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Coronavirus and Sustainability:,

Leading innovators in coronavirus vaccine components - Pharmaceutical Technology
Pharmaceutical Technology
Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are ...

California coronavirus updates: California union leaders fighting for $25 minimum wage for ...
CapRadio
Union-aligned Democrats were set to introduce legislation Wednesday mandating a statewide $25 minimum wage for health workers and support staffers ...

Nut consumption and its impact on human and environmental health - News Medical
News Medical
Nevertheless, the traditional agricultural practices used to grow nuts are more sustainable. Despite the lack of information from Lifecycle Analysis ... 

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Costa Looks to Methanol Fuel to Help Decarbonize the Cruise Sector - gCaptain
gCaptain
Costa Group, part of Carnival Corporation, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swiss-based methanol producer Proman aiming to boost the ...

Airbus decarbonization targets validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative - Skies Mag
Skies Magazine
Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO, said, “At Airbus we are committed to leading the decarbonisation of the aerospace sector. The independent assessment ...

L-Charge and major businesses support Biden's Decarbonization plan - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
... the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, to cut all greenhouse emissions from the transportation sector by 2050.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Global Reporting Initiative draft sector standard for mining released for comment
IndustriALL Global Union
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an independent non-profit international organization which helps businesses and other organizations take ...

Jabil Makes Meaningful Sustainability Progress, Releases Fiscal Year 2022 Report
Business Wire
This year's report was prepared in alignment with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, providing highlights of the year since the ...

One Week To Go in GRI Biodiversity Consultation - 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:

Investment in low-carbon energy broke records in 2022 - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Investment in clean energy technologies is on the brink of overtaking fossil fuel investments, and won't look back.” Renewables records tumble. The ...

Will Geopolitics Accelerate or Moderate Investment in Renewable Energy?
Womble Bond Dickinson
One panel focused on how geopolitical challenges are impacting both energy security and the demand that nations pivot to clean energy and renewable ...

7 Stocks to Buy for the Future of Renewable Energy | InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace
Renewable energy stocks will continue to be a strong investment for many years to come. These stocks are among the best in the industry.

CDP Sustainability:

CDP Hosts Sustainability Talks, Gala Awards at Louis Vuitton Foundation - WWD
WWD
LVMH Antoine Arnault CDP sustainability conference Louis Vuitton Foundation. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton's head of image and environment ...

According to CDP, 0.4% of Companies Have Published Credible Climate Transition Plans - JD Supra
JD Supra
According to a report published by global environmental disclosure platform operator CDP on February 7, 2023, only 81 companies “demonstrated best ...

Lenovo Recognized as Leader in Climate Change and Water Security by CDP - CSRwire
CSRwire
Lenovo has been recognized for leadership in corporate sustainability by the global environmental non-profit CDP, securing recognition at the ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Groundbreaking California Leaders Lauded by The James Irvine Foundation for ... - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
2023 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards honor leaders for ... climate change and other challenges facing our state," said California ...

Will California take this major step to fight climate change? - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
Pension fund leaders say that divestment may sound good and feel good, but will “accomplish nothing” – and potentially put at risk the retirement ...

As climate change batters California, wealthy philanthropists could do more | Opinion
The Sacramento Bee
As California's government cuts funding for climate change programs its time for business and philanthropy leaders to step up and raise money to ...

Impact Investing:

Is Impact Investing Undermining Resilience in the Global South? | Yale Insights
Yale Insights - Yale University
Impact investing advisor Clint Bartlett '17 and Professor Todd Cort are working on innovative approaches in which businesses that create positive ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Ready - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
“If you thought of a landscape of sectors you might want to be involved in, they overlap the impact investing marketplace very strongly.” Other ...

GENDER GAP PERSISTS IN IMPACT INVESTING STUDY - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Impact investing is financial investments designed to have a positive impact on society, while providing potential long-term returns. The 2022 survey ...

Energy Storage

Diversifying a US$200 billion market: The alternatives to Li-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage
Energy Storage News
The global need for grid-scale energy storage will rise rapidly in the coming years as the transition away from fossil fuels accelerates.

Battery storage insurance costs are falling 'as understanding of risks grows'
Energy Storage News
Deutsche Telekom has announced the first battery energy storage system installation in a 300MWh rollout in Germany, with Norwegian firm Pixii the ...

Could Gravity Batteries Win The Energy Storage War? | OilPrice.com
Oil Price
As renewable energy operations continue to expand worldwide, governments and energy companies are racing to develop battery storage capacity to ensure ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Alfa Laval has been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
... carbon neutral by 2030 and to reach science-based net-zero target by 2050 ... They contribute to improved energy efficiency and heat recovery, ...
    
Climate Performance Index: A Study of the Performance of G20 Countries in Mitigation | ORF
ORF
The indicators involved in computing the index can be classified in two ways: the first categorises the variables based on whether they represent an ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Amazon Mammals Threatened by Climate Change | UC Davis
UC Davis
Riparian forests, which line the wet edges of rivers and streams, helped buffer the effects of savannization to some extent. Winners and losers. “ ...

'Savannization' threatens most land mammals in the Amazon - Futurity
Futurity
"The Amazon's biodiversity is very susceptible to climate change effects," says Daniel ... “Unfortunately, there are more losers than winners.”.

Microgrids:

Here's how microgrids could keep the power on during extreme weather events
The World Economic Forum
Renewables-based microgrids and peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading can boost energy security as they are self-sufficient and run independent of ...

CPUC poised to reject Sunnova's plan to build microgrids in new residential communities
Utility Dive
Each home would be fitted with solar generation and battery storage, the company said, and connect to a microgrid that would comprise a community- ...

Duke Energy to mobilize first-of-its-kind microgrid-integrated fleet electrification center
Duke Energy | News Center
The site will be located at Duke Energy's Mount Holly Technology and Innovation Center and will incorporate microgrid integration.

Socially Responsible Investing:

ESG Investing: Political Talking Point or Investing Opportunity? - The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
ESG, or environmental, social, and governance, investing is just one of the many ways that investors decide which stocks and bonds to buy. While some ...

What Is Sustainable Investing Portfolio Management? - US News Money
US News Money
It involves assessing the environmental and social justice impacts of financial decisions. A focus on sustainable finance can happen in different ways ...

Young Investors Can Boost Impact Investing, Report Says - Banking Exchange
Banking Exchange
UK report recommends that younger, less risk-averse investors could allocate more to impact investing strategies Impact investing strategies could ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Alberta offers to work with Trudeau on carbon capture - with conditions - Reuters
Reuters
Canada's Alberta province on Thursday offered to collaborate with the federal government to spur carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) ...

Alberta Offers to Work With Canadian Govt on Carbon Capture Incentives - USNews.com
USNews.com
... on Thursday offered to collaborate with the federal government to incentivize carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) investments, ...

CCUS gets 1st hearing - February 19, 2023 - Petroleum News
Petroleum News
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavey's proposal for the state to generate revenue from carbon capture, utilization and storage, CCUS, got its first hearing ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

What Is Sustainable Investing Portfolio Management? - US News Money
US News Money
How to invest your money with both sustainability and profits in mind.

ESG Stocks: What Is ESG And Do ESG Stocks Outperform The Rest? - Forbes
Forbes
Many investors want to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to promoting good corporate citizenship and environmental sustainability ...

In ESG Investing, Money Changes Everything - Kiplinger
Kiplinger
ESG investors put their money where their hearts are by investing in companies with better management of environmental, social and corporate ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering for Climate Change Is Big, Ambitious, and Needs Shared Rules - Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
China Doesn't Want a Geoengineering Disaster. Beijing and Washington share an interest in rules for climate experimentation.

George Soros Comes Out in Support of Geoengineering the Climate - Futurism
Futurism
Billionaire philanthropist (and unfortunate right-wing target) George Soros has come out in support of geoengineering, an experimental Sun-dimming ...

Exclusive: Inside a Controversial Startup's Risky Attempt to Control Our Climate - TIME
TIME
Founder Luke Iseman and co-founder Andrew Song of solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets hold a weather balloon filled with helium, air, ...

Green Bond Funds:

REC to raise over $500 million overseas via green bonds - The Economic Times
The Economic Times
REC's $450 million green bond due 2027 is trading at a yield of 5.85%. bond funds The bond will follow REC's green bond framework. Mumbai: REC plans ...

Hong Kong issues 800M HKD in tokenized green bonds - Cointelegraph
Cointelegraph
In December 2022, Hong Kong introduced two exchange-traded funds for cryptocurrency futures, raising over $70 million before their launch. In October ...

What's covered under green bonds? - Moneycontrol
Moneycontrol
Which funds' returns doubled in the last 1 year? Feb 17, 06:02. Liquid ETFs are debt mutual fund schemes investing in the very short term debt ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Interest in low-carbon strategies growing, European ETF survey finds
Pensions & Investments
For 66% of the investors surveyed, the exchange-traded funds now on the market "show real sustainability benefits," the release said. That was the ...

Private equity giants double down on the low-carbon transition and impact investing
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 14 – Brookfield Asset Management made waves last June when it closed fundraising for its $15 billion energy transition fund, ...

World Bank Links Carbon Credits to $50M Bond for Water Purifiers
CarbonCredits.com
... will channel up-front financing to low-carbon development projects generating carbon credits like the water purification project in Vietnam.