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Methane Emissions:

DOE and EPA Announce $850 Million to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Gas Sector
Department of Energy
Funding from President Biden's Investing in America Agenda Builds on Nearly 100 Cross-Government Actions that Are Sharply Reducing Methane ...

DOE, EPA outline $850M plan to slash methane emissions - E&E News by POLITICO
E&E News
Turk told reporters Thursday that reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas industry is critical both for U.S. energy security and for reaching ...

Biden administration announces $850 million in grants to cut methane emissions - The Hill
The Hill
Methane, which comprises about a third of greenhouse gas emissions, persists in the atmosphere for less time than carbon dioxide but is three ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Driving clean industrial innovation across the U.S.
Clean Air Task Force
The Department of Energy developed a roadmap for industrial sector decarbonization ... based strategy to support industrial decarbonisation in the ...

From lab to market: How to support the next generation of climate technologies
The World Economic Forum
CCUS and technology-based carbon removal is a cross-sector effort, as it involves areas that include chemical engineering, geology, energy and ...

New cross-industry collab targets shipping decarbonization via energy efficiency, future ...
Offshore-Energy.biz
... carbon capture and storage (OCCS) for ships. As part of the collaboration, OGCI will bring expertise and know-how in developing land-based carbon ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Scoop Analytics backed by $3.5M to democratize data-driven decision making with ...
KMWorld
... process of using data to make strategic decisions for an enterprise. Motivated by the idea that data-driven decision making can and should happen ...

Effective data-driven decision-making in brand marketing - Adgully.com
Adgully.com
Data-driven decision-making has a direct impact on business outcomes. By making better-informed decisions, companies can streamline the process, ...

E-Commerce Marketing Series: From data-driven decision-making to intelligent solutions ...
marketech apac
Winning today's digital commerce landscape depends on several essential elements. First, data-driven decision-making. The ability to consolidate and ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI CEO Eelco van der Enden stepping down - Accounting Today
Accounting Today
Global Reporting Initiative CEO Eelco van der Enden plans to step down at the end of the year when his three-year contract concludes on Dec. 31.

Guest Post: How Can a Comprehensive Global Reporting Framework be Achieved?
ESG Today
Last month, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) committed to work more closely with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to ...

TIME Magazine Names CSX One of the World's Most Sustainable Companies for 2024
CSX
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Climate Change-Induced Extreme Weather Events Linked To Poor Cardiovascular Health - Forbes
Forbes
“Clinicians should be aware that heat-associated cardiovascular risk varies by community, paradoxically increasing at lower temperatures in cooler ...

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Agency Climate Adaptation Plans ...
The White House
Across the country, communities are experiencing the devastating impacts of climate change. ... health, demographic, and climate change information to ...

In the era of climate disasters, mental health is no longer a tale - Daily Nation
Daily Nation
Research from BMC Psychiatry indicates that climate change is associated with mental health concerns and suicidality. ... community vulnerabilities and ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Record energy investments are failing to keep the world on track for the 2030 renewables target
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Despite last year's surge of US$1.8 trillion in clean energy investment, including US$660 billion earmarked for renewables, ...

Private Equity Buys In Renewable Energy Big Time, Almost $15B - CarbonCredits.com
CarbonCredits.com
Learn how private equity is transforming the renewable energy sector with record investments, driving the global shift towards clean energy.

Global Clean Energy Spending Is Set to Exceed $3 Trillion in 2024 | OilPrice.com
Oil Price
2024 sees a surge in investment towards renewable energy, clean tech, and energy infrastructure as the world shifts towards a greener future, ...

CDP Sustainability:

1.5°C still the goal: businesses disclosing climate transition plans jumps nearly 50% - CDP
CDP
... CDP, which runs the world's only independent environmental disclosure system. A further 36% (8,200) disclosed that they expected to create one by ...

CDP: Companies need credible climate transition plans for long-term financial success
edie
... sustainability reporting regulations and as investors seek to navigate intensifying environmental risks. CDP found that three-quarters of the ...

Scope 3 Upstream Report: Big Challenges, Simple Remedies - CDP
CDP
Sustainability risk areas for our company include shifting customer and consumer preferences toward sustainable products, increasing regulation and ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

DWR's Roadmap to Reaching Carbon Neutrality by 2035
California Department of Water Resources
Solar panels produce energy at the Pearblossom Pumping Plant in Pearblossom, California. California's changing climate is one of the biggest ...

Editorial: Shame on California lawmakers for killing fossil fuel divestment bill again
Los Angeles Times
In a state whose leaders speak with urgency about fighting climate change, it's shameful and hypocritical that CalPERS and CalSTRS have billions ...

EPA Celebrates Two California Winners of the Presidential Environmental Youth Award
Environmental Protection Agency
“Our awardees exemplify commitment to environmental education and steadfast leadership ... climate change. To the awardees, we extend our sincere ...

Impact Investing:

Impact investing can create sustainable and inclusive futures - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Impact investing, through inclusive innovation, capacity-building and sustainability, can transform economies and foster a sustainable, ...
 
Impact credit is on the rise - New Private Markets
New Private Markets
His firm, which has previously been active in public and private equity investing, launched its impact credit fund in 2023 and reached a €250 million ...

Convincing wealthy clients to invest for impact - Professional Wealth Management
Professional Wealth Management
... investments during economic downturns reinforces financial viability of impact investing. Institutional investors reported higher returns on ESG ...

Energy Storage

Innovations for a new era of energy storage | Transforming Business - YouTube
YouTube
To store the increasing amount of clean energy coming from renewables, we need batteries. Without them, there's a risk of stalling the transition ...

New York regulator signs off state roadmap to achieve 6GW energy storage target by 2030
Energy-Storage.News
New York Public Service Commission has approved plans to guide state to 2030 target, including solicitations for battery storage.
    
EIA Details How Utilities are Increasingly Using Energy Storage Batteries for Arbitrage
American Public Power Association
Electricity utilities are increasingly reporting that they are using energy storage batteries to move electricity from periods of low prices to ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

NASA Leader Emphasizes Satellite Data and Collaboration to Combat Climate Change
Via Satellite
NASA wants to play a key role alongside the commercial satellite industry to use satellite technology to help avert the climate crisis.

NASA Releases Updated Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience Plan
NASA
Artist's concept of the Earth drawn from data from multiple satellite missions and created by a team of NASA scientists and graphic artists. Credit: ...

Defunct satellites burning up in the atmosphere could damage the ozone layer. Here's how
The Conversation
(Climate change is speeding up this circulation, which means the time that aerosols and gases are in the stratosphere is shorter.) The famous eruption ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Science-Based Targets Are a Formula for Success - InformationWeek
InformationWeek
... goals is difficult without science-based targets. These standards align actions with the latest climate science in areas such as greenhouse gas ...

Hershey Updates Science-Based Targets As It Advances Efforts To Reduce Greenhouse ...
Morningstar
... carbon footprint. Reducing Energy Consumption and Leveraging Renewable Energy. To improve energy consumption and efficiency, Hershey has created a ...

Hershey moves to strengthen its science-based targets environmental performance
Confectionery Production
“We have a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint to build resiliency for our business and the planet and are doing so with challenging goals ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

A new global survey shows that people everywhere are concerned about climate change
VPM News
... climate. And his reporting examines who's reshaping the energy system and who are the winners and losers. A key element of Brady's reporting is ...

Winners and losers in California budget deal - CalMatters
CalMatters
With Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic-led Legislature coming to a budget agreement on Saturday, some winners and losers of the spending plan have ...

Q1 Earnings Season Round-up: Stock Winners and Losers | Opto Partners - CMC Markets
CMC Markets
The first earnings season of 2024 is out of the way, and some of the winners and losers, among them Nvidia, Meta and Eli Lilly, could be driving ...

Microgrids:

Unlocking the Power of Microgrids - T&D World
T&D World
Beyond the basic “what is” question, more questions arise for utilities and their relationships with them. What do microgrids mean for utilities?

The Grid Needs DERs and Microgrids: Here's What can Accelerate their Deployment, says Deloitte

Microgrid Knowledge
Community microgrids also provide opportunities to meet demand and provide resilience, said Craig Rizzo, managing director at Deloitte Consulting. A ...

Enchanted Rock Microgrids Achieve 'Awardable' Status on Department of Defense CDAO's ...
PR Newswire
Enchanted Rock's 3.2 MW resiliency microgrid, developed in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Entergy Mississippi, replaced an ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

2024-2026 implementation strategy/community health improvement plan - Richland Public Health
Richland Public Health
comprehensive Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to identify priority health issues ... *Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; BRFSS Region ...

West Dallas residents are exposed to more air pollution than rest of county, study says
Dallas Morning News
About 50 community members gathered at the West Dallas Multipurpose Center on Thursday to learn about the results of the six-month community health ...

Improving Health Equity through Whole-Person Care - FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting
The report recognized that social risk factors impact member health, and significant gaps exist based on income, race, ethnicity and community ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

The Story of the First ESG Index | Morningstar
Morningstar
Climate-investing indexes alone encompass ex-fossil fuel, low carbon, climate transition, and investment themes like green bonds, renewable energy, ...

Reflection Asset Management founder offers new twist to ESG debate - InvestmentNews
InvestmentNews
Some call it ESG, which stands for environmental, social and governance. It used to be called SRI, short for socially responsible investing. Even ...

Industry experts explore future of responsible investing | Wealth Professional
Wealth Professional
Canadian advisors have a unique opportunity to deepen their engagement with investors by addressing climate change and its impact on investment ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Enerflex and BASF to collaborate in carbon capture, utilization and storage applications
BASF
... carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) applications. The parties will combine Enerflex's expertise in engineering, manufacturing, and ...

Thermo Fisher on Carbon Storage and Carbon Capture - Waste 360
Waste 360
From cement plants to waste incineration, companies across industries are looking for ways to capture CO 2 either for utilization or storage to ...

Enerflex and BASF to collaborate in carbon capture, utilization and storage applications
chemeurope.com
... understanding (MoU) to jointly facilitate the commercial scale deployment of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) applications. T ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

2.3 A Lookback on COVID-19 Impacts - Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2024
The World Economic Forum
important lessons for bolstering preparedness, resilience and sustainability in anticipation of future shocks. The critical takeaways include:.

'Covid is a ticking time bomb' | UBS Global
UBS
... coronavirus outbreak had the potential to be a major humanitarian crisis. ... Sustainability and Social Impact · Social Impact and philanthropy · News ...

Safeguarding China's long-term sustainability against systemic disruptors - Nature
Nature
polycrisis: pandemic disease, ageing and shrinking population, deglobalization, climate change, and biodiversity loss. Using an integrated ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Impact investing can create sustainable and inclusive futures - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Impact investing, through inclusive innovation, capacity-building and sustainability, can transform economies and foster a sustainable, ...

Investing in the Green Future - Sustainability - InformationWeek
InformationWeek
Investing in the Green Future. Here's how sustainable supply chain ... From the largest Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups, leaders are faced ...

The Story of the First ESG Index | Morningstar
Morningstar
There are more than 50,000 sustainability indexes. They've played an important role in the growth of sustainable investing, ...

Geoengineering:

The great geo-engineering gamble - Financial Times
Financial Times
The great geo-engineering gamble ... Andy Carter illustration of a person up on a ladder against the sky, spraying clouds ... Simply sign up to the ...

Canceled Geoengineering Experiment to Block the Sun Won't Stop Rich Donors from Trying
Scientific American
A botched geoengineering experiment to limit the amount of sunlight hitting Earth hasn't dimmed donors' enthusiasm for funding the research.

What is geoengineering? - Mint

Mint
In 2009 Britain's Royal Society, a scientific academy, defined geoengineering as “the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment ...

Green Bond Funds:

Indosuez Funds debuts Chronos Green Bonds 2028 - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Indosuez Wealth Management has launched Indosuez Funds - Chronos Green Bonds 2028, the first SFDR bond fund in the Indosuez range to be classed ...

Rate Cuts May Boost ESG Bond Funds - Morningstar
Morningstar
Green and sustainable bond funds tend to have higher allocations to corporate bonds, particularly in the financial sector, and quasi-sovereigns ...

The ESG Phenomenon: Indosuez Wealth Management Launches Green Bond
WealthBriefing
Offered to investors with a conservative risk profile, Indosuez Funds – Chronos Green Bonds 2028 is a fixed-maturity fund that offers visibility on ...

Low Carbon Funds:

BlackRock, Temasek Decarbonization Fund Leads $69 Million Fundraise for Carbon ... - ESG Today
ESG Today
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions provider Neustark announced today that it has raised $69 million in an equity funding round led by ...

ClearSky Global raises US$168 Million to deploy Low Carbon Alternative Fuels across ...
Yahoo Finance
ClearSky plans to use the funding to deploy ECOGY® technology to produce high-quality, low-carbon, and economically viable aviation and transportation ...

These are 3 key hurdles to financing the climate transition - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Taxonomies function as a classification system to indicate which economic activities support the transition to a low-carbon economy. To align ...

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