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Coronavirus and Sustainability:,

PAHO leads preparation of national plans for COVID-19 related solid waste management in ...
PAHO
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in healthcare waste and its environmental impacts in the region as efforts to protect healthcare ...

Three years in: 7 things we've learned about COVID | CU Boulder Today
University of Colorado Boulder
... study live airborne coronavirus persistence in the Environmental Engineering ... at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC).

Community Health & Wellbeing – City of Palo Alto, CA
City of Palo Alto
Sustainability plays a factor in our community's health. ... The Child Mind Institute's Talking to Kids About Coronavirus.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Avoiding greenwashing and defining emission reductions: How a science-based framework ...
Climate Champions - UNFCCC
With respect to decarbonisation, what journey has the maritime sector been on in the past decade? Going back to 2013, the industry was experiencing ...

Technical Assistance Partnerships driving industrial decarbonization - Energy Capital Media
Energy Capital Media
On-site energy TAPs will accelerate the integration and deployment of clean energy technologies to drive the U.S. industry's decarbonization, ...

Companies Sign MoU to Tackle Heat Decarbonization with Green Hydrogen-Based Solutions
Renewable Energy Magazine
... hydrogen-based technology that will tackle both heat decarbonization ... role hydrogen can play in helping to decarbonize a range of sectors ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Nearly All Large Global Companies Disclose ESG Information - Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters
Still, companies primarily look to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to prepare their ...

GRI to create apparel sustainability reporting standard - Just Style
Just Style
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is to create a sustainability reporting standard for the apparel sector to enhance company reporting.

GRI to launch textile and apparel standard | Labels & Legislation News
Ecotextile News
AMSTERDAM – The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) will launch a 'textile and apparel standard' to boost sustainability reporting by clothing, ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Global clean energy investing tops US$1 trillion for first time ever - Corporate Knights
Corporate Knights
Despite the record clean energy investing, a new IEA report found global emissions rose to record highs in 2022.

Canada's Enbridge invests $2.4 bln in new projects, sees best opportunities in U.S.
Reuters
... infrastructure and renewable power this year, and said there were better investment opportunities in the U.S. due to green energy subsidies.

CERAWEEK- EU falling short of U.S. efforts to lure renewables investments -Repsol CEO
Reuters
The United States is attracting investment in renewables through new ... deter investors, the head of Spanish energy company Repsol said on Monday.

CDP Sustainability:

The CDP Awards: rewarding cities and businesses taking on the environment and ... - Euronews
Euronews
The CDP is the non-profit organisation that runs the world's environmental reporting system. According to their latest reports, only 5% of companies ...

Prysmian Group: a € 120 M loan granted by CDP in favour of innovation and digitalisation
Prysmian Group
Prysmian Group: a € 120 M loan granted by CDP in favour of innovation and ... to the development of sustainability impact assessment models).

Elon Musk's sustainability dreams for Tesla need to start in his own backyard - The Verge
The Verge
Musk thinks Tesla can bring on 'a sustainable energy Earth. ... in 2019 from the CDP, a go-to organization for evaluating companies' environmental ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Education is vital for California Latinos affected most by water crisis - CalMatters
CalMatters
Local leaders must be educated on solutions. ... fair and sustainable solutions to new realities in this era of climate change impacting water.

Be on the alert for California's Climate Corporate Data Accountability bill - JD Supra
JD Supra
The legislative findings in the new bill provide that California has been a leader in the battle against climate change, but “Californians are ...

Testimony: Adapting California's Water Rights System to the 21st Century Climate
Public Policy Institute of California
In our remarks today we recap some of the key challenges the changing climate is posing for California's water rights system in both dry and wet ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing and the Creative Economy: An Interview with Upstart Co-Lab
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
These types of businesses need impact investing for growth. But artists and designers were not successfully engaging impact investors. That's what ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Grounded - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Technology took a backseat to natural assets like land, farms and people at this week's Latin American Impact Investing Forum, or FLII, in Mérida, ...

Impact Investing Newsflow: February 2023 edition | The Social Enterprise Magazine
Pioneers Post
The global impact deals, reports and initiatives you need to know about ... A consortium of impact investors included government-backed Invest-NL, ...

Energy Storage

Inflation Reduction Act creates viable clean energy economics
Energy Storage News
A major upturn in US energy storage deployments is expected as a direct consequence of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Battery Energy Storage Systems Will Make the City Greener - TheCity.nyc
TheCity.nyc
Though lithium-ion batteries for use in e-bikes have caused a rise in fires in the city, the batteries used in energy storage systems are ...

Here's the good and bad news on the US clean energy transition - Canary Media
Canary Media
A comprehensive new report from BNEF lays out 2022's mixed bag of wins and losses on EVs, emissions, energy storage, climate disasters and much ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

84% of major firms yet to set public science-based targets - Business Plus
Business Plus
Only 16% of companies have publicly set science-based targets for operational carbon emissions, and 11% have committed to science-based targets ...

STL commits to Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi), as part of its goal to be Net-Zero by 2030
PR Newswire
Internet and digital networks are responsible for ~2% of the global carbon output, thereby significantly contributing to global climate change. SBTi ...

Doing good business with a Science-Based Targets initiative | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
Adapting performance to science-based targets is not a static endeavour. As companies' operations evolve, the amount of carbon emitted or not ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Decline in nutrient load and sea-level rise: Winners and losers in the Wadden Sea
Phys.org
"Therefore, detailed knowledge of the changes in the Wadden Sea UNESCO World Heritage Site is crucial for environmental decision-making and the ...

Bill that blocks 'woke investing' likely to be Biden's first veto - WCIV
WCIV
... game about how government should not be picking winners and losers. ... money managers to consider climate change and other environmental, ...

Decline in nutrient load and sea-level rise: Winners and losers in the Wadden Sea
Nation.lk
A team of researchers, including Senckenberg scientists Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kröncke and Dr. Anja Singer, has detected a significant decrease in the ...

Microgrids:

What is a Microgrid and How Microgrids Work
Microgrid Knowledge
Aytek Yuksel, content marketing director at Cummins, helps you boost your energy IQ with four common questions and answers about living on ...

US Scale Microgrids adds 23 solar sites to portfolio - Renewables Now
Renewables Now
US distributed energy platform Scale Microgrids has bought a local portfolio of distributed generation solar projects across 23 sites in a push to ...

Discussion: 7 Strategies to Make Microgrids Fit for Utility Grid Modernization
Microgrid Knowledge
Allan Schurr, Enchanted Rock's chief commercial officer, discusses findings from a recent microgrid survey for utilities, with Elisa Wood, ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How Environmentally Conscious Investing Became a Target of Conservatives
The New York Times
The business world has been pulled into partisan politics, with Republicans bringing their battle against socially conscious investing to ...

On Wall St., 'Socially Responsible' Is Common Sense. In Congress, It's Political.
The New York Times
Lawmakers are trying to restrict these investment choices in workplace retirement plans, but big fund managers are trying to give shareholders a ...

Texas GOP lawmakers ready to fight socially responsible investing - San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio Express-News
A Texas legislator is seeking to broaden the fight against ESG policies by imposing further limits on the types of investments that state pension ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon capture utilization and storage - Lexology
Lexology
Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is a key element in Canada's energy transition strategy, for government and industry alike.

Global Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Market Size &
Send Press Releases with GlobeNewswire
The global carbon capture utilization and storage market size was valued at USD 1.97 billion in 2021 and is expected to surpass USD 10.84 billion ...

Carbon capture, utilization and storage developments in British Columbia and Alberta
Lexology
This post looks at recent policy and legislative developments related to the regulatory framework for carbon capture, utilization and storage ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

Why sustainable investing in emerging markets makes sense | Greenbiz
Greenbiz
Sustainable investing has the power to unlock returns, integrate these markets and promote people, planet and prosperity. Ultimately, until the asset ...

Will ESG Investing Solve Our Pressing Problems? - INSEAD Knowledge
INSEAD Knowledge
ESG or sustainable investing suffers from a principal-agent problem. Far more impact will be achieved when business leaders incorporate ...

Trends in ESG investing: What's material to a firm's sustainability objectives? - Nashville ...
The Business Journals
Portfolio managers continue to seek appropriate and reliable information tied to how companies attempt to mitigate risks — especially those that ...

Geoengineering:

Solar Geoengineering Should Be Regulated, U.N. Report Says - Scientific American
Scientific American
But the field of study, also known as solar geoengineering, remains controversial because it doesn't address the primary cause of climate change ...

Old Bomber Plane Will Sniff the Sky for Geoengineering Particles - Scientific American
Scientific American
The concept itself may sound futuristic — as one method of solar geoengineering calls for artificially changing Earth's atmosphere to reflect more ...

Researchers launched a solar geoengineering test flight in the UK last fall
MIT Technology Review
Solar geoengineering is the theory that humans can ease global warming by deliberately reflecting more sunlight into space. One possible means is ...

Green Bond Funds:

What are Green Bonds?: YF Explains - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Green bonds allow companies to raise funds for new and existing projects that benefit the ... Comcast (CMCSA) announced a $1 billion green bond sale.

Air Products issues inaugural green bonds to fund renewables growth - Gasworld

Gasworld
Air Products has issued its first green bonds to fund investments in ammonia, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

Low Carbon Funds:

Banks Need Even Bigger Low-Carbon Pivot to Avert Climate Crisis - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
Top Banks by Energy Financing Volume in 2021. JPMorgan is the biggest financer of clean energy and fossil fuel projects. Bank ...

Low Carbon Royalties Announces Launch of Funding Vehicle for Low-Carbon Emitting ...
PR Newswire
Low Carbon Royalties provides critical funding to low-carbon emitting energy production and technologies, transition metals and minerals required ...

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Strong ETF Right Now? - Nasdaq
Nasdaq
carbon emissions and potential carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves. Cost & Other Expenses. Since cheaper funds tend to produce better results ...

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