Year in Review 2016

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Investor Network on Climate Risk Year in Review 2015-2016

2015 was a big year for climate change and other key ESG issues. In collaboration with ourinternational partners in the Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change, we brought investor voices, leadership and commitments to the Paris climate negotiations, which culminated in a historic global agreement. Our 2016 Investor Summit on Climate Risk, with record attendance and unprecedented participation by international investment leaders, confirmed that climate change is now a mainstream investment issue and that clean energy investment presents increasing opportunities. 2015 also saw the World Federation of Exchanges issue ESG reporting guidance to its member stock exchanges, huge progress on proxy access, the appointment of the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate Disclosure, important guidance from the U.S. Dept. of Labor on ESG issues and fiduciary duty, and the filing of a record number of shareholder proposals by INCR members on climate-related issues.But we know that there is more work ahead. Climate change continues to accelerate, manyESG risks remain unaddressed, and our efforts in 2016 must confront these and other issues in the context of challenging global markets. With 120 members managing over $14 trillion, INCR is a powerful investor voice for sustainable business and investment practices and government policies. In the coming year we are looking forward to progress on multiple fronts, through our working groups, collaborations, advocacy and implementation of best practices.Solving climate change, bridging the clean energy investment gap and building sustainablecapital markets requires the long-term commitment of leading institutional investors

Year in Review 2016-2017

This Year in Review Annual Report highlights the scholarly activities of the Margarett and Herman Brown Library at Abilene Christian University, its departments, and its faculty and staff

Year in Review: The Top Stories at Roger Williams University in 2016

Celebrate RWU’s many successes in 2016 with a look back at the most-read stories of the year

Regulatory Highlights – The Year 2016 In Review and Implications for 2017

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (“PUCT” or “Commission”) started out last year much the same way that it is starting out this year—the key item on its agenda will be the sale of Oncor Electric Delivery, LLC out of the EFH bankruptcy—however this sale will be to NextEra Energy Resources, LLC instead of two entities spearheaded by the Hunt family. Many of the other key issues initiated in 2016 have carried over into 2017, including the implications of Reliability Must Run, the determination of a standard for reliability, and the use and deployment of both distributed generation and emergency response service, and possible transitions of Lubbock Power & Light (“LP&L”) and Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative (“Rayburn”) load into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”). A review and discussion of these issues demonstrates that the market design, which continues to evolve around many of the same key issues and in particular renewable development, is influenced by legislative changes, agency guidance and changes to rules.The Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Busines

Arctic Law & Policy Year in Review: 2016

According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with a boost by El Niño, 2016 set new records for global temperatures, capping three consecutive years of record global warming. In Alaska, for example, the average temperature was 31.9 degrees Fahrenheit — 5.9 degrees above the long-term average. The globally averaged sea surface temperature was the highest on record at 1.35° F above average. The globally averaged land surface temperature was also the highest on record at 2.57° F above average. The NOAA report records that in 2016 the Arctic experienced some of its highest air temperatures, least sea-ice (averaging just 3.92 million square miles) and earliest spring snow melt. 2016 was the first full year of the United States’ chairmanship of the Arctic Council. Significant achievements included coming to an agreement to enhance scientific cooperation in the Arctic (scheduled to become binding in 2017), completing the ratification process for an agreement on oil pollution preparedness and response, and finishing a five-year research project to release the Arctic Resilience Report. Finland will succeed the U.S. as chair in May 2017 and hopes to host a meeting between President Putin and President Trump at its first Arctic Council summit of its term

Gaia

A review of the Gaia mission and its science performance after one year of operations will be presented, and the contribution to reconstructing the history of the Milky Way will be outlined.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Astronomische Nachrichten, special issue "Reconstructing the Milky Way's History: Spectroscopic Surveys, Asteroseismology and Chemodynamical Models", Guest Editors C. Chiappini, J. Montalban, and M. Steffen, AN 2016 (in press

UR Scholarship Repository: 2015-2016 Year in Review

Annual Report for the University of Richmond\u27s institutional repository, UR Scholarship

UR Scholarship Repository: 2016-2017 Year in Review

Annual Report for the University of Richmond\u27s institutional repository, UR Scholarship