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Community Health Risk Assessment:

New report calls for expanding the risk assessment toolbox - Environmental Factor
Environmental Factor
Human health risk assessment often relies on data from mammalian studies. ... as well as within the scientific community and with international ...

Integrating participant feedback and concerns to improve community and individual level ...
BMC Public Health - BioMed Central
As exposure assessment has shifted towards community-engaged research there has ... Houston Hurricane Harvey Health (Houston-3H) participants wore ...

CDC updates risk assessment on BA.2.86 - Becker's Hospital Review
Becker's Hospital Review
CDC updates risk assessment of distant relative COVID-19 strain BA.2.86. Detected in at least 4 US states, this strain has been circulating less ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

The role of natural gas in the move to cleaner, more reliable power - McKinsey
McKinsey
Natural gas' track record in decarbonizing the power sector over the past ... To illustrate, the electrification of road-based transportation is ...

Investing in Decarbonization Across Dow - InvestorsObserver
InvestorsObserver
The Science-based Target initiative (SBTi) is currently developing a chemical sector-specific decarbonization guideline that we expect will ...

ESG, decarbonization top LatAm mining agenda - BNamericas
BNamericas
Decarbonization "will help the industry to be sustainable, ... Company: Alfa Laval S. A. Sucursal Perú (Alfa Laval Perú); Lima-based Alfa Laval ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

ESG round-up: ESRS, GRI achieve 'high level of interoperability' - Responsible Investor
Responsible Investor
ESG round-up: ESRS, GRI achieve 'high level of interoperability' · The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) and the Global Reporting ...

European ESG Reporting Compatible With International Standards - Bloomberg Law News
Bloomberg Law News
GRI's voluntary ESG reporting rules are used by around 10,000 companies worldwide, ... Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading: Learn ...

Reporting groups confirm intense interoperability between ESRS and GRI Standards | News
Investment & Pensions Europe
'The efforts made by the GRI and EFRAG sustainability reporting teams will prevent the need for double reporting by companies,' says EFRAG.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Clean energy investment is surging, but success is far from guaranteed | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
Electricity from solar panels, dams, and wind turbines. Environmentally-friendly renewable energy. bombermoon via Getty Images. Jason Grumet is CEO of ...

Clean Energy Projects Are Booming Everywhere. Except in Poor Nations. - The New York Times
The New York Times
Only 2 percent of global investment in renewable energy has been in Africa, where nearly a billion people have little or no access to electricity.

To Leap-Frog Fossil Fuels, Africa Needs More Clean Energy Investment - Time
Time
The continent received only 2% of global green energy investments in 2023, despite Africa being home to one-fifth of humanity. That has to change, ...

CDP Sustainability:

Nordic private companies risk losing leading position on environmental reporting, must take ...
CDP
But only 460 private Nordic companies disclosed environmental information to CDP in 2022, out of the 1000+ businesses that received requests ...

CDP: Most G20 countries lack nature-related corporate disclosure policies - Business Green
Business Green
But according to a new study from environmental disclosure platform CDP - which tracked the state of nature disclosure policies across the G20, ...

G20 failing to implement nature-related disclosure policies for corporates - edie
edie
CDP warns of limited nature-related corporate disclosure policies among G20 nations, hindering progress towards biodiversity targets.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

What kind of climate guy is Mike McGuire? - Politico
Politico
California state Senator Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, right, ... record to try to tease out his climate priorities and leadership style.

Editorial: The climate crisis didn't take a year off. California lawmakers shouldn't either
Los Angeles Times
... year California legislators made progress in fighting climate change, ... to show leadership by demonstrating that California will continue to ...

Orange County leadership gathers input in how to take action against climate change
Orange County Register
Orange County is one of the largest counties in California without a climate action plan in place.

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance. How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers ...

Mainstreaming impact investing: for positive social, environmental and financial outcomes
Proactive Investors
Simply put, impact investing aligns closest with philanthropy, targeting and delivering measurable social or environmental outcomes alongside ...

Global Impact Investing in Emerging Markets - EisnerAmper
EisnerAmper
That said, EM offers impact investors the biggest bang for the buck, providing outsized and missionally aligned returns to those who can meet the ...

Energy Storage

Battery energy storage can power us to Net Zero. Here's how - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
To stockpile renewable energy at scale, battery energy storage systems need support and investment Image: Ministry of Environment, Climate Change ...

PV Tech Power 36 out now: US energy storage post-IRA
Energy-Storage.News
PV Tech Power 36 out now: US energy storage post-IRA, skills shortage and coal to clean energy. By Solar Media Staff. September 4, 2023.

Govt Releases Framework For Promoting Energy Storage
Saur Energy
The Ministry of Power has now released a detailed framework for promoting energy storage systems (ESS) in the country.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Aramark Hits New Milestones and Sets New Targets To Help People and the Planet
Yahoo Finance
... science-based targets to reduce the company's carbon footprint. These enterprise-wide targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets ...

Link executive pay to nature targets to spur action, urges Holcim exec - Carbon Pulse
Carbon Pulse
... performance resulted in a “payout of 172%” based on achieving goals ... Nicole Hardiman, corporate engagement manager of science-based targets ...

Shell Scraps Its $100M Carbon Offset Plan - CarbonCredits.com
CarbonCredits.com
These targets would have offset about 10% of Shell's carbon emissions. ... of carbon credits was inspired by research saying that nature-based ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

EU elections ahead; winners, losers, reactions - EURACTIV.com
EURACTIV.com
The biggest loser is the Greens/EFA group, losing 20 seats, followed by EPP (-16) and Renew Europe (-12). S&D and Left groups freeze but undergo seat ...

Here's Which Sea Animals Are Hurt Most by the U.S. Heatwaves - Newsweek
Newsweek
So instead of being a story about winners and losers, this is a story of how ... Such habitat changes demonstrated that marine animals have early ...

How Wildfires Impact Wildlife | College of Natural Resources News
NC State College of Natural Resources - NC State University
“The losers are losers because habitat disappears as the vegetation changes following a fire,” Moorman said. “Conversely, the winners are winners ...

Microgrids:

Leading the Way: Americas Spearhead Growth in the Global Microgrid Market to 2028
Yahoo Finance
The "Microgrid Market by Connectivity (Grid Connected, Off-grid), Offering (Hardware (Controllers, Energy Storage), Software, Services), End User, ...

What are microgrids and how will they benefit rural communities? - 702
702
A micro-grid is a small grid which may be connected to the main grid. When Eskom's referring to micro-grids, they're referring to small towns and ...

Leading the Way: Americas Spearhead Growth in the Global Microgrid Market to 2028
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- The "Microgrid Market by Connectivity (Grid Connected, Off-grid), Offering (Hardware (Controllers, Energy Storage), Software, ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Retail investor surveys, and the problem of social desirability bias - Axios
Axios
Be smart: Fully 54.8% of Public investors say that ESG metrics are important to them when it comes to making investment decisions — despite the fact ...

Mainstreaming impact investing: for positive social, environmental and financial outcomes
Proactive Investors
And now, responsible investing, also known as sustainable or ethical investing, has entered the mainstream investment world; as many as four in every ...

Is climate change pushing more investors to ESG funds? - Marketplace.org
Marketplace.org
What's called ESG investing — considering environmental, social or corporate governance factors in building a portfolio — has been in the ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization, And Storage (CCUS) - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
To align with global climate objectives and reduce carbon emissions, there is a rising necessity for carbon capture, utilization, and storage, which ...

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Market Estimated to - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
Chicago, Aug. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Carbon Capture, Utilization, Transportation and Storage Market is projected to grow USD 3.0 billion ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Market Faces Shipping Hurdle - gCaptain
gCaptain
A lack of available transportation and storage networks will be a significant hurdle in the value chain of the expanding global carbon capture, ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

India's Vedanta lobbied to weaken environmental regulations during pandemic, report says
Reuters
India's Vedanta ran a "covert" lobbying campaign to weaken key environmental regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Organised Crime and ...

COVID-19 Impact Analysis of Energy and Sustainability Management Software Market 2031
The Baltimore Chronicle
On Orbisresearch.com, a brand-new study entitled Global "Energy and Sustainability Management Software" Market Trends and Insights has just been ...

Sustainability takes back seat in auto industry sourcing decisions - survey - Reuters
Reuters
Autos correspondent in Germany, covering the industry's transition to electric vehicles. Previously reported on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Incredible Growth of Community-Based Elderly Care Market 2023 Scale, (Sales and ...
Digital Journal
Incredible Growth of Community-Based Elderly Care Market 2023 Scale, (Sales and Revenue), Growth, Competitive Environment,Demand,Impact of Covid-19 on ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Why 'ReFi' is the Latest Word in the $35tn Sustainable Investing Market - Techopedia
Techopedia
At its core, ReFi establishes a strong connection between sustainability and finance, recognizing that financial decisions impact investors, ...

How Do We Make ESG Sustainable? - Wharton Global Youth Program
Wharton Global Youth Program - University of Pennsylvania
In ESG investing, investors apply non-financial factors like ... by institutions like the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance that tout $35 ...

column Joeri de Wilde - Anti-woke is a threat to sustainable investing
Triodos Investment Management
This is already impeding sustainable investors worldwide, and there is a risk that such sentiments also gain traction elsewhere.

Geoengineering:

Aerosol geoengineering will not stop Antarctic ice sheet from melting, simulations suggest
Physics World
One potential type of geoengineering is solar radiation management (SRM). This would involve injecting aerosols into the stratosphere where it would ...

Letter: Examine geoengineering, but don't write it off - Financial Times
Financial Times
Your next article should lean more in the direction of how to examine geoengineering, without rejecting it out of hand. Phillip Hawley La Jolla, CA, ...

Climate engineering: a quick fix or a risky distraction? | The Manila Times
The Manila Times
And then there are other solutions [like geo-engineering] that are more ... climate change "would be really helped [by] geoengineering because it ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green Bonds Gaining Traction | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
GRNB's allure is heightened on multiple fronts. First, the universe of dedicated green or climate bond funds, including ETFs, in the U.S. is still ...

US Dollar Issuance of Green Bonds Expected to Rise - Markets Media
Markets Media
For example, Goldman Sachs Asset Management publishes carbon emissions saved per €1m invested per year for one of its green bond funds.

Global green bond issuance may accelerate on new EU rules, stable interest rates
S&P Global
"It is feasible that we could see more issuance in H2 as new countries join the market and debt management offices prioritize funding for green ...

Low Carbon Funds:

PGIM launches carbon solutions fund - ESG Clarity
ESG Clarity
PGIM has bolstered its equities offering with the launch of a fund to invest in the transition to a low carbon economy.

Salata Institute funds 14 climate projects - Harvard Gazette
Harvard Gazette - Harvard University
The results may help policymakers tailor subsidy programs to reduce climate impacts in low- and middle-income countries. 5. Quantifying the carbon ...

Climate Financing That Puts People First by Rania Al-Mashat - International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund
We need to find an equitable approach to financing for a ... Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient future requires ...