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This week's post features items from Economy Middle East, CarbonCredits.com, Green Car Congress, USDA ARS, Mines Newsroom, Forbes, WROC TV, WBOY.com, ESG Investor, Regulation Asia, Ricardo, Federation of American Scientists, Forbes, Environmental Health News, The World Economic Forum, USDA Rural Development, USDA, Edie.net, Stock Titan, ESG News, iHeart, Fox News, New York Post, Nonprofit Quarterly, The Conversation, ImpactAlpha, Electrek, Department of Energy, Canary Media, Berkeley News, Eureka Magazine and many many more...We scour the web so you don't have to!

 

Methane Emissions:

Scientists Leverage AI to Fast-Track Methane Mitigation Strategies in Animal Agriculture
USDA ARS
... gas emissions. "Developing solutions to address methane emissions from animal agriculture is a critical priority. Our scientists continue to use ...

Mines professor working to slow methane leaks in natural gas production | Colorado School of Mines
Mines Newsroom
Dorit Hammerling co-founded Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab to directly implement processes to detect and stop natural gas leaks.

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors for a sustainable future - Economy Middle East
Economy Middle East
For instance, Austria-based voestalpine issued a $550 million green bond to finance projects like its low-carbon greentech steel production. Green ...

CRC Launches California's First Carbon Capture Project for Emissions Reduction
CarbonCredits.com
CRC believes climate change requires action from both government and the private sector. This is why it supports market-based solutions like CCS and ...

EU awards €1.8M to support sequence impulse hydrogen project to decarbonize blast furnaces
Green Car Congress
... decarbonization technologies for the steelmaking industry ... Hydrogen-based reduction is a much sought after solution to support decarbonization.

Data Driven Decision Making:

A Smart Move—How Businesses Can Truly Become Data-Driven - Forbes
Forbes
If we revisit the core aspects of a data-driven organization, it means that decisions are made based on tangible elements of data rather than a ...

Master Data-Driven Decision Making with Vibrant's Upcoming Release, “Business ...
WROC TV
Master Data-Driven Decision Making with Vibrant's Upcoming Release, “Business Intelligence Essentials”. News provided by. EIN Presswire. Jan 09, 2025, ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

GRI Sets Sights on Streamlined Reporting - ESG Investor
ESG Investor
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) will embark on a new strategy in 2025 to streamline sustainability reporting and help maximise the value of ...

GRI Sets Sights on More Streamlined Sustainability Reporting - Regulation Asia
Regulation Asia
Incoming CEO Robin Hodess stresses the importance of collaboration, and outlines plans to leverage technology to address global sustainability ...

Climate transition plan FAQs - Ricardo
Ricardo
– European Sustainability Reporting Standards GRI – Global Reporting Initiative IFRS – International Financial Reporting Standards ITPN - ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Extreme Heat and Wildfire Smoke: Consequences for Communities
Federation of American Scientists
... healthcare providers are largely not receiving education about environmental health and climate change. As a result, physicians also do not ...

The Changing Climate Is A Health Crisis: A Call To Action For Human Well-Being - Forbes
Forbes
These effects disproportionately harm marginalized communities, who are more likely to live near sources of pollution. 3. Disease Transmission and ...

Wildfire smoke pollution raises growing health concerns - EHN
Environmental Health News
... climate change and protect at-risk communities. Related EHN coverage: LISTEN: Carlos Gould on wildfire smoke and our health · How toxic wildfire ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

Why clean energy investment in EMDEs is a dual opportunity | World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Clean energy investment in EMDEs (excluding China) must increase five to seven times to support the transition to low-carbon development pathways, ...
 

USDA Invests Nearly $1 Million in Renewable Energy to Strengthen Ohio Small Businesses ...
USDA Rural Development
... investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency systems. Lower utility bills mean that recipients can invest these savings back into their ...

USDA Continues Historic Commitment, Partnering with Rural Communities on Clean ...
USDA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2025 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced more than $6 billion in clean energy investments through the U.S. ...

CDP Sustainability:

CDP - Edie.net
Edie.net
In 2023, more than 3,000 companies – representing US$67 trillion in market capitalization – disclosed their environmental performance data to CDP.

COPT Defense Provides Conference Call Details to Discuss 4Q and YE 2024 Results and ...
Stock Titan
COPT Defense published its tenth annual Corporate Sustainability ... What is COPT Defense's (CDP) current portfolio occupancy rate as of Q3 2024?

ERM Launches Council of Global Senior Leaders to Accelerate Action on Corporate Sustainability
ESG News
... CDP Sustainable Supply Chain · CDP, 20 Landscape Experts Set Standards ... Sustainability Transformation to drive corporate progress on sustainability ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California Leaders Blame Climate Change for Their Own Failures | 1/13/25 | iHeart
iHeart
The catastrophe in California is still going on. Filling in for Glenn, Pat and Stu discuss the wildfires plaguing California and question how such ...

Dems blame LA fire on 'climate change' despite city cutting fire department budget
Fox News
Democratic lawmakers are claiming the LA wildfires were caused by "climate change," while celebrities point fingers to city leadership for the ...

Bad leaders — not climate change — are the reason LA fires burn in California
New York Post
Though the cause of the blaze in Los Angeles has yet to be established, commentators are already making familiar claims that climate change is ...

Impact Investing:

From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning? - Non Profit News
Nonprofit Quarterly
What does impact investing—that is, investing with social benefit in mind—demand of investors? Many in the field have long held it demands ...

Many 'impact investors' aren't fully tracking whether their investments are good for society or ...
The Conversation
Impact investing aims to generate financial returns while also creating positive social or environmental outcomes. But having the intention of doing ...

As private equity fundraising goes south, whither impact investing in 2025? - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
As the tight liquidity environment persists, impact fund managers may find more fundraising success with infrastructure and yield-generating ...

Energy Storage

This long duration compressed air energy storage project just got a $1.76B DOE loan
Electrek
GEM A-CAES has received a $1.76B conditional loan guarantee from the DOE to build long-duration compressed air energy storage in California.
 

LPO Announces Conditional Commitment for Long Duration Compressed Air Energy ...
Department of Energy
If finalized, Willow Rock is expected to provide 4000 MWh /500 MW of long duration energy storage (LDES) for the southern California grid, helping to ...

Massive underground air battery project lands $1.76B DOE award - Canary Media
Canary Media
Compressed-air energy storage, a decades-old but rarely deployed technology that can store massive amounts of energy underground, could soon see a ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

This scientist uses satellites to map the Earth's plant life — and help combat climate change
Berkeley News
Research, Science & environment. This scientist uses satellites to map the Earth's plant life — and help combat climate change. Watch UC Berkeley ...

How Environmental Monitoring Satellites Aid Climate Action - Eureka Magazine
Eureka Magazine
Explore how environmental monitoring satellites track climate data and help fight climate change with cutting-edge technology. A satellite in space ...

Could the next big environmental problem come from space?
aerosociety.com
Could satellite mega-constellations trigger climate change 2.0? TEREZA PULTAROVA investigates. Air pollution from rocket launches and satellites ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Fortum introduces ambitious climate targets validated by SBTi, sets a net-zero target by 2040
Fortum
FORTUM CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 9.1.2025 The international Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Fortum's near- and long-term ...

MSCI Hints That Carbon Markets May Thaw As 2030 Approaches | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
More than 2,700 companies adopted new climate targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in 2024, a 65% increase from the ...
 

GEODIS' climate commitments validated by the science based targets initiative (SBTi)
American Journal of Transportation
GEODIS has announced that the SBTi has approved its near-term science-based emission reduction target.

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

'The future is in our hands' scientists say, as 2024 becomes first year to pass 1.5C global ...
Sky News
Environment's winners and losers in 2024 - as 2025 set to be hottest year on record. Related Topics: Climate Change. What caused 2024 record heat ...
 

Nobel and World Food prize winners call for new ways to prevent a global hunger crisis
Fast Company
It is a problem that to solve it, there are no losers, only winners,” Schmidt said in an interview. “All we have to do is do it.” Schmidt said he ...

15 Questions That Will Put an End to the 'Climate Scare' Once-and-for-All
The Heartland Institute
Government-mandated winners and losers are only applicable to those few ... Climate Change Reconsidered (NIPCC) · Climate Conferences · Climate ...

Microgrids:

Some Texas businesses turning to microgrids - YouTube
YouTube
The incoming winter weather has some worried about the Texas power grid and what would happen if there are blackouts.

More Texans turning to microgrids for backup power - YouTube
YouTube
... microgrids for backup power in the event the state's electric grid fails. Read more: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/austin-texas-microgrids ...

Texans turning to microgrids for stable power during extreme weather - KVUE
KVUE
“I think microgrids are the future,” Yu said. Microgrids are a combination of energy generation sources like natural gas generators, solar and ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Fracture Risk Assessment as a Component of Osteoporosis Screening—Easier Said Than Done
JAMA Network
Corresponding Author: Kristine E. Ensrud, MD, MPH, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, and Department of ...

Critics, including local cities, groups and residents, warn of health and climate risks in Sea ...
The Waterland Blog
... community groups. Critics of the plan argue that the environmental assessment (EA) supporting it is inadequate and fails to address the cumulative ...

A Sample Proposal on “Establishing Community-Based Disaster Preparedness Plans”
fundsforNGOs
First, risk assessment is essential for identifying potential hazards and vulnerabilities within the community. ... health, and developing life ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Socially Responsible Spending Is Still Trending in the Right Direction Despite Slight Decline ...
Yahoo Finance
Grow., a socially responsible marketing consultancy, administers the Index to gauge momentum for conscious consumerism, charitable giving and earth- ...
 

What does responsible investment mean in 2025?
Responsible Investor
With big asset managers rushing to exit climate initiatives and ESG opponents taking centre stage in the US, responsible investment is under scrutiny ...

What is ESG Investing? - Energy & Capital
Energy & Capital
ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance. And it's simply an investment strategy that takes into account those three factors when ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture: Tax Impacts of Utilization & Storage | Husch Blackwell LLP - JDSupra
JD Supra
One promising solution to climate change is Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (“CCUS”). CCUS involves capturing carbon oxides, ...

DOE Announces $3.1 Billion Now Available for Carbon Management Technologies
Holland & Knight
Carbon capture technologies that have attained TRL 7 for the proposed applications; A storage or utilization scale of at least 50 million metric tons ...

Emerging Trends in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Market
EIN Presswire
Carbon Capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is an emission reduction process, which is intended to prevent large amounts of carbon dioxide ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Future-proofing global trade by embracing opportunities - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Geopolitical tensions, supply chain bottlenecks and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have created an environment of uncertainty and ...

BSI to explore covid's impact on construction's 'hybrid generation'
Construction Management Magazine
The British Standards Institution is asking young people who began working in the built environment sector during the covid-19 pandemic to share ...
 

Climate-resilience and sustainability for safer health care in Viet Nam
World Health Organization (WHO)
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) · Reproductive health · Air pollution ... environmental sustainability, and so have the other two hospitals in the pilot ...

Sustainability Investing: 

How The Value Of Time Shapes Sustainable Investing - Forbes
Forbes
Martin Jarzebowski, SVP & Director of Responsible Investing at Federated Hermes, leading global sustainable finance and integration.

Top 5 Carbon ETFs for Sustainable Investing in 2025 - CarbonCredits.com
CarbonCredits.com
1. iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (ICLN): Ethical Investing with Sustainability · 2. Invesco Solar ETF (TAN): A Focus on Solar Energy Growth · 3. First ...

Finding investments where disruption meets transformation | J.P. Morgan Private Bank U.S.
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
The case for being a sustainable capitalist. It's a popular, but mistaken, notion that investors must accept a trade-off between investment ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering: Focus on Cloud Seeding | Cleantech Group
Cleantech Group
Geoengineering solutions are large-scale interventions to counteract the effects of climate change. The most established of solutions are carbon ...
 

Managing the Security Risks of Geoengineering - Lawfare Blog
Lawfare Blog
Governments and research funders must focus on the social and political side of the geoengineering equation, not just the science.

Scientists turn to artificial intelligence to assess the warming effect of reduced pollution
NOAA Research
... geoengineering approaches, marine cloud brightening. In 2020, the International Maritime Organization imposed a sharp reduction in the level of ...

Green Bond Funds:

World must urgently streamline green bond 'taxonomies' - IFC - Reuters
Reuters
Definitions of what a green bond is must be streamlined urgently to attract funds needed for the green transition, the World Bank Group's private ...

Climate Investment Funds secures $500 million debut bond for clean energy transition
Reuters
The multilateral Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has issued a $500 million debut bond as part of a plan to diversify its funding sources and ...

A $12 Billion Climate Fund Just Wrapped Up Its First Bond Sale - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) -- The Climate Investment Funds Capital Markets Mechanism just tapped the capital markets for the first time, selling $500 million of ...

Low Carbon Funds:

$53trn low-carbon investment opportunity for clean energy transition, says S&P
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 ...

Climate Investment Funds secures $500 million debut bond for clean energy transition
Reuters
... funding sources and attract private sector investors to finance low carbon technologies in emerging markets, its CEO said on Tuesday.

Deep Sky, Low Carbon to Power Carbon Removal Project with 100% Renewable Energy
ESG Today
UK-based Low Carbon invests in, develops, and operates solar, wind, energy storage, and energy from waste projects across the UK, Europe, and North ...