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Bloomberg Expands ESG Offerings with Innovative Green Bond Indices

Bloomberg announced the launch of new green-tilted fixed income indices, which seek to increase weighting to green bonds in some of Bloomberg’s flagship indices such as the Global Aggregate, Treasury and Corporate Indices.    The “tilted” indices incorporate research from Bloomberg’s ESG and fixed income data teams and offer investors an opportunity to incorporate and increase exposure […]

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IEA Report: Urgent Boost Needed in Global Energy Efficiency for Climate Goals

Global commitment to double the pace of efficiency improvements this decade is crucial as record heat and growth in energy-intensive industries boost energy demand Policy makers around the world expanded measures to promote energy efficiency in 2023, helping consumers save money and improving the security and sustainability of the global energy system – though progress […]

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Google and BCG: Pioneering AI-Powered Climate Solutions

A new report by Google in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to mitigate 5-10% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. This translates to the equivalent of the total annual emissions of the European Union. if (!window.AdButler){(function(){var s = document.createElement(“script”); s.async = true; s.type = […]

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DHL introduces Green Transport Policy to set a global sustainability standard for its transport fleet

The primary goal is to make substantial reductions in carbon emissions in line with the Group’s Sustainability Roadmap. DHL Supply Chain will transition around 2,000 of its vehicles to greener alternatives, such as hydrotreated vegetable oil, biogas, electric and hydrogen The contract logistics arm of DHL Group commits up to 200 Mio euros in investment […]

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How opium, imperialism boosted Chinese art trade

For years a painting of ships passing each other in a foreign harbor hung largely unnoticed in a since-forgotten Harvard office. The work shows vessels large and small, some with vivid red flags atop their masts, all set against a blue sky. But that picturesque if unremarkable scene actually captures a snapshot of part of […]

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Hilary Whitehall Putnam, 89

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Hilary Whitehall Putnam was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. Hilary Putnam’s influence on analytic philosophy was and remains enormous, ranging widely across fields including mathematical logic, philosophy […]

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Ørsted Deploys AI to Boost Renewable Energy Asset Performance

Ørsted, a leading global renewable energy company, and SparkCognition, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions, announced that SparkCognition’s Renewable Suite will be deployed across 5.5 gigawatts of Ørsted’s land-based wind, solar, and storage assets in the U.S. By enhancing renewable energy asset performance management with SparkCognition’s AI solution, Ørsted will increase energy […]

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Apple, Nike Launch Clean Energy Procurement Academy to Decarbonize Global Supply Chains

The Clean Energy Procurement Academy launched to equip companies with the skills and knowledge required to access clean energy with foundational support from Apple, Amazon, Meta, Nike, PepsiCo, and REI Co-op. Supply chain emissions account for more than half of global greenhouse gas emissions and can represent the majority of a company’s total carbon footprint. […]

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S&P Global Enhances Climate Credit Analytics to Assess Physical and Transition Risks

Model suite now includes S&P Global Sustainable1 data enabling further assessment of aggregated impact of climate risk S&P Global Market Intelligence and Oliver Wyman has announced the enhancement of the S&P Global Market Intelligence Climate Credit Analytics solution to include both climate-related physical and energy transition risk. The addition of S&P Global Sustainable1 data providing […]

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Constellation to Play Key Role in $1 Billion Clean Hydrogen Hub Awarded by DOE

Company poised to build world’s largest nuclear-powered clean hydrogen facility at its LaSalle Clean Energy Center in Illinois Constellation (Nasdaq: CEG), the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy, is a major participant in the MachH2 hydrogen hub recently selected for up to $1 billion by the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the bipartisan […]

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