{"id":18917,"date":"2015-10-21T00:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T07:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/corporation-to-hear-pitches-addressing-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T00:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T07:03:03","slug":"corporation-to-hear-pitches-addressing-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/corporation-to-hear-pitches-addressing-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporation to hear pitches addressing climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. has committed to hearing investment pitches from companies and projects working on ways to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Mertz, the corporation\u2019s acting CEO, says the corporation committed to hearing investment opportunities of up to $200 million but any investments would have to be in line with the corporation\u2019s portfolio goals, return requirements and other restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>She says it\u2019s possible the corporation doesn\u2019t invest anything, or that an investment beyond $200 million may be considered.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is in keeping with a White House call for greater private sector engagement in addressing climate change and includes a consortium of other long-range investors.<\/p>\n<p>The White House, in a fact sheet, said an intermediary would identify and screen companies and projects for potential investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. has committed to hearing investment pitches from companies and projects working on ways to address climate change. Valerie Mertz, the corporation\u2019s acting CEO, says the corporation committed to hearing investment opportunities of up to $200 million but any investments would have to be in line with the corporation\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}