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Sector Based Decarbonization:

Green Hydrogen: A Catalyst For Decarbonization In An All-Electric World - Forbes
Forbes
Step #3 - Reserve hydrogen-based fuels for difficult-to-decarbonize sectors: Some industries, like aviation and long-haul shipping, will continue ...

What are e-fuels and can they help decarbonization? - Spectra - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Spectra - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
E-fuels are one of the pathways to decarbonize the transport sector — but ... US-based firm Infinium produces a range of proprietary ultra-low ...

IFC Helps Promote the Decarbonization of the Cement Sector with Investment in Votorantim ...
IFC Press Releases
Votorantim Cimentos has recently announced a new 2030 commitment aligned with the Science Based Target initiative. In addition to the investment, IFC ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

CSRD and circular economy: Navigating sustainability reporting with the Circular Transition ...
World Business Council For Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Broadly aligned with international voluntary reporting frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), CSRD mandates comprehensive and ...

Largo Publishes 2022 Sustainability Report - Business Wire
Business Wire
Largo's 2022 Sustainability Report has been compiled in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (“GRI”) Standards, ...

H.B. Fuller Releases 2022 Sustainability Report | Business Wire
Business Wire
H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL), a leading global adhesives provider, released today its Sustainability Report outlining the company's 2022 ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Investing in Renewable Energy Report - Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Investment in renewables has largely been concentrated among major economies with large populations and relatively high emissions—and their investment ...

Japan's Itochu, partners to invest $2 bln in US, Canada renewables via a fund | Reuters
Reuters
Japan's trading house Itochu Corp plans to invest around $2 billion in ... mainly in Japan, opportunities to invest in renewable energy in the ...

Climate goals can't be met without investing more in renewable energy in poor nations
South China Morning Post
Despite a global fall in investments, much more money must be poured into renewable energy in poor nations if the world is to have any hope of ...

CDP Sustainability:

Stepping up your environmental action: how our Accredited Solutions Providers can support you
CDP
This year, investors and purchasing companies requested a record number of organizations submit their environmental information through CDP, ...

Global Environmental Disclosure Platform CDP Appoints Sherry Madera as CEO
Carbon Herald
The non-profit organization CDP, a leader in providing climate research insights and a platform for global environmental disclosure, has appointed ...

How to Tell If a Company Has a High ESG Score - Investopedia
Investopedia
CDP Scores: CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) focuses on environmental impact, or the "E" in ESG. CDP scores focus on ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Is a Model for Climate Change Action When International Efforts Fall Short
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Over its twenty-three-year history, the survey has illustrated Californians' shifting attitudes on their role as a world climate leader, state-level ...

The University of California adopts new, stronger climate action goals
University of California
“Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges of our time, and this new policy extends the University of California's leadership in ...

Woodward-Lopez Retires After 23 Years of Leadership in Advancing Nutrition
Morning Ag Clips
Two bills, signed in 2005, set nutrition standards in California for ... That legislation – which inspired similar policy changes across the ...

Impact Investing:

Exploring the Impact Investing Market 2021-2031 - Featuring Morgan Stanley, LeapFrog ...
Yahoo Finance
Impact investing, a strategy that aims for positive social or environmental impact alongside financial gains, is gaining momentum in the global ...

5 key questions climate tech founders should ask impact investors | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
Article 9 funds, like us, are exclusively focused on sustainable investments, with impact as an investment objective. They're also called "dark green ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Solutions - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Social benefit premium. When the going gets tough, the tough get… back to business as usual? Larry Fink, after years of ...

Energy Storage

Investor interest in energy storage back on track after slow first quarter | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
An illustration of utility-scale battery storage. Adeline Kon/Utility Dive. Dive Brief: Total corporate financing for energy storage companies ...

Energy Storage Technologies and The Challenges to Face - AZoNano.com
AZoNano.com
As industry transitions to a renewable model, the need to develop more efficient energy storage technology has become a key research focus in ...

Five things powering China's energy storage boom - Nikkei Asia
Nikkei Asia
New energy storage systems in China are largely based on lithium-ion battery technology. A series of factors can explain the booming industry. This ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

BUILDINGLINK ANNOUNCES SCIENCE-BASED TARGET COMMITMENT FOR CARBON ...
PR Newswire
BuildingLink's science-based target will serve as a guiding framework for the company's carbon reduction initiatives. Tweet this. The Science Based ...

Science-Based Targets Initiative Releases Consultation Papers for Financial Institutions ... - Lexology
Lexology
In June 2023, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) published a draft of its Financial Institutions Net Zero (FINZ) Standard to enable…

Tokmanni Group's path to emission reduction: analyzing targets and achievements
Retail Insight Network
In conclusion, Tokmanni Group has set science-based targets to achieve carbon neutrality and is working towards a circular economy to reduce waste ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal - The Economist
The Economist
THE GAME is on. Or so ruled an American appeals court on July 14th when it threw out another effort by the Federal Trade Commission to block ...

Investing in a Changing Climate: Strategies for Navigating Climate Change - TechStory
TechStory
Extreme weather events can lead to economic losses and disruptions while policies aimed at mitigating climate change can create winners and losers ...

Microgrids:

Power At Last: Microgrids Bring Sustainable Energy To Remote Villages - Forbes
Forbes
1.2 billion people worldwide can't access electricity. With microgrids, even remote places can be electrified, with renewable energies that are ...

St. Thomas research into microgrids may help reimagine future power distribution
CBS News
This particular microgrid feeds off of several connected sources like solar panels on the roof or a diesel generator. 4p-pkg-ust-micro-grids-wcco3rdv- ...

Microgrids Become First Success Story of Renewable Energy - EE Times Asia
EE Times Asia
Microgrids, the microinverter-based solar and battery systems, are now a commercial reality. In fact, they are emerging as a manifestation of energy- ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How to Tell If a Company Has a High ESG Score - Investopedia
Investopedia
ESG scores can be found online via brokerage platforms, financial portals, and rating agency websites. Investors use ESG scores to make informed ...

Investing with Purpose: Exploring the Impact Investing Market 2021-2031 - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
Additionally, demand from investors seeking both financial returns and social or environmental impact, along with supportive government policies, ...

ESG and the complex calculus of public and private goods - The Local Reporter
The Local Reporter
ESG investments seek to align a person or institution's investments ... the prevailing term of art was “socially responsible investing” or SRI and ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Retrofitted carbon capture and storage for negative emissions in China's co-firing plants
Nature
We established a comprehensive assessment framework to explore the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction potential from coal–biomass co-firing ...

Are We Really Going to Put Polluters in Charge of Carbon Capture? | The New Republic
The New Republic
Carbon capture, storage, and utilization is a broad category that can describe very different sorts of infrastructure used for very different ...

Pertamina signs deals to explore CCS, CCUS partnerships - Reuters
Reuters
... and technology development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) as well as carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in Indonesia.

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

'Sustainability' Festival Cancelled After Being Unmasked as a Conspiracy Theorist Event
VICE
An Irish festival was cancelled at the last minute after a whistleblower uncovered the organisers' links to far-right and anti-COVID ideology.

Two thirds of travellers say sustainability is key in leisure tourism decision - The National
The National
Egypt ranked 4th for sustainability performance compared to competing ... as tourism is bouncing back strongly from the coronavirus pandemic, ...

New Sustainability Report Reveals 7 Trends Shaping the Global Business Landscape in 2023
WTVA
AccountAbility 7 Sustainability Trends 2023 Report brings into focus the key sustainability issues and priorities, and the business opportunities ...  

Data Driven Decision Making Covid Community Climate Behavior:

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Sustainability Investing: 

10 Sustainable Investing Stocks Billionaires Are Loading Up On - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Sustainable investing expands this basic principle to also consider the impact of a firm's operations on the environment, society, and stakeholders.

Sustainability Investing Outlook - EisnerAmper
EisnerAmper
I'm your host, Elana Margulies-Snyderman. With me today is Whitney Sweeney, investment director, sustainability, Schroeder's global sustainable ...

2023 Sustainable Investment Survey - The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
2023 Sustainable Investment Survey. Posted by Hilary Wiek and Anikka Villegas, PitchBook, on. Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Comment ...

Geoengineering:

Solar geoengineering — climate-solution or Pandora's box? – DW – 07/24/2023
DW
That's what the proponents of solar geoengineering say. But its many opponents say it's a dangerous gamble on a planetary level and that the potential ...

New Federal Report on Research Into Sun-Dimming Technologies Delivers More Questions ...
Inside Climate News
Fundamentally, geoengineering would conflict with the primary mission of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is to ...

Geoengineering company brings new technology (and rain) to Austin this summer - The Daily Texan
The Daily Texan
Rainwater Tech, a geoengineering company, plans on transforming the humidity around the Colorado River — specifically the Lake Travis reservoir ...

Green Bond Funds:

Looking at sustainable finance and green bonds - ESI-Africa.com
ESI-Africa.com
Given the amounts, commonly, individual investors invest in exchange-traded funds and mutual funds to access green bonds.

Fund managers prefer using ESG bonds to reach net-zero: survey, ESG - THE BUSINESS TIMES
The Business Times
Out of 225 asset managers surveyed by NatWest, about 26 per cent say that use-of-proceeds bonds, which include green, social and sustainability ...

What are ESG bonds and why should you invest in them? - Mint Genie
Mint Genie
Why should you buy index mutual funds with large AUMs? An explainer ... Should you explore green bonds even if you are not an environmentalist.

Low Carbon Funds:

MassMutual pumps additional capital into partnership with Low Carbon - IPE Real Assets
IPE Real Assets
The partnership with MassMutual will also support Low Carbon's ambition to raise third-party investment funds with the aim of directing capital ...

MassMutual Raises Support for Renewable-Energy Developer Low Carbon
Wall Street Journal
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance has committed as much as £400 million, equivalent to about $514.2 million, in financing to renewable-energy ...

Green banks could pay for housing and climate change at the same time - Fast Company
Fast Company
Green banks can bring clean and affordable energy to low-income ... entities that use public funds to encourage private investment in low-carbon, ...