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Methane Emissions:

Pipeline blasts released record-shattering amount of methane: UNEP study
UN Environment Programme
Up to 485000 tonnes of the greenhouse gas seeped from the Nord Stream pipeline network following a series of explosions in 2022.

How upstream methane leakage further weakens the argument for natural gas trucks
International Council on Clean Transportation
Natural gas trucks' greenhouse gas benefits are marginal when accounting for methane leakage—and could lock out better zero-emission alternatives.

Enhanced CH4 emissions from global wildfires likely due to undetected small fires - Nature
Nature
Monitoring methane (CH4) emissions from terrestrial ecosystems is essential for assessing the relative contributions of natural and anthropogenic ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

Blue hydrogen: A false hope for steel decarbonisation - IEEFA
IEEFA
The value of hydrogen in the steel sector lies in its potential to reduce carbon emissions by replacing fossil fuels in the production process.

How transparency and value chain collaboration will drive aluminium decarbonization
The World Economic Forum
Long-term and interim emissions reduction targets and annual progress are reported for all IAI member companies based ... sector decarbonization. At the ...

Top 10 Growth Opportunities in Oil and Gas Decarbonization for 2025: Energy Transition ...
Business Wire
This study lists and evaluates the top 10 growth opportunities for the decarbonization of the global O&G industry in 2025. ... Drone-based Emissions ...

Data Driven Decision Making:

Data-Driven Decision-Making: Building A Foundation For Business Success - Forbes
Forbes
Cory McNeley is a Managing Director at UHY Consulting. getty. Many organizations realize the importance of data-driven decision-making, ...
 

Data-Driven Decisions: A New Era of Operational Excellence - CXOToday.com
CXOToday.com
One of the key benefits of integrating data analytics into decision-making is the ability to personalize services and solutions. By analyzing customer ...

Data-driven decisions: A new era of operational excellence
dqindia.com
Data, AI, and automation drive innovation, efficiency, and customer-centricity across industries, transforming decision-making and shaping a ...

Global Reporting Initiative:

ESG compliance doesn't erode the strategic value of voluntary sustainability reporting - ERM
ERM
It's also evident that the pillars of voluntary reporting – like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Standards Accounting ...

64 sustainability certifications to advance your career in 2025 | Trellis - GreenBiz
GreenBiz
... global reporting and disclosure, climate and net-zero strategy, ... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): GRI Certified Sustainability Professional ...

Teleperformance Achieves Elite Verego CSR Certification for 11th Straight Year | TLPFY Stock News
Stock Titan
Verego developed its SRS standard in accordance with other prominent world standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative and the UN Global Compact ...

Community Health Risks From Climate Change:

Youth Perspectives on Climate Change and Mental Health - Psychiatry.org
American Psychiatric Association
One study examines young people's emotions, thoughts and plans related to climate change. A team of researchers, led by R. Eric Lewandowski, Ph.D., ...

Climate change is fueling a neurological health crisis, experts warn - News-Medical
News-Medical
Research explores the profound impact of climate change on neurological health, focusing on how rising temperatures, extreme weather, ...

How The Changing Climate Is Impacting Your Lungs And What You Can Do About It
Forbes
- Consult healthcare providers about specific climate-related health risks. - Support local environmental initiatives. Community and Policy Solutions.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Tariffs, Tempests, Turnarounds: What's Next for Renewable Energy? - AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein
US president-elect Donald Trump's planned tax and trade policies may alter investment opportunities in renewable energy. It won't, in our view, ...
 

3 Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy in 2025 and Hold for Decades | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool
Brookfield Renewable. If you feel confident that renewable energy as an industry is investment-worthy but you don't know where to start, consider a ...
 

 2025: The Year Clean Energy Dominates with Record $670 Billion Investment, Trumping Oil & Gas
CarbonCredits.com
In 2025, clean energy tech investments are set to outpace oil and gas spending, marking a historic shift toward renewable energy.

CDP Sustainability:

80% of Companies on Track to Meet Climate Targets Tie Executive Pay to Goals: CDP
ESG News
However, only 10% of companies show meaningful ambition in environmental areas like emissions transparency (Scope 1-3), nature impact, and strong ...

Transparency to action: CDP rebrands for an Earth-Positive Future | WebWire
WebWire
2025 marks a pivotal moment for environmental accountability, and CDP is answering the call for transparency with a refreshed brand identity.
 

Can disclosing emissions really boost your business? | Sherry Madera, CDP - YouTube
YouTube
Managing the environmental impact of businesses across the world could bring trillions to the global economy in business opportunities, ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

The Conversation: Gov. Josh Green; Climate change in California | Hawai'i Public Radio
Hawaii Public Radio
Gov. Josh Green discusses the change of leadership at the Department of Law Enforcement, vaccines, and his upcoming State of the State address; ...

'Woke green hydrogen bomb': Historian blasts California leaders for 'nonsensical' wildfire response
Fox News
'I don't think climate change played a role,' says historian Victor Davis Hanson. By Jamie Joseph. Published January 17, 2025 4:00am EST.

Mayor Karen Bass: Los Angeles Needs to Adapt to Our Climate-Altered Future - NRDC
NRDC
State and city leaders can use the fires as an opportunity to accelerate implementation of the California ... Climate Adaptation Climate Change ...

Impact Investing:

Top 10: Social Impact Investing Opportunities | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
The top social impact investing opportunities come from firms including Citi Foundation, JPMorgan Chase's Impact Finance and Advisory (IFA) ...

 

Impact leaders' 2025 predictions: what will matter most this year - Pioneers Post
Pioneers Post
Read on for analysis from Fran Seegull, Philippe Zaouati, Naina Subberwal Batra, Carolina Suárez and more. Fran Seagull, US Impact Investing Alliance.

New innovative book, The Heart of It: The Ten Pillars of Mindful Impact Investing, Releases Today
WJBF
Cision PR Newswire. New innovative book, The Heart of It: The Ten Pillars of Mindful Impact Investing, Releases Today.

Energy Storage

Hundreds ordered to evacuate as fire erupts at huge California battery storage plant
NBC News
... battery storage plants. As the fire sent up towering flames and black smoke and showed no sign of easing by Thursday night, about 1,500 people ...

Fire at world's largest battery facility is a clean energy setback | New Scientist
New Scientist
A fire at Vistra Energy's Moss Landing battery storage facility in California destroyed thousands of lithium batteries – and a significant amount ...

Battery storage is booming. Just look at Tesla - Environment America
Environment America
In 2024, Tesla deployed 31.4 GWh of energy storage products, equivalent to the annual electricity usage of nearly 3,000 typical American homes. This ...

Climate Change and Satellites:

Slew of satellite projects aims to head off future wildfires - France 24
France 24
... changing environment. Satellites "can detect from space areas that are dry and prone to wildfire outbreaks.... actively flaming and smouldering ...

Scientists call on UN to help solve Earth's space junk problem
Space.com
The atmospheric burn-up of satellites during their fall to Earth ... climate change. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the ...

NASA Scientists Find New Human-Caused Shifts in Global Water Cycle
NASA
... Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative, and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites for terrestrial water storage data. They also ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

New Relic Sets Science-Based Targets to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030
Business Wire
... carbon emissions for migrated workloads and a 15-20% improvement in performance efficiency. To learn more about New Relic's approach to ESG ...
 

Why Scope 3 is Key to Delisted SBTi Major Suppliers - Supply Chain Digital
Supply Chain Digital
The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has dropped over 200 major ... climate targets. Additionally, evolving standards, such as the ...

New Relic Sets Science-Based Targets to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030
Yahoo Finance
... carbon emissions for migrated workloads and a 15-20% improvement in performance efficiency. Story Continues. To learn more about New Relic's ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

What Trump 2.0 means for science: the likely winners and losers - Nature
Nature
What Trump 2.0 means for science: the likely winners and losers. The incoming US president is expected to gut support for research on the environment ...
 

Trump will weaken climate action — the rest of the US must not follow suit - Nature
Nature
... environment-related executive actions. What Trump 2.0 means for science: the likely winners and losers. State and local governments can also step ...

Microgrids:

Power Ahead to a Closer Look at Microgrids for Energy Intensive Companies
Microgrid Knowledge
Industrial customers are increasingly looking beyond utilities and seeking locally sited microgrids to power production reliability, ...
 

Green Microgrids Are Powering a More Resilient Future
Reasons to be Cheerful
A microgrid is a small-scale energy system that can operate either independently or as part of the larger electric grid. Microgrids consist of ...

Community Health Risk Assessment:

Carcinogenic Air Pollutants and Breast Cancer Risk in the Arkansas Rural Community Health Study
ScienceDirect.com
... Community Health study. Twelve census-tract level HAPs from the 2005 National Air Toxics Assessment were geocoded to participants' baseline ...

New NCCN patient resource shares latest under - EurekAlert!
EurekAlert!
... Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, Pancreatic, and Prostate. “FORCE and the entire hereditary cancer community rely on the NCCN Guidelines for the ..,

Dickinson County Residents Urged To Participate In Online Cancer Meeting - Explore Okoboji
Explore Okoboji
“What we heard from the fall community health assessment that we do ... “There are a lot of behavioral health risk factors. Looking at our ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

2025: A reset moment for responsible investment | Blog post - PRI
PRI
... investment point of view that ESG is well and truly integrated into investment practices. It's as much about filling any knowledge gaps as it is ...

Cultural Values and Cross-Country Differences in Responsible Investing Sectors
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
Given the growth in Responsible Investing (RI) as an important investment strategy, particularly over the past several decades, we examine why ...

US Sustainable Funds Suffer Another Year of Outflows - Morningstar
Morningstar
Moreover, greenwashing concerns remained a persistent concern for investors. The Best- and Worst-Selling ESG Funds. Two of the largest sustainable ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

What you need to know about carbon capture, utilization and storage - Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Chronicle - Cornell University
... CO2 capture and conversion technologies (CAPTURE-Lab). The experimental facility will explore carbon capture, utilization or storage, and ...

Here's what we should do with the vast amounts of carbon we capture
The World Economic Forum
What is carbon capture and storage – and how can it help tackle the climate crisis? ... CO2 Capture, Utilization, and Storage. Follow. Share: World ...
 

Carbon capture, use, and storage | Talk of Alaska
Alaska Public Media
How does carbon sequestration technology work, and what are its potential applications in Alaska? We discuss carbon capture, use, and storage on ...

Coronavirus and Sustainability:

Beyond the Pandemic - OECD
OECD
... pandemic use of telemedicine introduces challenging policy questions on its impact, equity, and financial sustainability. OECD countries varied in ...
 

The 7 tourism and travel myths that mask its sustainable development potential
The World Economic Forum
Resting on an ecosystem of global stakeholders, the post-pandemic tourism sector promotes growth aligned with sustainable development principles.
 

Post-pandemic ASEAN tourism should focus on sustainability
thesun.my
JOHOR BAHRU: The post-pandemic tourism in ASEAN must focus not only on recovery but also on transitioning to a sustainable, quality-driven ...

Sustainability Investing: 

Top 10: Social Impact Investing Opportunities | Sustainability Magazine
Sustainability Magazine
For investors, Bain Capital offers the opportunity to invest in a fund managed by a firm with a strong track record in private equity, coupled with a ...

What Could Shape Sustainability and Climate Investing in 2025? - MSCI
MSCI
Private market solutions: Investors looking to capitalize on the energy transition may look to private markets, where low-carbon-solutions ...
 

Guest Post: Unlocking the Full Value of Sustainability Investments - ESG Today
ESG Today
By: Franco Amalfi, Director of Sustainability Initiatives and Partners– Capgemini Americas; and Alex Tepper, Global Head of Ventures and Sustainable ...

Geoengineering:

Geoengineering strategies against climate change could positively impact agriculture
Phys.org
In the absence of notable emissions reductions, some observers have suggested such geoengineering strategies as carbon dioxide removal and solar ...

As climate change intensifies, GOP bill would bar 'geoengineering' to combat it
Arizona Mirror
Geoengineering is the practice of intentionally attempting to modify the atmosphere. In recent years, it has been explored as a possible way to ...
 

India: Geoengineering strategies could positively impact agriculture - PreventionWeb.net
PreventionWeb.net
Chiefly, geoengineering helped maintain ideal temperature ranges for crop growth but did not alter climate change-induced precipitation extremes or ...

Green Bond Funds:

Climate Investment Funds Raises $500 Million in Debut Bond for Clean Energy Transition
ESG News
The Climate Investment Funds Capital Markets Mechanism (CCMM) made a historic market debut with a $500 million inaugural bond.

Climate Investment Funds sees huge success in inaugural bond | Devex
Devex
Days before Donald Trump takes office, Climate Investment Funds seeks ways to secure sustainable climate finance for developing countries.

Low Carbon Funds:

BlackRock launches UK fund to back low-carbon materials transition - Net Zero Investor
Net Zero Investor
BlackRock has launched a new UK-domiciled fund focused on investing in companies involved in materials essential for the low-carbon transition, ...
    
US Sustainable Funds Suffer Another Year of Outflows - Morningstar
Morningstar
Source: Morningstar Sustainalytics. Data as of Jan. 16, 2025. The largest fund that merged was Nuveen Social Choice Low Carbon Equity, which merged ...