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Methane Emissions:,

More Than Half of U.S. Landfills May Be Methane 'Super-Emitters,' Study Finds | Smart News
Smithsonian Magazine
An estimated 50 to 65 percent of global methane emissions come from human activities, per the EPA. And landfill emissions are the third-largest source ...

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again
The Washington Post
Those ecosystems are releasing even more greenhouse gases as they heat up. We're caught between a rock and a charred place.” Methane emissions in the ...

Slashing methane emissions: A quest on land and in space - VOA News
VOA News
On Earth and in space, efforts are underway to curb emissions of the super-pollutant methane, a greenhouse gas. VOA's Veronica Balderas Iglesias ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

DOE Releases First Ever Federal Blueprint to Decarbonize America's Buildings Sector
Department of Energy
First Comprehensive Federal Strategy Outlines Pathways to Reduce Emissions 90% in Buildings Sector by 2050, Reinforcing President Biden's ...

First federal blueprint to decarbonize U.S. buildings sector released
Building Design + Construction
The Biden Administration recently released “Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector,” a ...

High-priority local actions in Biden's new plan to slash building GHG emissions
Smart Cities Dive
The Department of Energy blueprint lays out specific goals to lower U.S. building emissions 90% by 2050 compared with 2005 levels.

Data Driven Decision Making:

Data-driven decision-making: The power of enhanced event logging | CyberScoop
CyberScoop
Data-driven decision-making: The power of enhanced event logging. Explore the forefront of federal cybersecurity with Microsoft's innovative ...

HR Works Presents A Seat at the Table: Using Data-Driven Decision Making to Shape Your ...
HR Daily Advisor
Actionable data-based insights are like digital gold for organizations looking to achieve their DEI goals, particularly when it is properly mined.

The Human Factor In Data-Driven Decisionmaking - OPEN MINDS
open minds
The Human Factor In Data-Driven Decisionmaking. By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer. Effective whole person care requires data sharing. It has ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

Cisco's Sustainability 101: What Is Environmental Reporting? - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
... Initiative (GRI), and ... initiatives and transparent reporting regardless of the mandatory regulatory status. According to the WEF Global Risks Report ...

The ISSB's New Sustainability Disclosure Standards - The CPA Journal
The CPA Journal
These standards will affect the deliberations of global standards setters such as the Global Reporting Initiative, Financial Stability Board, ...

A Guide To Totally Transparent Climate Risk Reporting - Forbes
Forbes
President of Pietryla PR & Marketing, offering global ... You can also contact organizations like the Carbon Trust or the Global Reporting Initiative ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Climate change is driving an epidemic of immune health problems - STAT News
STAT News
Consider the wide array of irritants that climate change routinely brings into communities all around the world. Wildfires release dangerous ...

Future proofing health in response to climate change and rapid urbanisation in Africa
The BMJ
A shift to community oriented, integrated climate and health systems and strategies is a cost effective way to tackle the health effects of climate ...

Climate change: A driver of increasing vector-borne disease transmission in non-endemic areas
PLOS
Climate change can affect ... To help communities adapt to the increased risks ... community leaders and health care workers with local knowledge [12].

Renewable Energy Investments:

Biden administration awards $20 bln for clean energy investment in low-income communities
Reuters
Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) Michael Regan on Thursday announced eight organizations that ...

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $19 Million from Investing in America Agenda for ...
U.S. Department of the Interior
The Department of the Interior today announced a $19 million investment from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to install solar panels ...

Renewable Energy Investment Not Enough to Reach Paris Climate Target | OilPrice.com
Oil Price
Despite record investments in renewables, the current funding for clean energy deployment is insufficient for the world to reach the 1.5 degrees ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP Highlights Water and Plastic Threats in Global Supply Chains - Environment+Energy Leader
Environment+Energy Leader
CDP is shedding light once more on significant environmental concerns: plastic pollution and water security. In two just-released reports, ...

CDP Hosts Sustainability Talks, Gala Awards at Louis Vuitton Foundation
AOL.com
CDP Hosts Sustainability Talks, Gala Awards at Louis Vuitton Foundation. WWD. Rhonda Richford. PARIS — It was a meeting of the minds at the Louis ...

NRG Receives A- Scores in Climate Change and Water Security from CDP - CSRwire
CSRwire
Our sustainability team frequently engages with investors and other stakeholders, including trade organizations and environmental groups on NRG's ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds
Inside Climate News
... leader in the fight against climate change.” “CARB is tracking information and research about sulfuryl fluoride and collaborating with the California ...

Padilla, Lee Highlight $1.2 Billion Investment in California's ARCHES Hydrogen Hub During ...

Senator Alex Padilla
... climate goals, and accelerating California's march to carbon neutrality. We are grateful for Senator Padilla's and Congresswoman Lee's leadership ...

Put climate on the ballot in November - Capitol Weekly
Capitol Weekly
ROADMAP 2035: Cars, Carbon and Climate Change – How Do We Meet California's Zero Emissions Goals? ... Tough decisions lay ahead for California's leaders ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing or ESG: What You Need to Know - Nasdaq
Nasdaq
While impact investing focuses on investors doing good by investing only in certain companies or areas of the market, ESG looks at the potential ...

When the Goal Is Impact, Investors Can't Just Consider Rate of Return | Tufts Now
Tufts Now - Tufts University
For some investors, social change might be a more important metric than financial gains, says director of new certificate program in impact and ...

The Week in Impact Investing: Producing Impact - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
... Climate Finance Tracker · The Liist · The Brief | April 5, 2024. The Week in Impact Investing: Producing Impact. ImpactAlpha. The team at.

Energy Storage

Non-lithium energy storage tech firms Torus and Alsym raise combined US$145 million
Energy-Storage.News
Torus and Alysm Energy have raised a combined US$145 million to scale up their non-lithium energy storage technology businesses.

DOE Awards $15M to Launch Innovations for Long Duration Energy Storage Earthshot
Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) announced the selectees of $15 million in awards at the Long Duration Energy ...

Energy storage – a key driver for a sustainable future - Iberdrola
Iberdrola
Energy storage is the process of capturing and retaining energy for later release and use, which can be carried out using different technologies. This ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

Satellite signals can measure a forest's moisture—and its ability to survive | Science
Science
... carbon dioxide (CO2) it absorbs from the atmosphere. ... Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which includes all GPS satellites. ... climate change.

ESA - All eyes on the Arctic Weather Satellite - European Space Agency
European Space Agency
... weather prediction and climate change worldwide.” The Arctic Weather Satellite has been developed and built on a very tight schedule: it has taken ...

Azerbaijan's satellite serves as key data source for Climate Change from Space - official
Trend News Agency
The Climate Change from Space e-platform relies heavily on data from the Azersky-2 satellite, Chairman of the Board of Azercosmos OJSC Samaddin Asadov ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

NYCERS – Annual Climate Report 2023 : Office of the New York City Comptroller Brad Lander
NYC Comptroller's
... carbon emissions data, and physical climate risk assessments. ... Science-Based Targets Thematic Lead for Climate Action 100+. ... performance. Details of ...

Press Release – Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2024 | NewClimate Institute
NewClimate Institute
... climate science and substantiated by credible measures to achieve them. ... Based Targets initiative ... Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI... News.

Vaisala's emission reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative
NTB Kommunikasjon
At Vaisala, we provide instruments and intelligence for climate action, enabling our customers to improve their resource efficiency, drive renewable ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Survey reveals UK butterfly winners and losers in the wake of record high temperatures
The Conversation
Some butterflies are expanding their ranges as the climate changes, others are dwindling.

Carbon is now deciding Winners & Losers - ET EnergyWorld
ET EnergyWorld
... climate change, the concept of achieving net-zero emissions has reached ... Carbon is now deciding Winners & Losers. The European Union is ...

Varied year: Britain's butterfly winners and losers revealed - Yourweather.co.uk
Yourweather.co.uk
... changing and adapting to the continuing challenges posed by climate change and other environmental pressures. According to the latest results from ...

Microgrids:

Alternus Clean Energy, Acadia Energy form JV to develop microgrids in New York | Reuters
Reuters
The joint venture will focus on developing and operating a portfolio of microgrid projects over the next two-to-three years, the company said in a ...

Eaton and Enel complete Puerto Rico's largest solar + storage microgrid
Power Engineering
In addition to powering Eaton's manufacturing facility, the microgrid will also support the regional power grid, the companies said.

Alternus Clean Energy and Acadia Energy Announce JV to Develop 200 MW of Microgrid ...

Yahoo Finance
The joint venture will focus on developing and operating a portfolio of microgrid projects over the next 2-3 years. The Acadia microgrids are ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Health department releases community health assessment results - Ellensburg Daily Record
Ellensburg Daily Record
The Kittitas County Public Health Department completed the most recent Community Health Assessment, officials announced Wednesday.

Health-Related Social Needs Can Keep Women from Getting Lifesaving Mammograms | CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cost to access health care is one of the biggest challenges. Regular mammograms can find breast cancer early. Getting screening mammograms regularly ...

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Stronger Clean Air Standards for Chemical Plants ...
Environmental Protection Agency
WASHINGTON – Today, April 9, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule that will significantly reduce toxic air pollution from ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Impact Investing or ESG: What You Need to Know - Nasdaq
Nasdaq
In recent years, socially responsible investing has continued to gain in popularity. More and more investors are looking beyond the returns they ...

Why Blackrock Opted to 'Transition' Socially Responsible Strategies - The Financial Brand
The Financial Brand
Following backlash, the asset manager has rebranded ESG investing to "transition investing." Does that mean ESG is now a dirty word?

Responsible Investing: Four Themes to Follow in 2024 | AB - AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein
From biodiversity and blended finance to a just transition and the cost of drugs, we preview the key ESG issues we're targeting through research.

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Market to Reach $10.3 billion, Globally, by ...
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Market by Service (Capture, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage Market Projected to Reach $23.22 billion by 2030
Yahoo Finance
The report titled "Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage Market by Service (Capture, Storage, Transportation), Technology (Oxy-Fuel Combustion ...

Investment Tax Credit for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage as updated by Bill C-59 - Lexology
Lexology
Among other tax measures, Bill C-59 will enact the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Investment Tax Credit (CCUS ITC), the Clean Technology ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Greener healthcare operations during COVID-19 pandemic: A data envelopment analysis approach
ScienceDirect.com
The improper disposal and associated environmental burden of BMW widely impact the greener aspect of healthcare services (Rattan et al., 2022).

Testing environmental water to monitor COVID-19 spread in unsheltered encampments
ScienceDaily
To better understand COVID-19's spread during the pandemic, public health officials expanded wastewater surveillance.

COVID subcommittee chair asks top science journal editors to testify on relationship with ...
The Hill
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic ... Environment · Sustainability. Sign up to our latest ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Drivers for sustainable investing | UBS Global
UBS
Sustainable investing should be supported by several key drivers this year. We recommend investors continue to consider sustainable investments ...

Responsible Investing: Four Themes to Follow in 2024 | AB - AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein
Since then, responsible investing has evolved into a much more sophisticated and robust understanding of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

CDPQ presents its 2023 Sustainable Investing Report - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
CDPQ published today its Sustainable Investing Report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.

Geoengineering:

The hard lessons of Harvard's failed geoengineering experiment | MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
The basic concept behind solar geoengineering is that by spraying certain particles high above the planet, humans could reflect some amount of ...

Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere | Scientific American
Scientific American
A solar geoengineering experiment in San Francisco could lead to brighter clouds that reflect sunlight. The risks are numerous.

Benefits and hazards of geoengineering a cooler Earth - The Irish Times
The Irish Times
Geoengineering techniques designed to cool the planet, for example by adding alkaline chemicals to the ocean, spraying salty mixtures into clouds and ...

Green Bond Funds:

Investors ready products to amplify US 'green bank' funding - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Mission-focused investors are stepping up to structure vehicles that can leverage the federal 'green bank' funds.

Billions to trillions: How municipal bonds can multiply the reach of the US 'green bank' - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Municipal bonds emerge as a critical leverage point for accelerating and scaling up green bank funded initiatives across the country.

RBI widens door for foreign participation in green bonds: What this means - Business Standard
Business Standard
What are Sovereign Green Bonds (SGrBs)?. Imagine a government bond, but instead of funding general expenses, the money raised goes specifically ... 

Low Carbon Funds:

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic $20 Billion in Awards to Expand Access to ...
The White House
This investment is part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, afirst-of-its-kind and national-scale $27 billion ...

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $20 Billion in Grants to Mobilize Private Capital and ...
Environmental Protection Agency
WASHINGTON – Today, April 4, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its selections for $20 billion in grant awards under two ...

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic $20 Billion in ...
The White House
Yesterday, as part of President Biden's historic climate agenda, Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator ...

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