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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

How COVID-19 impacted sustainability, and what this means for health - Dunya News
Dunya News
“The major determinants of global health and sustainable development are poverty, population, and pollution — all of these are linked to both COVID-19 ...

Changing weekend effects of air pollutants in Beijing under 2020 COVID-19 lockdown controls
Nature
npj Urban Sustainability volume 2, Article number: 23 (2022) Cite this ... A novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was firstly reported in late ...

Sustainable and inclusive growth: A weekly briefing - McKinsey
McKinsey
Women represent about 40 percent of the global workforce but account for as much as 54 percent of COVID-19-related job losses. McKinsey Global ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonizing in a downturn: Can the mining & metals sector afford (not) to change?
JD Supra
Softening commodity prices and economic headwinds may deter miners and metal companies from deploying the significant capital expenditure required ...

Enablers for Decarbonizing the Maritime Industry: Playbook Part 3
The Maritime Executive
Specific decarbonization enablers are used, developed and matured based on their more or less favorable context summarized in scenarios that probably ...

Holcim partners with SBTi to launch 1.5°C science-based framework - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
World-first 1.5°C science-based framework to decarbonize cement industry. Holcim updating 2030 targets in line with new 1.5°C framework.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Global Reporting Initiative on vaccines and immunization open [Africa, Caribbean]
International Journalists' Network
The IWMF will select 30 journalists to participate in the Global Health Reporting Initiative from October 2022 to June 2023. The cohort will ...

Accountability on Human Rights: GRI Labor Standards up for Review - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

7 Topflight Green Energy Stocks Investors Need To Know For 2022 - Forbes
Forbes
Investing in green energy is about putting your money into companies using energy generated from natural sources. Governments worldwide are trying to ...

Best Energy Stocks to Buy in 2022 | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
Investing in Energy Stocks · Energy sector stocks to buy · Brookfield Renewable · ConocoPhillips · Chevron · NextEra Energy · TC Energy · How to invest in ...

Investing In The Clean Energy Credit Revolution - Forbes
Forbes
New legislation earmarks billions of dollars to fight inflation, lower healthcare costs, raise IRS funding, and fund green energy technologies.

CDP Sustainability:

CDP to interrogate companies across the plastic value chain | Responsible Investor
Responsible Investor
Evidence suggests that full traceability across value chains is essential if we are to harness their power to deliver on our sustainability goals.”.

CDP vows to tackle plastic pollution by expanding environmental disclosure system - edie
edie
Environmental disclosure organisation CDP will expand its global environmental disclosure system in an effort to help solve the plastic pollution ...

50 million financing from CDP to combat climate change in Caribbean countries with CDB
BNamericas
Countering the effects of climate change and supporting the sustainable development of the Caribbean countries: these are the objectives of the 50 ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

RECAP: At Climate Week NYC, Governor Newsom Highlights California's Climate ...
Gavin Newsom - CA.gov
... he met with climate leaders and showcased California's climate leadership… ... is leading the world in our efforts to combat climate change.”.

California Continues Nation-Leading Climate Action Efforts during Climate Action Week ...
California Volunteers - CA.gov
“These new California Climate Action Corps Fellows are stepping up to benefit all Californians by taking action to address climate change in their ...

California Approves Ambitious Climate Change Legislation
California Trout
... together, is cementing California's position as a global climate leader. Climate change is the number one overarching threat to California's ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing to Extend Philanthropy's Impact [Video]
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
As part of our impact investing work, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors recently hosted a webinar that brought together three pairs of ...

The Week in impact investing: Trillions - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Welcome to ImpactAlpha. Thousands of Agents of Impact rely on ImpactAlpha to stay ahead of the curve on impact investing and sustainable finance.

PayPal Teams Up With Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Telus Pollinator Fund, and ...
PayPal Newsroom
The initiative will help corporations connect their financial assets and capabilities with impact investing practices to realize environmental and ...

Energy Storage

3 ways to make energy storage more innovative and sustainable | World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
New U.S. legislation aims to create a green economy - but that will rely on innovative and sustainable energy storage. Here's how we can make that ...

Australian state to invest $100 mln in energy storage in push to cut emissions | Reuters
Reuters
Australia's Victoria state said on Tuesday it would invest A$157 million ($102 million) to boost battery energy storage, as it pushes to source ...

Battery storage product launches at RE+, the US' biggest clean energy industry event
Energy Storage News
Sungrow, EVE and Saft were amongst the big names exhibiting new battery energy storage products at RE+ in California last week.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

The Road to Science-Based Corporate Net-Zero Target Setting - MSCI
MSCI
This information also could help institutional investors mitigate portfolio exposure to carbon risks. The SBTi standard offers guidance to companies ...

Linking carbon emissions to Science-Based Targets - Business Plus
Business Plus
Ireland's largest businesses are making steady progress on meeting net zero targets for greenhouse gas emissions by companies setting Science-Based ...

Hankook Tire Commits To Science-Based Targets Initiative - Pollution Online
Pollution Online
The SBTi is a partnership between CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

In Pittsburgh, John Kerry says climate change solutions will be driven by private sector
The Allegheny Front
“We don't have to have government making choices about winners and losers. The marketplace is going to choose.” Scientists say the world is running ...

Column: Rural climate skeptics are costing us time and money. Do we keep indulging them?
Los Angeles Times
Climate change is a true threat to life in Northern California. ... up: “If we do start changing policies, there will be winners and losers.”.

Hurricane Fiona highlights gaps in insurance as climate change worsens, experts say
Toronto Star
TORONTO - Many Atlantic Canadian homeowners may be on the hook for a significant portion of the damages to their homes caused by hurricane Fiona ...

Microgrids:

In storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, those with microgrids help those without
Microgrid Knowledge
The 45 residential microgrids — plus one at the fire station — in Culebra, ... With the solar microgrids, some of the residents' electricity bills ...

New tech can make your house a solar microgrid | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
A collection of these microinverters on a house can act as a microgrid. Each one contains a chip that—when the main power grid suffers a power failure ...

PowerSecure executive offers a primer on microgrids
Microgrid Knowledge
Eric Dupont of PowerSecure offers a primer on microgrids and explains how they give businesses control over their energy destiny.

Socially Responsible Investing:

What Is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing? - Investopedia
Investopedia
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards socially conscious investors use to screen investments.

DC Plans Slow to Adopt ESG Options - PLANSPONSOR.com
PLANSPONSOR.com
Plan participants claim to want environmental, social and governance investment options in their defined contribution plan lineups.

Moomoo Partners with Macquarie University to Launch A New Research, Bridging The ...
PR Newswire Asia
ESG or Sustainable, Responsible and Impact-based (SRI) investing – investing that prioritises both financial returns and social change – has been ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Direct Air Capture – Analysis - IEA
IEA
Direct Air Capture - Analysis and key findings. ... Investment tax credit for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).

International CCS Knowledge Centre to provide independent expertise to Alberta carbon ...
Yahoo Finance
21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The International CCS Knowledge Centre (the ... for carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) projects, with fund.

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technologies Market Size 2022 - Digital Journal
Digital Journal
marketinsightsreports recently added a new report on Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Technologies Market provides complete overview of ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

What Is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing? - Investopedia
Investopedia
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards socially conscious investors use to screen investments.

“Expert” investors believe sustainable investing is most likely to drive long-term returns - US
Schroders
This is among the sustainability-focused findings of Schroders' Global Investor Study 2022, which have been revealed today.

Resetting the Standards and Investing Principles for ESG - Investopedia
Investopedia
Recently, the state of Texas decided to ban certain investment managers who practice sustainable investing from managing its public pensions. That ...

Geoengineering:

The Fight To Stop Research Into a Cheap, Effective Backup Plan for Climate Change
Reason Magazine
The most vigorous opponents seem convinced that research into stratospheric geoengineering will show tremendous promise to combat warming quickly ...

Solar geoengineering might work, but local temperatures could keep rising for years
The Conversation
Some governments might decide to “geoengineer” the planet by spraying substances into the upper atmosphere to form fine reflective aerosols – a ...

How to Fix Climate Change (A Sneaky Policy Guide) | The MIT Press Reader
The MIT Press Reader
Geoengineering is not a decarbonization strategy. It is a hope to control the temperature of the earth while giving up on CO2 strategy. Many of the ...

Green Bond Funds:

Decoded: What are green bonds and how much will be the govt issue? - Business Standard
Business Standard
The features of these instruments are similar to other fixed-income securities, with the only distinguishing aspect being that the funds raised are ...

Saudi PIF Hires Banks for Potential Green Bond Issuance - SWFI
Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) hired banks including BNP Paribas SA, Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and ...

Govt draws up plans to address concerns of green bond investors - Business Standard
Business Standard
The government is keen that sovereign funds like Temasek invest in these bonds. Sequestering market borrowing is a challenge for the government. All ...

Low Carbon Funds:

A safe, low-carbon way to store your gold: Leave it in the ground - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, September 6 — The New York-based nonprofit social impact fund aims to lower funding costs for high-performing and impact public ...

Friday Funds: NZ Super shifts €14.9bn to low-carbon indices | Responsible Investor
Responsible Investor
The latest developments in ESG-related funds: EIP raises €390m for climate tech fund, S&P launches new 'carbon budget' index family.

Future™ Secures $5.3M Seed Investment to Pay You to Fight Climate Change.
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Future™, the movement to accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy through financial rewards, has raised $5.3M in seed funding.