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Coronavirus and Sustainability:,

China's covid cases loom over upcoming WHO meeting on state of the pandemic - Quartz
Quartz
22, 2020: The WHO convenes a first emergency committee meeting to discuss the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, identified by Chinese researchers ...

Promoting the One Health approach could greatly improve human-animal health and ...
News Medical
... such as the one posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. ... emphasizing their links to sustainable development.

Budget 2023: 7 steps to boost innovations to promote environmental sustainability - Firstpost
Firstpost
Coordinated approach among standards-setting agencies like BEE, financial institutions, industries, govt could speedily address challenges.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Biden Administration Unveils Blueprint to Decarbonize Transportation Sector | Insights
Holland & Knight
The transportation sector is the largest source of GHG emissions in the ... also potential options for replacing petroleum-based aviation fuels.

To decarbonize the chemical industry, electrify it | MIT News
MIT News - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In 2020, fossil-based hydrogen supplied nearly all hydrogen demand (90 ... “If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the sector and ...

CMA CGM launches €200 mln call for decarbonization projects - Offshore Energy
Offshore Energy
renewable energies. Projects will be selected based on their concrete impact on the decarbonizing of the French shipping industry, the maturity of the ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Aramark Publishes Annual ESG Progress Report: Company's Be Well. Do Well. Platform ...
Business Wire
Progress Report also includes an ESG Performance Data Table and aligns with reporting frameworks from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ...

Too Legit: ESG Won't Quit U.S. ESG Trends for 2023 | Teneo
Teneo
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards are based on double materiality as well, while SASB and the new ISSB framework are based on single ...

PetroTal's Second Annual ESG Report: Responsible, Material, and Sustainable ESG Initiatives
Yahoo Finance
... terms of ESG reporting and standards achieved, as the Company is now calibrating its reporting to the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") and ...   

Renewable Energy Investments:

Clean Energy Sets $1.1 Trillion Record That's Bound to Be Broken - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
It was a banner year for money spent on solar and wind projects, EVs and more in 2022. The way things are going, that level of investment will ...

Energy transition investments hit $1.1 trillion — with a T — last year | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
Over the last two decades, most low-carbon investments were targeted at renewables, including wind, solar and biofuels. They hit another record last ...

Clean Energy Investment Hit $1.1 Trillion In 2022 | OilPrice.com
Oil Price
The energy transition appears to be gaining speed, with investments in clean energy jumping by 31% to $1.1 trillion in 2022.

CDP Sustainability:

IGT Achieves Improved Score by Global Environmental Non-Profit CDP for ... - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
"IGT's commitment to climate change extends to our customers and their sustainable operations. This assessment from CDP assures all stakeholders ...

ESG round-up: CDP sees record participation by FIs in disclosure campaign
Responsible Investor
The latest developments in sustainable finance: Renewables account for just 7% of banks' energy financing, study finds; ESMA calls for feedback on ...

CDP Reporting - edie
edie
Energise is a proud Accredited Solutions Provider with CDP. ... landscape when it comes to climate disclosure and sustainability reporting.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

REP LIEU SECURES $1.6 MILLION FOR UCLA CLIMATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Congressman Ted Lieu
I came to Congress to fight for bold action on the climate crisis, both on the federal and local levels. I'm proud of California's leadership on ...

Biden Administration Oil, Gas Drilling Approvals Outpace Trump's, Center for Biological ...
Sierra Sun Times
“Two years of runaway drilling approvals are a spectacular failure of climate leadership by President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland,” ...

Mavi Earns Accolade for Being a Climate Leader - Sourcing Journal
Sourcing Journal
Turkish denim brand Mavi has been named to the CDP's 2022 Climate Change A List   

Impact Investing:

The state of impact investing public policy – and opportunities for 2023 - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
The past year has been one of both exciting growth and unexpected challenges for the impact investing industry. Amid an uncertain macroeconomic ...

Impact Investing for Employees | Morgan Stanley at Work
Morgan Stanley
Discover 5 ways to incorporate sustainable and impact investments into conversations with employees. Enhance retention and loyalty with these ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Integrity - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Good faith. Microfinance. Opportunity zones. Carbon markets. Debt-for-nature swaps. Before most of the public even ...

Energy Storage

Tesla's energy storage business is booming, and it's just the beginning | Electrek
Electrek
Tesla Solar had a good quarter with 100 MW deployed, but the company really shined with its energy storage deployment: Powerwalls and Megapacks. Tesla ...

Tesla's energy storage arm caps 2022 with 'highest level' of deployments ever | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
The growth keeps coming for Tesla's energy storage business. On Wednesday, the automaker said its home and utility-scale battery deployments ...

US developer Hecate Energy gets US$550 million credit facility for renewables, energy storage
Energy Storage News
A containerised battery storage project in California, branded with Hecate Grid logo. Hecate Grid's Johanna 80MWh BESS project in Santa Ana, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Sustainability-Linked Financial Instruments: Creating Targets and Measuring Your ... - Sustainalytics
Sustainalytics
This blog post takes a closer look at key performance indicators ... also allow for comparison with science-based trajectories or references.

T-Mobile Announces Net-Zero Target Across Its Entire Carbon Footprint By 2040 And ... - Forbes
Forbes
Using a science-based approach, T-Mobile has set two targets to guide its ... performance and energy efficiency with high-efficiency rectifiers, ...

A 2023 Outlook for the Voluntary Carbon Market - ETF Database
ETF Database
Voluntary carbon markets will have a significant role to play in ... Science Based Target Initiative-endorsed emission reduction goals hit a new ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Golden Snowball update: The winners and losers so far - Spectrum News
Spectrum News
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on communicating climate change. 2:51 · WEATHER · WEATHER · 'I talked about it': Climate expert shares how to face ...

Which animals will survive climate change? | Live Science
Live Science
Even the toughest species might have a limit under climate change. ... is increasingly described as the "winners and losers under climate change," ...

Ross Douthat: 5 rules for an aging world – Twin Cities - Pioneer Press
Pioneer Press
Certain principles will separate winners and losers. ... Those who believe the defining challenge of the 21st century will be climate change, ...

Microgrids:

An innovative transactive energy architecture for community microgrids in modern multi ... - Nature
Nature
To this end, this paper is aimed at proposing a holistic model for optimal scheduling of multi-carrier multi-microgrids (MCMGs) equipped with 100% ...

Carlyle, Schneider joint venture AlphaStruxure plans 11.4-MW microgrid at JFK airport terminal
Utility Dive
The microgrid will feature 7.7 MW of rooftop solar, 3.7 MW of fuel cells and 2 MW of battery storage so the terminal can operate during grid-wide ...

AlphaStruxure to Design, Construct, and Operate JFK's New Terminal One Microgrid ...
PR Newswire
The 11.34 megawatt microgrid will transform the New Terminal One into the first fully resilient airport transit hub in the New York region that can ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

What Is Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)? - advisor - Forbes
Forbes
Socially responsible investing is the practice of investing for both social betterment and financial returns. This looks like either choosing ...

Biden's Regulation on Socially Responsible Investing is Challenged By U.S. States | Joseph Godwin
NewsBreak Original
"U.S. states challenge Biden rule on socially conscious investing": A coalition of 25 U.S. states led by Texas and Utah filed a lawsuit seeking to ...

How a Giant of Responsible Investing Agreed to an Israel Exception - Jewish Currents
Jewish Currents
After a multi-year campaign by Jewish groups, Morningstar—a major firm known for socially responsible investing—is softening its approach to ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

NETL/DOE Review Progress on Next-Generation Carbon Capture Projects During California Visit
National Energy Technology Laboratory - Department of Energy
Visiting these capture technology projects in California helped the ... Air Capture Recovery of Energy for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage ...

Unions support carbon capture/storage opportunities - Pittsburgh Business Times
The Business Journals
She said that the union has been advocating for carbon capture/utilization funding and projects for at least a decade.

Four Companies Announce Joint Feasibility Study of Large-Scale and Wide-Area Carbon ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
MHI has also positioned carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) as an effective means of creating a carbon-neutral society and has ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainability roundup: 80% increase in sustainable investing, new research shows | News
Investment & Pensions Europe
It also showed that of those engaging in sustainable and impact investing, 76% cited employing impact investing as an investment strategy, a ...

Investing at the Intersection of Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
With a growing cross-section of investors concerned about social, climate and other sustainability issues, socially responsible investment ...

FinextraTV PREDICT 2023: A look at sustainable investing trends for the coming year
YouTube
In this PREDICT 2023 episode, Eoin Murray, Head of Investment Management, Federated Hermes, following COP15's biodiversity framework, examines the ...

Geoengineering:

Why it is time for the world to take geoengineering seriously - The National
The National
Why it is time for the world to take geoengineering seriously. Goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels will ...

Mexico Cracks Down on Solar Geoengineering, Forcing Startup To Pause Operations - Slashdot
Slashdot
The White House is currently coordinating a five-year research plan to study the idea, which is colloquially known as "solar geoengineering," and ...

Can geo-engineering help tackle climate change? - YouTube
YouTube
Scientists have warned against the use of new technologies such as geo-engineering to fight climate change.Analyst Yixing Xu explains why it's ...

Green Bond Funds:

India's first green bond issue pulls local bidders, foreigners aloof - traders - Reuters
Reuters
Local banks and mutual funds do not have a specific mandate to invest in green bonds and treat these at par with other sovereign bonds.

Brazil says plans green bond sale this year - Reuters
Reuters
Most governments sell such debt in the format of a green bond, where the funds are used for environmental projects.

Sovereign green bonds: Know the risks and rewards | Mint
Mint
Green bonds, popularly known as climate bonds, ... Green bonds are securities issued to fund projects that are good for the environment. Photo ...

Low Carbon Funds:

The Pipeline: EQT nears €3bn, Low Carbon adds MD, CIP enters new market
Infrastructure Investor
EQT raises €2.8bn but Fund VI is a slower burner. EQT is finding out what it's like to raise money in 2023. In the Swedish group's year-end report ...

Carbon technology captures billions in funds | Greenbiz
Greenbiz
Carbon removal technology is capturing more than just greenhouse gases. ... was too low to create sustainable revenue streams.

Invesco launches Article 9 global fund
Funds Europe
Ivanova said the new product is not explicitly a “green bond fund or a low-carbon fund.” “It is a fund that invests in companies that use very ...