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See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today:

Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements

TotalEnergies, Equinor, Shell to Invest Over $700 Million to Expand Carbon Storage Project

Kimberly-Clark to Reach 100% Renewable Energy at Kleenex Manufacturing Site

Frontier Signs $33 Million Carbon Removal Purchase with Enhanced Rock Weathering Startup Eion

Airbus Reconfirms Commitment to Develop Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft

Lululemon Partners with Biotech Company ZymoChem to Scale Use of Sustainable Materials in Products

Ares Acquires Stake in 900 MW U.S. Solar and Storage Portfolio from Engie

84% of Companies Keeping or Accelerating Climate Targets: PwC

Guest Post: Clean Energy in the Age of AI – Striking the Right Balance

Guest Post – Melting Hope: Can We Answer the Glaciers’ SOS?

ESG Reporting

EU Council Approves Delay to CSRD and CSDDD Sustainability Reporting Regulations

ISSB Launches New Roadmap Tool to Help Jurisdictions Adopt Sustainability Reporting Standards

Guest Post – Interoperability: The Missing Link in Global Sustainability Efforts

Government & Regulators

SEC Drops its Defense of Climate Reporting Rules

ESG Services and Tools

Equifax Launches Financed Emissions Calculator

JLL Acquires Clean Energy-Focused Investment Bank Javelin Capital

Sustainable Finance

ING Becomes First Global Bank with SBTi-Approved Financed Emissions Reduction Targets

Iberdrola Issues Green Bond Linked to its Share Price

EU Platform on Sustainable Finance Proposes New Standard to Help SMEs Access Financing for Sustainability Efforts

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Carbon Accounting and Reporting Software Provider Persefoni Raises $23 Million

GridPoint Raises $45 Million to Expand Platform to Decarbonize Buildings, Stabilize Grids

InnoEnergy “Muscling Up” to Mobilize €160 Billion in Clean Tech Investments by 2030

GravitHy Raises $65 Million to Help Decarbonize Steel Industry

Just Climate Invests $25 Million in Sustainable Agriculture Solutions Provider GreenLight Biosciences

Theion Raises €15 Million for Low Cost Alternative to Lithium Batteries

Sustainable Investing

Fidelity International Raises Over $330 Million for Climate-Focused Real Estate Fund

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Chuck is the Chief Executive Officer of Stone Point Capital and Chairman of the Investment Committees of the Trident Funds. Chuck joined Stone Point in 1998, and he is actively involved in all of Stone Point’s portfolio investments. He is the chief architect behind Stone Point’s “Elephant Process” investment philosophy and partnership model with founders and owner-operators.

Prior to Stone Point, Chuck was a partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he spent 23 years.

Career Highlights
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

· Head of Investment Banking Services Worldwide

· Co-Head of Americas Group

· Head of Financial Services Industry Group

· Member of the International Executive Committee

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

· Vice Chairman

· Board Director

Education
· Columbia University – MBA

· University of Vermont – B.A.

Other Board Representation
· Board Director of AXIS Capital

· Board Director of Progressive

· Board Director of Hershey’s

· Member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank

· Board Director of Stone Point Capital Foundation

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China VC Reaches For Ceiling
More China funds are popping up as venture capital tilts away from the Silicon Valley epicenter and toward emerging Chinese tech startups.
Sinovation Ventures debuted a $500 million fourth fund while Sky9 Capital launched a $200 million third fund. Sinovation Ventures, led by AI guru and former Google China executive Kai-Fu Lee, is investing in artificial intelligence, robotics and education startups. Sky9 Capital, headed up former Lightspeed China founder Ron Cao, focuses on backing early-stage Chinese companies in the Internet, enterprise and deep tech sectors.
In the wings is a new venture fund from China Creation Ventures, a spin-out by the former team of Kleiner Perkins China and led by founding managing partner Wei Zhou. Additionally, Sequoia Capital China is raising a $550 million China venture fund, its seventh, and a $150 million seed fund for China, its first.
Wonder if it’s too much capital chasing China startups?
Read Forbes: China venture ceiling

NEW FUNDINGS
Full Truck Alliance Group, China’s biggest app for Uber-like truck services, reportedly raised $1.9 billion in funding to fuel its expansion at a valuation of $6.5 billion with backers including SoftBank Vision Fund, China Reform Fund, GSR Ventures and Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG. Existing investors Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Sequoia Capital also were involved in the round.
Keep on truckin.

Chinese biotech startup NuProbe has bagged $11 million in a Series A round co-led by Sequoia Capital China and hedge fund Serica Partners, plus corporate strategic investor WuXi AppTec.

Silicon chipmaker Innovium raised $77 million in a Series D funding from veteran chip investor Walden International.

Want to know how competitive the cryptocurrency market is for venture capital funding? Consider that Sequoia China sued the founder of crypto trading exchange Binance for failing to honor an exclusivity agreement during negotiations, and sought an injunction against the founder, well-known as CZ, from negotiating with other investors. Sequoia had offered Binance a term sheet for a $9.5 million, Series A investment for a 12% stake in Binance. A Hong Kong court recently struck down the injunction.

IPOs
Chinese ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing is preparing for an IPO as early as this year at a valuation of $70 billion to $80 billion, up from its most recent venture funding valuation of $57.6 billion. Didi could beat Uber to the public markets.

NOTEWORTHY
Image recognition has caught on in China in a big way. Beijing airport security checks scan your passport and face at the same time before sliding your luggage through. And parking garages are scanning license plates on cars to whisk drivers through the toll gate. No more reaching for paper tickets out the car window.

Anyone that believes that Apple will discontinue the iPhone X or that iPhone sales are down has not been to China. If anything Apple will make an X+ and make it bigger and more expensive. iPhone shipments to China were up 32% in Q1 2018, and Apple’s share of the Chinese smartphone market rose to 14.3% from 10% a year ago.

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Grammy Award Winner Alicia Keys and Niche Media CEO Jason BinncelebratedGotham Magazine’s Annual Gala and Alicia Keys’ March 2010Cover at Capitale on March 15, 2010.

The evening, presented by Bing, brought together New York’s elite to toast the cover of Gotham Magazine’s Spring Fashion Issue.Guests of the evening were treated to a performance by violinist Miri Ben-Ari and enjoyed dinner and speciality cocktails including Sapporo beer, as they dancedto the sounds of DJ Cassidy.Decor for the evening was created bySwank Productions.

Celebrities and guests included:Alicia Keys, Grammy Award Winner, Singer; Alessandra Ambrosio, Victoria Secret Model;Brianna Birtles, Gotham Publisher;Jason Binn, Niche Media CEO; Saffron Burrows, My Own Worst Enemy;Kelly Choi, Emmy Nominated Actor;Jeff Gordon,Nascardriver;Erin Lucas, The City;Julie Ordon, Victoria’s Secret Model;Reshma Shetty, Actress/ Singer;Peter Som,Fashion Designer; Jessica White, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model;Miri Ben-Ari, Grammy Award Winner; Phillip Bloch,Stylist/ TV Personality; DJ Cassidy, Entertainer; Bethany Frankel, TV Personality; Dylan Lauren, Owner of Dylan’s Candy Bar; Tim Morehouse,Olympic Silver medalist; Amber Rose,Model; Dancer; Irina Shayk, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model; James Tupper, Men In Trees, Mercy;and Samantha Yanks, Gotham Editor-in-Chief.

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“AARP has a strong history of leading innovation by changing the marketplace,” said Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP. “Our members are disrupting aging in a variety of ways and so is AARP. The AARP Innovation Fund is the next evolution of our ability to fulfill our social mission by making sure that the needs and interests of those 50-plus are well represented by products and companies.”

The AARP Innovation Fund will make direct investments in early- to late-stage stage companies developing innovative products in three healthcare related areas:

Aging at Home—The fund will encourage the development of products and services that leverage technology to enable older adults to continue living in their homes safely and affordably such as: home sensor activity tracking; hearing and vision health; mobility assistance; meal plan/delivery/cooking solutions; social communities; physical augmentation devices.

Convenience and Access to Healthcare—The fund will support the advancement of products and services that enable 50-plus consumers to adopt positive health behaviors that they welcome into their lives such as: telemedicine; consumer diagnostics; consumer care transparency tools.

Preventative Health—The fund will seek to expand the market for products and services that help 50-plus consumers prevent the onset of serious health conditions such as: diet and nutrition management; stress and emotion management/therapy; fitness apps and programs; integrated health engagement incentives; cognitive and brain health.

In addition to financial support, some companies receiving these investments will have access to AARP’s knowledge and distribution channels to help 50-plus consumers have the opportunity to benefit from these innovative products and services.

“We look forward to working with AARP on this fund that will invest in and support innovative companies creating solutions for the people in this powerful and growing key demographic and their families,” said Kathy Rosa, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Equity Group. “Our knowledge of the market, combined with AARP’s expertise on the wants and needs of those 50-plus, is a powerful combination that will help the AARP Investment Fund invest in innovative companies in the consumer healthcare space.”

People 50-plus are online, connected and make use of technology that is intuitive and consumer friendly. They have tremendous buying power – responsible for at least $7.1 trillion in annual economic activity – a number that is expected to grow to $13.5 trillion by 2032. Companies working with the AARP fund have a great opportunity to grow the double bottom line: They can increase revenue and improve the lives of Americans as they age.

Jenkins concluded: “The Innovation Fund showcases AARP’s ability to generate bigger, bolder solutions that will disrupt aging, increase our impact on and drive relevance for the 50-plus population.” B-roll/video about the AARP Innovation Fund can be found here: https://vimeo.com/aarpbroadcast/review/140975010/c07b26a4df.

If you have a relevant product/company that we should consider for the AARP Innovation Fund, please click on this link: AARP Innovation Fund.

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About AARP
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with a membership of nearly 38 million, that helps people turn their goals and dreams into real possibilities, strengthens communities and fights for the issues that matter most to families such as healthcare, employment and income security, retirement planning, affordable utilities and protection from financial abuse. We advocate for individuals in the marketplace by selecting products and services of high quality and value to carry the AARP name as well as help our members obtain discounts on a wide range of products, travel, and services. AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to political campaigns or candidates. The AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. AARP has staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Learn more atwww.aarp.org.
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About J.P. Morgan Asset Management
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with assets under management of $1.8 trillion, is a global leader in investment management. J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s clients include institutions, retail investors and high net worth individuals in every major market throughout the world. J.P. Morgan Asset Management offers global investment management in equities, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, private equity and liquidity. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), the parent company of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, is a leading global asset management firm with assets of approximately $2.4 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available atwww.jpmorganchase.com.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is the marketing name for the asset management businesses of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its affiliates worldwide.

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Remembering Samuel Pisar, Holocaust Survivor, Special Envoy for Holocaust Education by Judith Pisar
“In Memoriam Hungarian Composers,
Victims of Holocaust”
A Concert by world-renowned musicians,
Professors and students of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest)
Violin: Vilmos Szabadi
Cello: Eszter Karasszon
Piano: Mariann Marczi
Lajos Delej: Scherzo Béla Bartók-Tivadar Országh: Hungarian Folksongs Imre Sárossi: Pastorale Zoltán Kodály: Transylvanian Lament György Justus: Jazz suite – Waltz, Tango Béla Bartók: Hungarian Folksongs Ferenc Vecsey: Valse triste György Justus: Elegiaque
A Talk by Ágnes Kőry, Director of the Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship (London)

Judith Pisar has devoted her career to building cultural bridges across the Atlantic. As President of Arts France-USA, an organization committed to cultural exchange between the two countries, she regularly produces concerts and festivals of American music in Paris – including tributes to Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Broadway, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Prior to that she served for 17 years as Chairman of the American Center of Paris, the avant-garde meeting place for French and American artists. In that capacity she selected Frank Gehry to design a new building in 1988 – one of his first in Europe. Described by Philip Johnson as “America’s Cultural Czarina in Europe,” she has also served on the French Ministry of Culture’s Conseil Supérieur du Mécénat, on the board of the Régine Chopinot Ballet and as a founding signatory of the World Charter against Cancer. Earlier in her career, she served as Director of Music at the Brooklyn Academy, Executive Director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and founded The Composer Speaks, a lecture bureau which brought some of the greatest composers of the 20th Century — Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Luciano Berio and others — to cities and universities throughout the United States. She is an Officer of the French Legion of Honor and a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Performers
Vilmos Szabadi (violin)
Mr. Szabadi is Hungary’s foremost violinist, a regular soloist and frequent guest artist in the most prestigious concert halls around the world. Vilmos Szabadi studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music of Budapest where on receiving his diploma, he became the youngest ever to join the Professors’ team. His career as an international Concert violinist took off when he played Bartók 2nd Violin Concerto during the Bartók Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The success of this Concert, led to invitations from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as well. Mr. Szabadi was also among the privileged musicians invited by HRH Prince Charles to perform at the celebration in honor of Sir Georg Solti’s 80th birthday held at the Buckingham Palace in 1992. In 1993 the prestigious “Franz Liszt” prize has been awarded to Vilmos Szabadi by the Hungarian Government. In 1995 he also appeared on the Stradivarius series, played the Strad violin owned by Spanish Royalty in Madrid. Mr. Szabadi is a recent double prize winner of the renowned MIDEM Festival in Cannes, France. He plays a cremonese Laurentius STORIONI instrument dated 1778.

Mariann Marczi (piano)
Mariann Marczi started playing piano at the age of four and now she holds a PhD from Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest, where she is a Professor. Ms. Marczi is a winner of many national and international awards, scholarships and piano competitions. She performed almost in every country in Europe, and she is also a frequent guest artist at many music festivals, such as the Bartók Festival; Prague-Wien-Budapest Festival etc. Her repertoire includes a wide range of works from early Baroque to contemporary music. Ms. Marczi turns with particular attention towards the works of J. S. Bach, Béla Bartók and György Kurtág. Since 2012 she is also a member of the World Piano Teachers Association and she often participates as lecturer at international conferences, such as the World Piano Conference (Novi Sad, Serbia) and the London International Piano Symposium.
Eszter Karasszon (cello)
Eszter Karasszon is a young Hungarian cellist, student at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music of Budapest. She is already a winner of many national and international awards, such as the Dohnányi Chamber Competition (2013) and the VI. David Popper Competition (2015). In 2010 she has been granted a scholarship giving her the possibility to participate in a master class of Indiana String Academy to Janos Starker. Ms. Karasszon has not only performed in Hungary but in many European countries and in the United States as well.
Ágnes Kőry (talk)
Hungarian-born Ágnes Kőry is a graduate of the Béla Bartók Conservatoire Budapest, Royal Academy of Music London (DipRAM) and University of London (MPhil). An ex-professional cellist, she focuses on research into a variety of fields (which include baroque string instruments, composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, Holocaust history ). Ágnes Kőry presented her papers on musicological conferences (University of Edinburgh, University of London, University of Manchester, Institute of Musicology Budapest) . She is an author of many musicological journals such as the Galpin Society Journal, Studia Musicologica, Early Music, The Consort, Ethnomusicological Forum and Parlando. Ágnes Kőry’s scholarly papers are also published on a variety of scholarly websites in the United States, United Kingdom, Hungary and Israel. Ágnes Kőry is a regular contributor to classical music websites. Ágnes Kőry leads the Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship (London), where specialized musicianship training coexists with comprehensive music education

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