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Sector Based Decarbonization:

The telecom sector's contribution to decarbonization - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The private sector's contribution to the reduction of GHG emissions is too ... Between 2002 and 2019, basic and fibre-based broadband connections ...

BEF 2023: Decarbonization and energy storage require district heating integration with power sector
Balkan Green Energy News
A study commissioned by EPS, which was based on renewables development scenarios, showed that balancing the system beyond 2030 will require reserves ...

Tipping the Scale on CO2 Levels: Fast-Tracking Bioeconomy Decarbonization
Biofuels Digest
Decarbonization has created an opportunity for industry innovators to capture an ... recycling petroleum-based feedstocks, and CO2 capture.

Global Reporting Initiative:

The Global Reporting Initiative - Investopedia
Investopedia
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a widely recognized framework for sustainability reporting that helps organizations report on their economic, ...

New Guidelines for voluntary ESG reports - Dentons
Dentons
... materiality" combining both financial and impact materiality has been adopted by the European Union and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

IHS Towers Publishes 2022 Sustainability Report - Business Wire
Business Wire
The report covers sustainability activities from January 1, ... 2022, and is prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standards ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Venture capital investment in clean energy startups soars - Reuters
Reuters
Global venture capital funding for clean energy startups jumped to $12.3 billion last year, up from $1.9 billion in 2019, propelled by investment ...

Six Transformative New Green Energy Companies - Forbes
Forbes
Private sector investments spur technological innovation and lower energy costs while attracting the best and brightest. This green energy bonanza ...

Fund manager on how to invest sustainably in renewable stocks and more - CNBC
CNBC
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis.

CDP Sustainability:

ADEC ESG Solutions Rejoins CDP as an Accredited Solutions Provider | Newswire
Newswire
Global sustainability leader ADEC ESG Solutions recognized as accredited resource for driving organizational value and delivering impact.

Climate change needs carbon emissions cut. Which companies do it best? - USA Today
USA Today
Carbon disclosure rating: A measure of a company's environmental sustainability. These rankings are administered by CDP, a nonprofit that runs a ...

Aptar Named One of America's Climate Leaders by USA Today
Aptar
Aptar also has validated SBTi targets for Scope 3 emissions and renewable energy purchases. Increasingly, Aptar believes that sustainable companies, ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

In San Jose, city climate plans must have 'the cool factor' | Smart Cities Dive
Smart Cities Dive
Based in the tech hub of California's Silicon Valley, San Jose is no ... Kerrie Romanow at the Climate Leadership Conference in Los Angeles on May ...

California Climate Change Is Here to Stay. Is the U.S. Food Supply Doomed
Risk & Insurance
During National Construction Safety Week, observed May 1 to 5, construction leadership might want to consider how they can use mindfulness to help ...

ACWA Supports Newsom's Leadership on Streamlining the - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
May 19, 2023 16:41 ET | Source: Association of California Water Agencies ... and scale needed to respond to the growing impacts of climate change.

Impact Investing:

Impact will become part of all investing - Private Equity International
Private Equity International
The cast of characters at this year's Impact Investor Global Summit tells a positive story about how institutional investors are thinking about ...

Impact investing is moving beyond a niche - ESG Clarity
ESG Clarity
Impact investing looks to find those companies that are solving some of the world's most important problems. They need to be providing real ...

U.S. Impact Investing Alliance Publishes "Impact at Work" to Spotlight Opportunities ... - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Impact Investing Alliance ("the Alliance"), an organization dedicated to building the impact investing ecosystem, ...

Energy Storage

Solid state energy storage for your home. Really? - YouTube
YouTube
Solid state batteries? When will they ever actually arrive? Well, according to a Florida based start up called Amptricity, they have arrived ...

Big Batteries. BIG Storage. THIS is How We Get 100% Renewable Energy! - YouTube
YouTube
This week Imogen visited Europe's largest battery energy storage system, Pillswood in Hull to find out how Harmony Energy is get … Show more.

Northvolt completes construction of Poland ESS factory - Energy Storage News
Energy Storage News
Northvolt has completed its energy storage system production facility in Poland and expects to start production by the end of 2023.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Bloomberg Impact Report 2022: Reducing Our Emissions - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Our near-term science-based targets aim for an 80 percent reduction in our ... to reduce energy consumption and associated carbon emissions, ...

Utility CEOs see green as pay-for-climate goes mainstream - E&E News
E&E News
The “Pay for Climate Performance” report was based on proxy statements filed ... That is shy of the level recommended by the Science Based Targets ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Northwest Heat Wave Shows Climate Change Has No Winners - The Washington Post
The Washington Post
For a long time, people have mistakenly thought of global warming as a sort of zero-sum game with obvious winners and losers.

Why natural disasters seem worse than our most dire predictions | The Japan Times
The Japan Times
It's human nature to latch on to the most easily available snippets of information, particularly when it comes to understanding climate change.

NBA Draft Lottery aftermath: The biggest winners and losers - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
NBA Draft Lottery aftermath: The biggest winners and losers ... hasn't been the Hornets' strong point for years, and it's time to change that.

Microgrids:

Microgrid Market Projected to Reach USD 60.25 Billion, with - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
Microgrid refers to a local energy system that can operate independently or in conjunction with the main power grid. It typically consists of ...

Q&A: Microgrids in water conveyance applications | WaterWorld
WaterWorld Magazine
A Q&A interview about microgrid systems with Greta Foster following Eaton's microgrid project for the Tussing Water Booster Station in Columbus, ...

How microgrids form part of Eskom energy transition strategy - ESI Africa
ESI Africa
Eskom making headway in the development of microgrids and upskilling of former coal-fired power station staff to work in the renewable space.

Socially Responsible Investing:

The intricacies of socially responsible investing - It's Your Money - Castanet.net
Castanet
Socially responsible investing, also known as sustainable or ethical investing, refers to the practice of incorporating environmental, social, and ...

'Woke' or not, many Americans ignore ESG in investing, despite political tug-of-war
USA Today
As politicians and corporations fight over whether ESG is "woke" or not, most Americans tune out. Stock returns are still the priority for ...

Sustainable investing practice brings advisor 'perfect' clients - InvestmentNews
InvestmentNews
Ninety-eight percent of Eric Souder's clients are invested in socially responsible portfolios he runs that are built with institutional shares of ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Market to Surpass US$ 10.2 Billion, Rising at a 13.4 ...
Yahoo Finance
The demand for carbon capture, utilization, and storage is also increasing as a result of strict environmental standards and regulations.

Koch Engineered Solutions and Chart Industries Agree to - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
... opportunities where carbon capture technologies can be deployed. ... to Collaborate on Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Projects.

Feds allot $33 million to study carbon capture and storage in Pueblo region
Pueblo Chieftain
Prasad is also the director of the Mines Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Innovation Center. Carbon dioxide, as well as other pollutants, ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Urgent action needed to tackle stalled progress on health-related Sustainable Development Goals
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is releasing the 2023 edition of its annual World Health Statistics report with new figures on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and the latest ...

UN Report Calls on Countries to Recommit to SDGs to Tackle Multiple Crises | News
SDG Knowledge Hub - International Institute for Sustainable Development
Titled, 'Accelerating the Recovery from the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and the Full Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ...

Covid could do for ventilation what cholera did for cleaner water systems - Quartz
Quartz
The covid-19 pandemic forced us to rethink how clean indoor air should be, putting us on the cusp of a possible ventilation revolution.

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

Labels Aside: Sustainable Business Investments Have Never Been More Important - Forbes
Forbes
ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investments are having a moment—a ... ESG involves more than just sustainability initiatives, ...

Investing in the Green Revolution | Euronews
Euronews
The shift to sustainability has become a sector-wide initiative and ... can the banking sector gain by investing in sustainable businesses?

Biodiversity Investing's Rising Importance | Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Screening out certain sectors, and opting into others, can help investors identify opportunities in this next frontier of sustainable investing.

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering is gathering momentum — here's why you should care | Greenbiz
GreenBiz
Carbon geoengineering is the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. · Solar geoengineering, or solar radiation management (SRM), is far less ...

Solar Geoengineering Is Coming. It's Time to Regulate It. - Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
Interest in—as well as concerns about—solar radiation modification (SRM, also known as solar geoengineering) has gathered momentum in recent ...

No evidence videos show 'geoengineered' skies - Full Fact
Full Fact
Geoengineering is defined by the Met Office as the “deliberate large-scale manipulation of climate”, and describes “interventions and technologies ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green bonds to again dominate sustainability-linked debt issuance in 2023 - ZAWYA
ZAWYA
The U.S. bank says three factors will help increase green bond sales: greater issuance to fund a transition from fossil fuels, buoyant investor demand ...

Green bonds and guarantees: Key tools to contain global warming - Mint
Mint
MDBs can use their limited funds to provide insurance and risk guarantees which can leverage climate finance many times larger than their own funds.

Verizon puts another $1B green bond where its mouth is: renewable grid energy
SDxCentral
Verizon issued its fifth green bond for $1 billion in recognition of the ... Green bonds are a way for enterprises to earmark funds for projects ...

Low Carbon Funds:

E3 Capital and Lion's Head climate fund hits first close at $48M to back African startups
TechCrunch
The E3 Low Carbon Economy Fund for Africa (E3LCEF), a fund by early-stage VC ... The fund will provide initial and follow-on funding to startups, ...

Low Carbon Economy Fund for Africa hits first close at $48m
Techpoint Africa
The E3 Low Carbon Economy Fund for Africa (E3LCEF) now joins the list of funds that want to drive investment in African clean-tech startups.

The Brief: Inclusive franchise ownership, low-carbon building materials, fundraising FUD at ...
ImpactAlpha
The fund will extend loans averaging $500,000 to 40 food entrepreneurs, who also receive paid on-the-job training. “The model is extremely promising ...

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