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Methane Emissions:

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Standards to Slash Methane Pollution, Combat ...
Environmental Protection Agency
Oil and natural gas operations are the nation's largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than ...

New methane emissions rule targets oil, natural gas industry - The Detroit News
The Detroit News
Sharp cuts in methane emissions are a global priority to slow the rate of climate change and are a major topic at the U.N. climate conference.

US outlines measures to cut methane emissions by 80% in next 15 years - The Guardian
The Guardian
The United States has announced a major crackdown on methane emissions as part of a new effort by several countries at the Cop28 summit to curb ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

New Report: U.S. Has Tools it Needs, Must Rapidly and Widely Deploy to Normalize ... - USGBC
USGBC
New Report: U.S. Has Tools it Needs, Must Rapidly and Widely Deploy to Normalize Decarbonization Across Commercial Building Sector to Reach Climate ...

Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It - IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum
Its aim is to develop technologies and strategies to help the U.S. chemical industry migrate from thermal-based manufacturing processes to electricity ...

Putting Net Zero investing into practice: lessons from the field | One Earth
One Earth
They show how science-based targets for sectoral decarbonization can be used in a pragmatic way to inform portfolio measurement. Their portfolio ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Data-Driven Decision-Making 101 - EIN News
EIN News
Data-driven decision-making involves utilizing data and analytics to solve business problems. Relying on facts rather than intuition or personal ...

How Data-Driven Digital Transformation is Leading to Better Outcomes for Engineers
Engineering.com
Operational efficiency · Strategic decision-making · Cost reduction · Remote work enablement · Innovation and new business models · Supply chain ...

Harnessing the Power of Data: Key Elements for Data-Driven Enterprises - CIO Applications
CIO Applications
BI acts as the interpretative layer between raw data and decision-makers, providing actionable insights that can lead to informed business decisions.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Corporate ESG Disclosure Becomes Easier as Two Frameworks Align
Bloomberg Law News
EU, GRI agreement will reduce compliance burden for companies · Thousands of EU companies to report on impact for first time.

Red Cross publishes second annual Environmental, Social and Governance Report ...
Red Cross
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) universal standards and aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Read the full 2023 ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

How climate change is a danger to our health - Open Access Government
Open Access Government
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the global health community demand that climate change's impact on health take centre stage at COP28.

How is climate change affecting people's health? | News - Eco-Business
Eco-Business
COP28 holds its first Health Day as concern grows about the effects of climate change - from disease outbreaks to air pollution.

Climate change: its impacts on mental health - UNRIC.org
UNRIC.org
Climate risk is a health risk because it is impacting us all on a personal level. Therefore, I want to understand the impact and build evidence so we ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Roadblocks to renewable energy transition despite large investments - YouTube
YouTube
The United States is one of the world's top polluters, and the White House is putting climate change at the centre of its agenda – making the ...

Why Pair Renewable & Traditional Energy Investments | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
The energy transition portfolio is a compelling opportunity, as it optimizes investments in both renewables and traditional fossil fuels.

The New Green Investment: Getting Clean Energy to Big Cities - WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
The New Green Investment: Getting Clean Energy to Big Cities. EnergyRe, startup backed by real-estate executives, raises $1.2 billion for transmission ...

CDP Sustainability:

Report: CDP unveils critical gaps in corporate climate and nature action - edie
edie
This is according to CDP's recent data factsheet, which highlights the environmental performance and progress reported by more than 24,000 ...

Nature risk reporting lags far behind climate disclosures, CDP finds | GreenBiz
GreenBiz
The CDP calls for more comprehensive environmental risk reporting as hundreds of organizations back ISSB's sustainability disclosure standards.

Italy's CDP head says wrong to reject nuclear power | Reuters
Reuters
Speaking at a conference in Milan on sustainable finance also attended by the heads of CDP's peers in Germany, France and Spain, CDP CEO Dario ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California wants to lead at global climate change summit - CalMatters
CalMatters
Ron DeSantis, lots of other California leaders are headed to the global climate summit that starts today in Dubai. At the U.N. Climate Change ...

From decarbonization to electric cars, California hopes to showcase climate leadership at ...
Phys.org
... Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA, who will be attending the proceedings. "This conference will be an especially challenging one for ...

Letters to the Editor: California punished home solar users. That's not climate leadership
Los Angeles Times
If we are serious about curtailing the worst effects of climate change, all nonessential sources of emissions need to stop — and that includes ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing: a promising opportunity for the future | Lombard Odier
Lombard Odier
Specifically, impact investing aims to generate a financial return while also producing positive, measurable effects on the environment and/or society ...

Climate Change, Equity And Resilience: How Investors Can Have A Triple Impact - Forbes
Forbes
Impact investing can make a difference by combating climate change, promoting equitable access to technology and strengthening community ...

Philanthropic impact investing pushes boundaries to uplift creative solutions
Lumina Foundation
This Q&A on philanthropic impact investing with Elise Zhao was initially published on Phenix Capital's Faces of Impact.   

Energy Storage

Ten energy storage technologies that want to change the world | Recharge
Recharge
As COP28 calls for a tripling of renewable energy, storage technologies beyond the lithium-ion battery will play key roles. Recharge rounds up 10 ...

Liquid Air Energy Storage Could Save The Day For Offshore Wind - CleanTechnica
CleanTechnica
The leading offshore wind stakeholder Ørsted is betting on "liquid air" long duration energy storage to build the business case for wind.

The energy storage space is heating up. Here are some of the technologies making a dent.
Utility Dive
Energy Vault is also working on a gravity energy storage solution, which uses a mechanical process of lifting and lowering composite blocks made from ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

Taking climate action with Earth observation - Phys.org
Phys.org
Satellites are critical tools in the quest to tackle climate change and monitor progress towards a lower-emissions and more resilient world. Taking ...

Google's 'A Passage of Water' Brings NASA's Water Data to Life - NASA Climate Change
NASA Climate Change
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, as shown in this illustration, is the first global mission surveying Earth's ...

Satellites Are the New Climate Police for Oil and Gas Polluters - Business Insider
Business Insider
That short lifespan is why climate scientists say eliminating methane emissions is one of the quickest ways to slow global warming. The oil and gas ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

WFW's near-term science-based emissions reduction target approved by SBTi - WFW
Watson Farley & Williams
WFW has worked with global consultancy WSP to verify base year data and establish a roadmap for reducing emissions. The firm's Carbon Reduction ...

Applied Materials Receives SBTi Validation of its Science-based Scope 1, 2 and 3 ...
Investor Relations | Applied Materials
“SBTi's validation of our emissions reduction targets reflects Applied Materials' commitment to minimize our own carbon footprint and to work closely ...

ISS gets near-term emissions reduction target validated - FMJ
FMJ
... target has been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). ... The specific carbon reduction goals target the percentage of emissions ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

The winners and losers of a changing Potomac River - Bay Journal
Bay Journal
The winners and losers of a changing Potomac River. Whitney Pipkin ... “For many of our friends and neighbors, the fact that climate change is ...

Jack DeVine: A Climate of Winners and Losers | The Patriot Post
The Patriot Post
A Climate of Winners and Losers. Climate change and green energy are not idle chatter. International speechifying begets public policy, which ...

Op-Ed: Climate Change … A Different Perspective - Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos Daily Post
... climate change from Portland, Maine. The story ... Since the operational word here is “change”, wouldn't you think there would be winners and losers ...

Microgrids:

What are Microgrids? Alternative Energy Solutions for a Clean, Resilient Future
Bloom Energy
At its core, a microgrid is a localized energy system that provides electric power when needed. Microgrids can operate connected to and synchronous ...

Smart microgrids can restore power more efficiently and reliably in an outage - UCSC News
UCSC News - UC Santa Cruz
Aerial view of five rows of solar panels in a parking lot on the UCSC campus Microgrids can take advantage of local renewable energy sources to ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

What Is a Community Health Needs Assessment? - PatientEngagementHIT
PatientEngagementHIT
Community health needs assessments help healthcare organizations and community-based organizations (CBOs) direct resources to address SDOH. Source: ...

Practice Risk Assessment: Do You Know What Your Patients Are Taking? - MedCity News
MedCity News
The advent of the pandemic and the evolving response by the healthcare community have significantly impacted the way medicine is currently being ...

Steven Morrison, Who Studied Human Fall Risk and Prevention, Dies at 59
Old Dominion University
“I had been doing falls risk assessment clinically in the hospital for ... “We did this by offering quick assessments at community health fairs ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How To Find A Financial Advisor Who Cares About Sustainable Investing - Forbes
Forbes
Ethical investing has always been around, but in recent years it's become more defined and refined into ESG investing. Environmental, social and ...

Facing pushback and government scrutiny, ESG investing may be headed for change
Marketplace.org
The environmental and socially conscious investing strategy is facing public scrutiny and pushback from activists.

Jeff Ubben Shuts Socially Responsible Firm After Three Years - Bloomberg Law News
Bloomberg Law News
Jeff Ubben, the veteran activist investor who turned his hand to socially responsible investing at the height of the industry's boom, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon dioxide storage, utilization projects get Industrial Commission funding - InForum
InForum
Funding will go towards the early stages of another carbon capture project in southwest North Dakota. Funding will mostly go toward a two-year ...

Overview of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) | IDTechEx Research Article
IDTechEx
Overview of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) · What is the Market Intelligence Subscription? · Downloads · Subscription benefits ...

No Easy Solution for Carbon Capture - VOA Learning English
VOA Learning English
There are two main kinds of carbon capture technology: carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). CCS ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Effect of temperature on fast transmission of COVID-19 in low per capita GDP Asian countries
Nature
This pandemic also affected the quality This pandemic also affected the sustainability of life was also impacted by this pandemic. The impact of COVID ...

The link between meal sustainability perceptions and healthiness - News Medical
News Medical
Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 · Artificial Intelligence · Mpox · Allergies ... environmental sustainability and healthiness scores. The scores relied on ...

Sustainability Guides Public Policy Major Kelsi Broderick - Georgia State University
Georgia State University
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and classes went online. “I decided to give Georgia State one more shot,” Broderick said. “I did really well in online ...

Sustainability Investing: 

How To Find A Financial Advisor Who Cares About Sustainable Investing - Forbes
Forbes
Ethical investing has always been around, but in recent years it's become more defined and refined into ESG investing. Environmental, social and ...

ESG investing generates a shift among sustainability leaders
Sustainability Magazine
Looking back on the year, there have been a number of sustainability leader appointments, of which many will result in ESG-driven investments and ...

Clean energy stocks have fallen out of favor. They face more challenges ahead - CNN
CNN
That's not to say investors are giving up entirely on sustainability investing. Peter Krull, director of sustainable investments at Earth Equity ...

Geoengineering:

New reports bolster case for research into controversial earth-cooling geoengineering
Science|Business
... geoengineering. The idea behind SAI is to mimic the cooling impact of a volcano by spraying sulphates or other particles from a fleet of planes ...

Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots | Science | AAAS
Science
But there are a few open questions with this strategy: Could enough material be dumped in the ocean to slow climate change? Would mining that material ...

UNESCO report warns of geoengineering risks - The Engineer
The Engineer
UNESCO report warns of geoengineering risks ... A report published by UNESCO ahead of COP28 has assessed the ethical risks of climate engineering, ...

Green Bond Funds:

COP28: Zambia's first green bond to be issued by year-end by Copperbelt Energy Corp
Reuters
The lead arranger for CEC's green bond programme was Cygnum Capital, while the cornerstone investor was the Emerging Africa Investment Fund "in ...

Green Bonds Mark Second-Busiest Month of 2023 as Issuers Pounce - BNN Bloomberg
BNN Bloomberg
Issuance of new bonds from corporations and governments to fund green initiatives totaled $57 billion last month, according to data compiled by ...

Australian Government Commits to Green Bond Program - WSJ
Wall Street Journal
“Sovereign green bonds will boost the scale and credibility of Australia's green finance market and attract more green capital to Australia by ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Growing Policy Support Creates Strong Tailwinds for the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Industry
Global X ETFs
In addition to tax credits, the U.S. government is also implementing research and development funding and grant programs, including $7 billion towards ...

Copenhagen targets $3 bln for emerging market greenfield renewables fund - Reuters
Reuters
... Fund is focused on China. Getting more money to developing economies to help them transition to a low-carbon future is a central aim of the COP28 ...

Who is pledging climate finance at COP28, and how much? - Reuters
Reuters
... Fund (CTF) to support the development of low carbon technologies in emerging and developing economies. METHANE: The UAE, with a contribution of ...

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