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Methane Emissions:

Surging Methane Emissions Could Be a Sign of a Major Climate Shift
Inside Climate News
About 60 percent of methane emissions are from fossil fuel use, farming, landfills and waste, with the rest coming from rotting vegetation in wetlands ...

Why scientists are trying to reengineer the cow's stomach - The Washington Post
The Washington Post
Scientists are studying how to genetically modify the makeup of cows' gut microbiomes to prevent their planet-warming methane emissions.

Why MethaneSAT Is Important For Lowering Emissions From Oil And Gas Fields - Forbes
Forbes
Maps of methane leaks will motivate oil and gas cleanup, certify LNG for importing countries, and help the U.S. decide whether to lift the pause ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

SBTi Launches World-First Framework to Decarbonise Buildings | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
“These tools and actionable guidance provide clear, science-based targets that enable the sector to accelerate decarbonisation and drive the global ...

Decarbonizing agriculture: The next frontier in impact investing
equities.com
As the climate crisis intensifies, the agriculture sector has become a focal point for decarbonizing efforts.
    
Climate Tech Startups Wanted for New Initiative to Accelerate Industrial Decarbonization
Environment+Energy Leader
... carbon pollution challenges in the industrial sector. Supported by a $2 ... These areas have been selected based on their potential to ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

How you can gain from the rising use of data for decision-making | Value Research
Value Research
Its analytical prowess is in high demand as companies are rapidly adopting data-driven decision-making and risk management. Fair valuations. The stock ...

Tackling the Learning Crisis: Data-Driven Decision-Making in Ghana's Education System
UNICEF
The Impact of Data-Driven Decision-Making on Learning. Suman Sachdeva, Alyson Gombas and Agnes Arthur. Happy school children.

Data-Driven Growth: Accelerating SaaS Sales In The Era Of Data - Forbes
Forbes
This is certainly true amongst IT channel companies, with recent Westcon-Comstor research finding that 97% of decision-makers in this sector see data ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI and TNFD Release Interoperability Mapping for ESG and Sustainability Reporting
Seneca ESG
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) have launched a joint interoperability ...
 
GRI Enables Quality Corporate Insights Into SDGs Progress - AccessWire
AccessWire
Updated analysis tool on the SDGs and underlying targets, from GRI and UN Global Compact. NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / August 22, ...

IBAT releases guidelines to help companies align with TNFD, GRI - Carbon Pulse
Carbon Pulse
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard. The Disclosure Preparation Report drafted by the organisation outlined its two-step approach to assess ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

How climate change is making it more likely that the food we eat will make us sick
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
... risk for humans and animals. “This study aims to highlight the connections between climate change and public health, raise awareness, promote ...

Health-related climate adaptation: How to innovate and scale global action for local needs
McKinsey
Locally, health sectors could consider how to scale existing programs to manage the risks exacerbated by climate change: for example, heightened flood ... 

A hostile climate: New report reveals how MSF humanitarian workers and communities are ...
Doctors Without Borders
Climate change therefore deals a “double blow” to life-saving humanitarian aid, by simultaneously multiplying health risks, and making humanitarian ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Norges Bank to invest $1bn in CIP's renewable energy fund - Power Technology
Power Technology
The investments will be directed towards wind farms, solar farms, energy storage, power grid and distribution. Credit: Yuri Hoyda / Shutterstock.

LS Power Closes Oversubscribed Fund V at $2.7 Billion - PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Fund V will invest in power and energy infrastructure across renewables, conventional generation, and distributed energy resources. NEW YORK, Aug.

Norway sovereign wealth fund commits $1 bln to renewable energy fund - Reuters
Reuters
Norway's sovereign wealth fund said on Monday it will commit 900 million euros ($1.01 billion) to the latest renewable energy fund of investment ...

CDP Sustainability:

PCAF-CDP Alignment: Simplifying Reporting on Financed Emissions
CDP
... Sustainable Finance, CDP. August 23 2024. Nearly 600 financial institutions reported environmental data through CDP's global environmental ...

CDP extends company disclosure deadline amid 'technical issues' | BusinessGreen News
Business Green
CDP has given companies more time to submit data about their environmental ... Want to understand what is going on at the cutting edge of sustainability ...

1 in 5 companies report supply chain water risks which could have a significant impact on ...
ESG News
LOADING. ESG News · ESG Business · Sustainability · Technology · Infrastructure · ESG Reporting · ESG Standards · Environmental ... CDP Report. by ESG ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

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Impact Investing:

Impact investments help communities maximize historic federal funding for water infrastructure
ImpactAlpha
Foundations, green banks, intermediaries and investors are devising innovative funding strategies to help disadvantaged communities access capital ...

Blue Haven: A Pritzker billionaire's sense of responsibility to invest everything in impact
New Private Markets
... Ian Simmons, co-founders of the single family office Blue Haven Initiative, trailblazed the total-portfolio approach to impact investing.

The Brief: Impact investing in water – let it flow! - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
Greetings Agents of Impact! This month's edition of ImpactAlpha Latin America comes out later today. As an ImpactAlpha subscriber, you get the top ...

Energy Storage

New fracking-inspired technology could revolutionize renewable energy storage - EHN
Environmental Health News
Three Houston startups are using a novel approach similar to fracking to create underground storage for renewable energy, potentially reducing ...

enSights announces storage calculator to instantly generate financial projections
Solar Power World
enSights announced it is launching a new BESS calculator to empower developers and asset owners to fully benefit from the massive energy storage ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

Are satellites bad for the environment? - PIRG
PIRG
In recent years, the number of satellites orbiting Earth has skyrocketed, raising concerns about potential harms from satellites to the ...

World's first greenhouse-gas-detecting satellite is now in orbit - Earth.com
Earth.com
... climate change. Satellite will pinpoint super-emitters. With data from the Tanager-1 satellite, Carbon Mapper will analyze unique spectral ...

Satellites reveal: these ecosystems are the most vulnerable to drought - Universiteit Leiden
Universiteit Leiden
... climate change, vegetation damage to most ecosystems will increase disproportionately. 'With rising temperatures and more frequent droughts, the ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

How engaging suppliers on science-based targets supports our climate goals | Takeda Stories
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Science-based targets provide a clearly defined pathway for companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, helping prevent the worst impacts of climate ...
 
Dp World Sets New Ambitious Carbon Reduction Target, Secures SBTi Validation
Financial Post
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) marks vote of confidence in ... efficiency, and low carbon fuels. Furthermore, we look forward to ...

Chunghwa Telecom 2045 Net Zero Targets validated by the SBTi, becoming the first Taiwan ...
cht.com.tw
... efficiency base stations to achieve low-carbon operation goals. ... The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a carbon reduction ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Getting Ahead of Climate Transition Risks and Opportunities | AB - AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein
... environment. We believe this process is vital to identify transition winners and losers and to support stock and bondholder returns. Authors. Erin ...

DNC Winners And Losers From Day 2: Obama Steals The Show - Newsweek
Newsweek
Here are the winners and losers from the second night of the Democratic convention. Winners. Barack and Michelle Obama. The Obamas have been out of ...

Maxwell Frost makes case for climate, brings the heat to DNC stage - Florida Politics
Florida Politics
climate change · Democratic National Convention · Joe Biden · Kamala ... Winners and Losers emerging from Florida's 2024 Primary Elections. Learn ...

Microgrids:

Power Outages at Water and Wastewater Plants Pose Health and Environmental Risks. How ...
Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrids can keep the power running and help water utilities stave off such environmental and health risks. Filtration and purification systems must ...

Microgrids Improve Electric Grid Resilience | Falmouth Columns - CapeNews.net
CapeNews.net
Microgrids Improve Electric Grid Resilience ... In her excellent book “The Grid” (Bloomsbury 2016), Gretchen Bakke describes the evolution of the ...

Unlikely Partners on the Dance Floor: Stakeholders Uniting to Support the EV Transition with ...
Microgrid Knowledge
... Microgrids. Aug. 23, 2024. In this QuickChat video, Aron Bowman, president of ELM MicroGrid and ELM Solar, explains why he's bullish on the state of ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Scope of Practice - The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
The role of community pharmacy in primary health care. In Australia ... Oral health risk assessment and fluoride application. Smoking cessation

Qualitative and mixed methods: informing and enhancing exposure science - Nature
Nature
... risk assessments, particularly for Native American and indigenous communities. ... risk assessment and sustainable environmental health promotion. QMM ...

Public Health Data, Plans and Reports | Lincoln County, OR
Lincoln County, OR
Community Health Assessments (CHA) display a wide range of data about health indicators and factors that influence health.

Socially Responsible Investing:

6 Ways To Incorporate Social Responsibility Into Your Financial Plan, According to Experts
Nasdaq
Socially responsible Investment (SRI) funds are focused on companies that promote equality, company ethics, fair governance and minimal environmental ...
 
Enhanced Regulatory Oversight in ESG Investing
The Regulatory Review
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing refers to investment ... Some evidence indicates that long-term returns from socially responsible ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Explainer: What is Carbon Capture and Utilization? - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Carbon Capture and Utilization involves a variety of methods for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and using it either directly, without chemical ...

Benefits of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) - Energy Central
Energy Central
CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage) is a technology designed to reduce CO₂ emissions from industrial sources.

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage in the Refinery Sector - Energy Central

Energy Central
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) refers to the process of capturing CO₂ emissions from industrial sources, utilizing the captured CO₂ for ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Tips for implementing blended learning in medical education in a post-pandemic world
Times Higher Education (THE)
Our medical schools can offer a flexible and sustainable alternative to the limitations of hands-on instruction by investing in these technologies and ...
 
LADWP Ranked Most Sustainable Utility in 2024 J.D. Power Index
LADWP News
For the City of LA's COVID-19 response, visit corona-virus.la. For ... climate sustainability programs and goals. The index applies to 35 of ...

How do communities tackle energy consumption with sustainable architecture? | HS Insider
HS Insider
Coronavirus Coverage · Creative ... climate change by implementing creative elements and addressing sustainability's biggest challenges.

Sustainability Investing: 

2023 Sustainable Investing Report - Fiera Capital Corporation
Fiera Capital Corporation
Throughout this report, you will find insights into our sustainable investment strategies and the tangible impact of our investments on various ESG ...
 
Five sustainable investing blog posts to read now | AllianzGI
Allianz Global Investors
The rapid rise of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in recent years and the proliferation of products has raised questions about ...

Planetary Health: Critical Investment For A Sustainable Future - Forbes
Forbes
Investors, venture capitalists, and private equity are driving sustainable innovations in support of planetary health, helping the environment and ...

Geoengineering:

Andrew Ng's new model lets you play around with solar geoengineering to see what would happen
MIT Technology Review
AI pioneer Andrew Ng has released a simple online tool that allows anyone to tinker with the dials of a solar geoengineering model, exploring what ...

What is Marine Geoengineering? - Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth
Most marine geoengineering proposals attempt to draw down carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it in the ocean, sometimes called “marine ...

What is Solar Geoengineering? - Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth
Also known as Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), solar geoengineering refers to technologies that would reflect a portion of the sun's rays back ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green Bonds Market on a Promising Trajectory Towards $1.57 Billion by 2034
Yahoo Finance
These bonds, distinguished by the green bond principles (GBP), channel debt market funds into initiatives that combat climate change, conserve ...

China's National Development Bank Issues $1.7 Billion in Green Bonds to Fund Key ... - ESG News
ESG News
China's NDB issued 12B yuan ($1.7B) in green bonds at a 1.63% rate, boosting sustainable finance and attracting global investors.

Brazil pushes green bonds despite lack of incentives - Euromoney
Euromoney
New transition bond includes step-down, as new 'green infrastructure' bond issued ... The funds will be used for the implementation and operation of the ...

Low Carbon Funds:

DiNapoli: NY Pension Fund Reaches Climate Agreements With Five Portfolio Companies
New York State Comptroller
... investment trust, agreed to adopt and publish a low-carbon transition plan. DiNapoli also made an additional investment of $2 billion to a fund ...

US awards $291 million in grants to accelerate low-emission aviation technologies and SAF ...
GreenAir News
The funds have been provided under Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition (FAST), a programme which supports initiatives to help achieve net zero ...
  
Sukhiba raises $1.6 million for enterprise software that helps Africa's small businesses close deals
ImpactAlpha
... carbon transition | Roodgally Senatus. Fortera raises ... finance India's small and independent healthcare providers · Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige ...

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