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To fight inflation, get a heat pump

Corporate Knights

Transition Accelerator Vice-President Moe Kabbara said his organization is doing similar analysis for Canada. “It But to get that transition done, Canada will have to pick up the pace. It really depends on your baseline fuel costs,” he told Griffin.

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When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative

GreenBiz

Venture capitalists decide who gets to be a billionaire and what solutions reach billions in market penetration. Real asset investors choose what critical infrastructure is built, where it’s built and who benefits from it. Here’s what we do know: in the United States, partners in venture capital firms are only 4.1 Marilyn Waite.

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AB: China's State-Owned Enterprises Hold Keys to Carbon Neutral

3BL Media

Investors must understand the role of SOEs in the economy and what drives these companies to gain insight into opportunities being created by China’s carbon-neutrality plans. President Xi Jinping announced in 2020 plans to target peak CO 2 emissions by 2030 and to transition toward carbon neutrality by 2060. SOURCE: AllianceBernstein.

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ESG Confessions: 5 Sustainable Finance Pros Share How They Are Grappling With the Talent Shortage, 'Greenwashing', and the 'Sucker' Stereotype | Featuring Jordan Locke, Acre

3BL Media

Jordan Locke, a recruitment consultant in Acre's Global Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing Team, sat down with Business Insider alongside a group of industry experts to discuss the current ESG talent shortage, ‘greenwashing’ and the rapid pace of change. . More money than ever is chasing environmentally and socially sound companies.

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Why Policy Matters

Chris Hall

As PRI in Person closes today in Barcelona, gathering more than 1,700 investors and stakeholders in person for the first time since 2019, one key message throughout has been that policy matters, now more than ever. PRI in Person started earlier this week with a reconvening of its second sustainable finance policy conference.

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There are 30 times more jobs created from rooftop solar vs utility-scale solar, utility filing says

Renewable Energy World

In late 2020, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission asked the state’s electric and gas utilities to discuss what infrastructure projects they had in queue that could be accelerated to support the COVID-battered economy. If it’s not the price that matters in choosing large or small, then the economic impacts matter much more.

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Governments must act decisively at COP27 to build a safer world for all

We Mean Business Coalition

This article originally appeared on BusinessGreen. To keep people safe, protect ecosystems, businesses and economies, and enable all to thrive, every fraction of a degree of temperature rise matters. And business and wealthier governments will also discuss how to cut emissions faster – what’s known as mitigation.