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Methane Emissions:,

Methane emissions far exceed official estimates, study finds - EHN
Environmental Health News
In short: Researchers used aerial and ground measurements to uncover that the oil and gas sector's methane emissions are nearly triple the EPA's ...

Inside the system tracking emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas - UNEP
UNEP
Often released during the production of fossil fuels, methane is responsible for one-quarter of global warming. Experts say emissions must fall ...

Methane emissions from major U.S. oil and gas operations higher than government predictions
Stanford News - Stanford University
Stanford-led research shows methane emissions from a large share of U.S. oil and gas facilities are three times higher on average than the level ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonization of the industry: Partnering is key - Siemens Energy
Siemens Energy
Willis says that replacing fuel-based equipment such as boilers and furnaces with electric alternatives such as heat pumps and inductive heaters is ...

Global Recycling Foundation calls for decarbonization of iron and steel
Recycling Today
The global iron and steelmaking sector must decarbonize to achieve net-zero emissions, according to the Global Recycling Foundation (GRF), London.

Decarbonizing production of energy is a quick win | MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Clean technologies, including carbon management platforms, enable the global energy industry to play a crucial role in the transition to net zero.   

Data Driven Decision Making:

Data Analytics Maturity: Improving Strategic Decision-Making with Data | Guidehouse
Guidehouse
To reap the benefits of data-driven decision-making, organizations need accurate and consistent data and a carefully planned strategy.

Data-Driven Decisions: Learn to Trust Your Information - Modern Distribution Management
Modern Distribution Management
Most recently, the company has utilized data in the strategic planning process for both sales and operations. The shift from data collection to ...

How to build a data-driven culture among non-tech employees - Fast Company
Fast Company
Business decision-makers never move forward without data. They know how to access and use data themselves, but rely on their technical counterparts to ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Gibson Dunn Environmental, Social and Governance Update (February 2024)
Gibson Dunn
Global Reporting Initiative revises biodiversity standards. On January 25, 2024, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) published a revised ...

GRI on standards that tackle mining's 'conflicting truths' - Mining Magazine
Mining Magazine
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released a new sustainability standard in February that aims to offer miners and companies in the wider value ...

Companies Need to Address Existential and Financial Risk of Biodiversity
Proxy Preview
Increased nature and biodiversity reporting has been incorporated into the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and Europe's Corporate Social ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Climate change's widespread health impacts - EHN - Environmental Health News
Environmental Health News
... health impacts and equity dimensions of climate change. Read about how one community in Massachusetts is pursuing global climate justice concerns ...

Rachel Kippen, Our Ocean Backyard | Climate change is a mental health issue - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Displaced and facing mounting economic burden, some interviewees spoke of mental health issues like anxiety, feeling invisible, and of a community ...

As threats to air quality rise, communities deploy low-cost air monitoring networks
Yale Climate Connections
Climate change is contributing ... “It raises awareness of potential health risks and empowers communities ... community education on environmental ...   

Renewable Energy Investments:

US saw $4B in clean energy investments in February: E2 | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
Dive Brief: The battery storage and electric vehicle sectors led clean energy manufacturing investments in February, according to a rundown of last ...
 
Ride the Green Wave: 3 Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy Before Q2 | InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace
As the economy improves, there will be higher investments in the renewable energy sector and that is when NextEra Energy will pick up the pace. The ...

Visualizing the Green Investments of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Visual Capitalist
Nearly half of green assets were held by Gulf funds who are channeling energy revenues into sustainable investments. For instance, a major UAE fund ...

CDP Sustainability:

We receive a top environmental performance rating from CDP – once again
Scan Global Logistics
This recognition underscores our steady dedication to sustainability and climate action. The CDP, the foremost authority in assessing corporate ...

ACEN upgraded to "B" rating by CDP, reaffirms commitment to environmental transparency
Yahoo Finance
ACEN has elevated its commitment to environmental stewardship by securing a "B" rating for its climate change disclosure through CDP, ...

CDP's new global focus does not change that Asia is central to our strategy: impact chief Nikki Bartlett
Eco-Business
CDP is working on a new framework that it aims to bring more standardisation to the plethora of environmental disclosure rules around the world. “It ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Hydrogen Leadership Summit Sets Climate and Economic Objectives Towards ... - ABC27
ABC27
Hydrogen Decarbonizing Transportation: Dig into the policy changes needed on both the federal and state level to allow hydrogen fuel to unlock ...

Katherine Markova | A Committed Climate Champion - Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Climate change is the issue of our times. In 2024 we must elect leaders to the California Legislature to reduce emissions and limit overall ...

How did Gaza war influence California's primary? - CalMatters
CalMatters
California often embraces its perception as a “climate policy leader ... Learn more about California's climate change mandate in Alejandro's story.

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing And Philanthropy. What's Hampering Meaningful Deployment Of Capital?
Forbes
The recent Verbier Summit, facilitated discussions that highlighted both enthusiasm and concerns around the state of sustainable investing, ...

Institutional Investors Lead the Way in Impact Investing within Public Markets - Canada Newswire
Canada Newswire
Impact and sustainable investing have grown to become the core of Genus' offerings after decades of evolution designed to meet the needs of investors ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Deploy! - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Hollan was … Podcasts | October 27, 2023. What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers. David Bank catches up ...

Energy Storage

One battery fire is 'a fire for everyone in the industry' - Energy Storage Summit USA 2024
Energy-Storage.News
Battery storage developers and operators discussed the challenges and opportunities in the US market, on the first day of Solar Media's Energy ...

Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time - The New York Times
The New York Times
Two people in hard hats and protective gear walk along a gravel path in front of. A carbon dioxide storage prototype built by Energy Dome in Ottana, ...

West Michigan poised for growth in advanced energy storage sector - Second Wave Media
Second Wave Media
New report details West Michigan's role and opportunities in energy storage technology development and production. Three state universities and ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

AI And Satellites Fight Climate Change And Restore Rainforests - Forbes
Forbes
By measuring the environmental impact of reforestation and conservation projects. It does so by acquiring multiple data sets from satellite imagery, ...

Scientists hack weather satellite data to quantify methane leaks - Phys.org
Phys.org
The innovation comes at a critical moment in the fight against climate change as governments come under pressure to deliver aggressive action ...

Satellite data unlocks drought impact on southwest China's carbon cycle - Phys.org
Phys.org
... carbon sequestration, offering a strategic model for addressing climate change. The achievements in Southwest China stand as a prominent example ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

CPI commits to Science-Based Targets for net zero - Printweek
Printweek
The science-based targets have strict requirements for evidence of carbon emission reduction, and give companies a clear path to reduce their ...

The road to net zero - Big Food's emissions pledges - GlobalData
GlobalData
Performance against the ... science-based targets to reduce Scopes 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions. ... greenhouse gases from products and improving ...

Bold Goals Action Group release 40 Bold Actions to Accelerate the Bioeconomy
Biofuels Digest
2. Encouraging countries to prepare and enforce transparent, harmonized, and science-based standards for carbon intensity, water use efficiency, and ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Study details how climate change and flooding risks are transforming where millions of ...
Milwaukee Independent
First Street found that climate change is creating winners and losers at the neighborhood and block level. Zoom out to consider the whole country ...

Range-Shifting Fishes Are Climate-Change Losers - Eurasia Review
Eurasia Review
Range-Shifting Fishes Are Climate-Change Losers ... The warming of the Earth's oceans due to climate change ... climate-change winners. Our results show ...

Decarbonizing production of energy is a quick win | MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Climate change and energy ... climate change. Oil and gas production ... Mr. Mussabeh Al Kaabi: We don't have the luxury of picking winners and losers.   

Microgrids:

Micro Grids: Future Of 7×24 Hour Clear And Renewable Power For All – Analysis
Energy Central
Micro grids are typically supported by generators or renewable wind and solar energy resources and are often used to provide backup power or ...

The Microgrid Market Is Expected to Grow 19% Annually Until 2027 - How Correlate Energy ...
Yahoo Finance
A microgrid is a small-scale power grid that serves a localized area, typically consisting of renewable energy sources like solar panels and energy ...

Microgrid systems in bakeries reduce carbon footprint - Food Business News
Food Business News
– Bimbo Bakeries USA, a Horsham-based business of Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV, has launched an on-site microgrid system at six California baking facilities.

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Community Health Workers Help Wisconsinites Thrive
Wisconsin Department of Health Services - Wisconsin.gov
Mental Health Statistics · Population Estimates · PRAMS (Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) · Reporting Data to DHS · Sexually Transmitted ...

Geary Co. launches Community Health Needs Assessment - WIBW
WIBW
Stormont Vail Health ...

Predictive analytics: Identifying risk factors and targeting resources in community corrections
Corrections1
Predictive analytics and risk assessment tools offer a new way forward for community corrections. ... Health, Safety and Environment (HSE). Hostage ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Challenges of building a socially responsible investment portfolio - The Irish Times
The Irish Times
Socially responsible investing, or SRI, is an investment strategy that aims to help foster positive social and environmental outcomes while also ...
 
Can retail clients be impact investors? | Wealth Professional
Wealth Professional
Head of impact equities explains strategy behind impact fund and why it differs from traditional ESG strategies.

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

The Ideology and Reality of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage | RealClearEnergy
RealClearEnergy
One of the greatest technological advancements in the climate change space is, arguably, the fact that we now have the technology to outright ...

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) – effective technology or convenient scam?
Resource Works
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage is an important tool in humanity's efforts to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases. While it has ...

Carbon Capture And Storage Market Size To Increase By 104.5M Tons By 2027
Carbon Herald
The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) market encompasses construction industries, factory shutdowns, and supply chains across North ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

The appeal of cities may not wane due to the COVID-19 pandemic and remote working
Nature
... environment amidst the pandemic, especially concerning families with school-aged children. Also, based on a before-after comparison, survey ...

California's case for sustainability initiatives: An outlier or a leader? - Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters
Political shifts and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have delayed broad realization of these goals across the US. In this vacuum, ...

Integrating Gender Equality into Sustainability Standards: A Strategic Approach
Business Fights Poverty
... Covid-19 pandemic. Sustainability systems can help tackle gender equality. At ISEAL, we're seeing growing interest from sustainability systems in ...

Sustainability Investing: 

From niche to mainstream: Advancing partnerships in green investing - McKinsey
McKinsey
Founded in 2000, venture capital (VC) firm Emerald Technology Ventures was among the first VCs to recognize the potential of sustainability investing, ...

Would US investors trust sustainability more if the data were better? - InvestmentNews
InvestmentNews
... investment professionals saying they have a sustainable ESG investing policy in place to consider the impact of any investments made. In 2019 just ...

Long Story Short: Sustainability and Systematic Investing | Man Institute
Man Group
How can sustainability be integrated into a modern, multi-asset portfolio? In this bonus episode of Long Story Short, Otto van Hemert, Harry Moore and ...

Geoengineering:

Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say - The Guardian
The Guardian
Potential geoengineering techniques include seeding the oceans with iron to absorb more carbon dioxide, or spraying water from the oceans into low- ...

Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment
MIT Technology Review
The vast majority of solar geoengineering research to date has been carried out in labs or computer models. The so-called stratospheric controlled ...

Controversial Harvard Geoengineering Project Abandoned After Advisory Committee Report
The Harvard Crimson
A controversial environmental geoengineering experiment led by Harvard Chemistry professor Frank N. Keutsch is officially no longer being pursued, ...

Green Bond Funds:

Constellation Energy issues green bond worth $900 mln to fund nuclear energy projects
Reuters
Green bonds, a financial instrument specifically designed to fund projects that deliver a positive environmental impact, have become increasingly ...

Green bond funds swing back to black in 2023 - Environmental Finance
Environmental Finance
2023 saw the growing sustainable bond fund market make positive returns after a torrid two years, with forecasts of another strong year to come.

Declining Interest Rates Could Boost Green Bond Market - ETF Trends
ETF Trends
GRNB follows the S&P Green Bond U.S. Dollar Select Index and holds dollar-denominated green bonds. The exchange traded fund is higher by 1.54% over ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Applications open for FHWA's Low Carbon Transportation Materials Program
Traffic Technology Today
In addition to funding the use of cleaner construction materials that reduce pollution and carbon emissions for transportation projects, the program ...

FHWA opens $1.2 billion in funding to decrease air pollution from transportation sector
Mass Transit
The program aims to lower air pollution, specifically greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), through reimbursement and incentive funding for low carbon ...

Climate-tech startup BNZ Green raises funds to drive low-carbon economy | Zee Business
Zee Business
BNZ Green provides carbon footprint accounting tools for individuals and companies, actively contributing to the global transition towards a ...

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