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Methane Emissions:

Energy industry methane emissions rise close to record in 2023 - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Emissions of greenhouse gas responsible for a third of global warming 'unacceptably high', says energy watchdog IEA.

Methane emissions from energy sector near record high in 2023, IEA says - Reuters
Reuters
Methane emissions from the energy sector remained near a record high in 2023 despite a raft of commitments from the oil and gas industry to plug ...
    
After slight rise in 2023, methane emissions from fossil fuels are set to go into decline soon
International Energy Agency
New IEA analysis shows that fully implementing existing pledges on methane would deliver the majority, but not all, of the emissions cuts needed ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Biden Administration Launches Zero Emissions Infrastructure Deployment Strategy to ... - ESG Today
ESG Today
Decarbonizing the transportation sector will play a central role in achieving the U.S.' climate goals, including targets set by the Biden ...

Building decarbonization to combat climate change | U.S. Green Building Council
USGBC
Buildings currently account for approximately one-third of global energy-based emissions, with that proportion growing when considering construction, ...

RBC Adds “Decarbonization Finance” Category for Hard-to-Abate Sectors to Sustainable ...
ESG Today
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced a series of new sustainable finance goals and initiatives, including the establishment of a new ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

5 tips for creating a data-driven culture - TechTarget
TechTarget
Many enterprises have long struggled to build a data-driven culture. Consider these best practices for making data a central part of your ...

How Businesses Can Overcome Doubt And Embrace Data-Driven Confidence - Forbes
Forbes
Once you've verified the accuracy of your data, trust the numbers and use them as the basis for your decision-making process. Make decisions that ...

Calling the Shots: Navigating Business Destiny with Data-Driven Strategies
RTInsights
The more digital a company becomes, the more data it accumulates, providing a foundation for informed decision-making and sustained success.

Global Reporting Initiative:

The new frontier of nature-related financial disclosures: what the finance industry needs to know
Reuters
... reporting standards provided to market participants by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). On Jan. 25, 2024, GRI, a significant sustainability ...

Enterprise Data Technology Part 4 — Sustainability Data - Forbes
Forbes
Sustainability data helps companies comply with reporting guidelines and regulations. Non-mandated initiatives such as the Global Reporting Initiative ...

Materiality Assessment: A Strategic Tool to Drive Your Organization's Sustainability Agenda
Tech Mahindra
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): ... The GRI considers a broader range of stakeholders and focuses on issues that contribute to overall sustainable ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Mental health and psychosocial interventions in the context of climate change: a scoping review
Nature
In Haiti, a disaster-prone country susceptible to climate change effects, an integrated community intervention was developed to promote mental health ...

New regulations aim to curb chemical disaster risks amid climate change threats - EHN
Environmental Health News
... climate change imposes on communities, ecosystems, and public health policies. Chemical fallout, contaminated runoff and ecosystem threats can ...

The Global Health Impacts of Climate Change - Statetimes
Statetimes
The direct and indirect effects of rising temperatures and extreme weather on human health are vast. Heatwaves can cause heat-related illnesses and ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

3 Renewable Energy Stocks That Are Screaming Buys in March | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
Meanwhile, it has the financial flexibility to continue investing in new renewable-energy projects after exhausting its thermal sale proceeds. Given ...

Biden-Harris Administration Invests $2.3 Billion in Projects to Expand Affordable, Reliable ... - USDA
USDA
... clean energy investments in 23 states to reduce pollution and strengthen rural America's power grid. Today's announcement includes the first five ...

Clean Energy Investments See Boost Due to Global Net-Zero Goals - EHS Daily Advisor
EHS Daily Advisor - BLR
According to the International Energy Agency, worldwide annual clean energy investments need to reach $4 trillion by 2030—more than triple the ...

CDP Sustainability:

Deep Dive: CDP Insights for Sustainability Leaders
Environment+Energy Leader
... sustainability. In its comprehensive 2023 analysis, the CDP has illuminated significant concerns regarding corporate environmental reporting ...

CDP Further Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Daniel Goldsmith as ...
CDP
7 March 2023: CDP, the global non-profit that runs the world's environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions, ...

Essity once again awarded Supplier Engagement Leader by CDP - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
... sustainability by the global non-profit environmental organization CDP. The award addresses how Essity successfully has worked with its suppliers ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Senator Wiener Responds to Watered Down SEC Climate Rule
Senator Scott Wiener
“With the SEC's highly limited carbon disclosure rule now in place, California's climate leadership is more critical than ever in ensuring investors ...

Investing in Clean Air for California - NRDC
NRDC
California leaders can transform the state's most-polluting transportation program into climate, freight, and community benefits by supporting AB ...

Let's Make California's Fracking Ban a Reality - Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch
California is thought of as an environmental leader ... Climate Leadership in ... Over the past ten years, California has seen many faces of climate ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing Market Forecast to Reach $1061.14 Billion by 2028 - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Dublin, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Impact Investing Global Market Report 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's ...

The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
... impact investing means for smaller impact … Podcasts | October 20, 2023. Repurposing ... The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact. ImpactAlpha.

Impact Investing Revisited: Contextual Considerations to Better Measure and Optimize
Sustainalytics
Investors with sustainability goals often face a seemingly binary choice between investments with or without a positive impact – for example, ...

Energy Storage

What goes up must come down: A review of battery energy storage system pricing
Energy-Storage.News
Dan Shreve of Clean Energy Associates looks at the pricing dynamics helping propel battery storage (BESS) technology to ever greater heights.

Market reacts to falling BESS prices - Energy-Storage.News
Energy-Storage.News
Delegates at the Energy Storage Summit EU 2024 in London last month. Image: Solar Media. We heard from system integrator, developer and EPC delegates ...

Storage was solar's co-star in 2023, a record-breaking year for both: American Clean Power
Utility Dive
Some of the factors boosting storage are the Inflation Reduction Act's investment tax credit for standalone energy storage, the boom in solar ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

A new satellite will track climate-warming pollution. Here's why that's a big deal - NPR
NPR
A satellite with a climate solutions mission blasted off on a SpaceX rocket Monday. It's on a mission to detect planet-heating methane pollution ...

Methane: the tricky hunt for hidden emissions - BBC
BBC
... Carbon Yield, a firm that helps farmers adapt to climate change. "In ... Could satellites ever control weather? How New Zealand is reducing methane ...

New satellite will track elusive methane pollution from oil and gas industry globally - CBC
CBC
Experts say a satellite designed to track methane could be one of our best tools in the fight against climate change in the near future.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

ESG and Climate In Focus: 2023 Index Performance Review - MSCI
MSCI
... Climate Indexes capture objectives such as reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate risks. ... “SBTi” is science-based target. MSCI ESG and ...

FEMSA Health joins the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to validate its emissions ...
Edomex Al Día
To achieve its SBTi objectives, FEMSA Health is implementing different actions such as; the electrification and energy efficiency of fleets, the ...

Impact of policy combinations on carbon emission performance: evidence from China
ResearchGate
... evidence from China | Enhancing carbon emission performance was crucial to achieving carbon neutrality goals ... based measure model to measure carbon ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Range-shifting fishes are climate-change losers, according to new research | ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily
Range-shifting fishes are climate-change losers, according to new research. Concordia's Jean-Philippe Lessard says populations fleeing warming waters ...

Rapid range shifters show unexpected population dynamics | Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature
The findings suggest widespread transient population dynamics rather than a simple dichotomy between climate-change 'winners' and 'losers'.

Study sheds light on disease-carrying mosquitoes and climate change - WMNF 88.5 FM
WMNF 88.5 FM
... climate change, then we expect risk to change.” ... Thomas emphasizes that there will be winners and losers, and disease spread is influenced by ...   

Microgrids:

Microgrid Market worth $87.8 billion by 2029 - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets™
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- The Microgrid Market is projected to grow from USD 37.6 billion in 2024 and is estimated to reach USD 87.8 billion by 2029; ...

Transmission Projects to Connect Remote Microgrids Offered DOE Funding - T&D World
T&D World
The projects chosen by the Grid Deployment Office focus on microgrids that serve remote, geographically isolated communities.

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Why Are More Young Adults Getting Colorectal Cancer? New Grant Will Support Global ...
Mass General Brigham
... assessment trials (in the UK and ... screening to reduce or prevent this risk. Q ... community health centers, home care, and long-term care services.

Public Health Status Update for 03/08/2024 | Marin County Coronavirus Information
Marin County COVID-19
... Health; Community Health Assessment;… Read ... risk for heart attack and stroke. Dr. Willis ... This week, public health, behavioral health, school ...

How to Respond After a Suicide: A Guide for Extension Professionals
OSU Extension Service - Oregon State University
... evaluation process for community partners, as outlined by the Oregon Health Authority. The evaluation must include “an assessment of the ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing: trends impacting stock trading
Business Insider Africa
ESG-related businesses and fund providers are becoming more and more popular among investors, which makes them an attractive sector of growth with ...

Blackrock a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 2.5% Yield (BLK) - Nasdaq
Nasdaq
BNK Invest Inc. provides investment services and information. BNK Invest owns and operates a market news family of websites including DividendChannel, ...

Can Improvements in Sustainability Data Help Public Companies Earn Trust With Large Investors?
PR Newswire
Socially Responsible Investing · Surveys, Polls and Research · Trade Show ... The use of ESG information — including ESG disclosures and ESG-related ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Onboard carbon capture and storage on ships - DNV
DNV
Optimal integration with ship systems. Onboard carbon capture systems need to be integrated with the machinery onboard, optimizing energy utilization ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Sustainability: a multifaceted important aspect of cancer care | BJC Reports - Nature
Nature
The COVID-19 pandemic will be the most significant global medical event in the lifetime of the majority of readers of this article.

What Will It Take For Sustainability To Stick?
yahoo.com
When Covid-19 struck, and the world came to a standstill, the fashion business underwent a very public environmental and social re-evaluation ...

Sustainable infrastructure reframing and development for crowded cities to facing ... - AIP Publishing
AIP Publishing
M. M.. Rahman . COVID-19 pandemic: rethinking strategies for resilient urban design, perceptions, and planning . (. Frontiers in Sustainable ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Keys to Unlock Sustainable Leadership and Market Advantage with Green Investing
Traders Magazine
Investors increasingly demand tangible action from companies, not just rhetoric, when it comes to sustainability. Data demonstrates that companies ...

Can Improvements in Sustainability Data Help Public Companies Earn Trust With Large Investors?
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- As sustainability becomes a more common consideration for investment management professionals in the United States, trust in the ...

What if 2018's heatwave kickstarts a wave of sustainable investing? - WIRED
WIRED
Could entrepreneurs and investors start setting their sights on companies and investment opportunities which take into account the environment, clean ...

Geoengineering:

Under the Weather - The National Security Risks from Climate Change Could Go Well ...
Just Security
The ongoing United Nations Environmental Assembly meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, has revealed sharp splits among countries over the risks of ...

Africa helps to shoot down solar geoengineering proposal at UN Environment Assembly
African Business
Supporters of solar geoengineering believe it could play a role in slowing down climate change. Critics have warned, however, that a range of ...

Scientists Warn 'Dimming The Sun' Is Simply Too Dangerous. Here's Why. - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert
In reality, this type of "geoengineering" risks further destabilising an already deeply disturbed climate system. What's more, its full impacts ...

Green Bond Funds:

Advocates want open space funding in new green bond. McKee's office says it conflicts with housing.
The Providence Journal
While there are funds left over from previous bond approvals, including $2.6 million for land acquisition by cities and towns, $400,000 for farmland ...

AES Andes prices first green bond in four years - LatinFinance
LatinFinance
... funds for green investments and to pay off existing bank debt. AES Andes, which is a subsidiary of US-based AES Corp, sold its first green bonds ...

Corporate Bond Issuance Is Booming—But Not Sustainability-Linked Bonds - WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
Green bonds can only be used to fund projects that help the environment. Advertisement. And U.S. investment-grade companies through March 12 raised ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Biden-Harris Administration Opens Applications for $1.2 Billion in Funding to Decrease Air ...
Federal Highway Administration - Department of Transportation
New Inflation Reduction Act program provides funding to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico FHWA 08-24 Contact: FHWA.

Federal Highway Administration Announces $1.2B in Grants to Help States Utilize Low ...
Sierra Club
... fund state construction projects utilizing low-carbon materials like concrete (cement), glass, asphalt, and steel. The funding is part of the Low- ...

Permira assembles new team to invest in low carbon transition - Reuters
Reuters
Permira is putting together a dedicated investment team to focus on the transition to a low carbon economy, the private equity group said, ...

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