Archive for March, 2008
Inside Cleantech: Cleaning up in the battery market
Renewable Energy Funds - get up to $100 million from OPIC The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has issued a global call for proposals for funds investing in renewable energy. OPIC will consider funds focused globally or regionally in OPIC-eligible countries. OPIC anticipates providing up to $100 million per fund. Details [...]
“TEN YEARS AFTER:" Georg Kell's speech at Chatham House
Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Prepared for Chatham House Corporate Responsibility 2008 Conference 13 March 2008 Good morning, it is a great pleasure to be here. I could not think of a better venue to review and debate corporate responsibility (CR) and its economic and political context. Chatham House has long played a [...]
Chemicals Feed Hopes and Fears
Geneva, 12 March 2008. Covalence Chemical Industry Report 2007 Without their products chemical companies would be praised as ethical leaders. Chemical products are a space for complex and emotional debates where it is hard to register reputation gains. Companies rather manage to do so at the levels of working conditions, impact of production [...]
EC finds economic cost of losses in nature far greater than bank crisis
Nature provides human society with a vast diversity of bene?ts such as food, ?bres, clean water, healthy soil and carbon capture and many more. Though our well-being is totally dependent upon the continued ?ow of these “ecosystem services”, they are predominantly public goods with no markets and no prices, so are rarely detected by our current [...]
Downstream Solar Market Opportunities Webinar
March 18, 2008 from 1-2:15 PM EST FEE: $35 Register Now! Venture capital investment in solar grew from $360 million in 2006 to more than $1 billion in 2007, in 71 transactions in North America, according to Greentech Media. However, 90% of this capital went into 'upstream' solar technology firms in thin film, concentrating solar, silicon [...]
ASrIA E-Bulletin – IPO disclosure report: ESG – Reality Sets In
ASrIA has a full year ahead, which opened with the publication of a research report on trends in ESG disclosure by Chinese supply chain companies listed in Hong Kong, ESG-Reality Sets in. ASrIA is taking a leading role in the 2008 CDP process which will see up to 430 Asian companies ex-Japan being surveyed, up from 166 in 2007. This includes the [...]
Global Marshall Plan Initiative
Hazel Henderson and Ethical Markets media are partners in the Global Marshall Plan The Coalition for the Global Commons Welcomes a New PartnerKosmos Journal joins the International Consultation Process Press room News articles on the Initiative Events 11.4.2008 - 13.4.2008, United States Generosity Weekend 16.6.2008 - [...]
E-Learning Course – Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector
***Registrations Now Open*** Block your diaries to push your environmental skills ahead of the curve with the UNEP FI's 2008 E-Learning Course on Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector. Register now at http://www.unitar.org/unepfi. After experiencing an unsatisfiable wave of demand for its first course in 2007, the [...]
Analysis of Bali agreement and politics
Bali Analysis (Download the PDF)
Hazel Henderson speaking on Earth Ethics
SummitSpeak with Susan Cavanaugh: Wisdom Leaders series with Hazel Henderson speaking on Earth Ethics, March 11, 2008
