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Methane Emissions:
New rule to decrease landfill methane emissions - Washington State Department of Ecology
Washington State Department of Ecology - WA.gov
A new Washington regulation will help reduce methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas, from municipal solid waste landfills in the state.
The methane ruminations - Resilience.org
Resilience.org
Both carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions are thus primarily a result of industrial processes originating in fossil fuels, while methane comes ...
Check and checkmethane | EurekAlert!
EurekAlert!
Check and checkmethane ... image: Methane plume emitting from oil and gas facility. AI to automatically detect global methane emissions in satellite ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy - University of Pennsylvania
Heavy industry is on track (with sectoral ... Based on cost effectiveness, job creation, and ... decarbonization levers for the industrial sector.
Drivers and implications of alternative routes to fuels decarbonization in net-zero energy systems
Nature
Production technologies in each sector compete based on levelized cost, with cost and performance assumptions described in Methods. The model solves ...
Cemex and MPP collaborate to accelerate decarbonization projects - Corporate Website
Cemex
... industry and transport sectors ... Cemex is proud to partner with MPP in advancing decarbonization in the cement and concrete sector. ... based on such ...
Data Driven Decision Making:
How Immersive Data Experiences Enable Decision-making - Spiceworks
Spiceworks
Daniel Fallmann, CEO of Mindbreeze, dives into the future of data-driven decision-making with immersive data experiences.
From Data-Driven to Data-Centric: The Next Evolution in Business Strategy | TDWI
TDWI
In an age of data-driven strategic decision-making, some companies are sensing a shift: to be successful in the future, they will need to evolve ...
Four Pillars of Decision-driven Analytics - Knowledge at Wharton
Knowledge at Wharton - University of Pennsylvania
... decisions should be driven by data. Rather ... The rationale for making decisions with input from ... decision-makers to collaborate with data analysts.
Global Reporting Initiative:
lexpress.mu
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards offer organizations a modular system of interconnected standards to publicly report the impacts of ...
ESG Reporting: Selecting the Metrics that Matter - Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
Additionally, widely accepted standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the recent International Financial Reporting Standards ...
Bristow Unveils Sustainability Achievements in Latest Report - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
... reporting by adhering to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards; Continued success in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) initiatives; Completed ISO ...
Community Health Risks From Climate Change:
Climate change is affecting mental health literally everywhere
Yale Climate Connections
“It's about the collective well-being of our communities and the land itself. When nature suffers, so do we.” Extreme weather and air pollution are ...
This Environmental Victory May Reinforce Injustices in Black Communities - Capital B News
Capital B News
This “means more communities will be protected from disproportionate and unacceptable health risks, including communities with environmental ...
The unseen effects of climate change on mental health - The Hindu
The Hindu
The study indicated that people with mental health conditions seem to be at a greater risk of succumbing to heat-related deaths.
Renewable Energy Investments:
InvestorPlace
Nations are gearing up to meet ambitious climate change targets to address the need to reduce carbon footprint and emissions, making investors start ...
Australia to invest $15 billion in renewable energy, critical minerals - Reuters
Reuters
The Australian government on Tuesday announced a A$22.7 billion ($15.0 billion) package to boost domestic manufacturing and renewable energy as ...
New Data Shows Investments to Build California's Clean Energy Grid of the Future are Paying Off
California Energy Commission - CA.gov
Logos for the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission. SACRAMENTO — Non-fossil-fuel sources now make up 61 percent ...
CDP Sustainability:
CDP
"Bilateral and multilateral financial institutions play a fundamental role in long-term sustainable development. Climate change, food and energy ...
Cdp, new operations for 1,7 billion. Green light for capital increase proposed by Fincantieri
FIRSTonline
A policy to reduce Cdp's internal environmental impact was also ratified. ... sustainability, aiming to strengthen Italian strategic supply chains and ...
Metso continues to be ranked at the Leadership level in CDP's Climate Change evaluation
Yahoo News UK
... sustainability into our business," says Kaisa Jungman, Head of Sustainability, Metso. CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, is an ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Streetsblog California
California Leaders Celebrate Ten Years of Climate Action ... climate change. Administration officials making the announcement were understandably proud ...
Moving to Action: How the Young Leaders Advisory Council is Working to Inspire Change
California Forward
CA FWD's Young Leaders ... changing climate and will bear the brunt of climate change throughout our lifetimes. ... We urge leaders to prioritize climate ...
Environment California presents Offshore Wind Champion award to Assemblymember Rick Zbur
Environment America
Community members and leaders gather to celebrate offshore wind energy and recognize Asm. Zbur's leadership.
Impact Investing:
ImpactAlpha
... Investing in Health · Policy Corner · Global · Geographies · Emerging Markets · United States · Impact How-To · Catalytic Capital · Impact Management ...
World Changing Ideas 2024: Impact investing honorees - Fast Company
Fast Company
The impact investing category of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards honors funds, social impact bonds, and other investments in ...
The talk outpaces the walk: Three tough truths about impact investing - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Upstart Co-Lab announced the first close on its Inclusive Creative Economy Strategy. Along the way, Laura Callanan learned some tough truths about ...
Energy Storage
Lightsource bp
Electricity grid operators need to match supply with demand – nonstop. Battery energy storage is a technology that helps deliver on that critical ...
How to finance battery energy storage | World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Battery energy storage systems can address the challenge of intermittent renewable energy. But innovative financial models are needed to encourage ...
World Changing Ideas 2024: Fourth Power's energy storage is 10x cheaper than lithium-ion batteries
Fast Company
Cheaper energy storage is key to making the transition to a fully clean electric grid, since solar and wind power aren't always available. The ...
Climate Change and Satellites:
Next-gen satellites will paint a clearer picture of a changing Earth - Space.com
Space.com
NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite system will focus on providing critical information on environmental issues from the ...
Can satellite monitoring help to combat the risks of climate change?
International Railway Journal
Climate change is already creating a surge in such events for the rail industry worldwide. Rising global temperatures create new environmental ...
NASA to Discuss New Polar Climate Mission During Media Teleconference
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
The launch date for the second satellite will be announced shortly after the launch of the first satellite. Earth absorbs a lot of energy from the Sun ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
Yahoo News UK
Companies must listen to scientists and align their plans to reach net zero targets with a global pact to fight climate change, executives told a ...
Trane Technologies Accelerates Growth through Leading Sustainability Performance
Business Wire
Carbon Neutrality: Reduced operational (Scope 1 and 2) emissions by 44%, ahead of schedule toward reaching science-based target of 50% reduction and ...
Trane Technologies 2023 ESG Report
Trane Technologies
Within our roadmap, our near-term science-based targets and our climate ... Through competitive, performance-based pay and strong benefits, we strive to.
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Renew Economy
... winners. They don't need it. We're picking and backing losers.” “That makes climate change worse,” Lovins says,. No proposed changes in size ...
BLM picking winners and losers leads to a bureaucratic black hole | GABEL - Colorado Politics
Colorado Politics
... winners and losers. The largest looming concerns of this final rule are threefold. First, EIS must now include analysis of climate change — and ...
Response to floods will determine winners and losers in 2027 polls - Daily Nation
Daily Nation
But the Flood 2024 Chapter has visibly tested Kenya's capacity to rationally and effectively respond to the growing threat of climate change-related ...
Microgrids:
Microgrid Knowledge
The utility is using remote microgrids to eliminate overhead distribution lines in high fire threat areas, reducing wildfire risks and improving ...
Tribal Communities Want Energy Resilience with Microgrids: Is the U.S. Stepping Up?
Microgrid Knowledge
A major goal for outage-prone tribal communities is becoming energy resilient through the deployment of microgrids and renewable energy.
Data-driven optimization for microgrid control under distributed energy resource variability
Nature
Therefore, it is necessary to develop scheduling strategy to optimise hybrid PV-wind-controllable distributed generator based Microgrids in grid- ...
Community Health Risk Assessment:
El Paso County Community Health Assessment: drug overdoses, suicides, access to health ...
Colorado Springs Gazette
“We know people being insecure in their housing puts them at increased risk for poor health outcomes,” she said. “There's increased concern in the ...
Paths and risks to community - The Martha's Vineyard Times
The Martha's Vineyard Times
... assessment and determined a need for a standard healthcare curriculum across all Island schools. Before that, the six schools on the Island had ...
Why community health is an increasing priority for St. Louis hospitals - YouTube
YouTube
... Health, believes that improving health ... hospital systems to complete a federally mandated assessment that identifies community health needs ... risk, & ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
My Jewish Learning
Valley Beit Midrash (VBM), based in Phoenix, AZ, hosts Jewish learning events on a wide range of topics and perspectives.
Responsible investing: ESG mutual funds are gaining traction, for all the right reasons
Tribune India
The enhanced focus on embracing sustainability is having an impact on investment goals too. ESG or Environmental, Social and Governance mutual ...
28 courses to boost your ESG, sustainable finance skills | GreenBiz
GreenBiz
Impact investing: Proactively seeking investments that can make a measurable social or environmental impact alongside financial returns, targeting a ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
ACS Publications - American Chemical Society
The escalating levels of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and the detrimental consequences of global warming have spurred extensive research into ...
Globalization and Health - BioMed Central
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COIVD-19) is spreading faster in low temperatures and humid area. • Weather and climate serve as environmental drivers ...
ESG performance on the value of family firms: international evidence during Covid-19
Nature
The link between the financial success of family companies during COVID-19 and their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance is ...
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban infrastructure - ScienceDirect.com
ScienceDirect.com
Since the most common mitigation responses to ensure the sustainability of modern infrastructure are associated with local natural disasters or ...
Sustainability Investing:
YouTube
A greener future and the well-being of Europeans are some of the objectives of the EU. The European Parliament is pushing for ambitious steps to ...
Green Investing Goes Mainstream: The EU's Emission Trading System Now Accessible To All
Forbes
Forbes Innovation Sustainability. Green Investing Goes Mainstream: The EU's Emission Trading System Now Accessible To All. Marianne Lehnis.
EU Issues New Rules for Funds Using “ESG” or “Sustainability” Names to Address ...
ESG Today
The study also found a preference by fund providers for more generic ESG terms, which could make it difficult for investors to verify that investments ...
Geoengineering:
San Francisco Chronicle
... Matthew Gallelli with SRI International operates a Cloud Aerosol Research Instrument during a geoengineering field ...
Shady Science: The Dangers of Secret Solar Geoengineering - Atmos.earth
Atmos.earth
A lack of transparency in solar geoengineering projects may tank public perception for an already maligned climate change strategy.
Controversial geoengineering experiment stopped by Alameda officials - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
Matthew Gallelli with SRI International operates a CARI (Cloud Aerosol Research Instrument) during a first of its kind geoengineering field study that ...
Green Bond Funds:
Fidelity International Launches New Article 9 SDG-Focused Sustainable Bond Funds
ESG Today
The new funds also form part of Fidelity's commitment to developing thematic fixed income investment solutions that address climate change, ...
Fidelity launches two new sustainable fixed income funds - RankiaPro
RankiaPro
The new fund complements the company's current climate bond strategy through the Sustainable Social Bond Fund, which includes resilience and ...
SEC greenlights EDC's P10-B green bond offering - BusinessWorld Online
BusinessWorld Online
The green bonds will partially fund the company's geothermal and battery expansion projects, as well as resiliency and maintenance capital ...
Low Carbon Funds:
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