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Sector Based Decarbonization:

Biden-Harris administration announces $135M to reduce emissions across America's ...
The Highland County Press
Decarbonizing the U.S. industrial sector is an essential component of ... on advancements that enable decarbonization in ore-based or scrap-based ...

UConn Selected to Lead Clean-Energy Project to Help U.S. Industries in Decarbonizing Efforts
UConn Today - University of Connecticut
'Investments in net-zero-carbon technologies and industry ... The UConn-based TASC's expertise will be key in helping facilitate the installation ...

Eni (E) Collaborates With Maritime Majors for Decarbonization - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Eni (E) partners with various companies from the marine sector with an objective ... based on three dimensions — environment, economy and society.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Europe's ESG Rulemaker Sees 'Inevitable' Need to Merge - Bloomberg Law News
Bloomberg Law News
The Global Reporting Initiative said in a statement that—while it has no immediate plans to merge with another environmental, ...

GRI May Merge with ISSB, Says CEO - Regulation Asia
Regulation Asia
The CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Eelco van der Enden, has told ESG Investor that he would “not be surprised” if the final ...

Ingersoll Rand Publishes 2022 Sustainability Report - Business Wire
Business Wire
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR) published its 2022 Sustainability Report, ... with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

What is Renewable Energy? Benefits, Sources, and Top Companies - CarbonCredits.com
CarbonCredits.com
So, why are entities intensifying efforts and investing heavily on renewables in their quest to a cleaner and greener future? This article will ...

The meaning of an 'optimal' clean energy investment is changing as prices rise, analysts report
Utility Dive
Unpredictable demand drivers and supply uncertainties are forcing investors to seek new clean energy objectives. Published July 13, 2023.

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Launches Historic $20 Billion Competition to ...
The White House
... Catalyze Investment in Clean Energy Projects and Tackle the Climate Crisis ... historic investment to capitalize a national-scale clean energy ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP reports shows industry failing to significantly reduce Scope 3 wider environmental emissions
Confectionery Production
European businesses, including those within confectionery, snacks and bakery markets, are reported to make critical environmental performance ...

3 ways companies fall short on addressing deforestation - GreenBiz
GreenBiz
A CDP report shows few companies are engaging their entire supply chains on ... and analyzes corporate emissions and other sustainability data.

Renewal of CDP's China Pact to Focus on Italy's Energy Assets - EnergyPortal.eu -
EnergyPortal.eu -
Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and China's State Grid Corp are set to renew their agreement on the corporate governance of ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Centers Respond to Climate Change With Social Change - Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Low-income neighborhoods are often dangerously hotter than wealthier areas. At “resilience hubs” there is shelter to survive, with programming for ...

Leadership states can drive U.S. climate progress forward, if governors meet their commitments
News and blogs - Environmental Defense Fund
The role of climate leadership states: securing pollution reductions ... The policy landscape has drastically changed since President Biden took ...

Californians Like Voting on Environmental Issues - Public Policy Institute of California
Public Policy Institute of California
... as the byproducts of climate change, according to the July PPIC survey. ... Is there the political will for state leaders to call a citizens' ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing: 'a great defence against greenwashing' - Environmental Finance
Environmental Finance
With investors 'very focused on whether something is what it claims to be', impact investing is poised to thrive, Kieron Boyle tells Genevieve ...

Why one wealth manager created a glossary on impact investing - FTAdviser
FT Adviser
From asset managers to law firms, numerous ESG glossarys have been developed in an attempt to decode sustainable investing.

The Importance of Sustainable and Impact Investing and 3 Companies That Shine!
Finance Monthly
Sustainable investing refers to investing in companies that prioritize environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. Companies aim to ...

Energy Storage

The Landscape of Battery Energy Storage Systems - AZoNano.com
AZoNano.com
Battery energy storage systems consist of interconnected batteries that efficiently store electrical energy for future utilization. The popularity of ...

Tesla blames solar slump on interest rates as energy storage biz booms - TechCrunch
TechCrunch
The firm's energy deployments, however, are another story. Compared to the same period last year, Tesla said it boosted energy storage installations ...

Cloud-based analytics for de-risking BESS deployment and operation
Energy Storage News
Energy storage assets are versatile, profitable low carbon resources ... Dr Mathias Simolka from the Germany-based battery analytics firm TWAICE.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

SWR's net zero targets approved by leading global climate body
Global Railway Review
South Western Railway are the first UK train operator to have its carbon emission targets approved by Science Based Targets initiative.

Geely Sets Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Target: Plans and Progress - Just Auto
Just Auto
In April 2022, Geely Automobile Holdings officially submitted its commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and set a long-term ...

KION commits to Science Based Targets initiative - ForkliftAction
ForkliftAction
KION Group has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), underlining its KION 2027 strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Record heat: Stocks winners and losers - CNN
CNN
As Americans desperately seek to cool off, some stocks are rising with the temperature. Shares of companies whose products help cool homes have ...

Winners and losers from the second fundraising quarter | The Hill
The Hill
Most of the Republican presidential hopefuls and President Biden had not yet officially declared their candidacies by the end of the first quarter in ...

Microgrids:

Enabling Microgrids for the Underserved: $14.7M DOE plan for Remote DERs, Tribes
Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrid solutions have already produced positive results in tribal communities such as Blue Lake Rancheria in California, Igiugig in Alaska and ...

$14.7M allotted for microgrid solutions for underserved and indigenous communities
R&D World
U.S. funding to advance microgrids will help deliver electricity to remote areas.

PG&E expands microgrids into Tehama County - KRCR
KRCR
PG&E says it's still working to replace overhead powerlines with more remote microgrids. This time, they're constructing the remote grids in ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially-responsible investing: Why the super-rich want to use their wealth for good | Tatler
Tatler
How family wealth can be invested for positive outcomes and how UHNWs are turning to Socially-responsible investing.

What is Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)? - Causeartist
Causeartist
Socially responsible investing is a growing trend, and for good reason. It's a way to invest your money in companies that are committed to making a ...

Social impact investing - the best things in life are free - Lexology
Lexology
What if the Government could encourage social impact investment that was free? Successful social ventures require worthy ideas, inspired operators ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

OLI Systems Joins Leading North American Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization Consortium
PR Newswire
PCOR Partnership members focus on making safe, practical, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects a reality.

Co-firing plants with retrofitted carbon capture and storage for power-sector emissions mitigation
Nature
A higher CO2 mitigation of 1.6 Gtyr–1 could be achieved in 2040 by increasing the unit utilization hours, corresponding to a cumulative contribution ...

Multiple States Seen Ramping Up Their Efforts to Facilitate Carbon Capture and ... - JD Supra
JD Supra
Several states have implemented steps to build up legislative frameworks needed for carbon-capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS) projects ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have impeded progress towards the Sustainable ...
Nature
COVID-19 pandemic responses have brought unprecedented challenges to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...

Viatris 2022 Sustainability Report: Responding to Continued COVID-19 Pandemic Needs
Yahoo Finance
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / July 12, 2023 / Viatris Our work to respond to emergent needs from the COVID-19 pandemic offers important examples ...

How to Foster a Thriving and Sustainable Post-Covid Workplace - The Messenger
The Messenger
How to Foster a Thriving and Sustainable Post-Covid Workplace. Published 07/14/23 11:00 AM ET. Mark Mortensen.

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable investing US anti-ESG discourse implications - UBS
UBS
In the first half of 2023, 165 bills and regulations against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments were introduced in 37 states.

Why the silent majority are more focused on returns than ideology in sustainable investing
Schroders
While the debates at either end of the sustainable investing spectrum attract the most attention, the silent majority in the middle is far larger ...

ESG investing: How to ensure your portfolio company makes the grade - ELEVATE
ELEVATE
New and tightening regulations across the U.S. and EU are beginning to require investors to assess the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ...

Geoengineering:

Democratic lawmakers sour on geoengineering climate hinted at by White House
Washington Examiner
Democratic lawmakers appeared to reject geoengineering to solve climate change, an idea floated by the White House.

Lawmakers cool on sci-fi climate fix - POLITICO
Politico
The backstory: The idea of geoengineering has kicked around science and policy circles for years, but language from former Rep. Jerry McNerney (D- ...

Can Extremely Reflective White Paint Save the Planet? - New York Magazine
New York Magazine
Zeroing out carbon emissions will limit future global warming. But only geoengineering can reverse the damage humanity has already done.

Green Bond Funds:

HSBC builds up China green finance, bonds teams in funds push - sources | Reuters
Reuters
HSBC is building up its green finance and bond teams in China to meet surging demand, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, ...

Pension funds to soon be able to invest in sovereign green bonds: What it means for you
CNBC-TV18.com
Sovereign green bonds are issued by any sovereign entity, inter-governmental groups or alliances and corporates with the aim that the proceeds of ...

Ex-HSBC Banker Sees Contentious ESG Label Dethroning Green Bonds - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
Still, SLBs have more potential than the dominant green bond market that ... Borrowers can use money raised with SLBs to fund just about anything ...

Low Carbon Funds:

US unveils US$20bil fund to spark low-carbon projects | Free Malaysia Today (FMT)
FMT
WASHINGTON: The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday launched two competitive grant programmes with US$20 billion in funding that aim to ...

Air Liquide Subsidiary Gets Loan for Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production - MarketWatch
MarketWatch
... of a low-carbon hydrogen production project. The funds relate to the subsidiary's project to build two low-carbon hydrogen production units.

EPA launches $20 billion fund to boost clean energy projects and create thousands of jobs
The American Independent
The entirety of this funding will go to low-income and disadvantaged ... lead the U.S. to achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.