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Methane Emissions:

Tropical wetlands are releasing a methane bomb, threatening climate plans | Reuters
Reuters
Methane emissions rose faster in past 5 years than any other period on record; Tropics identified as main source of methane surge, ...

Methane matters. Here's how we can reduce it - IFAD
IFAD
It's the main constituent of natural gas, which is widely used for cooking and to generate power. It is also a powerful greenhouse gas: it is around ...

Biden officials ask EU to align methane rules with US to ease LNG flows, letter says
Reuters
President Joe Biden's administration has asked the European Union to ensure liquefied natural gas shipments that meet U.S. methane regulations ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Securing the Future of U.S. Industries with Decarbonization | World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute
... decarbonization of the industrial sector. Other policies ... market commitments and market-based policies like a low-carbon product standard.
 
State Efforts To Decarbonize Key Industrial Sectors - Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress
Based on these examples, states, especially high emitters in these sectors ... industries and the deep decarbonization needed to limit warming to ...
 
ResponsibleSteel says global decarbonization effort needed - Recycling Today
Recycling Today
... industry progress toward a net-zero carbon footprint. In the essay, co-authored by Heaton and Helen Clarkson, CEO of the United States-based ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Scaling smart: The importance of data-driven decision making in growth | EU-Startups
EU-Startups
Data-driven decision-making has become indispensable for companies looking to scale efficiently. It informs everything from product development and ...

From Resistance To Acceptance: Building A Data-Driven Culture - Forbes
Forbes
Businesses have embraced the idea of a data-driven culture and data-first decision-making, but they face a hurdle when taking that concept from theory ...

Predictive and prescriptive analytics for AI – Data driven decision making
Express Computer
Predictive and prescriptive analytics are driven by AI analytics that enables organisations to make quick decisions from vast amounts of data.

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI, CDP to Strengthen Alignment of Sustainability Reporting Frameworks - ESG Today
ESG Today
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and CDP announced today a new cooperation agreement which will see the organizations more closely ...
 
IFRS Foundation Launches Guide to Help Companies Identify, Report Sustainability Risks ...
ESG Today
... Reporting Standards (ESRS) or Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. In its statement announcing the release of the new guide, the IFRS ...

Don't ignore the S in ESG: a strong social strategy is essential - I by IMD
IMD Business School
Regulatory frameworks also reflect a growing emphasis on social aspects. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard underscores diversity, equal ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

COP29: How climate change is harming young people's mental health - PreventionWeb.net
PreventionWeb.net
Anxiety about climate change does also play a role in young people's mental health. But children and teenagers who show high levels of distress may be ...

Climate of Care: Addressing the Health Impacts of Climate Change - Duke Research Blog
Duke Research Blog - Duke University
In times of crisis, the most disadvantaged communities bear the greatest burden. The researchers recognize that climate change is no different and ...

Climate change is spoiling food faster, making hundreds of millions of people sick around the world
Yale Climate Connections
Indirect effects of climate change can also lead to outbreaks of foodborne diseases. ... Community health care worker Padmashri Sutar says that ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Biden-Harris Administration's Inflation Reduction Act Tops $1 Billion in Clean Energy ... - USDA
USDA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2024 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA is funding new projects in ...
 
Retailers Are The Surprising Leader Among U.S. Industries For Green Investments | Statista
Statista
This chart shows actual renewable energy investments in the United States, by segment (in billion U.S. dollars).

'Make or break' moment for renewables targets and other energy stories
The World Economic Forum
A view shows solar panels of the 192 megawatt peak (MWp) floating solar power. Annual investment in the global energy sector must grow by more than ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP, 20 Landscape Experts Set Standards for Sustainability Beyond Supply Chains
ESG News
CDP and 20 leading landscape practitioners have released core criteria for impactful, scalable sustainability initiatives.
 
CDP aligns with ESRS standards to enhance environmental reporting efficiencies
FinTech Global
CDP and EFRAG have achieved extensive commonality between the CDP questionnaire and the EU Sustainability Reporting Standard.
 
CDP, GRI Collaborate to Simplify Environmental Reporting and Improve Data Access
ESG News
Enhanced Reporting Efficiency: CDP and GRI signed an MoU to streamline environmental reporting, improving access to comparable data.

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

Editorial: How California leaders can protect the environment from another Trump administration
Yahoo
Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leaders must mount a strong offense as well as robust defense against attacks on environmental protection and climate ...

What the 2024 election means for California's air and climate - Capitol Weekly
Capitol Weekly
OPINION – For Californians living with the nation's dirtiest air and ongoing threats of wildfires, heat waves, drought, flooding and sea level ...

Uncertainty Looms Over SEC Climate Rules Amid Leadership Change
The National Law Review
It is no secret that the incoming Republican Administration has been skeptical of the federal government's climate change measures, which brings ...

Impact Investing:

ImpactAssets Unveils 2024 Impact Report, Highlighting More Than Half-a-Billion Dollars ...
Morningstar
New report showcases deep impact through investments in nearly 300 private companies and funds and more than 14,000 grants in 2023 alone. ImpactAssets ...

Endeavor's Impact Investing Multiplier Formula For Unicorn Success - Forbes
Forbes
... investing in, and training ... investments flowing through these areas creates cascading effects to substantially impact entrepreneurial growth.
 
Investing in Social Impact | Leeds School of Business - University of Colorado Boulder
University of Colorado Boulder
He used the Leeds MBA program to move into impact investing from a background in management consulting, as well as involvement in the Chicago ...

Energy Storage

Understanding the Rise of US Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and the ... - JD Supra
JD Supra
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) development has been looming in the United States energy markets for several years. Now, as capacity has begun ...
 
STATEMENT: Multiple Countries Commit to 6x Global Energy Storage and Modernize Grid ...
World Resources Institute
“Energy storage and the power grid are essential for clean energy delivery but for too long they were not on the political agenda. This declaration ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels
NASA Science
GRACE satellites measure fluctuations in Earth's gravity on monthly scales that reveal changes in the mass of water on and under the ground. The ...

Will the taps go dry? NASA satellites reveal sharp decline in global freshwater since 2014
Business Today
Rodell and his colleagues suspect that climate change may be driving the ongoing depletion of freshwater. Global warming causes the atmosphere to hold ...

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels - Smart Water Magazine
Smart Water Magazine
Global warming leads the atmosphere to hold more water vapor, which results in more extreme precipitation, said NASA Goddard meteorologist Michael ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Our Approach to Minimizing the Environmental Impact of Our Operations | Morningstar
Morningstar
... performance. Each property has set an annual energy reduction target to ... 31 The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a corporate climate ...
 
QNTM Group Joins Science Based Targets Initiative
Mynewsdesk
... climate goals with science-based standards to help reduce our global carbon footprint. ... Performance Cookies. Performance Cookies. These cookies ...
 
Our Approach to Minimizing the Environmental Impact of Our Operations - Stock Titan
Stock Titan
... performance. Each property has set an annual energy reduction target to ... The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a corporate climate ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Editorial | Winners and losers with Hong Kong's wind of change | South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
Editorial | Winners and losers with Hong Kong's wind of change. While Hong Kong stock exchange for the first time traded normally through a typhoon ...
 
Regulatory Upheaval Is Coming. How Businesses Prepare and Respond Will Separate ... - Law.com
Law.com
How Businesses Prepare and Respond Will Separate Winners and Losers. “Every regulation is going to be questioned. … And that'll be a better ...

No Politician Can Halt Wave of Climate Investment, Kerry Says - BNN Bloomberg
BNN Bloomberg
... crisis.” ©2024 Bloomberg L.P.. Top Stories · Wall Street makes wagers on the likely winners and losers in a second Trump term. November 13, 2024 at 7 ...

Microgrids:

Integrating fault detection and classification in microgrids using supervised machine ... - Nature
Nature
Microgrids (MGs) can enhance the consumers' reliability. Nevertheless, besides significant outcomes, some challenges arise.

Microgrid Market Outlook 2030 Key Trends Driving Global Adoption
EIN Presswire
- The AC microgrids segment of the microgrid industry is projected to grow at a CAGR of 15.6% during the forecast period. - North America contributed ...
 
Quanta Technologies Factory to be Powered by Bloom Energy Fuel Cell Microgrid
Microgrid Knowledge
Located at Quanta's California factory, the solid oxide fuel cell microgrid will be fully islandable.

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Risk to United States from clade I mpox outbreak in Central and Eastern Africa | CFA - CDC
CDC
... assessment, incorporating new evidence and breaking out specific populations at risk ... communities and require significant public health resources.

Health Risk Assessment, Withyhedge | NHS Wales | Official Press Release - Wired-gov.net
Wired-gov.net
We have also reviewed air quality monitoring by Geotechnology at other sites in the community between 7th September and 22nd September 2024. These ...

QC healthier, but assessment IDs areas of opportunity - Quad Cities Business Journal
Quad Cities Business Journal
... risk, unemployment and cigarette smoking. But ... Added Community Health Care CEO Tom Bowman: “The collaborative community health assessment ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

How To Evaluate the Social Impact of Your Investments - Nasdaq
Nasdaq
ESG stands for environmental, social and governance. Though not required by law, ESG metrics can help a company evaluate its own impact and publish ...
 
Sysco A Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 2.7% Yield - Forbes
Forbes
Forbes Money Investing. Sysco A Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 2.7% Yield ... Sysco has been named a Top Socially Responsible ...
 
Tracking engagements: What's actually working for responsible investing teams?
Responsible Investor
The evolution of climate investing: what are investors looking for? State of the transition: Analysing the pathways to net zero · ESG engagement: What ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Global Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Markets, 2025-2045 - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
CCUS refers to technologies that capture CO2 emissions and use or store them, leading to permanent sequestration. CCUS technologies capture carbon ...

The impact of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) projects on environmental ...
ScienceDirect.com
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) primarily serves the purpose of mitigating emissions by capturing and separating CO2 generated ...

Opinion: Exploring The Challenges And Opportunities In Carbon Capture, Utilization, And ...
Carbon Herald
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies absorb the carbon emitted by industries, carry it in pipes, and either create new ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Balancing green and speed: Home delivery insights from the pandemic era
Supply Chain Management Review
... sustainability and delivery expectations during the COVID-19 pandemic. ... environmental issues, fostering a desire to make environmentally sustainable ...
 
Can Fulfilling Sports Corporate Social Responsibility Serve as an Immunity During the ...
ResearchGate
ing the negative environment of the COVID-19 pan- demic deserve ongoing ... Simon & Schuster. Ratten, V. (2020a). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and ...

Trump expected to pull out of Paris agreement – but other climate rollbacks may be tougher
Global Government Forum
Home » Sustainability » Climate Change » Trump expected ... A photograph of Donald trump holding a coronavirus briefing when he was US president.

Sustainability Investing: 

Lessons For Sustainability Investing From The 2024 Election - Forbes
Forbes
Impact and ESG investors are likely to cluster in the blue states and in Europe. For instance, BlackRock sells sustainable investing strategies more ...
 
88% of Business Leaders Planning to Increase Sustainability IT Investments over Next Year
ESG Today
Nearly nine out of ten business executives plan to increase investments in technology to advance their companies' sustainability efforts over the ...
 
Investing in a sustainable future - FutureCFO
FutureCFO
Asset owners can pursue net zero strategies to ensure not only a sustainable planet but also resilient, future-proof portfolios, ...

Geoengineering:

Why it's not possible to manipulate the weather with geoengineering, according to experts
ABC News - The Walt Disney Company
The geoengineering technology involves injecting microscopic particles -- sometimes silver iodide -- into the atmosphere to encourage rain and ...
 
Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering - Mongabay
Mongabay
The recent abrupt reduction in shipping sulfur dioxide emissions offers the clearest test to date of a controversial geoengineering approach known ...

'NOAA does not modify weather': Debunking geoengineering claims - WBAL-TV
WBAL-TV
... geoengineering during this year's hurricane season, specifically as it ... The response also includes information about Doppler radar technology and ...

Green Bond Funds:

Green Energy Transition Opens ESG Opportunities in Bonds - ETF Trends
ETF Trends
The global transition to clean energy should open opportunities for fixed income investors in bond funds that focus on the ESG theme.

CI Global Green Bond Fund declares $0.0399 dividend - MSN
MSN
CI Global Green Bond Fund (TSX:CGRB:CA) declares $0.0399/share monthly dividend. Payable Nov. 29; for shareholders of record Nov. 25; ex-div Nov.

RIAA observes assets flowing into green bonds - Money Management
Money Management
As investors seek to diversify their portfolios, the naming of bond labels has broadened out to include green, social and impact bonds, ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Thirty-nine state DOTs secure $1.2 billion for low-carbon materials - NRDC
NRDC
The Federal Highway Administration awards $1.2 billion to state DOTs, growing the $10 billion pot of federal funding support for industrial ...

Business and finance call on government to unlock demand for low-carbon products and ...
PR Newswire
Endorsed by 40+ global business leaders and 700+ financial institutions, the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA) has issued an open letter ...

US DOT Names Winners for $3.4B in Rail, Port, Low-Carbon Material Grants
Engineering News-Record

With just weeks to go before President Biden's term in office ends, his administration is pushing to award grants and move funds to projects ...

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