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Methane Emissions:

Everything You Think You Know About Methane is Wrong - Mother Jones
Mother Jones
In an in-depth interview with Bulletin climate editor Jessica McKenzie, Pierrehumbert dissects the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter—the voluntary ...

Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress ...
Inside Climate News
greenhouse gas emissions. But that percentage still adds up to the overall greenhouse gasses emitted by some countries, critics counter. (According to ...

Measuring methane intensity is a key step on the path to net zero - The Conversation
The Conversation
Any efforts to tackle methane emissions must first begin with measuring the intensity of those emissions.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Goldman Sachs Research Says Global Net Zero Journey Reaches a Critical Turning Point
CarbonCredits.com
Additionally, a significant improvement in battery costs for the transport sector made the high cost decarbonization more affordable. The sector gets ...

Decarbonization: The Key To Transform and Grow the Cable Industry - CSRwire
CSRwire
... based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications.

Feds sign carbon capture contract | CityNews Toronto
CityNews Toronto
... sector investments in decarbonization projects. The federal Liberal government announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Entropy Inc., a ...   

Data Driven Decision Making:

When Analytics Should Drive Sales Decisions — and When They Shouldn't
Harvard Business Review
Data-based decision-making is not just about using data and models to confirm your priors. In fact, it's counterproductive to selectively seek out ...

How Predictive Analytics is Helping Businesses Make Smarter Decisions - Medium
Medium
By incorporating data-driven insights, decision-makers can make more accurate and confident decisions than relying solely on intuition or experience.

The Role of Predictive Analytics Tools in Data-Driven Decision Making | The Ritz Herald
The Ritz Herald
Decision Trees: Ideal for classification and regression tasks, these algorithms split data based on predictor variable values to form a tree-like ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

MTB publishes 9th Annual Sustainability Report in accordance with Global Reporting ...
The Business Standard
Mutual Trust Bank PLC (MTB) announces the release of its Annual Sustainability Report for the year 2022 following the Global Reporting Initiatives ...

10 of UNEP-WCMC's key contributions to combatting the global nature crisis in 2023
UNEP-WCMC
Throughout 2023, UNEP-WCMC's National Ecosystem Assessment Initiative (NEA Initiative) ... reporting framework. As a key partner to the Science Based ...

China's first ESG disclosure guide for insurers | Insurance Business Asia
Insurance Business America
It aligns with international ESG disclosure standards such as those of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

The Climate Crisis and Aging: Capitalizing on Traditional Knowledge and Innovation
Just Security
They often face greater health risks associated with climate hazards ... climate change and to preserve the community's cultural identity and even its ...

COP28: Spotlighting the impact of climate change on public health - Thecable.ng
Thecable.ng
... climate crisis and proffer succour on how vulnerable communities can adapt to the effects of climate change. This is in a bid to achieve the ...

CNW Newswire | Canadian Geographic
Canadian Geographic
OTTAWA, ON, Dec. 21, 2023 /CNW/ - The impact of climate change is widespread – it affects our environment, our communities, and our health. It ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

3 Highly Underrated Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy for 2024 | InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace
The renewable energy sector is poised for a massive rebound and investors should consider these underrated renewable energy stocks to buy.

3 Renewable Energy Stocks Poised to Beat the Market in 2024 | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
Per a report by BloombergNEF, global new investment in renewable energy skyrocketed to $358 billion in the first six months of 2023, up 22% from that ...

2024 Energy Predictions: Rural Renewables, 45V Hydrogen Fight, Election Year Electric ... - Forbes
Forbes
Experts predict 2024's top stories: Rural renewables rise, 45V hydrogen fight, election year EV spotlight, carbon utilization investment, ...

CDP Sustainability:

Five signs it's time to adopt a customer data platform (CDP) - Inside Retail
Inside Retail
Sustainability · Workforce · Careers · Appointments & exits · Executive ... It is likely that if you are not familiar with the concept of a CDP it is ...

GGC and Krungthai forge two-billion-baht sustainability-linked loan - AEC10NEWS
AEC10NEWS
... CDP Climate. Furthermore, the company's S&P Global sustainability data disclosure this year is a testament to its aspiration to become a globally ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Environmental Justice Organizers Are Writing the Future of Climate Plans
Nonprofit Quarterly
... California EJ movement's climate leadership is shining. Culture Shift. We knew ... “California's 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan,” California Air ...

Year in review: What happened in California in 2023 - CalMatters
CalMatters
... leadership with new Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and ended with an ... Year ...

Column: Who will make sure L.A. reaches 100% clean energy by 2035?
Los Angeles Times
This column is the latest edition of Boiling Point, an email newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West.

Impact Investing:

Next Year in impact investing: Betting on the future - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! You deserve a break. And so do we. ImpactAlpha will be OOO next week, but we've scheduled a few special treats to tide you ...

The Brief: At Stake in 2024: 'Impact alpha' in public and private markets - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, December 19 – In Africa, fintech data is exposing climate vulnerabilities. In Latin America, investing in smallholder farmers means ...

Holiday List No. 2: Ten impact investing trends to track in 2024 - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Curated from our impact investing dealflow coverage, we highlight a category or sector attracting capital and dig deeper into trends.

Energy Storage

Fluence customer seeking refund for Diablo BESS EPC contract, citing 'defects and chronic failures'
Energy-Storage.News
A satellite view from Google Maps of the Diablo energy storage project in Pittsburg, California, showing three rows of battery racks. Image: Google ...

Energy Vault Wins Big With Gravity Storage In China - Forbes
Forbes
Energy Vault will license six additional EVx gravity energy storage systems in China just months after starting work on the world's first GESS ...

Energy-Storage.news' most-read news stories of 2023
Energy-Storage.News
Rimac's Roger Moorhouse unveiled SineStack at the Energy Storage Summit Central and Eastern Europe. Image: Cameron Murray / Solar Media.

Climate Change and Satellites:

The Space Industry's Climate Impact: Part 3 - Payload
Payload Space
Frequent revisit is key for getting a good idea of how Earth's environment is changing over time, and satellite observations are the best method ...

Interior Department Announces Landsat 2030 International Partnership Initiative
U.S. Department of the Interior
Initiative will enhance the use of satellite imagery to better monitor and assess climate change impacts ... satellites are crucial to providing data ...

How The Global Space Industry Can Confront Key Issues In 2024 - Forbes
Forbes
Climate change is one of the biggest threats to Earth, and there is a growing swell of concern within the space community that efforts to combat ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) - Buro Happold
Buro Happold
... targets in line with climate science”. SBTi guidance aims to create ... base year, you may need to set embodied carbon targets. The new draft ...

Inside Swissport International's ambitious net-zero pledge | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
... carbon emissions, taking measurable action as part of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). “Setting a target for net-zero emissions is of ...

Renewables Power Luxury Retail's Latest Partnership - Forbes
Forbes
... carbon footprint in particular. A holistic strategy which focuses ... performance as progress towards decarbonisation and their Science Based Targets.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

The real winners and losers of COP28 | Corporate Knights
Corporate Knights
Jack Marley in Climate On December 21, 2023. The real winners and losers of COP28. Now that the dust has settled, who left Dubai happy and who went ...

Already 3.2 Million Americans Are Climate Migrants
governing.com
“There appear to be clear winners and losers in regard to the impact of flood risk on neighborhood-level population change,” Jeremy Porter, head ...

Storm clouds loom over real estate, researchers find | Daily Journal of Commerce
Daily Journal of Commerce
... change is intolerable and leave. First Street found that climate change is creating winners and losers at the neighborhood and block levels. Zoom ...

Microgrids:

Why intelligent micro grids are replacing aging energy grids – Intelligent CIO Middle East
Intelligent CIO
Microgrids are independent of larger systems. Their ability to disconnect from the traditional grid to operate autonomously and locally, ensures that ...

Green energy project planned for Cuyahoga County hopes to combat climate change
Spectrum News
A microgrid is a mini power grid that has special properties not always seen in the larger interconnected power grid. “We have just always been a ...

Hydrogen microgrid potential demonstrated on California's Caltech campus
Power Engineering International
Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) and Bloom Energy have implemented hydrogen production and blending on Caltech's grid.

Community Health Risk Assessment:

GENESEE/ORLEANS/Diabetes Prevention lifestyle change - Video News Service
Video News Service
Has a healthcare provider told you that you have prediabetes or are at risk ... Health: 2022 Community Health Assessment Survey & Community ...

Seven things you need to know about the JN.1 COVID-19 variant
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
– World Health Organization. In its initial risk assessment for JN.1, published on 19 December 2023, WHO added that as of 16 December 2023, JN.1 ...

Infectious Disease and Climate Change Program Fund Launched | Mirage News
Mirage News
The Program supports surveillance and monitoring of infectious diseases, risk assessments, modelling, laboratory diagnostics, as well as health ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

ESG funds suffer weaker demand despite help from tech-sector performance | Reuters
Reuters
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing boomed in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic as low oil prices spurred more investors to ...

Is the ESG Investment Bubble Bursting? | Markets Insider
Markets Insider - Business Insider
Now, ESG funds are shutting down or dropping the “sustainable” part from their names. Their performance is leaving a lot to be desired, and investors ...

Can ESG funds bounce back? - Investors' Chronicle
Investors' Chronicle
Funds investing with an environmental, social and governance (ESG) tilt have followed up a poor 2022 with a lukewarm 2023, as mixed performance ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Feds backstop carbon price in first-of-its-kind deal | Canada's National Observer
National Observer
... carbon capture, utilization and storage technology. The agreement will see the federal Canada Growth Fund — which is making a $200 million direct ...

Feds sign $200M carbon contract for Calgary-based Entropy | CBC News
CBC
... carbon capture, utilization and storage technology. The agreement will see the federal Canada Growth Fund — which is making a $200-million direct ...

COP28 Results and Global Climate Action - The National Law Review
The National Law Review
... carbon hydrogen production.” While certain NGOs and a minority of others oppose, for example, carbon capture and utilization and storage (CCUS) ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Sustainability through innovation is key to healthcare future - Trade Arabia
Trade Arabia
... Covid-19 pandemic. Sustainable systems. Sustainable healthcare systems are a key requirement to reduce carbon footprint on the planet and to build ...

New Biden space rules framework: 'Expedited' license review, 'sustainability' goals

Breaking Defense
"This oversight regime will balance economic competitiveness together with safety, security, sustainability, and responsibility," states the new ...

Climate in Crisis: Mountain View earns top grade for sustainability - NBC Bay Area
NBC Bay Area
Local Coronavirus Pandemic Climate in Crisis State U.S. & World Sports The Investigative Unit Submit a tip Digital Series NBC Bay Area Responds ...

Sustainability Investing: 

ESG funds suffer weaker demand despite help from tech-sector performance | Reuters
Reuters
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing boomed in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic as low oil prices spurred more investors ...

3 Stocks to Invest in the Future of Sustainable Fashion | InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace
Uncover investment opportunities in sustainable fashion stocks, blending innovative eco-tech with long-term financial expansion in fashion.

The Future for Sustainable Investment - finews.com
finews.com
Yet, in contrast, we are more excited about the prospects for the sustainable themes and stocks we invest in than we have been for many years. By ...

Geoengineering:

Should we geoengineer volcanoes? - BBC
BBC
CO2 gas levels since then have been successfully controlled. It's one of various example where "geoengineering" a volcano could save lives and prevent ...

Geoengineering Antarctica: Can Aerosol Injection Save the Ice? - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily
Scattering sunlight-reflecting particles in the atmosphere could slow rapid melting in West Antarctica and reduce the risk of catastrophic ...

Scientists Are Coming Around on Geoengineering - Heatmap News
Heatmap News
“Solar geoengineering has a rapid but temporary effect on global temperatures, while the effect of emissions reduction is deferred but persistent,” ...

Green Bond Funds:

Equinix Allocates $4.9 Billion Green Bond for Building Projects - Environment+Energy Leader
Environment+Energy Leader
The PPA projects supported 225 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, according to the company. Proceeds from the funds of the bonds supported ...

Adding a Responsible Dimension to Your Sovereign Bond Allocation | Trackinsight
Trackinsight
... bonds ETF – the Amundi Euro Government Tilted Green Bond UCITS ETF. ... The funds described in this document (the “Funds”) may not be available to all ...

Romania launches green bond framework ahead of debut - Environmental Finance
Environmental Finance
Sign up today for free. Register now. Channels: DebtGreen BondsPolicy. People: Diana PopescuMarcel BoloÈ™. Latest Stories. Pension funds strike deal to ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Global Sustainability and Climate Investments Hold Steady in 2023 - CarbonCredits.com
CarbonCredits.com
Several startups top the list with the most funding. For instance, a French company focusing on making low-carbon batteries, Verkor, bagged over $2 ...

COP28, Dubai: $30B Investment Fund, Carbon Markets Initiatives Reflect Increasing ...
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
The agreed text also calls for an acceleration in zero- and low-emission technologies, which for the first time includes reference to nuclear energy ...

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $150 Million to Help Underserved Communities ... - FEMA
FEMA
“Thanks to President Biden's Investing in America agenda, these low-interest loans will fund even more mitigation projects at the local level, ...

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