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Methane Emissions:

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Proposed Rule to Reduce Wasteful Methane ...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The oil and natural gas sector is the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the United States. Quick reduction of these methane emissions ...

In focus: Methane emissions - European Commission - Energy
Energy - European Union
In focus: Methane emissions ... Responsible for 30% of today's global warming – methane (CH4) is second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in terms of its ...

EPA proposes a fee aimed at reducing climate-warming methane emissions - NPR
NPR
The new fee is intended to encourage the oil and gas industry to lower emissions of methane and thereby avoid paying.   

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonization whitepaper - Energy and performance services - Siemens Global Website
Siemens
... sector are under intense pressure to invest in decarbonization measures. ... based models provide flexible financing options with performance guarantees ...

Green Ports & Shipping Congress – Reducing emissions together | AJOT.COM
American Journal of Transportation
Mercator has also produced 44 annual Propulsion & Future Fuels conferences, currently based in Hamburg. These events are supported by our sector- ...

The shipping industry's decarbonisation odyssey | Seatrade Maritime
Seatrade Maritime
According to the Science Based Targets initiative (“SBTi”), the international body driving climate action across the private sector, “when companies ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Stacey Barrett of Domino's on unlocking success with data-driven decision-making
Ragan Communications
Data-driven decision-making involves using concrete facts, metrics, and data to strategically steer business choices in line with your company's ...

Outperforming competitors as a data-driven organization | MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Business leaders need to ensure “every decision-making process is data-driven, so that individual judgment-based decisions are minimized,” says Ayer.

The Biggest Challenges And Pitfalls Of Data-Driven, AI-Enabled HR - Forbes
Forbes
... decisions. HR professionals need to be able to explain the reasoning and decision-making process machines are using. Organizations should strive ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

With Harmonized Sustainability Reporting Requirements On the Horizon, Companies Must ...
TriplePundit
Among the most widely known and adopted are those from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) ...

Protecting Nature Is Central to the Climate Change Debate - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international ... global common language to report those impacts. The GRI Standards are the ...

Environmental Social Governance Investigations
Global Investigations Review
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). GRI is an independent organisation based in the Netherlands aiming to provide a common language for ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Public Health Spotlight: The Impact of Climate Change on Your Health - Edgewater Echo
Edgewater Echo
Climate change is not a threat that impacts all communities equally. The effects of rising global temperatures are felt most severely by communities ...

World Economic Forum lays out steps to create 'climate-resilient health systems' in new report
Fierce Healthcare
Climate change is changing the landscape of morbidity and mortality with cascading effects, the report said. Health outcomes—from physical to ...

Understanding climate's impact on diarrheal disease transmission - News-Medical.net
News-Medical.net
... effects of climate change on health first hand. We recommend. Powered by ... communities and governments in prioritising their limited resources across ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Amazon is the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy for the fourth year in a row
About Amazon
“Amazon's investments in solar and wind projects are helping power our operations, while also providing new sources of clean energy to the grid, ...

3 Energy Stocks Leading the Clean Energy Transition in 2024 | Nasdaq
Nasdaq
CNQ has been actively investing in renewable energy projects, including solar and wind energy, which not only diversify its energy portfolio but also ...

Renewable energy growth must accelerate to reach 2030 goal - IEA | Reuters
Reuters
Insufficient investment in grids is also hampering faster deployment of renewables, as well as slow and bureaucratic permitting procedures and ...

CDP Sustainability:

Corporate water stewardship and science-based targets for freshwater - CDP
CDP
... sustainability strategies with recommendations that are fully aligned with existing and upcoming standards and frameworks such as CDP disclosure ...

Sustain.Life Joins CDP as an Accredited Solutions Provider - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
CDP accredits environmental service providers who can help to support ... sustainability expertise to measure and report carbon emissions. The ...

EnerSys Releases Second Annual Task Force on Climate Related Financial ... - Business Wire
Business Wire
... CDP report, underscores our commitment to transparent sustainability and climate action. EnerSys remains an active participant in the United ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Newsom unveils plan to cut California climate funding - CalMatters
CalMatters
The governor set aside a bigger chunk of the surplus billions for two consecutive years to combat climate change — an issue close to the heart of many ...

Senators Wiener & Stern Respond to Governor Pausing Funding To Implement Landmark ...
Senator Scott Wiener
... Climate Week last September as a testament to California's global leadership on climate change. Billion-dollar corporations around the world are ...

State Budget Must Ensure California Meets Climate, Clean Energy Goals
Environmental Defense Fund
... climate change, confronting this tough deficit must not overshadow our need for committed climate leadership. We get one shot to protect California ...

Impact Investing:

15 trends driving impact investing, climate and AI in 2024 - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
What does 2024 hold for impact investing, climate action and AI? We've collected predictions from Agents of Impact across the landscape.

The Brief: Incentivizing impact - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Pricing climate r
isk in muni bonds. Featured: Incentivizing Impact. From funds to managers to enterprises, some investors are aligning incentives for ...

From funds to managers to enterprises, some investors are aligning incentives for impact
ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha, January 16 – Nearly all of the actual impact in impact investments comes from the ground up. If it makes sense to incentivize ...

Energy Storage

World's most advanced battery energy storage system comes online, speeding ... - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Plus Power™ announced it has begun operating its Kapolei Energy Storage facility on Oahu, Hawaii, the most advanced grid-scale ...

Chart: The US grid battery fleet is about to double — again - Canary Media
Canary Media
America's energy storage industry is on a tear, installing batteries to store clean wind and solar and make the grid more reliable.

Giga Storage to start building 2400MWh BESS in Belgium in 2024
Energy-Storage.News
Giga Storage has unveiled a 600MW/2400MWh battery project it is developing in Belgium, one of the largest planned projects in Europe.

Climate Change and Satellites:

This US-Indian Satellite Will Monitor Earth's Changing Frozen Regions
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NISAR will study changes to ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice in fine detail, as climate change warms the air and ocean.

Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking - Futurism
Futurism
But of course, in a divided America, a truly forward-thinking climate response continues to be an increasingly difficult goal. More on climate change: ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

SBTi approves Ground Control's ambitious net-zero targets - FMJ
FMJ
The SBTi provides a clearly-defined pathway for companies to reduce carbon emissions, with science-based targets to meet the goals of the Paris ...

Ground Control's ambitious net-zero targets approved | HortWeek
Horticulture Week
The SBTi provides a pathway for companies to reduce carbon emissions, with science-based targets to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting ...

Making carbon foot printing poultry products a reality
Poultry World
... performance and identifying significant reductions in line with our shared science-based targets and net zero commitment.” Brodie said being ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Not all carbon-capture projects pay off for the climate – we mapped the pros and cons of ...
The Conversation
Not all carbon-capture projects pay off for the climate – we mapped the pros and cons of each and found clear winners and losers. Published ...
 
More CEOs fear their companies won't survive 10 years as AI and climate challenges grow ...
The Hill
Most Popular. Virginia county finds 4,000 misreported 2020 votes, shorting Biden · Winners and losers of the Iowa caucuses · Fani Willis breaks ...

Microgrids:

Guidehouse Insights Estimates Global Market for Microgrids Will Grow to Over $55 Billion by 2032
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores the global microgrid market. Customers in all business segments are increasingly ...

Microgrid Automation Systems Market Update | ARC Advisory Group
ARC Advisory Group
A microgrid is a self-contained electrical network that allows users to generate their own electricity on-site and use it when needed it most. A ...

Microgrids Help Ease Burden on Large, Vulnerable Grids, Advocates Say - The Energy Mix
The Energy Mix
Microgrids are essentially small grid systems that use one or more distributed energy sources to provide power independent of the larger grid. North ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Community Health Needs Assessment with Intermountain Health - Yahoo News
Yahoo News
Intermountain Health released its first Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) report for southern Nevada, providing extensive details about ...

New approach into human health risk assessment associated with heavy metals in surface ... - Nature
Nature
These findings collectively emphasize the need for measures to tackle heavy metal pollution and ensure the well-being of the Siwa Oasis community, ...

Novel Multiclass Dataset for Risk Assessment of Above-Ground Storage Tanks (ASTs) Using ...
Medriva
... community health and safety risk assessment and petroleum market research. Expanding the Scope of High-Resolution Imagery. The use of high ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Corporate Social Responsibility
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
Or do shareholders increasingly believe investments in CSR will increase in shareholder wealth— a pecuniary motive? Figure 1: Comparative Analysis of ...

Millennials and Gen Z are giving up on one of their core values and investing more like boomers
Business Insider
Younger investors were less willing to support ESG initiatives if it meant lower investment gains. The economy appears to be a factor, but politics ...

Viewpoint: Why ESG May Not be in Decline - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
In 2020, Business for Social Responsibility head and long-term WEF ... investing or a set of sustainability standards to screen investors—had ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market Report 2023-2030 - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market Report 2023-2030: Explores Innovative Pathways for CO2 Integration in Fuel, Chemical, and Building ...

Oil India to develop CO2 capture and storage project - Offshore Technology
Offshore Technology
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage set to play key role in reducing global emissions.

Carbon Capture, Utilization, And Storage – Louisiana Obtained State Primacy For Class VI Wells
Mondaq
On December 28, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a final rule granting Louisiana primary responsibility over Class VI ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Help Achieve Health for All | New Security Beat
New Security Beat
... crisis. The event, held in partnership with USAID, MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator, and the Local Health System Sustainability Project, examined ...

Sustainability, technology and geopolitical challenges top risks for transport industry
Reinsurance News
In the wake of supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing geopolitical conflicts, the report underscores the vulnerability of ...

US emissions dropped nearly 2 percent in 2023 while economy grew: Analysis | The Hill
The Hill
Rhodium Group noted that this was the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic ... See All · Equilibrium & Sustainability · Plastics pollution ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable investments had secretly great year - Corporate Knights
Corporate Knights
Despite backlash, ESG investing is alive and well. Here are our top picks for sustainable funds.

How regulation is shaping sustainable investing - FT Adviser
FT Adviser
For sustainable investors, the ability to invest internationally brings benefits identical in concept to those faced by all investors, even those ...

Millennials and Gen Z are giving up on one of their core values and investing more like boomers
Business Insider
Preference for environmental, social, and governance — or ESG investing plummeted in 2023 among millennials and Gen Z. Younger investors were less ...

Geoengineering:

Aria plan reignites geoengineering controversy - Research Professional News
Research Professional News
Aria plan reignites geoengineering controversy ... Critics have poured scorn on plans to channel millions in public money through the government's new ...

Iron Fertilization Isn't Going to Save Us | Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine
The controversial geoengineering technique can defer, at best, a few years' worth of emissions. And that's ignoring the potential side effects.

How A Modest Investment Could Save A Glacier In Greenland - CleanTechnica
Clean Technica
Geoengineering Is About More Than Engineering ... “Geoengineering” commonly refers to human interventions in Earth's natural systems in order to reap ...

Green Bond Funds:

France sees record demand for green bond sale - leads - Reuters
Reuters
Green bonds fund environmentally-beneficial expenditures and have grown in popularity, with many governments selling them in recent years. France is a ...

South Korea's Posco raises $500 mln in three-year green bond - term sheet | Reuters
Reuters
There were more than 200 investors' place orders in the deal and asset and fund managers made up the majority of the buyers, the book message showed.

Green Bonds: The Rise of ESG Financial Instruments - Lexology
Lexology
... fund projects improving social aspects like fighting discrimination or promoting equality. Other ESG bonds, like climate and sustainability bonds ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Strong ETF Right Now?
Yahoo Finance
Launched on 12/08/2014, the iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) is a smart beta exchange traded fund offering broad exposure to the ...

Laying the Foundation for the Low-Carbon Cement and Concrete Industry
Federation of American Scientists
To fund such a program using existing funds, the DOE could incorporate it into the Industrial Demonstrations Program. However, additional funding from ...

Climate Pollution Reduction Grants: Industrial Pathways to Decarbonization
Clean Air Task Force
Low-carbon hydrogen, carbon capture, and industrial electrification require increased power usage to varying degrees; without synergized grid ...

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