GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

As companies direct more of their money to external charitable causes, internally decision-makers are assessing how the companies' philanthropic efforts tie into their values, corporate responsibilities and sustainability strategies. There is a renewed focus on what corporate money can and should be doing in the philanthropy space.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2022

VIDEO: Aegon's Hilkka Komulainen and David Hayman from Make My Money Matter discuss recent research looking into how clients view the role of responsibly investing their savings.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

During a recent webinar (as reported by Transport Dive ), Duane Hughes, the CEO of electric truck maker Workhorse , offered another potential benefit: regenerative braking can reduce commercial drivers’ need for work-related knee surgeries, saving money for fleet operators. “It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Proposals aim to offer households discounted insurance premiums alongside additional funds to make their homes more resilient. Households in areas at risk of flooding that install flood defence measures could soon be able to acquire discounted insurance premiums, under plans outlined by the UK government today.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2021

Now Kerry and other White House officials are focusing on banks and insurers that are still offering a lifeline to new fossil fuel projects. He’s been following the flow of money into climate-conflicted projects for a decade. In 2015, then-Secretary of State John Kerry called the Paris climate treaty a “tremendous victory.”

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

Money doesn't just sit in savings accounts doing nothing. Startup A tmos Financial ensures that the money its customers deposit will only go to clean energy projects, rather than funding fossil fuel infrastructure. When a customer signs up, Atmos passes the money to Evolve Bank & Trust, an FDIC-insured institution.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

New research released today by the One for One campaign has warned the UK government could end up shelling out over £670bn in taxpayer's money - or £9,780 per taxpayer - to keep banks afloat in the event of a fossil fuel asset crash, which the group warned could occur as early as 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2020

“This provides a clear path to reach a bankable product with the least time, money and risk.” “We went out to insurance companies and said, ‘What is it you need for business interruption insurance?’” ” AW-Energy has similarly focused on product testing and certification.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Ask property insurers in Florida or utilities in California, or the companies that invest in them. The SEC’s rule won’t eliminate those costs, but it will give investors – from the mega firms to people saving for retirement – the insight they deserve when deciding where to invest their money. me cases deadly, market instabilities.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Want to Here’s the “fun” bucket — the “look how much money you can make” story. Insurance companies, specifically, are managing their risks by moving away from insuring wildfire- and flood-prone areas. It’s a powerful vise of have to pressure. At the macro level, the U.S.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To raise funds, you need a concrete idea of how much money is necessary. By now, you should have a much better idea of what you need and want, and therefore also a clearer idea of how much money will be required. It will be crucial to manage money wisely. So, where is the money needed for the community garden going to come from?

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

The Treasury has this morning launched a consultation on proposed reforms to the Solvency II regulatory framework for insurance companies, arguing changes to current rules could unleash "tens of billions" of pounds of investment in green infrastrucutre projects across the UK.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

Follow the Money. This podcast is brought to you by Energetic Insurance. Bill McKibben in NYT : Want to Do Something About Climate? E&E News : Senators Float HFC Phase-Down Bill. GreenBiz : Why Supermarkets are Key to a Cooler Climate. Utility Dive : California Is Looking for Better Storage.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Actors Robert Webb and Lolly Adefope are to star in a new short film series, titled 'Desmond and Susan', which has been launched today by the Make My Money Campaign. The short films directed by Richard Curtis aim to assert the role pensions can play in climate action. We hope they'll spread the message far and wide.".

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Property insurers already count the mounting costs of climate damage in the hundreds of billions, and must take a more active role in combatting the risks, an industry-backed report argues. Few industries are more exposed to the frontline of the climate crisis than property insurance. Insured natural catastrophe losses grew by 3.6

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38 North Solutions

JANUARY 12, 2024

Tax equity, in fact, is one of the least risky financial tools, designed to not lose money and to function more like debt. Most practitioners believe this was simply a mischaracterization based on a lack of international experience with tax equity since the U.S. is the only market that uses that instrument.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 14, 2021

According to John McIntyre , Managing Director at American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, community solar offers a fantastic value proposition with no money down, access to solar energy, and saves you money on your electric bill?—?all all while doing good things for the Earth.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Catching up with a solar fleet operator post-storm, PV Evolution Labs CEO Jenya Meydbray identified a few holes in the usual process of cataloguing damage and processing insurance claims. “I asked about the modules adjacent to the modules that were shattered, and they said ‘Nothing, those are still there.

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Grist

APRIL 9, 2021

Even if homeowners choose to save money by living in an at-risk area, rising insurance premiums may make these properties just as expensive in the long run, she said. Fairweather told Grist.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Support for community groups, insurance, property risk training, and climate resilient infrastructure among measures in new strategy.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, the model now accounts for vehicle insurance, parking, licensing and registration costs, and tracks changes in the amount of money paid for passenger transport fares. Version 3.3.1 adds several new features to the previously released 3.3 model platform.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last year there were 850 “natural catastrophes” across the world – a jump from 740 in 2017 and 500 a decade earlier – according to the Insurance Information Institute. It should also help to save money, the CTTN is much more durable than the current river stations and is 100 times cheaper.”.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Last week, meanwhile, research by the Make My Money Matter campaign, Aviva and Route2 found that switching pension investments to greener offerings is 21 times more effective at cutting carbon footprints than the combined effects of giving up flying, becoming vegetarian, and swapping to a renewable energy provider.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Embedded in the price you pay for goods are things such as vehicle maintenance, insurance, driver labor, warehouse labor, packaging labor, fuel energy, transport tolls, packaging disposal and, of course, profit margin. Many corporations exist to make money from finding and delivering energy to transportation.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The good news is that the mass adoption of solar energy presents another opportunity to save money. Overhead costs for a business go beyond supplies, wages and insurance. It’s a costly mishap that comes with being 100 percent reliant on the grid and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars in wasted money. Saving with Solar.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2024

billion in insured losses alone. Introduce the rebate, and while people like the idea of getting money back, confusion rises further. The cost of climate change, on the other hand, will be catastrophic, as Canadians are already experiencing firsthand. But the carbon price sure makes for an easy scapegoat. It’s complex.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

It's time we recognised the quality that other countries see in the UK, and back ourselves by investing more money into the companies and infrastructure that will drive growth and prosperity across our country," the letter states.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

His letter is money-weighted opinion, colossal in institutional investment and business circles (if not quite God-like ). But the CEO of insurance giant AXA says 4 degrees C is "uninsurable." The size of the climate challenge and how science is tracking the worst-case scenario means we cannot wait years for change to happen.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

Utilities previously struck by extreme weather events have spent large amounts of money strengthening their infrastructure in anticipation of similar events in the future. Will rising temperatures continue to make extreme weather events even more extreme? Major utility companies seem to think so.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Church and Italian insurer are latest to join growing group of world's largest pension funds and insurers committed to fully decarbonising their investments by 2050. The same would apply to all asssets managed by Generali Group - the third largest insurance firm in the world - which currently stand at €488bn.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2021

These figures come from Munich Re, a German company that provides insurance to other insurance companies and is an expert in insurance-related risks. Insurers are worried. We can’t, as an industry, continue to just collect more and more money, and rebuild and rebuild and rebuild in the same way,” said Donald L.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2021

The offering included 26 unique investors, including insurance companies, money managers, banks, pension funds and hedge funds, making it the company’s most successful issuance yet. “We OAKLAND, Calif. APRIL 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Mosaic , the leading financing platform for U.S. said Billy Parish, founder and CEO of Mosaic.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Joanna Munro, global chief investment officer (CIO) at HSBC Asset Management, said: "Technology will play a major role in enabling the energy transition, funded by public money, private capital and philanthropic commitments like HSBC's Climate Solutions Partnership with the World Resources Institute and WWF.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“Certain banks, other financing sources and insurance companies have taken actions to limit available financing and insurance coverage for the development of new coal-fueled power plants and coal producers and utilities that derive a majority of their revenue from thermal coal, which also may adversely impact the future global demand for coal.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The final investment decision was a “show of progress”, said Ryan Brightwell, a campaigner at non-profit BankTrack, but companies were “staying quiet on the crucial question of where the money will come from for their incredibly risky pipeline plans”. Under Pressure. Among them are the African Development Bank and UK’s Export Credit Agency.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

PACE is an add-on endorsement to a producer’s base crop insurance policy and is designed for corn producers who are looking to strategically apply nitrogen at times when it has the least environmental impact. Pierson says enrolling in PACE was easy through her crop insurance agent.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Bank of England (BoE) is facing pressure from MPs and campaigners to take urgent action to clean up its investments before the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, amid fears that vast sums of public money invested in high-carbon industries could damage the UK's international reputation and derail its climate goals.

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