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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Characterizing COVID-19 waves in urban and rural districts of India - Nature
Nature
Understanding spatial determinants, i.e., social, infrastructural, and environmental features of a place, which shape infectious disease is ...

Sustainable business travel: How to cut carbon footprints - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Sustainable aviation fuel can also cut emissions. ... Today, as we are learning to live with the Coronavirus and what feels like normality largely ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

The Pathway to Industrial Decarbonization - Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress
The pathway to decarbonization can vary sector by sector due to the ... direct-reduced iron or gas-based hydrogen as a requisite step on the ...

A Path to Help Speed the Decarbonization of the Global Power Sector
POWER Magazine
“But the reality today is that if we were just to snap our fingers and turn off all these fossil-based resources we would face huge gaps between ...

Charting a path to 2050: How investor engagement can accelerate the transition to zero ...
Environmental Defense Fund
... in decarbonizing shipping,” explores how the maritime shipping industry ... decarbonization targets and considers the adoption of market-based ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

What is the Global Reporting Initiative? - TOMORROW'S WORLD TODAY®
Tomorrow's World Today
An important organization for sustainability. For 25 years, the Global Reporting Initiative has helped businesses and organizations take ...

Benchmark Digital Officially Joins Global Reporting Initiative as a Certified Software Partner
EIN News
The certification with GRI, provider of the world's most widely used sustainability reporting standards, further enhances the ready-to-go support, ...

Corporate reporting as an agent of change - Strategy+Business
Strategy+Business
... Sustainability Standards Board; Eelco van der Enden, CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative; and Nadja Picard, PwC's global reporting leader.

Renewable Energy Investments:

EDPR increases its gross investment in renewable energy to over 4 billion euros
EDP Renewables
EDP Renewables (Euronext: EDPR), the world's fourth largest producer of wind and solar energy, has reported its end of third quarter results, carrying ...

IEA: Renewable Energy Investment Needs To Triple By 2030 | OilPrice.com
Oil Price
Clean energy investment is massive today, but it needs to rise much more if the world has a chance to get to net zero by 2050. “A huge increase in ...

CDP Sustainability:

Is the corporate world approaching a climate disclosure tipping point? | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
An annual CDP report reveals a record number of corporations responded to requests for information on their environmental performance last year.

E.SUN FHC Backs CDP Campaign Asking High Impact Companies to Meet 1.5°C Goal
Business Wire
The 2022 CDP Science-Based Targets campaign is coordinated by the global non-profit CDP, which runs the world's environmental disclosure system.

S&P Releases RLX's ESG Score Report: Ranked ahead of its Global Peers - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
CDP's environmental disclosure and scoring methodology is widely-recognized as the gold standard for corporate environmental transparency. In the ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California's climate culture war heats up - CalMatters
CalMatters
California is divided how to combat climate change, with a new poll showing a ballot measure for electric vehicle funding likely to fail.

CARB seeks nominations for premier clean air, climate award
California Air Resources Board - CA.gov
The Haagen-Smit award is California's premier award recognizing ... due to the global connections between climate change and air quality.

Proposition 30 is another chance for California to show national leadership - CalMatters
CalMatters
A 2002 California law helped create fuel efficiency standards nationwide. ... Pavley authored several landmark clean air and climate action laws, ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing measurement tools in the works
Pensions & Investments
Impact investors seeking to measure the performance of investments will soon have new tools to do just that, thanks to Impact Lab.

Basics of Impact Investing: A Conversation About Investment Policies and Evaluation Metrics ...
JD Supra
In this episode, we address the fiduciary duty of a nonprofit board when setting its investment policies and how to think about impact investing ...

How to Find Impact Investments for Your Portfolio | Morningstar
Morningstar
Impact investing considers how a company, fund, or investment portfolio positively or negatively impacts the environment and society.

Energy Storage

Iron flow battery company ESS Inc claims inflection point reached - Energy Storage News
Energy Storage News
Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media. Our series of energy storage industry leader interviews at RE+ 2022 continues as we speak to Hugh McDermott and ...

Nidec ASI wins 5.4GWh battery storage contract in Italy
Energy Storage News
Nidec ASI has won a contract to deploy 1.35GW/5.4GWh of battery energy storage systems in Italy, enough to power a million homes.

Masdar acquires UK battery storage developer Arlington Energy
Energy Storage News
Masdar

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

UN Releases Manual for Companies to Conduct Authentic, Context-Based Sustainability ...
Sustainable Brands
The Sustainable Development Performance Indicators help close the ... robust approach than joining the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), ...

EcoAct: Dow 30 Net-zero Commitments Rise but Carbon Reductions Are Inadequate to ...
AltEnergyMag
Visit https://info.eco-act.com/en-us/climate-reporting-performance-report-2022 for ... validated science-based near-term Scope 1 and 2 targets, ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

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Microgrids:

DOE looks to make microgrids 'essential building blocks'
Microgrid Knowledge
The strategies are explained in a series of draft white papers being floated by the Office of Electricity Microgrids R&D (MGRD) Program. With the ...

Here's where we really need microgrids in the US
Microgrid Knowledge
If you're wondering why interest in microgrids is growing, see the new report “Billion Dollar Losses, Trillion Dollar Threats: The Cost of Climate ...

It's time for solar microgrids to push out dirty diesel generators - Canary Media
Canary Media
In rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, costly diesel generators are often the only power source. A concerted push to deploy solar microgrids ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

4 Little-Known Perks of Robo-Advisors - The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
Socially responsible investing has become a hot topic in recent years. Many investors want to use their money to support companies that match ...

Could U.S.-style conservative backlash against ESG come to Canada?
Wealth Professional
“ESG investing is still growing fast,” Dorrit Lowsen, co-founder and co-CEO of the Virginia-based Change Finance, told Wealth Professional.

Sustainability: What it really means - from an investor perspective |

EU-Startups
In its most basic form, sustainable investing—also referred to as socially responsible investing, or environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage: Finding Opportunities in an Emerging Market | Enverus
Enverus
The current state of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is dominated by the supermajors and large midstream companies who can afford ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Global Market Report 2022 - Business Wire
Business Wire
“Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market by Service (Capture, Transportation, Utilization, Storage), Technology (Chemical Looping, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration (CCUS) | SLB
SLB
SLB helped pioneer carbon capture and storage solutions. We have more than three decades of experience under our belts—and we still have further to go ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainability: What it really means - from an investor perspective | EU-Startups
EU-Startups
Sustainable investing is about investing in progress, and giving equal weight to social, environmental factors and financial returns. It is about ...

The Long-term Growth of Sustainable Investing | CFI.co
Capital Finance International
According to research by Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing, sustainable funds offer reduced risk compared with traditional ...

Learn About ESG, Sustainability and Impact Investing with Guest Julia Wilkinson
ARC Advisory Group
Impact investors are intentionally investing towards net positive and measurable social and environmental returns as well as financial.

Geoengineering:

The Case for Researching Solar Geoengineering - Lawfare
Lawfare
Solar geoengineering is a growing part of the climate policy conversation, although its utility remains highly uncertain and its development ...

Geoengineering The Planet | Barron's
Barron's
A portion of solar energy is reflected back into space. in order to limit climate change. Risk of rapid rise in. temperatures if the.

The World Economic Forum didn't say it's engineering the climate - Full Fact
Full Fact
We have written about climate engineering, sometimes called geoengineering, before—especially in the context of the 'chemtrails' conspiracy theory ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green Bonds Still Have Receptive Audience - Nasdaq
Nasdaq
The VanEck Green Bond ETF (NYSEArca: GRNB) is the leading exchange traded fund for efficient exposure to green bonds, and it could be on the cusp ...

​Dutch pension funds keep investing in green bonds despite market rout | News | IPE
Investment & Pensions Europe
Despite rising yields and concomitant investment losses, pension funds' total green bond investments kept rising to €30bn by the end of August, ...

2022 Green Bond Invests in the Best of Rhode Island - ecoRI News
ecoRI News
If approved, the proceeds of this $50 million measure will deliver a cleaner, greener, and fairer Rhode Island. For decades, green bond funding has ...

Low Carbon Funds:

BlackRock collects $4.5B for sustainable infrastructure fund in low-carbon shift push
Seeking Alpha
The asset manager pointed outs five sectors in which the new fund will invest in, including energy, low carbon power, regulated entities, ...

BlackRock raises $4.5 bln for climate-focused infrastructure fund - Reuters
Reuters
The asset manager said the new fund will invest in five sectors –– energy, low carbon power, transport and logistics, regulated utilities, and digital ...

Low-carbon energy investment lagging in developed economies -study - Reuters
Reuters
... low-carbon technology needed to reduce planet-warming emissions in emerging markets sank in the past four years even as financing jumped in ...