digital Journal
Digital Journal
According to the American Council, the FUTURE Act (Furthering Capital Carbon Capture, Utilization, Technology, Underground Storage, and Reduced ...

Chevron launches carbon capture and storage project in Bakersfield | News
The Bakersfield Californian
Chevron launches carbon capture and storage project in Bakersfield ... vice president of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage for Chevron New ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable Investing: Fashion and ESG | Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Learn about sustainable investing in fashion companies, and how investors assess ESG challenges in the apparel industry and its supply chain.

How a sustainability index can keep Exxon but drop Tesla — and 3 ways to fix ... - The Conversation
The Conversation
Sustainable investing's credibility took a hit when the S&P 500 ESG index dropped the electric vehicle-maker but kept the oil giant.

SEC to consider sustainable investing rules - E&E News
E&E News
I think investors should be able to drill down to see what's under the hood of these funds,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said.

Geoengineering:

Former WTO head leads commission to explore rules on climate geoengineering
Canada's National Observer
Countries must urgently agree to a way of controlling and regulating attempts to geoengineer the climate, the former head of the World Trade ...

Planning for the breach - Politico
Politico
Geoengineering is scientifically controversial. And large-scale carbon dioxide removal and sunlight reflection would require global governing ...

Big tech's growing embrace raises the stakes for CO2 removal - China Dialogue
China Dialogue
Explore our geoengineering hub to read more about this topic. But that still leaves a final question: who pays? Tech giants, however rich, will only ...

Green Bond Funds:

Austria sells first ever green bond | Reuters
Reuters
European governments have shown strong interest in issuing green bonds, which fund environmentally friendly projects, as investor demand has ...

Are Green Bonds A Good Option For Retail Investors? | Mint
Mint
A green bond is a prominent financial instrument in the capital markets for funding 'green' projects such as installing renewable energy capacity.

Namibia Sees Green Bonds as Way to Fund Hydrogen Export Buildout - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Namibia is considering green bonds to fund projects using renewable energy to produce hydrogen for export, according to a government official.

Low Carbon Funds:

KraneShares ETF Seeks 'Low-Carbon Leaders'
KraneShares
Carefully consider the Funds' investment objectives, risk factors, charges and expenses before investing. This and additional information can be found ...

Get Pulse on PBW for Low-Carbon Economy - ETF Database
ETF Database
Climate change and low carbon-based economic initiatives are evolving at a rapid rate, but some seasoned exchange traded funds are equipped to ...

Low-Carbon Investing Intersects With Public Policy - ETF Database
ETF Database
That could signal opportunity with exchange traded funds such as the SPDR MSCI USA Climate Paris Aligned ETF (NZUS) and the SPDR MSCI ACWI Climate ...