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This week's post features items from Sustainable Brands, The World Economic Forum, The Daily Star, Yahoo Finance, Santander, PV Magazine, The Motley Fool, ClickOnDetroit, Ruetir, Mirage News, California Department of Insurance - CA.gov, UCS blog - Union of Concerned Scientists, Spectrum News, Devex, AsianInvestor, Hackaday, BBC, Energy Storage News, Insurance Business America, The Economist, Yahoo News, allAfrica.com, Utility Dive, Energy News Network, Business Wire, Wealth Professional, ASPPA, IDTechEx, Digital Journal and many many more...We scour the web so you don't have to!

                                                  

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Chinese exchanges say COVID testing firms to face strict IPO checks - Reuters
Reuters
Several COVID-testing companies, including Dakewe Biotech Co Ltd, ... attention to the companies' innovative ability, and business sustainability.

Covid-19 will lead to a sharp rise in governments' debt levels: QNB - Gulf Times
Gulf Times
QNB has taken a look at the impact of Covid-19 on fiscal sustainability and government debt levels comparing EM with Advanced Economies.

Available therapeutics may be ineffective against new COVID sub-variants - EURACTIV.com
EURACTIV.com
Available monoclonal antibody medicines may not be effective against the new COVID-19 omicron sub-variants, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Breaking Through the Logjam to Accelerate Decarbonization in the Energy Sector
Sustainable Brands
The targets are based on the difference in mean temperature compared to pre-industrial temperatures, defined as the 50-year baseline of 1850-1900.

Transition finance will accelerate decarbonization in China - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Decarbonizing the industrial sectors is crucial for the transition to net zero. ... Based on our experience developing green finance in China, ...

What did COP27 accomplish and what actions can we expect as a result?
The World Economic Forum
We also saw the private sector take a major role at COP27, ... businesses to accelerate the Net Zero transition by setting science-based targets, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

New GRI standards: a step forward for sustainability reporting | The Daily Star
The Daily Star
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published its first industry-specific standard for the oil and gas sector. In the future, the GRI intends to ...

Global ESG Monitor Releases 2022 Report & Scorings - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The operationalization of transparency underlying the GEM ASSAY TM is based on the relevant guidelines of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ISO ...

Santander Bank Polska awarded for ESG report
Santander
It also takes into account the principles of GRI Foundation 2021 - Global Reporting Initiative and UNEP FI - Principles for Responsible Banking.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Retirement Stock Portfolio: 11 Safe Energy Stocks to Consider - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
In its Q1 2022 investor letter, ClearBridge Investments, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. ...

Microsoft announces renewable energy investments that contribute almost 30% of Ireland's ...
PV Magazine
Microsoft's agreements with Power Capital Renewable Energy, Statkraft, and Energia support Government's Climate Action Plan working together to ...

3 Ultra-High-Yielding Energy Stocks to Buy With $1,000 | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
That's several times more than the roughly $16 annual passive income stream generated by investing $1,000 into the S&P 500, given its current yield of ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP: Ann Arbor is a top city for environmental leadership - ClickOnDetroit
ClickOnDetroit
ANN ARBOR – Tree Town has once again been named a global leader in environmental action and transparency on CDP's Cities A List. The international non ...

Moody's raises CDP's sustainability rating by three points - Ruetir
Ruetir
Cdp, the evaluation process of Moody's ESG Solutions has been successfully completed. Deposits and Loans Fund has been promoted in terms of ...

Northern Beaches achieves leadership status on Carbon Disclosure Project - Mirage News
Mirage News
CDP is a not-for-profit charity, that monitors global disclosure for companies, cities, states and regions to help manage their environmental ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Commissioner Lara and UN announce “Sustainable Insurance Roadmap” to combat climate change
California Department of Insurance - CA.gov
Under Commissioner Lara's leadership, California is working hard to be at the vanguard of sustainability when it comes to the insurance industry," ...

California Lawmakers Put Fossil Fuel Companies in the Hot Seat - UCS blog
UCS blog - Union of Concerned Scientists
As losses and damages from climate change-related extreme weather mount, there is growing urgency to demand accountability from fossil fuel polluters.

Diversity in college leadership in California - Spectrum News
Spectrum News
Diversity in college leadership in California. ... despite the ever-changing racial-ethnic and gender makeup of their students.

Impact Investing:

As impact investing grows up, here are the trends to watch - Devex
Devex
The impact investing industry now manages more than $1 trillion. It's now more sophisticated, but where is it headed and how can that money more ...

The insurance experience: perspectives on impact investing in institutional portfolios
AsianInvestor
Nick Liolis (NL): There are questions across the asset management industry about how broadly or narrowly to define impact investing. Narrowly defined, ...

Energy Storage

Weird Energy Storage Solutions Could Help The Grid Go Renewable | Hackaday
Hackaday
However, new technologies for storing energy are on the horizon for grid storage purposes, and they're very different from the regular batteries ...

Two energy storage firms win £14m for new technologies - BBC News
BBC
Two Scottish firms have been awarded a total of more than £14m by the UK government to help them develop new energy storage technologies.

Germany's Fenecon builds ESS factory which will repurpose EV batteries
Energy Storage News
The new site in the Bavarian municipality of Iggensbach will produce large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) using EV batteries paired ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Research seeks to build quake-resilient, low-carbon housing - Insurance Business America
Insurance Business America
Construction sector is a major contributor in carbon emissions. ... seismic performance objectives impact the embodied carbon during construction.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

The new winners and losers in business | The Economist
The Economist
It should be no surprise that the business environment has changed profoundly. To take stock of this we have examined which American industries and ...

Africa: COP27 Loss and Damage Finance Fund a Down Payment On Climate Justice.
allAfrica.com
"Tackling climate change and promoting climate justice is not a zero sum game. It's not about winners and losers. Either we make progress on all ...

Microgrids:

How to create utility scale microgrids - Utility Dive
Utility Dive
As organizations and utilities seek new sustainable energy solutions to meet carbon reduction goals, microgrids and distributed energy resources ...

Microgrid Market Size to Worth Around USD 85.7 Billion by 2030 - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
A microgrid can be defined as a small matrix that can connect to and disconnect from conventional utility networks in order to provide greater ...

Solar-powered microgrids add climate resilience in rural Vermont communities
Energy News Network
With that in mind, the local utility, Green Mountain Power, is building a microgrid that will power the central village during outages. “When the ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Jamaica: the Socially Responsible Investment Solution - Business Wire
Business Wire
The event will highlight various innovative, mutually beneficial, and sustainable sector-based investment opportunities to potential investors from ...

Responsible investment industry seeing tremendous change | Wealth Professional
Wealth Professional
This indicates that ESG Integration is a key instrument in the decision-making of Canadian investors and signals the creation of a trustworthy ...

ESG — Not Your Father's SRI - ASPPA
ASPPA
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused investing has proven to be one of the more controversial — and yet least understood — approaches to ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Digital Technology Market Report ...
Yahoo Finance
The "Growth Opportunities for Digital Technology in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)" report has been added to ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Markets 2023-2043 - IDTechEx
IDTechEx
This report provides a market overview of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), exploring the industry's advancements, business models, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market to reach 6.44 Bn. by 2029 at a CAGR of 15.1 percent
Digital Journal
The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market is segmented by service, by technology, end-use industry and region, with a focus on major firms ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

Innovation in ESG Investing - Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments
There has never been a better time to invest based on environmental, ... co-head of sustainable investing at Allspring Global Investments.

Outlook 2023, Sustainability: five trends to watch - Individual Investors - Schroders
Schroders
As it matures and evolves across asset classes and geographies, Andy Howard, Global Head of Sustainable Investment, considers the future of ESG ...

Here's what leading asset managers think are the biggest trends in green investing
Insider Intelligence
Nikhil Chouguley, Chief Operating Officer - Sustainable Investing at Citi Global Wealth; Garth Emrich, Delivery Lead, Change & Transformation at ...

Geoengineering:

What is geoengineering? - The Week
The Week
What is geoengineering? ... The term refers to using man-made technologies "to artificially modify the Earth's climate," explains The Daily Beast's Ho ...

Scientists Increasingly Calling to Dim the Sun - Futurism
Futurism
The idea of "solar geoengineering," or shooting particles into the stratosphere to reduce the warming of the Sun, is no longer science fiction.

Geo-engineering and climate control | Business Standard News
Business Standard
Geo-engineering and climate control. The idea of engineering the atmosphere to stave off global warming is increasingly gaining popularity, but it ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green Bond Market Vital in Solving Climate Crisis | ETF Trends
ETF Trends
Green bonds like GRNB are important for financing environmentally friendly or ... with a unique issuer mix rarely found in standard bond funds.

Total Portfolio Footprinting to Transform Green-Bond Emission Accounting - MSCI
MSCI
In addition, two green bonds will have different financed-emissions estimates if they fund different combinations of green projects.

Sebi allows issuers of municipal debt securities to issue green bonds. Details here - Mint
Mint
Green bonds are just like any other bond where a debt instrument is issued by an issuer for raising funds from investors.

Low Carbon Funds:

COP27 Reaches Breakthrough Agreement on New “Loss and Damage” Fund for Vulnerable ...
UNFCCC
Creating a specific fund for loss and damage marked an important point of ... highlights that a global transformation to a low-carbon economy is ...

COP27 delivers climate fund breakthrough at cost of progress on emissions - Reuters
Reuters
The deal also included a reference to "low-emissions energy," raising concern among some that it opened the door to the growing use of natural gas ...

Low-carbon culture? Energy transitions urged to prioritise people - Reuters
Reuters
European Green Deal funds social side of 'just transition' ... to back a low-carbon economic transformation that does not leave people behind.