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Climate Change and Satellites:

Earth observation players seek new capabilities to tackle climate change - SpaceNews
SpaceNews
Mo Lin, vice president of Chinese spacecraft maker DFH Satellite — part of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), said his company has ...

NASA's new greenhouse gas detector will help track down 'super-emitters' from space
Space.com
— Climate change may be changing the color of Earth's oceans. — NASA ... — Satellites reveal catastrophic year for emperor penguins amid climate ...

Gauging the key role animals can play in monitoring climate change | YaleNews
YaleNews - Yale University
The world's scientists rely on an elaborate network of satellites, ocean buoys, weather stations, balloons, and other technologies to help predict ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

UN Report Offers Solutions for Decarbonization of Buildings, Construction Sector
Inter Press Service
... based building materials such as timber, bamboo, or sustainably-sourced bricks; and improve decarbonization methods on conventional materials that ...

Freeport-McMoRan Publishes Updated Climate Report - Business Wire
Business Wire
... industry peers aimed at developing science-based targets for the copper sector based on SBTi's Sectoral Decarbonization Approach. FCX's updated ...

Steel decarbonisation in India - IEEFA
IEEFA
... based to hydrogen-based steelmaking. Based on our analysis, we expect India's steel sector decarbonisation trajectory until 2070 to be the following:.

Global Reporting Initiative:

GCP releases annual sustainability report - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
... report, prepared in reference to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Universal Standards 2021. "While this is GCP's inaugural sustainability report ...

What Is Double Materiality? A More Holistic View of Impact - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
According to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), impact materiality involves information used to qualify "the reporting company's impact on the ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

How climate change disasters cause mental health issues like anxiety and depression ...
South China Morning Post
Climate change and extreme weather disasters can have a severe impact on mental health, such as by causing anxiety and depression – and it's shown ...

HHS Launches Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge
HHS.gov
... health care, public health, and educational organizations, to address environmental and climate change-related hazards and support community ...

New York State Department of Health Recognizes Climate Week, September 17 – 23
New York State Department of Health - NY.gov
... communities than others. New York State's BRACE program works to reduce the risks of climate change on public health. The program is funded by the ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Renewable Energy Funding in 2023: A “Capital Transition” Unleashed | S&P Global
S&P Global
Investment in renewable generating assets is a key part of the transition, with estimated annual investment of $1.4 trillion1 through 2050. Current ...

New Map Shows Where Clean Energy Investments are Being Made in USA
Environment+Energy Leader
... renewable energy, driving more projects and investments. According to the DOE, 450 facilities have made or planned more than $160 billion in ...

Novo Nordisk owner invests $290 million in energy transition fund - Reuters
Reuters
... investment firm set up last year by two Danish businessmen. The firm says it aims to generate returns through renewable energy investments. Novo ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP announces intention to align with TNFD framework and drive implementation across ...
CDP
Nearly 20,000 companies reported environmental data through CDP's global environmental disclosure platform in 2022, expected to increase in 2023.

1 in 5 Companies Have Disparities between CDP GHG Emissions Reporting and their ...
Business Wire
New research from Clarity AI, the leading sustainability technology platform, reveals discrepancies in one in five companies between their ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

“This is a Big Big Deal”: Climate Leaders Praise California's Lawsuit to Hold Big Oil Accountable
California Governor - CA.gov
By bringing this lawsuit, Governor Newsom and Attorney General Bonta are cementing California as a leader in the fight against climate change and ...

Governor Newsom Announces Intention To Sign Senator Wiener's Landmark Climate Bill
Senator Scott Wiener
“In announcing he will sign SB 253, Governor Newsom is reaffirming California's global climate leadership. ... climate change.” Disclosures have a long ...

California Legislature Closes Session With New Measures to Advance Climate Leadership ...
Environmental Defense Fund
... Climate Leadership and Achieve ... climate change. This bill, together with SB 253, puts California at the forefront of global climate leadership.

Impact Investing:

A More Impactful Strategy for Sustainable Investing - Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
In this approach, investors shift capital from non-sustainable to sustainable companies. The second strategy is shareholder engagement, frequently ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Getting Real - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
An under-the-radar survey of institutional investors from BNP Paribas this week showed a massive attitude-shift in favor of impact investing. The ...

Impact Investing Unpacked: Affirmative Action - Ellevest
Ellevest
CIO Dr. Sylvia Kwan reflects on affirmative action and the future of creating equal opportunities for students through impact investing.

Energy Storage

Solid-state and sodium-ion batteries spark hope amidst the lithium supply crunch
Energy-Storage.News
With the surge in demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems (ESS), concerns are growing about the future availability and cost of ...

Invinity's newest flow battery chosen as 'non-lithium alternative' by strategic partner ...
Energy-Storage.News
Enel North America has brought five battery energy storage system (BESS) projects online in ERCOT, Texas, totalling 369MW/555MWh of energy storage.

Enel brings 555MWh of BESS online in ERCOT - Energy-Storage.News
Energy-Storage.News
Enel North America has brought five battery storage projects online in ERCOT, Texas, totalling 369MW/555MWh of energy storage.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Decarbonizing Corporate America - DWS
DWS
Decarbonizing Corporate America will be discussed on the New York Climate Week. Adopting science-based emission reduction targets might help.

Marriott on Track For Emissions Goal – but Trending in Wrong Direction - Skift
Skift
Instead, it has set its own carbon reduction goals for 2025. Science-based targets set in accordance with the Science-Based Target Initiative ...

Reset Carbon, DBS link up on decarbonisation | Materials & Production News
Ecotextile News
... science-based carbon reduction targets. Action plans are developed for ... carbon performance seriously. "Bottom line is this about creating value ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Amazon and more: Barclays reveals internet winners and losers for an AI world - CNBC
CNBC
Analysts at Barclays have named consumer internet stocks set to do well — and badly — in an age of generative AI.

Microgrids:

Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected - IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum
A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. Each microgrid includes generation, loads, transformers, distribution ...

Utility Interest in Microgrids is Up: What's Driving the Trend?
Microgrid Knowledge
Utilities are recognizing the financial, safety, renewables integration and reliability benefits of microgrids. This is especially true as the ...

How microgrids are powering greener, more resilient real estate - JLL
JLL
Traditionally used to provide resilient power where local grids are unreliable, often in remote areas, microgrids are rapidly building a presence ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Health assessment an important data set for community | The Hole Scroll
JHNewsAndGuide.com
... Community Health Needs Assessment Survey ... “We have expanded on gender-related questions and added a few more questions in demographics and risk ...

US health agencies update Security Risk Assessment Tool
International Association of Privacy Professionals
... Risk Assessment Tool for Health Insurance ... The IAPP is the largest and most comprehensive global information privacy community and resource.

Implementation of risk stratification within bowel cancer screening: a community jury study ...
BMC Public Health - BioMed Central
... risk assessment was also preferable to age-based screening. Participants acknowledged benefits to individuals and health services, as well as ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How to invest in ESG: Ethical investing explained - TechTarget
TechTarget
Investors choose companies they morally agree with. Ethical investing is sometimes used interchangeably with socially responsible investing or impact ...

7 Best Socially Responsible Funds | Investing | U.S. News
US News Money
Socially responsible funds play an increasingly important role for investors, as it's more and more difficult to put your money into the stock ...

Making Sense of ESG and Sustainable Investing - ETF.com
ETF.com
At Earth Equity Advisors, he focuses on creating and managing the firm's sustainable, responsible, and impact investment portfolios, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Researchers use carbon capture and utilization technology to recycle industrial carbon dioxide
Phys.org
Scientists are now looking into carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology as a promising approach to expanding CO2 storage and conversion at a ...

Carbon capture project back at Texas coal plant after 3-year shutdown | Reuters
Reuters
A $1 billion carbon capture utilization and storage project that has been shuttered since May 2020 amid plunging oil prices restarted operations ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Technologies Market will reach USD Million 2030 ...
Benzinga
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technologies Market (CAGR 2023 - 2030) |No. of pages: [116] | market size, share, and industry analysis, ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Long COVID
Streetsblog USA
Covid-19 transformed the approach to sustainable transportation. But how did it transform the lives of sustainable transportation advocates who ...

SDG Pavilion - SDGs in the Second Half - UN Web TV
UN Web TV - the United Nations
DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS - DGC. Subject Topical. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS · SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT · CORONAVIRUS DISEASE - COVID 19.

World Leaders Adopt Sweeping Political Declaration Reaffirming Commitment to Achieve ...
UN Press - the United Nations
Kicking off the second half of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, world leaders at the SDG Summit 2023 today adopted a sweeping ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

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Sustainability Investing: 

A More Impactful Strategy for Sustainable Investing - Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
In this approach, investors shift capital from non-sustainable to sustainable companies. The second strategy is shareholder engagement, frequently ...

Sustainable investing that goes beyond divestment or engagement does most
InvestmentNews
Sustainable investing has emphasized divestment and engagement, and new research shows that elements will accomplish the most impact.

Geoengineering:

Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate - The Guardian
The Guardian
Geoengineering is a term that can include everything from reforesting large areas of land to absorb more carbon, to painting rooftops white to be more ...

Risky geoengineering should be banned, climate group says - Reuters
Reuters
Last year, 60 scientists launched a global initiative aimed at banning all kinds of solar geoengineering. Advertisement · Scroll to continue. "The ...

Some Politicians Want to Research Geoengineering as a Climate Solution. Scientists Are Worried
Time
Co-founder Andrew Song of solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets holds a weather balloon filled with helium, air and sulfur dioxide at a park in ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green bond funds: Asset managers explain why the time is now - ESG Clarity
ESG Clarity
Clearer rules for ESG funds and hopes interest rate hiking is coming to an end, are behind the surge in global green bond issuance in H12023.

South Korea's LG Energy Solution raises $1 bln in green bonds - Reuters
Reuters
... green bond issuance ... LG Energy Solution said it planned to use the funds to accelerate its investment in global production network.

Green bonds surge despite concerns over sustainability objectives - Investing.com
Investing.com
... funds attracted $18 billion globally, nearing the total $22 billion raised in 2023. Europe accounted for nearly half of these sustainable bond ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Renewable Energy Funding in 2023: A “Capital Transition” Unleashed | S&P Global
S&P Global
These inflows are necessary to meet the tripling of funding needs for low-carbon projects across sectors by 2030 to meet 2050 net-zero goals.

Energy Transition Accelerator and World Bank Announce Strategic Collaboration To Scale ...
The Rockefeller Foundation
... carbon funds and supporting developing countries to generate and monetize emission reduction credits. ... low-carbon economy. By providing funding and ...

Clean energy investing loses lustre despite climate crisis - Reuters
Reuters
... funds from the world's largest clean energy investment vehicles so far this year ... Low Carbon Energy ETF (SMOG) - the largest withdrawal for that ...

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