Cleveland's Fern Hill Stormwater Wetlands Project was the venue and subject of discussion for a five-member delegation from China last week. The tour was sponsored by the Cleveland Council on World Affairs as part of a State Department program to promote international sharing of information on common environmental problems.

International nuclear energy development is necessary to combat the energy access and environmental problems facing the world, according to Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev. The Paris climate agreement will require participating nations to increase the role of nuclear energy, according to Hamad Alkaabi, the UAE's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Bill and Melinda Gates have teamed up with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar to help finance Radiant Earth, a project that seeks to make data from Earth's satellites available for free to help solve humanitarian and environmental problems. "(Radiant) will help build the 'who, what, where, when or why' for the planning and management of issues such as land tenure, global health, sustainable development, food security and disaster response," said CEO Anne Hale Miglarese.

SIFMA's roundtable on social impact investing with industry experts and members of Congress highlighted ways in which America's capital markets can support communities by investing funds in opportunities or companies that address social and environmental problems. Industry experts discussed issues such as whether sustainable investing means a discount to performance, where growth opportunities exist and more.