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Coronavirus and Sustainability:,

Matthew Lau: Forget 'sustainable and inclusive': Get back to profit - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Toronto Copes With Coronavirus Shutdown. “Sustainable and inclusive growth,” like “corporate social responsibility,” is a loaded phrase.

California coronavirus updates: COVID-19 pandemic has shifted people's finances
CapRadio
California coronavirus updates: COVID-19 pandemic has shifted people's finances. Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | Sacramento, CA.

California coronavirus updates: SNAP recipients will see pandemic-era boosts cut by March
CapRadio
SNAP recipients nationwide will stop getting pandemic-era boosts after this month's payments, the U.S. Food and Nutrition Service announced on ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonizing cement and concrete value chains: Takeaways from Davos - McKinsey
McKinsey
How can the cement and concrete industry reach net-zero emissions by 2050? McKinsey hosted panelists at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting ...

Recent collaboration could help decarbonize European paper sector - Recycling Today
Recycling Today
“Combined with access to affordable fossil-free energy, heat pumps will allow for a full transition towards a decarbonized and circular economy based ...

Decarbonizing cement sector: Need to bind technology innovation with transition finance
ETEnergyworld.com
Despite pressure from civil society, green investors, and financial regulators, largely based inside & outside India, the pace of change is ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Mining Industry Needs ESG Reporting Rules, Standard Setter Says - Bloomberg Tax
Bloomberg Tax
The initiative's voluntary standards, written by the Global Sustainability Standards Board, are used by more than 10,000 companies globally and ...

GRI plans one sustainability standard to rule them all - Mining Magazine
Mining Magazine
GRI plans one sustainability standard to rule them all. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched a consultation on a major new ...

Atkore Releases 2022 Sustainability Report - Business Wire
Business Wire
The 2022 Atkore Sustainability Report was prepared in alignment with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and the Sustainable ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Clean-energy investing tops $1 trillion, set to beat money backing oil and gas - MarketWatch
MarketWatch
Nearly half of the total global investment in new renewables was in China, particularly in steel recycling and the renewable energy and electric- ...

Renewable Energy Has Investors Cheering $369 Billion U.S Government Investment
PR Newswire
Whether investors are interested in solar, RNG, wind, green hydrogen or any other type of renewable energy that can reduce reliance on fossil ...

Europe Is No Longer The Epicenter Of Clean Energy Investment - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Renewable energy, including wind, solar and biofuels, received the lion's share of investments at $495 billion, good for 17% Y/Y growth. Electrified ...

CDP Sustainability:

Preparing for your next CDP disclosure: how our accredited solutions providers can support you
CDP
Through their experience and range of sector expertise, they can help map your organisation's route to environmental leadership, whether you're a ...

CDP awards Amcor A- for its ongoing work on climate change disclosure | Mirage News
Mirage News
This rating follows a strong year of sustainability achievements from the industry leader, including a commitment to net zero by 2050 and to set.

IGT recognized by non-profit CDP for improved environmental performance - Yogonet
Yogonet
"IGT's commitment to climate change extends to our customers and their sustainable operations. This assessment from CDP assures all stakeholders that ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Sacramento leaders can build climate resilience and our economy. Here's how | Opinion
The Sacramento Bee
... leaders should take advantage of funds to bolster California's climate ... that climate change isn't a theory but an active, urgent threat.

Opinion: There's one big climate fight that California is losing - The Mercury News
The Mercury News
Why state must develop a leadership role in climate adaptation ... The risk of climate change to people here and now has become quite clear.

Impact Investing:

Impact investing in Black economic mobility - McKinsey
McKinsey
Meanwhile, impact investing—which seeks to not only achieve measurable benefits across ESG but also generate attractive financial returns—has the ...

We are tech founders and investors who pivoted to (profitable) impact investing. Now we ... - Fortune
Fortune
We work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a guiding light. We only invest in companies that can demonstrate measurable impact relating to ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Dilemmas - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
February 3, 2023 | The Brief. The Week in Impact Investing: Dilemmas. The team at. ImpactAlpha. TGIF, Agents of Impact! Leaders and laggards.

Energy Storage

Southeast Asia's biggest BESS officially opened in Singapore - Energy Storage News
Energy Storage News
Image: Sembcorp. Singapore has surpassed its 2025 energy storage deployment target three years early, with the official opening of the biggest battery ...

Only5mins! – Monetizing energy storage - PV Magazine
PV Magazine
Storage Hub founder Oliver Schmidt speaks with pv magazine about his outlook for battery energy storage pricing and the cost trajectory of ...

Vanadium redox flow batteries can provide cheap, large-scale grid energy storage. Here's ...
ABC
A type of battery invented by an Australian professor in the 1980s is being touted as the next big technology for grid energy storage.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Carrier Strengthens Climate Goals with a Science-Based Net Zero Target and Expanded ...
PR Newswire
Carrier Strengthens Climate Goals with a Science-Based Net Zero Target and ... track, view and report energy and carbon performance across their ...

GCC's Emissions Reduction Target Validated by the Science-Based Target Initiative
Yahoo Finance
Furthermore, GCC's validated target is the sustainability performance target (SPT) of its US$500 million Sustainability-Linked Bond issued in ...

Science-Based Targets Initiative validates GCC's new CO2 reduction goals - Global Cement
Global Cement
GCC's vice president of sustainability and environment Gina Lotito said "We are proud and excited to be a catalyst of progress towards a low-carbon ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

England's Vineyards Are Benefitting From Climate Change But Run Scarce - Robb Report
Robb Report
'We're One of the Very Few Winners in a World Full of Losers': How English Wine Is Benefiting From Climate Change. Inside the rare industry that's ...

Winners and Losers: Samsung's iPhone killer, Fortnite studio shuts down its latest game
Trusted Reviews
Winners and Losers, Samsung and Rumbleverse ... casting doubt on whether the 'live service' model is really feasible in the current climate.

Heat caused by climate change poses challenge to women workers in informal sectors
Times of India
01:25Heat caused by climate change poses additional challenge to women workers in informal sectors: ... Winners and losers from Union Budget 2023.

Microgrids:

Microgrids Can Provide Resiliency During Extreme Weather Events - POWER Magazine
POWER Magazine
Microgrids are what they sound like: A small, self-sustaining local energy grid. They serve a relatively small geographic footprint and have the ...

Duke Energy places advanced microgrid into service in Hot Springs, NC
Duke Energy | News Center
Green microgrid consists only of solar generation and battery storage Installation will be able to power the entire town during an outage ...

Did Duke Energy Just Change the Game for Community Microgrids?
Microgrid Knowledge
In Hot Springs, North Carolina, the utility took a significant step in advancing community microgrids that rely on no fossil fuel resources.

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially responsible investing can make a world of difference - Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton Spectator
To achieve this aim, a mutual fund manager may make investment decisions through a socially responsible filter. The term ESG stands for “environmental ...

How Can Retirees Invest Sustainably? - Forbes
Forbes
Sustainable investing is becoming a hot topic. ... Socially responsible investing has evolved to use the ESG framework that has emerged over the ...

How To Find A Socially Responsible ETF To Invest In - Chart Attack
Chart Attack
Both are important when discussing socially responsible ETFs, and ethical investors would like to put their money in a company that embraces any form ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

CARBON CAPTURE - Department of Energy
CARBON CAPTURE - Department of Energy
The fifth edition of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage will be held. May 28–June 2, 2023, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Market Trend Shows a Rapid Growth Competitive ...
Digital Journal
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is the process of capturing carbon dioxide emissions and either using them to make things such as ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

5 Sustainable Investing Trends for Companies and Investors - Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Here are the top five sustainable finance trends to watch this year, according to sustainability leaders across Morgan Stanley, including our Global ...

Could Sustainable Investing For Retirement Increase Or Decrease Your Investment Returns?
Forbes
Specifically, it's critical to compare any sustainable investment you're considering to conventional investments with similar investment goals, ...

6 Steps To Reform Sustainability Reporting - Forbes
Forbes
Investors, employees, contractors, and communities deserve high quality sustainability information that is reliable, relevant, and comparable.

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering in Latin America may create more problems than it solves
dialogochino.net
What is geoengineering? ... Also called climate engineering, it is a set of techniques designed to modify the climate in order to alleviate global ...

How China Uses Geoengineering to Pursue a Hybrid Warfare Strategy - The Diplomat
The Diplomat
Geoengineering refers to the large-scale manipulation of a specific process central to controlling and channeling the earth's resources, ...

Geoengineering: technological triumph or sci-fi idiocy? - Palatinate
Palatinate
Geoengineering is defined as large-scale, human intervention in the Earth's climate systems, but it has come to symbolise much more than this.

Green Bond Funds:

Sebi Tackles Greenwashing, Issues Guidelines To Green Bond Issuers - Outlook India
Outlook India
The circular further said that issuers of green debt securities must ensure that funds raised through green bonds are not used for purposes that ...

Explained: India's First-Ever Sovereign Green Bond Auction - Indiatimes.com
Indiatimes.com
A "green bond" is distinguished from a standard bond by its designation, which denotes a promise to use the funds raised only to finance or ...

Green bonds, SLBs, MDBs in focus at Guwahati G20 meet on sustainable finance
The Economic Times
Green bonds, also known as climate bonds, are fixed-income financial instruments used to fund projects having environmental benefits, ...    

Low Carbon Funds:

S-curves and tipping points are accelerating the low-carbon future - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
... communities with critical project development financing. The historic buildout of low-carbon and sustainable infrastructure is on.

Climate Analytics firm Risilience closes $26 million Series B to expand its science-based ...
Yahoo Finance
Climate analytics firm Risilience has announced a $26 million Series B funding round to help global businesses transition to the low-carbon ...

Invesco launches sustainable global income fund - ESG Clarity
ESG Clarity
Invesco has launched a fund to support the transition to a low carbon economy over the medium term, the Invesco Sustainable Global Income fund.