Green Matters – September 14, 2020

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September 14th, 2020

Tech & Innovation: Robots, AI, oh my! 

  • AI and real life: department of energy announces the first five consortium (microsoft) 
  • Robots, oh my; the fear of robots displacing workers has returned (economist)
  • Root AI raises $7.2m seed round to deploy its harvesting robot amid covid-19-fueled demand (techcrunch)
  • AI coming for your words (technologyreview)

 

Cryptocurrency: The digital revolution continues. 

  • Blockchain for decentralized finance (defi) (consensys)
  • The multitude of ethereum use cases for enterprise (eea) 
  • Bitcoin now world’s sixth largest currency (decrypt)
  • Podcast: digital currencies from central banks could change money as you know it (cnbc)

 

Carbon, Climate, and the Environment: The not-so-silent crisis.

  • Solar and wind accounted for over two-thirds of new global installed capacity in 2019 (pvbuzz) 
  • New federal report warns of climate change’s impact to financial markets (nyt)
  • Ice-sheet losses track high-end sea-level rise projections (nature)
  • Interactive map shows key places that must be protected to curb climate change (fast company)

 

Social Justice, Diversity, & Ethics: No more tradeoffs.

  • Jane Fraser to become first woman CEO of a major US bank (cnbc)
  • Calling on companies to disclose workplace racial demographics, not just make statements (justcapital)
  • Parents got more time off. Then the backlash started (nyt)
  • Workers’ rights ratings: Not so good for US (bloomberg)

 

Sustainable Investing: Align your dollars with the rest of your life.

  • Latest research from Harvard finds ESG outperforms long-term and in market downturns (cio)
  • Podcast: can we get ESG investing right? (greentechmedia)
  • US Department of Labor trying to block ESG investing in 401k plans due to pressure from fossil fuel industry (bloomberg)
  • The ESG megatrend meets green bonds (visualcapitalist) 

 

Solutions: Don’t doubt human ingenuity.

  • Teenagers tell us the answers are in our ability to pause (tedxlincoln)
  • Another solution proposal by E2, 860,000 clean energy stimulus jobs (pvbuzz)
  • As tourism sector plans reopening, beautiful Bawah Reserve hailed as model of more thoughtful tourism (sustainable brands)
  • Power, Profits and the Pandemic: new report proposes an economy that works for all (oxfam)

 

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