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Coronavirus and Sustainability:,

Japanese urban household carbon footprints during early-stage COVID-19 pandemic were ...
Nature
Cities are involved in multiple SDGs (e.g., Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production), emphasizing ...

Executives say sustainability is good for business - WRAL
WRAL
Michael Regan, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ... goals Wednesday at the Raleigh Chamber's inaugural sustainability conference.

Harnessing nature to promote planetary sustainability - Newswise
Newswise
This insect enzyme could serve as a more sustainable alternative to current methods of incineration and mechanical recycling. Bertocchini adds, “ ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Investment pathways to decarbonize the industrial sector in Europe - Allianz
Allianz
To decarbonize the industry sector globally will require cumulative investments of EUR2.7trn until 2050. Of this, the EU needs 8% or EUR210bn, and ...
    
NIBS Report Looks At Decarbonization For The Built Environment
Facility Executive Magazine
The decarbonization of the building sector will require a massive, strategic, and coordinated effort by the public and private sectors.

DOE announces $156M for applied research and development projects to drive industrial ...
Green Car Congress
This FOA focuses on the variety of cross-sector approaches to industrial decarbonization, and advances the goal of the Industrial Heat Shot, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI calls for due diligence in sustainability reporting - Accounting Today
Accounting Today
The Global Reporting Initiative released a report urging companies to take a due diligence approach in their sustainability efforts.

Global Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Outlook and Regulations
Environment + Energy Leader
... with other third-party frameworks such as Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

GRI Update Enforces Imperative of Transparency Around Businesses' Impacts on Human Rights
Sustainable Brands
GRI's new materiality and impact requirements help businesses realign their priorities to address interlinked issues around shareholder value ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Availability of $1 Billion to Help Farmers, Ranchers ...
USDA
... in grants to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses invest in renewable energy systems and make energy-efficiency improvements.

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Clean Energy Projects to ...
The White House
President Biden's Investing in America Agenda is Creating Jobs, Lowering Costs, and Driving Historic Economic Growth and More Than $14 Billion in ...

Investments in renewable energies must quadruple to meet climate target - IRENA
The World Economic Forum
Global investments in energy transition technologies must more than quadruple annually to hit climate targets, says the International Renewable ...

CDP Sustainability:

Brazilian meat firm's A- sustainability rating has campaigners up in arms - The Guardian
The Guardian
But in the latest Climate Change Report by the influential rating organisation CDP, the multinational got a grade of A- for its efforts to tackle ...

CDP: Building Sector Dangerously Behind on Climate Progress
Environment + Energy Leader
Additionally, the sector must prioritize retrofitting and renovating older buildings to minimize their environmental impact. Categories Air & ...

CDP says more stringent scoring methodology at heart of 'transformation'
Environmental Finance
CDP is strengthening its process for scoring companies on sustainability aspects and introducing new forward-looking metrics, as part of a push to ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

ESG And The Future Of Impact Investing: A Conversation With Jim Sorenson And Terrence Keeley
Forbes
In contrast, impact investing is based upon additionality — that is to say, achieving something tangible beyond financial returns, such as lower ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Theory of Change - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Even responsible investors in public equities have long gotten away with vague commitments to “accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy” or “drive ...

Extension, Roll-Overs and Impact Investing Should be Part of OZ 2.0 Legislation
Novogradac |
Investors gain a deferral on capital gains invested in QOFs until the earlier of when they dispose of their asset or Dec. 31, 2026. For investments ...

Energy Storage

US grid operators 'cannot afford a long-duration energy storage dot-com bubble'
Energy Storage News
Long-duration energy storage (LDES) may be in something of a 'dot com' moment, but ISOs cannot afford the 'hiccup' of the bubble bursting.

Top five battery energy storage system design essentials - pv magazine USA
pv magazine USA
Share · Demand for energy storage is on the rise. · Auxiliary power is electric power that is needed for HVAC for the battery stacks as well as control ...

Enel Said to Weigh Sale of €2 Billion Energy Storage Business - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Enel SpA is evaluating the sale of a majority stake in its energy storage business, in a move aimed at further reducing the company's debt burden, ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Leading investor group toughens stance on new upstream oil and gas projects - ET Auto
ET Auto
The world's top oil and gas companies have so far set varying targets to ... to set science-based targets to reduce their carbon emissions and to ...

Saverglass Returns as Sponsor of Napa RISE Symposium as Part of Its ... - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
In 2022, Saverglass received validation from the Science-Based Target Initiative ... performance of the bottles produced from recycled glass.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Climate choice: Cling to past glories or strive for prosperous future - WAtoday
WAtoday
The big question facing our political leaders is: are we content to allow climate change to turn us from winners into losers, or do we have the ...

California population winners and losers: Why some counties boomed and others shrank
Yahoo News
Meanwhile in rural counties such as Lassen and Yolo, population numbers have fluctuated due to local changes, such as the closing of a prison or ...

Declines in LA's Birds Driven by Climate Change, Urbanization | Mirage News
Mirage News
“The Central Valley had less change, in general – there were winners and losers,” Beissinger said. “Whereas in L.A., we saw mostly losers.”.

Microgrids:

$65+ Billion Microgrid Global Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2032 ... - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Going forward, the DC microgrids segment is expected to be the fastest growing segment in the microgrid market segmented by type, at a CAGR of 20.8% ...

Scale Microgrids to build solar-storage renewables project for California Native American community
Energy Storage News
Scale Microgrids Solutions will build a renewables microgrid with energy storage for a Native American tribe in California.

Why Puerto Rican communities are all-in on solar microgrids - Canary Media
Canary Media
A second round of funding will focus on energy resilience solutions such as microgrids and community solar, similar to what Casa Pueblo did at ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

The Curious Dilemma Of ESG Investing And Your Retirement - Forbes
Forbes
It was nearly 30 years ago when he initially tried Socially Responsible Investing (“SRI”), the predecessor of ESG. And he was cool with it.

Zeus Investments Offers Socially Responsible and Green Investment Options
Yahoo Finance
Seoul, South Korea--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2023) - Zeus Investments, a financial brokerage firm based in South Korea, announced today that it ...

The Power of the Purse: Instigating Social Change Through Strategic Municipal Bond Investments
Miami's Community Newspapers
Under increased public scrutiny for socially responsible investing, ... (“ESG”) have become the modern threshold of investment decision making, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Markets, 2017-2022, 2022-2027F, & 2032F
GlobeNewswire
The global carbon capture, utilization, and storage market grew from $2.25 billion in 2022 to $2.54 billion in 2023 at a compound annual growth rate ( ...

Introducing a novel solution for carbon dioxide capture utilization and storage - Tech Xplore
Tech Xplore
The technology of Carbon dioxide Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), one of the methods for achieving net-zero CO2 emissions, ...

Measurement of CO2 throughout the carbon capture utilization and storage chain - World Oil
World Oil
Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) is regarded as a key enabling technology for the large-scale displacement of natural gas by hydrogen ...

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

ESG And The Future Of Impact Investing: A Conversation With Jim Sorenson And Terrence Keeley
Forbes
Terry, please tell us about your recently published book, Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG To Impact Investing. Terrence Keeley: The fundamental ...

Sustainable Investment Report 2022: “our teams are not afraid to ask the difficult questions ...
Schroders
In a foreword to our annual Sustainable Investment Report, Peter Harrison – Schroders Group Chief Executive – explains the importance of an active ...

Challenging Traditional Investments: Co-Creating Impact In The Investment Space - Forbes
Forbes
Legal Innovation for Sustainable Investments (LISI) is a small, ... Over time, her passion for sustainability and her legal expertise led her to ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering Is Not a Quick Fix for the Climate Crisis, New Analysis Shows
Scientific American
Solar geoengineering could prevent overshoot by temporarily cooling the earth's climate, keeping global temperature increases below 1.5 C while world ...

FACT CHECK: Is climate change caused by geoengineering? - TheCable
TheCable
Geoengineering involves the large-scale modification of climate using technology. It is broadly categorised into carbon geoengineering and solar ...

Is Solar Geoengineering a Viable Tool in the Climate Policy Arsenal?
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy - University of Pennsylvania
In looking at solar geoengineering, an argument in favor of increased research is that we will fail to reduce carbon emissions quickly enough to keep ...

Green Bond Funds:

CEFC tops up at Artesian investment-grade green bond fund - AFR
AFR
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is back for a second helping at Artesian's green and sustainable bond fund, led locally by portfolio manager ...

EU Green Bond Standard a 'wasted opportunity' for issuers - OMFIF
OMFIF
For the issuers convened at the OMFIF forum, the main concern was ensuring that at least 85% of the funds raised by their green bonds are aligned ...

VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.0660 | Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (GRNB) - $0.0660.30-Day SEC Yield of 5.00% as of Mar.

Low Carbon Funds:

Building a Clean, Climate-Resilient Economy through FEMA's Grant Programs | FEMA.gov
FEMA
The Act authorizes FEMA to fund costs associated with low-carbon materials, even when the costs are higher than those for conventional materials, ...

Biden-Harris Administration Expands Assistance to Boost Climate Resilience and Support ... - FEMA
FEMA
... that it will make grant funds available to communities for low-carbon materials used in disaster recovery and climate resilience projects.

DiNapoli: NYS Pension Fund Commits $1.3 Billion to Sustainable Investment Program
NYS Comptroller
... with transition to a low carbon economy, enabling institutional investors such as retirement funds to integrate climate risk considerations in ...

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