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Methane Emissions:

Assessment of methane emissions from oil, gas and coal sectors across inventories and ...
Nature
Emissions from fossil fuel exploitation are a leading contributor to global anthropogenic methane emissions, but are highly uncertain.

A bounty of rice comes at a price: soaring methane emissions - Nature
Nature
... emissions from tropical Africa. Cattle and wetlands both host micro-organisms that emit methane — but so do flooded rice paddies, and rice ... 

LPO Announces Conditional Commitment to LongPath for Emissions Technology to Support ...
Department of Energy
(LongPath) for an up to $189 million loan guarantee to support the fabrication and installation of a real-time methane emissions monitoring network in ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Zero-Carbon Industry: Navigating The Clean Industrial Revolution - Forbes
Forbes
Meanwhile, technologies such as electrified heat, improved catalysts, and hydrogen- or bio-based input materials offer high-tech routes to make ...

Decarbonization Technology Market to Reach US$4 Trillion by 2032 as Investments Climb ...
EMSNow
The industrial sector is one of the highest contributors to global emissions. Reducing emissions in the sector presents one of the most ...

Navigating Turbulence: Hydrogen's Role in the Decarbonization of the Aviation Sector
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Secondly, innovation in the means of propulsion could pave the way for aviation to shift from carbon-based fuels to hydrogen combustion or even ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Not Data-Driven Enough? AI May Change That - Forbes
Forbes
... making this possible, of course. The combination of data analytics ... data-driven business plans and scale operations with informed decision making.” ...

Enterprise Portal Market Sees Major Growth with Demand for Data-Driven Decision-Making ...
PR Newswire
Enterprise Portal Market Sees Major Growth with Demand for Data-Driven Decision-Making and Seamless Collaboration. Research and Markets Logo. News ...

The Evolution Of Data-Driven And AI-Enabled HR - Bernard Marr
Bernard Marr
... data-driven decisions about managing talent. The introduction of big data ... data-driven decision-making. As the realm of HR continues to evolve ...   

Global Reporting Initiative:

Gibson Dunn Environmental, Social and Governance Update (Winter 2023)
Gibson Dunn
Global Reporting Initiative releases new draft climate and energy standards. On November 21, 2023, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) published ...

Emeren Group Releases 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance Report
Yahoo Finance
... report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. ADVERTISEMENT. Advertisement. Highlights in Emeren's 2022 ESG Report ...

Atkore Releases 2023 Sustainability Report, Launches ESG Website, and Provides ...
Business Wire
The 2023 Atkore Sustainability Report was prepared in alignment with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and the Sustainable ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Researchers Set Out To Map Global Regions at Risk of More Childhood Diarrhoea Deaths ...
Technology Networks
... community-based studies and seen the effects of climate change on health first hand. Want more breaking news? Subscribe to Technology Networks ...

Introduction to JAMA Climate Change and Health Series | Infectious Diseases
JAMA Network
... health risks would shift with the evolution of climate change. Over the past ... Health, wellbeing, and the changing structure of communities. In ...

International Effort Targets Climate Change's Effect on Child Diseases
UVA Health Newsroom
Climate Change's Effects on Childhood Diarrhea. Colston and his ... community-based case studies to describe the consequences of climate ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Energy Transition 2024: Investing Outlook for the Year Ahead - U.S. News - Money
U.S. News - Money
The shifting interest rate environment will be a key factor for both renewable energy and fossil fuel stocks.

Top 10 renewable energy companies
Energy Digital Magazine
It has a portfolio of renewable power-generating facilities worldwide. It is one of the world's largest investors in renewable power and climate ...
    
Clean Energy Opportunities: Nuclear & Renewables Complement Each Other
Global X ETFs
When comparing energy efficiency, nuclear power and hydropower are at the top of the list. The Energy Return on Investment (EROI) evaluates the ...

CDP Sustainability:

Sustain.Life Joins CDP as an Accredited Solutions Provider - The Joplin Globe
The Joplin Globe
CDP is the global non-profit which runs the world's environmental disclosure system used by over 18,700 companies and 1200 cities, states and regions ...

Investing with environmental data for a greener, resilient future - ET Edge Insights
ET Edge Insights
Dennis Wan, Head of Capital Markets for Asia-Pacific at CDP, in an exclusive interview with ET Edge Insights discusses CDP's mission to transform.

Sustainability Report | ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil
The Advancing Climate Solutions Report includes 2022 greenhouse gas emissions performance data and Scope 3 Category 11 estimates for full-year 2022 as ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Leading the Way: California's Trailblazing Efforts to Fight Climate Change - Earth.Org
Earth.Org
The echoes of their legacy resonate as Newsom lauds the historical foundation that has shaped the state's environmental leadership.

Equitably decarbonizing California: A multi-campus collaboration will help the Golden State ...
University of California
California is a global leader in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ... Ludkovski himself will focus on projecting how climate change might ...

Young Americans step up for the environment | ShareAmerica
ShareAmerica
As a fellow with the California Climate Action Corps, Lepska can further her leadership skills before going to law school while also contributing to a ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Outlook 2024: A Dynamic Financial Era Begins | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
Investors should focus on quantifying the tangible impact of their investments beyond standard metrics, integrating impact assessment throughout due ...

The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
What Silicon Valley gets wrong about DEI; Charting nature-based solutions; Climate tech investment trends. The Call: Compensating impact fund ...

The Brief: Rebound for impact fundraising? - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Explore our climate finance trackers and search our databases of impact funds actively raising and investing in climate + gender. Bring along your ...

Energy Storage

U.S. battery storage capacity expected to nearly double in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information ...
EIA
Updated 1/9/2023 to correct ownership of the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility. Annual U.S. cumulative installed battery capacity (as of November ...

U.S. Battery Storage Capacity Expected to Nearly Double in 2024 - CleanTechnica
CleanTechnica
Bellefield Solar and Energy Storage Farm (California, 500 MW); Dogwood Creek Solar and BESS (Texas, 443 MW). Principal contributors: Katherine Antonio ...

The Friday Briefing: Predictions and hot takes for 2024 in energy storage
Energy-Storage.News
We bring you predictions looking ahead to 2024, in the first-ever edition of the Energy-Storage.news Premium Friday Briefing.

Climate Change and Satellites:

Concerning satellite observations show major cities on US East Coast are sinking | Space
Space.com
It can also damaging roads as well as gas and water lines. When coupled with rising sea levels caused by human-driven climate change, subsidence in ...

AI and satellite imagery can make humans' ocean activity more transpar - Fast Company
Fast Company
Climate change mitigation and adaptation: Our data can help quantify the scale of greenhouse gas emissions from vessel traffic and offshore energy ...

Shadows and greenness: Uncovering satellite biases in viewing Earth's vegetation
Phys.org
... climate change worldwide. Earth's vegetation is the main source of food for the global population of wildlife and eight billion people. Scientists ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Why Intel has declined to participate in the Science Based Targets initiative | GreenBiz
GreenBiz
"If the current growth path were to continue unchecked, carbon emissions from semiconductor production would rise by about 8 percent annually in ...

AI-Enabled Solutions Are the Key to Help Cellular Operators Reach Carbon Reduction Targets
AiThority
Yet the GSMA also reports 62 operators, representing 61% of the industry (by revenue), have committed to a science-based carbon reduction target, ...

Are there best practices for linking executive compensation to climate goals? - JD Supra
JD Supra
How pervasive are climate-related metrics as part of performance comp? A ... science-based targets.” Another issue for boards was the nature of any ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Buddy Carter takes his place at the climate table at COP 28
Savannah Morning News
... Climate Change. As a five-term GOP member of Congress, Buddy Carter ... “And you know, we shouldn't be in the business of picking winners and losers.

Year Ahead - The Future is at the Edges: Essential Themes for 2024
Lieber Institute West Point
Faster visibility, endless opportunities for global communications, and algorithmic skewing expedite simple narratives with winners and losers, heroes ...

Microgrids:

A microgrid could turn you into a power company - DCD
Data Center Dynamics
Data centers include most of this on a small scale, so it's often referred to as a microgrid. But to truly be a microgrid, it should be a domain, ...

How New Mexico Reduced Utility Rates with Microgrid Technology, Renewable Energy, Co ...
Ramona Home Journal
A microgrid is a local electrical grid with defined electrical boundaries, acting as a single and controllable entity. The symposium will be held on ...

ReVamp Energy solar-powered microgrid for California contact lens manufacturer
Solar Power World
Staar Surgical, a manufacturer of implantable lenses used in ophthalmic surgery, has inaugurated a 1.1-MW grid-tied microgrid on its production ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infection risk assessment ...
BMC Public Health - BioMed Central
S. aureus has been endemic in the US healthcare setting for several decades and was once considered an isolated issue for hospitals [3]. However, ...

State Health Improvement Plan, State Health Assessment Delivered to General Assembly
Illinois Department of Public Health - Illinois.gov
“As we begin this New Year, I am excited to start working with partners across Illinois to reach the goals of a Healthy Illinois 2028,” said IDPH ...

Lessons From the Mpox Response | Infectious Diseases - JAMA Network
JAMA Network
... community partners. After initially using the traditional public health approach of conducting risk assessments before administering vaccines, we ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

An introduction to responsible investment: Human rights - UN PRI
UN PRI
Human rights are the foundation of the 'social' pillar within the term 'ESG'. In practice, social, environmental and governance factors interlink. For ...

A beginner's guide to sustainable investing, Wealth & Investing - THE BUSINESS TIMES
The Business Times
Identifying a sustainable investment. Sustainable investing is an investment approach that considers environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Research shows misgivings about ESG investing reducing returns are wrong - IR Magazine
IR Magazine
Even as recent forecasts project a significant increase in ESG-related assets under management, concerns about the potential impact on returns persist ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon capture technology has its critics, but it can radically reduce emissions in this one industry
Equities News
30 for the annual UN climate meeting known as COP28. A key climate solution that was discussed was carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) ...

Guest column/Carbon capture is a false solution to emissions - The Herald Star
The Herald Star
Carbon capture utilization and storage has become the new “darling” of the fossil fuel industry and was touted at the climate discussions during ...

New EFI Foundation Report Suggests Four Industrial Carbon Capture Clusters
Carbon Herald
He commented: “Carbon capture, utilization, and storage hubs are pathways to effective industrial decarbonization of small and midsize emitters.”.

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Sustainability a New Focus as Tourism Makes a Comeback - The Japan News
The Japan News
Tourism is recovering quickly in the wake of the coronavirus disaster. As the influence of inbound travel on the economy increases, ...

Energy Transition - An evolving journey: Renewable energy - New: Energy transition in Asia 2023
Lexology
On the plus side, the current post-pandemic economic environment in which national budgets are under pressure, provides a good opportunity for the ...
 
Climate Tech Funding Drops 30% in 2023, Despite Overall Positive Post-Covid Trend
Green Queen
“In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment,” ...

Sustainability Investing: 

The Unstoppable Rise of Sustainable Investing | South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
Direct exposure to global warming influences retail investors, while institutional investors divest from high-emission stocks in response to ...

What to expect from sustainability and social impact in 2024 - Fast Company
Fast Company
In the next few years, I think the “S” will become a bigger focus on the C-suite agenda and leaders will be investing more in human sustainability ...

Glass-Box Optimization: Bringing Clarity to Sustainability Indices - Research - S&P Global
S&P Global
The growth in demand for ESG and climate-oriented investment strategies has been driven by the search for long-term financial value and the pursuit of ...

Geoengineering:

No, Dumping Tums In The Ocean Won't Help Climate Change & Why Is Shopify Involved?
CleanTechnica
Geoengineering raised its misshapen head today. Someone tagged me on a post on LinkedIn related to a firm that wants to put a common antacid into ...

Stratospheric aerosol injections not 'root cause' of global warming - AFP Fact Check
AFP Fact Check
This is false; the geoengineering technology that uses sulfur dioxide is being researched as a potential way to cool Earth, but experts say it has not ...

Uncertainty Abounds in Seeding the Sky to Fight Climate Change - Eos.org
Eos.org
... geoengineering, Geophysical Research Letters, ozone, stratosphere. Features from AGU Journals. RESEARCH SPOTLIGHTS · Geophysical Research Letters

Green Bond Funds:

Developments in green bonds: On 21 December 2024 the EU Green Bond Regulation starts to apply
Lexology
The Regulation will set a gold standard for how companies and public authorities can use green bonds to raise funds on capital markets in order to ...

Brookfield Renewable plans USD-299m green bond issue
Renewables Now
... green bond, the first under its 2024 Green Financing Framework. The ... Canadian pension funds tap banks to explore sale of Cubico - report. Jan ...

SBI raises $250 million through green bonds maturing in 2028 - The Economic Times
The Economic Times
State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, has raised $250 million through the issuance of green bonds via private placement facilitated ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Look Ahead 2024: Real estate must be low carbon to survive - PERE
PERE
Finally, from a financing perspective, banks and appraisers have equipped themselves with extra-financial analysis frameworks where carbon footprint ...

Four trends shaping sustainable finance's future in 2024 - Corporate Knights
Corporate Knights
Yet despite these pledges, banks and other financial institutions – sectors crucial to funding the low ... Banks, asset managers and pension funds ...

Banking on Green: Wall Street's Race to Power a $1 Trillion Carbon Market
CarbonCredits.com
The banking industry stands out in its capacity to help companies transition to a low-carbon economy by financing sustainable projects. If funds ...

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