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Climate Change and Satellites:
Climate change is disrupting ocean currents. We're using satellites and ships to understand how
The Conversation
A sea voyage and a satellite mission will combine to produce a more detailed picture of the ocean's currents than ever before.
New space-based thermometer takes Earth's temperature in unprecedented detail (photos)
Space.com
... changes within a day. Related stories: —The top 10 views of Earth from space. —10 devastating signs of climate change satellites can see from space. — ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Environment+Energy Leader
The abatement of GHG from heavy industry is difficult, due to its reliance on carbon-based feedstocks within the manufacturing process. In many of ...
World Energy, Microsoft sign agreement for SAF certificates - Biomass Magazine
Biomass Magazine
The length and size of this commitment will help accelerate the emergence of the aviation decarbonization industry by helping it reach profitable ...
The 2023 Utility Decarbonization Index - Visual Capitalist
Visual Capitalist
Electric utilities and the power sector have a pivotal role to play in decarbonizing the U.S. economy, especially with the electrification of sectors ...
Data Driven Decision Making:
From Data To Decisions: Using Insights For Better Results - Forbes
Forbes
... data-driven and reliable decisions. Let's explore how you ... The lack of a systematic approach to data management negatively impacts decision making.
State and Local Decisions Make Data-Driven Decisions with Hybrid Cloud | StateTech Magazine
StateTech Magazine
They can keep control of their data and also process it for sharing within interagency deliberations. Cloud apps, now often strengthened by artificial ...
Five Key Trends Shaping The Future Of Predictive Analytics - Forbes
Forbes
In the current global business landscape, data-driven decision-making has become a pivotal factor in maintaining a competitive edge. In this sense ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
IMD Business School
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), aim to ensure a high degree of coherence in global sustainability reporting. However, it should be noted that ...
The Evolution of ESG Disclosure Standards: Norming? - Lexology
Lexology
... reporting. These include those issued by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) ...
Canadian Solar Wins Environmental Finance Sustainable Company Award for ... - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
... GRI (Global Reporting Initiative). In the latest report, the Company has expanded its participation in international ESG initiatives, joining the ...
Community Health Risks From Climate Change:
Climate Vulnerability Index ranks the most at-risk communities—many are in the Deep South
American City and County
... effects of climate change—especially those already experiencing environmental harm, poor infrastructure and health disparities. The majority of ...
Climate change is a fiscal disaster for local governments − our study shows how it's testing ...
The Conversation
Yet, planners and managers remain largely unaware of how much climate change will affect local fiscal health. Some communities with the most at risk ...
New interactive map shows which Texas counties are most vulnerable to climate change
Houston Chronicle
... environment spending to disadvantaged communities. To make those allocations ... The research Lewis led concluded that climate change risks are ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
The World Economic Forum
The forum attracts policymakers and influential energy sector decision-makers to mobilize investment projects in renewable energy across Africa.
How Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Investments are Building Climate Resilient Communities
Department of Energy
Record-breaking heat, historic flooding, a plethora of hurricanes – Summer 2023 has been nothing short of extreme. In 2023 alone, 23 weather or ...
Japan's Marubeni and partners to invest $12.3 billion in UK clean energy | Reuters
Reuters
Japan's Marubeni Corp has pledged to invest 10 billion pounds ($12.3 billion) with partners over the next decade in clean energy in the United ...
CDP Sustainability:
JD Supra
... environmental issues as a whole.” Although an increasing number of financial institutions are identifying greater climate and nature-related ...
Q&A: The new landscape of corporate climate disclosure - Phys.org
Phys.org
... CDP (formerly called the Carbon Disclosure Project), a ... However, my research shows that since the CDP grades companies based on sustainability ...
Sims Limited Releases 2023 Sustainability Reporting Suite | Business Wire
Business Wire
... Sustainability Index, CDP Climate leadership, the 2023 Financial Times Climate Leaders APAC list, Newsweek's Most Responsible Companies in America ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
The Guardian
Kretzmann said the bill shows California can be a “climate leader”. Last month, Newsom also brought a much-lauded lawsuit against oil companies ...
We're About To Find Out Which Companies Are Truly Leading on Climate Change - Time
Time
And in September, the legislature of California, often an environmental leader ... climate change. The corporate world has been split on this emerging ...
State and Clean Energy Leaders Join CEC for Annual EPIC Symposium Oct. 3-4
California Energy Commission - CA.gov
... Environmental; California State Senator Henry Stern, Chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies; President Alice Reynolds ...
Impact Investing:
Forbes
Impact investing has evolved significantly in the last year, with more companies entering the market and many investors and family offices ...
Investor Download: Everything you need to know about impact investing - Schroders
Schroders
I wanted to know what is an impact investment? [00:01:04.880] - Susannah Nicklin. So impact investments are investments made with the intention to ...
Reading List: 10 SSIR Stories on Impact Investing's Next Phase
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Ten SSIR articles that examine the growing field of impact investing from a range of perspectives, including investors, philanthropists, ...
Energy Storage
SciTechDaily
Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy ...
From Minor Player to Major League: Moving Beyond 4-Hour Energy Storage | News | NREL
NREL
Energy storage with more than four hours of duration could play an important role in integrating lots of renewable energy onto the U.S. power grid ...
US Energy Storage Sets Record for Built Capacity in Q2
Engineering News-Record
The U.S. energy-storage market set a record for new capacity built in any one quarter with a total of 1,680 MW installed in the second quarter of ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Phys.org
Climate intervention technologies may create winners and losers in world food supply ... "Not one of the 11 climate change or climate intervention ...
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers | Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers. Swanne P. Gordon ORCID ... environmental variation and natural selection in response to climate change and ...
Goldman names global winners and losers from sliding battery prices; gives one 120% upside
CNBC
A number of winners and losers have emerged from recent developments in the battery industry, according to analysts from Goldman Sachs.
Microgrids:
MPR News
Exterior of MCAS Miramar microgrid rooms in San Diego, Calif. Alan Nakkash for NPR. Col. Thomas Bedell had been commanding Marine Corps Air ...
Internet of Things: who are the leaders in autonomous microgrids for the power industry?
Power Technology
These microgrids primarily operate on renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind, and hydro to power its energy demands, with some relying on ...
Letters: Local control | Value of microgrids | Failed Prop. 47 | Ethical integrity - The Mercury News
The Mercury News
... microgrids. For years PG&E has opposed microgrids. As a monopoly PG&E fights against local power production and has been protected by rules at the ...
Community Health Risk Assessment:
2023 Huron County Community Health Assessment released - Morning Journal
Morning Journal
... health and risk factors impacting Huron County residents, the release said. This county-wide health assessment was compiled to create a current ...
Facilitators and barriers to engaging communities in health service research on dengue ...
BMC Public Health - BioMed Central
... risk of bias in domain-based assessment; none of these studies were ... A study on the assessment of community engagement in Partnered Mental Health ...
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Among People With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Urban ...
Cureus
Healthcare providers, policymakers and community stakeholders need to work together to reduce cardiovascular risk among diabetes patients and thus ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Quartz
Investors searching for alpha—to beat the market—won't find it in socially responsible investing. A new study examining a decade of data finds ...
ESG is a Four Act Play and Intermission is About to End | StoneTurn - JDSupra
JD Supra
As socially responsible investing has gone mainstream, regulators in Europe and the United States have stepped in and are now formalizing rules ...
The paradigm shift within the responsible investment landscape: What's next? - ESG Clarity
ESG Clarity
... Socially Responsible Investments (SRI). Only as a next step the idea behind ESG investing started to flourish, where environmental, social, and ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
JD Supra
As demand for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology increases, energy producers across Canada can capitalize on emerging ...
Storing carbon in an economic, reliable, and sustainable way | SLB
SLB
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS). Innovating in Oil ... Carbon Capture and Storage · Low Carbon Energy · Consulting and Advisory ...
Aker Carbon Capture awarded feasibility study for mineral production facilities in the United States
PR Newswire
We are scaling up to meet the growing demand for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in North America, fueled by strong support from the ...
The SustainAbility Institute by ERM
Mapping the state of play of sustainable finance products and services in Europe · COVID-19: A Note from SustainAbility · Webinar: Art of Alignment ...
Go Green at the ISSA Show | Cleaning & Maintenance Management
Cleaning & Maintenance Management
... sustainability, environmental. Once again, people will be descending on ... Coronavirus · Get Your CMM Magazine Subscription · Sign up for the CMM ...
New dashboard allows Michiganders to track state's COVID relief spending - StateScoop
StateScoop
... environmental sustainability, workforce and economic development, and public safety. “The Fiscal Recovery Funds have afforded Michigan a ...
Sustainability Investing:
Duke Research Blog - Duke University
... investments. Following on this success, blue bonds are emerging as the newest trend in sustainability investing and they're poised to make waves.
Investing for Good: A Beginner's Guide for Small Individual Investors
Stanford Social Innovation Review
We came across investments that might help an investor feel better, but few were likely to deliver positive social or environmental impact. As a ...
Sustainable funds to invest in | MoneyWeek
Moneyweek
Sustainable investments, also known as ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing, has often been labelled as a 'fad' and recent ...
Geoengineering:
Down To Earth
The intervention proposed to counter climate change is a geoengineering technology called stratospheric aerosol intervention (SAI). It is often ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman foresees 'breathtaking' scientific discoveries, muses on geoengineering
VentureBeat
Altman started with a tweet around 11:20 am ET sharing his perspective on solar geoengineering, or introducing mirrors in space or particles.
In Real Life: Blocking The Sun - WCPO
WCPO
... geoengineering. "Solar geoengineering is the idea that humans might deliberately alter the Earth's radiative balance. The balance between sunlight ...
Green Bond Funds:
EU gives nod to "world's first" green bond standards - Reuters
Reuters
At least 85% of funds raised would have to be allocated to activities in line with the EU's "taxonomy" of sustainable activities. Firms would also ...
Green bonds power on as sustainability-linked deals stall - AFR
AFR
Green bonds are different in that they are regarded as a use-of-proceed financing, in which funds raised are assigned exclusively for a purpose, such ...
EU's 'landmark' green bond standard given go-ahead by Parliament
Environmental Finance
Final political approval has been given to the EU's 'landmark' Green Bond Standard, clearing its path for market adoption ... funds raised by the bond ...
Low Carbon Funds:
India, Japan launch $600 million fund for low carbon emission projects | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
India's quasi-sovereign wealth fund, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation ...
BlackRock Taps Private Debt Market With New Transition Fund - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
“The strategy focuses on the transition to a low-carbon economy as one of several mega forces driving investment opportunities,” James Keenan ...
India, Japan launch $600 million fund for low carbon emission projects - The Times of India
The Times of India
International Business News: India's quasi-sovereign wealth fund, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), and the Japan Bank for ...
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