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Methane Emissions:,
Methane emissions decreased in fossil fuel exploitation and sustainably increased in ... - Nature
Nature
Methane (CH4) emission reduction to limit warming to 1.5 °C can be tracked by analyzing CH4 concentration and its isotopic composition (δ13C, ...
Methane: Parliament adopts new law to reduce emissions from energy sector | News
European Parliament
The new law will enable the EU to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector to reach the EU's climate goals and improve air quality.
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Mayer Brown
For countries that have their economy based on commodities, the carbon tax could add the considerable challenge of increased freight costs. The ...
The Next Phase of Electricity Decarbonization? Planned Power Capacity is Nearly All Zero-Carbon
The White House
While there is still plenty of existing fossil fuel capacity across the United States, this increase in new capacity from battery storage is an ...
Grafmarine Partners With Global Leader in Decarbonization of Shipping Industry
Renewable Energy Magazine
Based in Manchester and Anglesey, Grafmarine is at the forefront of developing Nanodeck technology for the maritime sector.
Data Driven Decision Making:
Unlocking The Power Of Analytics: How To Adopt A Data-Driven Mindset - Forbes
Forbes
Today, it's more important than ever to practice data-driven decision-making. Analytics can help a company unlock valuable assets that drive ...
How Data Drives Strategies for Improved Student Outcomes | EdSurge News
EdSurge
Data-driven decision-making is similar to other evidence-based practices in schools, like having a guaranteed and viable curriculum or using ...
Stravito launches AI assistant for enhanced data-driven decision making - SiliconANGLE
SiliconANGLE
Stravito launches AI assistant for enhanced data-driven decision making. by Duncan Riley. SHARE. Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Carbon Pulse
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have announced they are tightening their ...
Revision of GRI Economic Impact Standards Will Enable Comprehensive Reporting on ... - 3BL Alerts
3BL Alerts
Last year, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) - the independent body responsible for setting the GRI Standards - announced a new ...
How to distinguish sustainability in your accounting and business teaching
Times Higher Education (THE)
... reporting. A contrasting approach, led by the long-standing Global Reporting Initiative's Global Sustainability Standards Board (GRI/GSSB) offers ...
Community Health Risks From Climate Change:
Climate change is making homelessness worse — but experts say we can help | Salon.com
Salon.com
... climate change." Sean Kidd, a senior scientist and psychologist at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (who was not involved in the Community ...
What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide? - Nature
Nature
So can chronic effects of global warming, such as water and food insecurity, community breakdown and conflict, as we report in a News feature. The ...
Investing at the Intersection of Climate and Health - Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Heatwaves are expected to be 2x - 5x more common due to climate change.7, Increased heat illnesses and aggravated chronic conditions. Increased risk ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Apple
... clean electricity by 2030, including through large-scale investments in new renewable energy in markets around the world. This is part of a ...
Chevron launches $500 million fund to invest in renewable energy technologies - World Oil
World Oil
(Bloomberg) – Chevron Corp.'s venture arm launched a fund — its third — with a $500 million commitment to invest in renewable energy technologies.
3 Renewable Energy Stocks to Ride the Mega Trend Higher | InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace
As government incentives and policies shift to favor the push toward renewables, investors can position their portfolios to capitalize on this trend.
CDP Sustainability:
PR Newswire
Kearney recognized on the annual CDP Climate A List, underlining its commitment to reaching net zero · Kearney set to launch Internal Carbon Pricing ...
CDP Awards 2024: Celebrating the European giants making strides in the green transition
Euronews.com
CDP is a non-profit organisation that runs the world's leading environmental disclosure system. Europe is home to seven of the twelve companies in the ...
Maximise your CDP score in 2024: Strategies for improved environmental reporting
FinTech Global
According to Position Green, however, for those in the sustainability field, the approach of the second quarter signals a crucial time for CDP ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
PR Newswire
... leadership group will be formed to run a new Los Angeles Chapter. "California is a global leader in the fight against climate change. Standing as ...
State Policy Leadership To Conserve Nature - Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress
Today, alarming levels of biodiversity loss, climate change impacts, and inequitable and inadequate outdoor access demand accelerated conservation ...
California's climate policies rooted in Fantasyland, not Tomorrowland - Manteca Bulletin
Manteca Bulletin
But to grasp the true insanity of what's going on let's accept various climate change models state bureaucrats and elected leaders as well as those ...
Impact Investing:
ImpactAlpha
Kresge Foundation's Erika Brice makes the case for Impact investing in HBCUs to expand access to capital and foster opportunity.
The Week in impact investing: Chaos theory - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
... impact investing and sustainable finance. Have a job listing to post? Submit it here. Muni Impact | March 22, 2024. How green banks are blending ...
Six impact performance reports that go beyond the basics to give investors needed insights
ImpactAlpha
These impact performance reports go beyond outputs to outcomes and impact to provide investors with insights.
Energy Storage
Energy-Storage.News
A compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in Hubei, China, has come online, with 300MW/1500MWh of capacity.
Reaching Ambitious Carbon Goals with Cost-Efficient Energy Storage - Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
By storing power during peak hours and releasing it during peak demand, energy storage batteries can help companies balance the load on the power grid ...
Engie to build first standalone BESS in Chile at decommissioned coal plant
Energy-Storage.News
Engie will build a 116MW/660MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at the former site of a coal plant it operated in Chile.
Climate Change and Satellites:
More climate-warming methane leaks into the atmosphere than ever gets reported
The Conversation
Duren explained how new satellites are changing ... Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures ... Our Carbon Mapper Coalition satellites ...
EarthCARE satellite set to explore the Earth's skies - Airbus
Airbus
... climate change. The much anticipated EarthCARE satellite - developed by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace ...
More climate-warming methane leaks into the atmosphere than ever gets reported - Yahoo
Yahoo
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can leak from oil and gas wells, pipelines and landfills. Satellites can spot the releases fast enough to ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Sustainability Magazine
By setting science-based targets, companies ... “The principle of setting targets – and not including carbon ... Performance Cookies. Performance Cookies.
The SBTi Board's statement on carbon credits is not grounded in science or due process
NewClimate Institute
NewClimate Institute applauds the brave reaction from the staff of the Science Based Targets initiative, who today issued a strong statement ...
Critics Scorch Science-Based Targets Initiative for Allowing Carbon Offsets for Scope 3 Emissions
The Energy Mix
Companies will be allowed to buy carbon offsets to cover their downstream emissions under new rules adopted this week by the Science-Based Targets ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Phys.org
'Winners and losers' as global warming forces plants uphill. Mar 25, 2024. Better predicting mountains' flora and fauna in a changing world. Jan 23 ...
As I See It: Winners and losers - Pine and Lakes Echo Journal
Pine and Lakes Echo Journal | Pequot Lakes, Minnesota
As I See It: Winners and losers. EVs, the ... I suppose poisoning some Third World country people doesn't really matter as long as the climate change ...
Roll the dice The winners and losers in the climate-change game - Durango Telegraph
Durango Telegraph
Roll the dice. The winners and losers in the climate-change game. Roll the dice. Trees and other vegetation that once slowly adapted to changing ...
Microgrids:
NOLA.com
Entergy spokesperson Beau Tidwell said the utility “supports exploring green microgrid technology,” but not the “area microgrids” the city wants to ...
$10M in Microgrid Grants Deliver Resilience to Native American Communities
The Energy Mix
... electricity supply, United States charity Direct Relief is providing US$10 million in solar+storage microgrid grants to Native American communities.
Montezuma microgrid system aims to improve energy reliability, resilience, and affordability
North Tama Telegraph
The microgrid will use 2.5 megawatt solar arrays and 1.5 megawatt-hour battery storage systems to power 706 residential homes, 201 commercial ...
Community Health Risk Assessment:
One health risk assessment tool | RMHP - Dove Medical Press
Dove Medical Press
Among the various risk assessment tools available, they identify the risk for the environment as a whole or for the transmission in the community at ...
EPA Finalizes New Rule Requiring More Than 200 Chemical Plants to Reduce Toxic Emissions
JD Supra
On the other hand, certain members of the regulatory community have called the rules' health risk assessment scientifically flawed and based on ...
CMS Announces Proposed Rule for 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
The National Law Review
... Health (“SDOH”) Risk Assessment services. This ... community health workers, care navigators, and peer support specialists. ... evaluation and management ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
ICICI Direct
ESG Investing stands for Environment, Social and Governance Investing. It is a strategy that aims to invest in companies with a strong ethical ...
5 Apps for Socially Responsible Investing - US News Money
US News Money
Invest with your heart and your phone with as little as $1 with these ESG and socially responsible investing apps.
ESG Bonds: A Trillion-Dollar Frontier for Responsible Investing - Dividend.com
Dividend.com
For many investors, ESG has been equated with equities, with nearly one in three dollars' worth of assets being managed under the ESG banner. In the ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
Lexology
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) could play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions in a warming world—but unleashing its full ...
Onboard carbon capture utilisation and storage - SAFETY4SEA
safety4sea
Akshat Arora, Senior Risk Assessor at Gard Club, tackles various aspects of shipboard carbon capture, including challenges and opportunities.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Power Generation Market to Reach $450.5 ... - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is used to capture and store CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants, reducing their environmental ...
Nature
Finally, Karwowski and Raulinajtys-Grzybek (2021) confirmed that companies can use CSR actions to mitigate environmental, social, governance (ESG), ...
Inclusive Income: How COVID-19 Affected New Measures of the Economy
Business News Wales
Written By: Cliodhna Taylor Senior Statistician in the Macroeconomic and Environment Statistics Office for National Statistics.
Supply Chain Challenges During COVID-19: Blockchain Solutions
The National Law Review
... COVID-19 outbreak and potentially produce reli. ... Coronavirus News, Communications, Media & Internet ... sustainability or ethical sourcing standards ...
Sustainability Investing:
Forbes
Financial Literacy: Educate yourself about financial concepts, investment strategies, and economic trends. · Diversify Investments: Spread your ...
Investor Network | Ceres: Sustainability is the bottom line
Ceres
The Ceres Investor Network represents more than 220 institutional investors with $44 trillion in assets under management who are committed to ...
Spotting the opportunities in sustainable investment - Financial Times
Financial Times
This is evidenced by 80 per cent of asset owners stating they implement or evaluate sustainability considerations in their investment strategy2. But ...
Geoengineering:
MIT Technology Review
“The kind of solar geoengineering ideas that people are talking about seriously would be a thin wedge that would, for example, start replacing what ...
UC Santa Cruz expert helps to weigh costs and benefits of controversial research on a high ...
UCSC News - UC Santa Cruz
Solar geoengineering could temporarily avert serious impacts from human-caused global warming, especially for the world's most vulnerable populations.
The perils and promise of extreme geoengineering (1) | New Scientist
New Scientist
The perils and promise of extreme geoengineering (1). Published 10 April 2024. From Angela Cotton, Southampton, UK. I read “Megaprojects that could ...
Green Bond Funds:
RWE Issues $2 Billion Green Bond in U.S. to Fund Clean Energy Buildout - ESG Today
ESG Today
According to RWE's Green Financing Framework, eligible use of proceeds from the company's green bond offerings may be used for investments in ...
Climate Risks Fuel Niche Market in Muni-Bond Funds - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
... funds to mitigate climate effects. In ... funds, including one addressing climate risk. The others focus ... The performance of the so-called green-bond ...
ESG Bonds: A Trillion-Dollar Frontier for Responsible Investing - Dividend.com
Dividend.com
ESG Bond ETFs. These funds were selected based on their exposure to various social, green, and sustainable bonds issued by sovereigns, municipalities, ...
Low Carbon Funds:
EPA's Selection of Recipients for $20 Billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds Is ...
Barnes & Thornburg
“Governments have created green banks in various national and local contexts to achieve a range of goals, including meeting GHG emissions targets, ...
Budget should accelerate low-carbon future - Policy Options
Policy Options
Budget 2024 should fund programs to address the impacts that decarbonization will have on adversely affected demographics, regions and industries.
Climate Lenders With $20 Billion in Grants Weigh Risk and Reward - Bloomberg Law News
Bloomberg Law News
But the fund's basic objectives are to cut greenhouse gas emissions, prioritize benefits to low-income and disadvantaged communities, and mobilize ...
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