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Climate Change and Satellites:

International Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up - NASA Climate Change
NASA Climate Change
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the latest satellite contributing to a 30-year sea level record that researchers are using to compare this year's ...

Satellites show Antarctic ice shelves have lost 74 trillion tons of water in 25 years | Space
Space.com
Many of the ice shelves have lost more than 30% of their initial mass over just 25 years — further evidence that climate change is altering ...

Canada to launch new satellites to monitor climate change, gather military data - Space.com
Space.com
Timely and trustworthy Earth observation needs are accelerating along with the effects of climate change and global warming, and the more frequent ...   

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Bill Gates-Backed Startup's Thermal Energy Storage Revolutionizes Industrial Decarbonization
CarbonCredits.com
CRYPTO BASED · NATURE BASED · TECHNOLOGY BASED · ENERGY/TRANSPORTATION ... decarbonizing the sector – thermal energy storage via solid carbon blocks.

'No question' that the decarbonization of shipping will contribute to inflation, says industry CEO
CNBC
EU rules that effectively tax shipping lines for emissions would cause consumer costs to rise, said Bertrand Chen from the Global Shipping ...

DOE announces $78M to decarbonize chemicals manufacturing and advance cross-sector ...
Green Car Congress
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) announced renewed funding for the Rapid Advancement in ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Data-Driven Decisions: The Power of IT Consulting - Times Square Chronicles
Times Square Chronicles
If you've been keeping your ear to the ground, you've probably noticed the seismic shift towards data-driven decision-making. It's not just a trend; ...

Using Data Analytics to Improve Business Decision-Making - Techiexpert.com
Techiexpert.com
6. The Role of Professionals in Data-Driven Decision Making. While the focus isn't solely on CGMA professionals, their expertise in financial analysis ...

Data Science Methods Drive Business Success - KDnuggets
KDnuggets
These insights enable data-driven decision-making, helping companies tailor their strategies and tactics to align with market demands and customer ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Sustainability Reporting in the Era of ESG: Best Practices and Emerging Trends | Earth.Org
Earth.Org
As a result, subsequent milestones were established, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

European Parliament rejects bid to weaken ESG reporting rules - Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments
Eelco van der Enden, CEO of Global Reporting Initiative, an independent sustainability reporting organization, said in a statement that the ...

United States: EFRAG And GRI Announce Interoperability In Impact Reporting Schemes
Mondaq
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released a joint statement announcing the ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Climate change is our greatest health crisis. The same investments can often address both threats
Fortune
... community-based early warning system to advise residents of impending floods. Our only choice is bold action for our health and well-being. And it ...

Exploring medical students' perceptions and understanding of the health impacts of climate change
BMC Medical Education - BioMed Central
... health and society, mainly through environmental degradation, increased risks, and climate-related disasters, which ultimately lead to adverse health ...

As climate change threatens the planet CT Hispanic leaders address community impacts
Connecticut Public
Historical disparities in the impacts of climate change have led to significant health issues within Hispanic communities, according to Alexander ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Governor Hochul Announces Nation's Largest-Ever State Investment in Renewable Energy ...
Governor Kathy Hochul - NY.gov
The conditional awards include three offshore wind and 22 land-based renewable energy projects totaling 6.4 gigawatts of clean energy, enough to power ...

Biden administration announces 'largest ever' investment in US electric grid - The Verge
The Verge
The DOE announced nearly $3.5 billion in funding for dozens of projects across the US aimed at deploying more renewable energy and strengthening ...

The US has new clean energy and efficiency programs for low-income housing - The Verge
The Verge
The new Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit program announced Thursday is expected to lead to 1.8 gigawatts worth of clean energy investments ...

CDP Sustainability:

Surge in sustainability reporting as CDP integrates ISSB climate standards - FinTech Global
FinTech Global
CDP will harmonise its sustainability reporting practices with the ISSB's novel climate disclosure norms starting from 2024.

CDP's 2022 Data Has Been Integrated Into CSRHub's Ratings - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / October 24, 2023 / CSRHub / CDP, a global non-profit that runs the world's environmental disclosure system for ...

Record number of firms sharing their impact through global climate platform
The Independent
The latest figures from the CDP come ahead of the Sustainability Disclosure Standards being launched in the UK next year, setting set a baseline ...   

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Governor Visits China, Keen to Partner on Climate Change - The Diplomat
The Diplomat
Attempting to reinforce his state's role as a global leader on climate change, Newsom began his visit with a climate-themed discussion at the ...

California poised for big climate moves after Newsom backs new laws - Orange County Register
Orange County Register
That “cements California's climate leadership,” said Laura Deehan ... climate change. The governor signed A.B. 126 to reauthorize more than $170 ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is traveling to China to talk climate change
The Kansas City Star
He'll sign agreements with leaders of Chinese provinces to set mutual commitments on a host of climate goals. California has already signed dozens ...

Impact Investing:

Scaling The Impact Ecosystem With Integrity - Forbes
Forbes
Impact investing is built on a foundation of additionality. For all forms of impact investing, additionality derives primarily from the social and ...

The Week in Impact Investing: The Alpha in Impact - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Later, when we saw impact investing being pulled by the inexorable gravity of “risk-adjusted, market rates of return,” we reminded investors that deep ...

Mission Investors Exchange - Investopedia

Investopedia
Impact investing aims to generate specific beneficial social or environmental effects in addition to financial gains. ... A nonprofit has tax-exempt ...

Energy Storage

California Sees Unprecedented Growth in Energy Storage, A Key Component in the State's ...
California Energy Commission - CA.gov
SACRAMENTO — New data show California is surging forward with the buildout of battery energy storage systems with more than 6600 megawatts (MW) ...

Tesla's solar business is tanking but energy storage is making up for it | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
It includes both Tesla's Powerwall home batteries and utility-scale Megapacks. In Q3, Tesla reported a 90% spike in energy storage deployments, up to ...

Energy storage is key to freeing our electrical grid from fossil fuels | HeraldNet.com
Everett Herald
Utility-scale battery storage projects allow utilities to integrate more renewable energy onto the grid and ensure that power remains reliable.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Eutelsat Group Announces Ambitious Targets to Reduce Its Carbon Impact and Fight ...
Business Wire
The Group will shortly submit these targets to the Science Based Targets ... Performance Statement: https://www.eutelsat.com/files/PDF/csr/Eutelsat ...

Allied Announces 2023 GRESB Scores
GlobeNewswire
Advancing Allied's Net Zero Carbon Plan by establishing GHG emissions targets in alignment with the Science Based Target initiative's Corporate Net- ...

Sierra reinforces ESG practices with international benchmark recognition - Business Review
Business Review
... Science Based Targets initiative of its 2030 goals to reduce emissions in several business areas. In addition to this acknowledgment, the company ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Climate Intervention Technologies May Create Winners and Losers in World Food Supply
Morning Ag Clips
Climate Intervention Technologies May Create Winners and Losers in World Food Supply ... “Not one of the 11 climate change or climate intervention ...

Winners and losers as demographics, debt, sustainability, geopolitics and crude-to ... - ICIS
ICIS
... climate change became a major threat to growth ... Winners and losers as demographics, debt, sustainability, geopolitics ...

Globalisation woes create new winners and losers | Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
... winners and losers. Globalisation woes create new winners and losers. in World Economy News 18/10/2023. The end of the era of untrammelled ...

Microgrids:

Microgrids, battery storage projects get funding through US' 'biggest-ever investment in the grid'
Energy-Storage.News
US$10.5 billion programme to strengthen grid includes funding for microgrids and other projects that integrate battery storage technologies.

What is a microgrid and how can it save fuel costs? - Cosmos Magazine
Cosmos Magazine
What is a microgrid, and where is the best place for one? In this Cosmos Country podcast, Glenn Morrison and Marie Low talk with Associate ...

Biden administration announces 'largest ever' investment in US electric grid - The Verge
The Verge
... microgrid in case a storm or other disaster knocks out transmission lines or a power plant. Microgrids are one solution some New Orleans residents ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Moldova: Area-based risk assessment - Anenii Noi Raion (September 2023) - ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb
Natural, industrial, and environmental hazards pose a significant risk to the life and health ... community: more residents who are unemployed or ...

Contaminants in cannabis and hemp flowers create potential for health risks - EurekAlert!
EurekAlert!
/Scientific community/Research programs/Industrial research; /Applied sciences and engineering/Risk management/Risk assessment; /Life sciences ...

Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Experts Urge Insurance ... - Business Wire
Business Wire
“Insurance industry safety professionals can improve their existing risk assessment ... health and safety in the workplace and community. Founded in ...    

Socially Responsible Investing:

Michael Niemczyk Discusses the Rise of Sustainable Investing | OCNJ Daily
OCNJ Daily
Because many investors are now eco-conscious and socially aware of how companies they invest in can impact the environment and people. But what do ...

What Is Sustainable Investing? How You Can Make Money and Tackle Climate Change
Newsweek
The investing version is commonly called ESG—the three letters refer to strategies that use environmental, social and governance (company leadership, ...

US anti-woke movement targets ESG investment criteria - Proactive Investors
Proactive Investors
Specifically, the consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions is under attack from the 'anti-ESG' ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

How exactly would carbon capture work offshore? An engineer breaks it down | CBC News
CBC
Earlier this week, Premier Andrew Furey announced something called the Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Innovation Challenge. What does CCUS ...

From Bill Gates to the pope, talk of carbon capture and its efficacy is dividing society - CNBC
CNBC
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, CCUS — carbon capture, utilization and storage — refers to “a process that captures carbon dioxide ...

Svante and Storegga Collaborate to Deliver Global Commercial-Scale Carbon ... - Business Wire
Business Wire
... carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects around the world. “Combining Svante's capture technology with our experience in project ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Sustainable AC is possible, even with Covid ventilation - Anthropocene Magazine
Anthropocene Magazine
Sustainable AC is possible, even with Covid ventilation. Architects show that it is possible to cool a ventilated building below outside temperatures ...

How We Got Covid's Risk Right But the Response Wrong - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
... sustainable Covid management efforts among Western countries. Sweden's Long-Haul Covid Success. Deaths from all causes compared to projection ...

New study reveals the impact of protein sources on health, environment, and economy
News Medical
The sustainability of various diets based on protein sources ... Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 · Artificial Intelligence · Mpox · Allergies ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Approach - CPP Investments
CPP Investments
The uniqueness of our approach. Sustainability can impact long-term investment returns. So, we make sustainable investing a part of the entire ...

64% of investors cite financial returns as sustainable investing drive - FinTech Global
FinTech Global
The latest report by global investment manager Schroders unveils a decisive turn in the realm of sustainable investing.

What's next for ESG investing?
Pensions & Investments
Investors are hoping for some help comparing companies on ESG and financial materiality, if and when voluntary global sustainability disclosure ...

Geoengineering:

Should we be geo-engineering the oceans? - Reuters
Reuters
Should we be geo-engineering the oceans? · Carbon dioxide makes seawater more acidic while warmer seas bleach corals and absorb less CO2 · Nascent ...

How volcanoes could change the world | Anders Sandberg - YouTube
YouTube
Anders Sandberg talks through ways of geoengineering volcanoes, and why we might want to pursue them. Can we do anything about the existential ...

A Rogue Startup Thinks It Has a Solution to Climate Change; The Scientific Community Disagrees
Sustainable Brands
... geoengineering. The project builds on four decades of SCoPEx research on the environmental chemistry of the ozone layer. [Keith's hypothesis] ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green transition: US sustainable fund losing streak extends to 4 quarters - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Nevertheless, there were pockets in the sustainable fund landscape that continued to see demand. US sustainable bond funds netted positive flows ...

H&M issues $500m green bond sale to fund recycling, renewable energy - Just Style
Just Style
Swedish retailer H&M plans to use a $500m green bond sale proceeds to fund its sustainable targets, increase recycling and reduce energy use.

A 5% Bond Yield to Worsen $280 Billion Rout in Green Stocks - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
After $280 Billion Wipeout, Green Stocks Confront Soaring Debt Costs. Higher rates are a problem for the capital-heavy industry; Clean energy funds ...

Low Carbon Funds:

10 private debt funds tackling the energy transition - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
... low-carbon economy. BlackRock's Climate Transition-Oriented Private Debt Fund, unveiled last week, epitomizes the increased efforts by private ...

Biden admin picks 7 'clean hydrogen hubs' for $7… | Canary Media
Canary Media
... funds over the coming years. Subscribe to receive Canary's ... low-carbon hydrogen production tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Why America Trails the World on Climate Fund Investing - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
... low carbon, green bond, climate solutions and clean energy or clean technology funds. A look under the hood shows that climate-transition funds ...

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