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Methane Emissions:

EU approves law to hit gas imports with methane emissions limit | Reuters
Reuters
European Union countries approved a law on Monday to impose methane emissions limits on Europe's oil and gas imports from 2030, ...

Fit for 55: Council gives final green light to cut methane emissions in the energy sector
Consilium.europa.eu - European Union
Methane, a short-lived climate pollutant up to 30 times more potent than CO2, is the second most important greenhouse gas. To meet the Paris ...

New EU Methane Regulation to reduce harmful emissions from fossil fuels in Europe and abroad
Energy - European Commission - European Union
'Methane is the second highest contributor to global warming and air pollution after CO2, accounting for around a third of greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Principles for High-Integrity ...
The White House
Since Day One, President Biden has led and delivered on the most ambitious climate agenda in history, including by securing the Inflation ...
 
To Make Clean Industry Stick, the United States Needs New Trade Mechanisms - CSIS
CSIS
... sector following transportation and power. ... These agreements are based on contracts for ... A compliance carbon market would create financial ...

U.S. Government Issues Seven Principles for Building Voluntary Carbon Markets - Ropes & Gray LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
As noted in the Joint Statement, high-functioning VCMs can connect buyers to cost-effective, high-quality emissions reduction and removal credits, ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

A data-driven decision-making approach for evaluating the projects according to resilience ...
ScienceDirect.com
In this context, the main goal of this study is to design a data-driven decision-making model based on machine learning for evaluating and selecting ...

Data-Driven Decision Making: Tools and Techniques for Product Managers | by Tom Dausy
Medium
Data-Driven Decision Making: Tools and Techniques for Product Managers · Analytics Platforms: Tools like Google Analytics or Mixpanel provide valuable ...

Data-driven decision making: Leveraging AI for educational insights - Express Computer
Express Computer
Data-driven decision making: Leveraging AI for educational insights · By Nirvaan Birla, Founder, Birla Brainiacs · AI use cases in education · Tutoring ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI and IFRS Collaborate To Enable Seamless Sustainability Reporting - MarketWatch
MarketWatch
Responding to market demand, the two organizations to work together to optimize how GRI and ISSB Standards can be used together NORTHAMPTON, ...

IFRS, GRI Collaborate on Interoperability for Sustainability Disclosure Standards
ESG Today
The IFRS Foundation and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced today an expanded collaboration aimed at optimizing how their respective ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

How extreme heat will disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities - ABC News
ABC News - The Walt Disney Company
The health effects ... Climate Center's climate risk analytics ... MORE: The Power of Us: Climate change has disproportionately impacted these vulnerable ...

Climate change and health – the health workers' eyewitness perspective
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Communities are being affected, in multiple ways. Life is becoming harder, health concerns are growing, yet delivering and accessing health care is ...

Climate change is already affecting Mainers' health, doctors say - Kennebec Journal
Kennebec Journal
Most Maine doctors believe that climate change poses a health risk to their patients, with some saying they are already treating patients for problems ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

A Decade of Clean Energy Investment - Elements by Visual Capitalist
Elements by Visual Capitalist
... investments in clean energy are starting to pay off for their investors. The Rise of Sustainable Energy Investment. Propelled by various climate ...

Clean Energy Stocks: An Investment Evolution - Visual Capitalist
Visual Capitalist
... energy investment trends have shifted from fossil fuels to renewable and sustainable energy sources. Long-term energy investors now see ...

This High-Yield Renewable Energy Stock Offers An Attractive Dividend And Significant ...
Yahoo Finance
While Brookfield Renewable is an attractive investment opportunity for those seeking growth and income in the renewable energy sector, investors ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP and Supplier.io Partner to Improve Supply Chain Sustainability - Morningstar
Morningstar
The integration of CDP's data builds upon Supplier.io's existing environmental and social certifications and ratings, which include data from over ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

SoCalGas Receives Organizational Leadership Award from The Climate Registry for ... - Morningstar
Morningstar
... Climate Registry (TCR) at the Climate Leadership ... greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and addressing climate change. ... California's goal of reducing ...

City of Riverside Names Fortino Morales III Sustainability Manager | riversideca.gov
RiversideCA.gov
... California in the face of climate change. He was recognized by the UC Global Food Initiative's 30 Under 30 as one of 30 young pioneers and ...

Updated draft water rule retains feasibility and flexibility provisions - Cal Cities
Cal Cities
California Civic Leadership Institute · Legal ... change. Cal Cities and city ... weather event to the next grow worse under climate change.

Impact Investing:

The Week in impact investing: Economic power of industrious communities - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
... impact investing and sustainable finance. Have a job listing to post? Submit it here. The Call. Call Recording | May 24, 2024. The Call: Laying bets ...

Robert Wood Johnson doubles its impact investing mandate with $325 million commitment
ImpactAlpha
The $13 billion health equity-focused foundation said it aims to attract an additional $1 billion from commercial investors.

ImpactAlpha Open: Trillion-dollar impact opportunities + employee ownership in private equity
ImpactAlpha
... Impact Investing | May 17, 2024. Chinese tariffs, the Global ... Get a weekly pulse on news and trends in impact investing with our free newsletter.

Energy Storage

Energy storage - what you need to know - Freshfields Transactions
Freshfields Transactions - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
In March 2023, the EU adopted a 10-point recommendation to improve regulatory and financial conditions for electricity storage projects, and to ...

My Opinion: We Should Take a Broad View of Energy Storage - Tech Briefs
Tech Briefs
Batteries are a major energy-storage technology, but there is also room for other means like thermal and hydro.

Energy company to discuss plans for 50 MW battery storage facility in Shoreham at Wading ...
RiverheadLOCAL
Representatives of Key Capture Energy, a company seeking to build a 50-megawatt battery energy storage facility on LIPA-owned property in ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth's Poles
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
The agency's PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission consists of two shoebox-size cube satellites, or CubeSats, that ...

NASA launches ground-breaking climate change satellite - Phys.org
Phys.org
A tiny NASA satellite was launched Saturday from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring heat escaping ...

ESA launches EarthCARE satellite to study the impact of clouds on climate change
Euronews.com
The latest and largest of the space agency's Earth Explorer satellites was launched into orbit from California onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Science-based climate goals proposal attracts support at Centene | Governance intelligence
| Governance intelligence
Considers 'supporting targets' for renewable energy, energy efficiency, supply-chain engagement and 'other measures deemed appropriate by management'.

SBTI approval of carbon reduction targets | Company Announcement - Investegate
Investegate
SBTI approval of carbon reduction targets ... CO2 reduction & energy efficiency*. Victrex plc ... The Science-Based Targets are the greenhouse gas ...

CDP and Supplier.io Partner to Improve Supply Chain Sustainability - Morningstar
Morningstar
Science-Based Targets: Identify suppliers taking decisive action on climate change with validated Science-Based Targets (SBTs) for GHG reduction.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Changing the paradigm of climate science - Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
Changes in forms of energy used in products and production systems require changes in economic structures. There will be winners and losers amongst ...

How Prepared Are Markets for a Low-Carbon Transition? - MSCI
MSCI
... global markets are facing uneven readiness for the low-carbon ... winners and losers. Readiness for a climate ... “Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of ...

Senate Energy Chair Offers Views on Defeat of Key Climate Bills - CT Examiner
CT Examiner
Who are the winners and losers now that those heat pumps will not be installed in Connecticut homes? Needleman: People are switching to heat pumps and ...

Microgrids:

Properly Planning Multiple Impacts of Microgrids: Jon Erickson of POWER Engineers MGK 2024
Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrids offer increased reliability, resiliency, and energy efficiency, but if the systems aren't properly planned and installed, ...

3-MW Solar Plus Storage Microgrid Commissioned at Biofuels Plant
Microgrid Knowledge
A $12 million, 3-MW solar plus storage microgrid has been commissioned at the Aemetis ethanol plant in Keyes, California.

ComEd Completes One of Nation's First Neighborhood Scale Community Microgrids ... - Morningstar
Morningstar
“The Bronzeville microgrid plays an essential role in preparing communities for an equitable clean energy transition and will deliver important ...   

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Report: Mental health 'critical' concern in Ottawa County - The Holland Sentinel
The Holland Sentinel
Results of the latest Ottawa County Community Health Needs Assessment were released Wednesday, May 22. ... Data from the behavioral risk factor survey ...

Ottawa County Community Health Needs Assessment being released
Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM
Roossien Jr., MD, Quality and Risk Management Director, Physician Emeritus, Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital. “This assessment is an important ...

Mercy Health launches online risk assessment tool for strokes | News | delphosherald.com
Delphos Herald
So, Mercy Health – Lima has launched a new online tool to help community members evaluate their stroke risk. Patients can act now to lower that risk ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

ESG Funds Struggle in Supercharged Political Climate - ETF.com
ETF.com
ESG ETFs Scramble to Stay Afloat. While there will always be loyal followers of ESG investing, the category, at about $100 billion in total ETF assets ...
 
How Responsible Investing Combines Financial Benefit and Impact - BusinessGhana
BusinessGhana
Integrating ESG factors in investment decision-making involves assessing relevant risks which may have medium to long term negative impact and may ...

Texas Continues to Push Back Against ESG, But Is It Enough? | AIER
American Institute for Economic Research
Hence the 2021 Texas law requiring state agencies to divest from companies that “shed investments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” which TPSF ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon capture and storage needs a serious reality check - Academia - The Jakarta Post
The Jakarta Post
... carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). Although CCUS isn't primarily intended as a climate solution due to its alignment with the oil and ...

Optimal timing of carbon capture and storage policies — A social planner's view
ScienceDirect.com
CCS and CCUS, which adds “utilization” to the process, are the only ways of transforming the expensive potential waste into useful materials and ...

lower carbon world is accelerated through collaboration - Chevron
Chevron
... carbon capture utilization and storage, as well as hydrogen development, or horizontal drilling to produce geothermal energy. Realizing the ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Mediterranean diet cuts environmental impact and improves metabolic health, study finds
News-Medical
Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 · Diet & Nutrition ... environmental sustainability, particularly in reducing acidification, eutrophication, and land use.

Global health at risk: AHF warns against unfair WHO Pandemic Agreement - Bizcommunity
Bizcommunity
... crisis worse than Covid-19 without revisions ... ESG & Sustainability · Finance · HR & Management ... Covid-19 pandemic unless these key points are ...

Did You Save Money, Aid During Covid Pandemic in US? Tell Us - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Many Americans squirreled away cash while they were stuck at home during the pandemic that they otherwise wouldn't have ... Sustainability · Bloomberg ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable Investing Trends - Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Sustainable investing continues to prove a complex and multi-faceted topic. The number of regulatory requirements aimed at corporations and ...

Sustainable Investing: A Guide to Greener and Ethical Investment Options
The Smart Investor
As global challenges such as climate change and social inequality intensify, sustainable investing offers a more ethical choice for investors.

Investing in green companies: Why private equity should lead the charge | Utility Dive
Utility Dive
In the long run, the investment by private equity firms in sustainable technologies and practices can lead to significant environmental benefits.

Geoengineering:

Can geoengineering help us solve climate change? | The Excerpt - USA Today
USA Today
... geoengineering, that's generally called carbon capture. The other, the standard solar geoengineering would not remove greenhouse gases from the ...

A trial of cloud-brightening technology sparks controversy in a California city - NBC News
NBC News
Alameda, California, has been thrust into a debate about geoengineering, after scientists began to study technology that could be used to brighten ...

Reports find Alameda geoengineering experiment not a threat to humans or wildlife
San Francisco Chronicle
Matthew Gallelli with SRI International operates a cloud aerosol research instrument during a first of its kind geoengineering field study launching ...

Green Bond Funds:

Sovereign green bonds – Bigger, stronger, and more diverse in 2024 - Viewpoint
Viewpoint - BNP Paribas Asset Management
We believe sustainable finance will be a growing source of funding as emerging market sovereigns present national energy transition plans and climate ...

Air Liquide issues €500m green bond to finance clean hydrogen, CCS and low-carbon gases
Hydrogen Insight
French industrial gases firm Air Liquide has successfully issued a €500m ($542m), ten-year green bond in order to raise funds for ...

Air Liquide Releases €500 Million Green Bond to Fund Sustainable Energy Initiatives
ChemAnalyst
Air Liquide has effectively launched a fresh 500 million euros green bond, aligning with its vision of merging growth with sustainable ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Is iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) a Strong ETF Right Now?
Yahoo Finance
In this article: TGT. Making its debut on 12/08/2014, smart beta exchange traded fund iShares MSCI ...

National Grid taps shareholders to help fund £60bn low-carbon energy switch
The Guardian
National Grid has tapped shareholders for nearly £7bn to fund a £60bn spending spree to upgrade its networks to cope with the switch to low-carbon ...

Air Liquide issues €500m green bond to finance clean hydrogen, CCS and low-carbon gases
Hydrogen Insight
The company plans to invest €8bn into low-carbon H2 in total from next year until 2035, while tripling sales from its hydrogen business.

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