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Methane Emissions:

Stop Emitting Nasty GHG Methane & It Will Disappear From Air In Our Lifetime
CleanTechnica
Methane, in its marketed form, of course, is called natural gas. Natural gas is 90% to 95% methane with a little bit of heavier hydrocarbons thrown in ...

Cornell animal scientists curb methane emissions from cows with diet change - YouTube
YouTube
Cornell animal scientists curb methane emissions from cows with diet change. No views · 2 minutes ago ...more ...

EPA Releases 2023 Data Collected Under Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
... methane emissions from the oil and gas sector and improve data quality. These actions include standards to reduce methane and other harmful air ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Industrial Funding Selections: 2024 Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Cross-Sector ...
Department of Energy
Proposed efforts also include development of models, sensors, and an artificial intelligence based algorithmic framework. The project will ...
 
Multi-sectoral efforts are required for decarbonising the building sector: a case in Hong Kong
Nature
The process-based LCA is used to divide the whole building sector into several stages and examine the carbon emissions in each stage. Meanwhile, the ...

U.S. Department of Energy Announces More Than $43 Million in Projects To Drive Industrial ...
Department of Energy
DOE's investments in cross-sector technologies address common decarbonization ... based drying and curing technologies. Efficient Energy Use in ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Confluent: Why do CEOs Struggle with Data-Driven Decisions? | Technology Magazine
Technology Magazine
As digital transformation only increases, executives are grappling with the balance between gut instinct and data driven decision making. The global ...

How Data Visualization And Centralization Support Business Decision Making - Forbes
Forbes
Paul Ross is co-founder of Reptile, a Quebec-based web agency, and SmartBi, a digital data centralization platform.
 
Follow The Data: Why AI Demands A Data-Driven Culture - Forbes
Forbes
These AI agents can automatically process vast amounts of data, generating insights and making decisions that were previously impossible or required ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

'GRI Reporting Enhances Corporate Social Performance' - AccessWire
AccessWire
GRI and the World Benchmarking Alliance published analysis on the role of corporate reporting in achieving social sustainability outcomes.

GLOBAL ESG MONITOR 2024: ENERGY COMPANIES REPORT BROADLY ON ... - EQS News
EQS News
... Reporting Standards (ESRS), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), IFRS (IFRS S1 and S2), the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures ...

ESG reporting: Is your business ready? - London Daily News
London Daily News
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). They also assist with data collection and analysis ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

As World Health Summit begins, the IRC highlights growing public health risk of climate ...
International Rescue Committee
As World Health Summit begins, the IRC highlights growing public health risk of climate change and conflict ... community health workers for on ...

Public Health Unveils the Office of Environmental Justice and Climate Health's Strategic Plan
LISTING OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRESS RELEASES
... communities from the hazards of environmental injustice and climate change,” said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Ed., Director of the Los ...

Extreme Weather Illustrates Climate Change Risk to Refugees - HIAS
HIAS

The impact of Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the U.S. and other flooding disasters around the world are a harbinger for displacement challenges ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

SolarShare Transforms Global Renewable Energy Investment
GlobeNewswire
Tokenizing solar panels through NFTs gives people from all walks of life an opportunity to invest in and benefit from solar energy production.

Green energy firms promise more than £24bn of new investment in Britain - The Guardian
The Guardian
... renewable energy projects. But on Thursday it added a further £12bn to the investment plan over the same period after winning a government ...

Tripling Renewable Energy Capacity by 2030 Will Require $1.5 Trillion Per Year - Oil Price
Oil Price
The world needs to triple investments in renewable energy to $1.5 trillion annually by 2030 to achieve climate goals.

CDP Sustainability:

3 of the biggest questions cities were asked at Climate Week NYC 2024 - CDP
CDP
Has your city mapped local community development finance institutions, green banks, local philanthropy and others who fund climate and resiliency?

Commercial viability holding back Asian nature investments, says CDP
Environmental Finance
Don't have an account yet? To access the premium content on Environmental Finance, you must first sign in to your account. Not registered? Sign up ...

Protiviti Named a CDP Gold Climate Change Consultancy Accredited Solutions Provider (ASP)
Yahoo Finance
Protiviti's Collaboration Empowers Clients to Foster a Sustainable Future. MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global consulting ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Tries 'Trump-Proofing' Its Climate Policies - The New York Times
The New York Times
... environmental and climate policies, in the event that former President Donald J. ... environment policy, with a focus on climate change, for The Times.

Four luminaries to receive California's premier air quality award
California Air Resources Board - CA.gov
“The Haagen-Smit awards recognize the inspirational work happening across the nation and world to reduce pollution and fight climate change,” said ...

Highlights from the 2024 California Economic Summit
California Forward
Managing an insurance crisis caused by climate change; Discussing how ... California Steward Leader Award: Margaret Cederoth, Director of ...

Impact Investing:

Impact Investing Strategic Business Report 2024: Global Market to Grow by $184 Billion by ...
Yahoo Finance
Impact Investing Market Impact Investing Market Dublin, Oct. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Impact Investing - Global Strategic Business ...
 
LPs drawn to impact first and foremost by returns, says survey - New Private Markets
New Private Markets
Rede Partners' survey of 80 institutional investors reported that most of them (61 percent) have increased their allocation to sustainability-themed ...

Energy Storage

GM offers new energy storage options for EV owners across the U.S. - GM News
GM News - General Motors
GM Energy PowerBank offers EV owners energy storage, solar integration, and home backup.

New Lithium Battery Technology Set to Disrupt Storage Market - BloombergNEF
BloombergNEF
By Evelina Stoikou, Energy Storage, BloombergNEF. Competition among automakers, battery manufacturers and stationary storage providers is driving ...

UK confirms cap-and-floor mechanism for long-duration energy storage from 2025
Energy-Storage.News
The UK has confirmed a new scheme aiming to stimulate investment in the country's long-duration energy storage (LDES) sector.

Climate Change and Satellites:

We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what? - Space.com
Space.com
This includes keeping track of things like weather, but also human-induced drivers of global warming such as the emissions of greenhouse gasses, ...

These space tech spinoffs are helping scientists fight climate change
Space.com
Innovations in satellite, telescope and spacecraft technology are not only essential to space exploration, but are also helping to better monitor ...

Pollution from rocket launches and burning satellites could cause the next environmental emergency
Space.com
But experts say that things have changed in the last 40 years, and the FCC needs to change its attitude to satellite pollution. This novel ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

'Widespread noncompliance and poor performance' in world's largest nature-based carbon ...
Phys.org
... climate change targets and reduce carbon in the atmosphere is failing to do so, new research has shown. The findings are published ...

SBTi approves Edenred's 2030 and 2050 carbon emission reduction targets
WebDisclosure
... . ... performance indicators, accompanied by quantifiable targets ...

'Widespread non-compliance and poor performance' in world's largest nature-based carbon ...
The Australian National University
... the Australian government is using to meet climate change targets and reduce carbon in the atmosphere is failing to do so, new research has shown.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Commentary: Desperate for good news about climate change? Consider the pace of clean ...
Eagle-Tribune
Although energy accounts for only about 4% of global output, the rest of the economy depends on it. A rapid transition will create winners and losers, ...

The 10 U.S. Cities With the Lowest Risk of Climate Disasters—Including Hurricane, Fire, and Flood
Realtor.com
“There appears to be clear winners and losers in regard to the impact of flood risk on neighborhood-level population change,” Jeremy Porter, the ...

Marketing winners and losers of the week - Ad Age
Ad Age
Marketing winners and losers of the week. Josh Cellars gets ... As outlined in a Bloomberg report this week, heavy rains caused by climate change ...

Microgrids:

The Power of Microgrids with Jana Gerber - by Doug Lewin
The Texas Energy and Power Newsletter
Schneider Electric's Jana Gerber joined me to discuss how microgrids large and small can fundamentally reshape the grid to increase safety, ...
 
DOE Launches Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership Initiative
Microgrid Knowledge
“Remote communities are well-positioned to demonstrate optimized microgrid technologies, including those that generate renewable energy locally,” said ...
 
Green Grocer: California Supermarket to Deploy On-Site Renewable Energy Microgrid
Microgrid Knowledge
Vallarta Supermarkets has contracted with GreenStruxure to develop renewable energy microgrids at its Oxnard and other California locations.

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Grande Ronde Hospital to Conduct Community Health Needs Survey
La Grande Observer
... Risk Factor Surveillance System, which gathers data on health-related behaviors, chronic conditions, and the use of preventive services. The ...

Prevention Research Center awarded $6.5 million CDC grant - Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine
The UPenn Collaborating Center research project will study community- and patient-engaged approaches to encourage risk assessment, counseling, and ...

Latest Health Risk Assessment Results: Withyhedge Landfill | NHS Wales - Wired-GOV
Wired-GOV
In addition, we have reviewed air quality monitoring undertaken by Geotechnology at other sites in the community between 9th August and 4th ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Why ESG assets could hit $50 trillion despite attacks on 'woke capitalism' | Fortune
Fortune
ESG investing looks to integrate the environmental, social, and governance practices of a company into the investment analysis but stops short of ...
 
The top 10 best-performing ESG funds of the decade | Financial Planning
Financial Planning
ESG has become more material to over two-thirds of asset owners' investment processes in the previous five years, Morningstar says.

AB: Materiality Check: The Next Stage of ESG and Responsible Investing - AccessWire
AccessWire
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues continue to raise big questions for investment firms and clients. We think the future will be ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Market to - GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire
Carbon capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Market to Reach Skyrocketing Valuation of US$ 51.80 Billion By 2050 | Astute Analytica. The CCUS market ...
    
What is carbon capture and storage – and how can it help tackle the climate crisis?
The World Economic Forum
Norway is close to completing Europe's first full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Here's what you need to know.

CCUS growth challenged by current economics - Wood Mackenzie
Wood Mackenzie
Speaking at Wood Mackenzie's Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Conference in Houston, Peter Findlay, research director and head of CCUS ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Preparing for the next pandemic - ASU News - Arizona State University
ASU News - Arizona State University
... environmental surveillance as a strategy for pandemic prevention. ESCAPE has developed multiple strategies to tackle this challenge that are both ...

Building on Tax Reform Efforts in the Post-pandemic Era to Secure Fiscal Sustainability and ...
ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office
The global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies around the world, and Cambodia was no exception. While the government had made significant strides in ...

Partnering For Resilience - Temasek
Temasek
... COVID-19 crisis. “The minute borders started to lock down ... pandemic, including sustainability, capital structure, and digital transformation.

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable Funds Modestly Outperform in First Half 2024 | Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Source: Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing analysis of Morningstar data as of August 3, 2024. Flows data can be subject to ...

Are Critiques of Sustainable Investing Moderating? - Morningstar
Morningstar
Yet there's some evidence to suggest that sustainable-investing themes are taking hold in business. That's the belief conveyed by investors and others ...

IBD's Three Most Sustainable Companies In 11 Industry Categories - Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
Research shows sustainable investing is on the rise. When making a new investment, nearly 80% of global investors take into consideration a ...

Geoengineering:

Why Geoengineering is a False Solution to the Climate Crisis
Center for International Environmental Law
Geoengineering refers to large or planetary-scale interventions in the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land to counteract some of the effects of ...

The Truth About Hurricane Geoengineering - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
The Truth About Hurricane Geoengineering. Human attempts to control the weather are gaining momentum, but hurricanes are simply too powerful to ...

Why monster hurricanes like Milton are happening in the Gulf. It's not geoengineering
Miami Herald
But two major hurricanes in just two weeks, both hitting the Florida Gulf Coast, is highly unusual if not quite unprecedented. In 2004, two major ...

Green Bond Funds:

National Wealth Fund: Government urged to allow green bond issuance
Business Green
New Economics Foundation claims wealth fund could issue bonds that leverage in private capital in support of green projects.

Saudi sovereign wealth fund allocates $5.2 billion in green bonds project amid diversification push
NBC Los Angeles
The PIF issued $8.5 billion in green bonds in 2022 and 2023, becoming the first sovereign wealth fund to issue that class of bond.

ESMA fund naming guidelines could stall growth of green bond sector - ESG Clarity
ESG Clarity
According to EFAMA, this restriction could limit the investable universe for green bond funds, particularly investments in corporate green bonds.

Low Carbon Funds:

Understanding Global Concessional Climate Finance 2024 - CPI
Climate Policy Initiative
Affordable capital is essential to driving the low-carbon and resilient transition, especially for sectors and activities that are either nascent ...

Britain sets out funding model for renewable energy storage projects - Reuters
Reuters
Solar panels are seen at the Keele University Low Carbon Energy Generation Park, Keele, Britain, September 21, 2023. REUTERS/Carl Recine/File ...

National Grid secures funding for four net zero innovation projects as part of Ofgem fund
National Grid
... low carbon technologies in isolated areas. The new funding will enable engineers to refine previous design work for shipping container-sized rural ...

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