Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Marieke de Leede, Impact Investment Analyst, SNS Asset Management, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News, The Power of Yin

By Geoffrey on June 8, 2012 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.”  The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience.  The goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: To collect a catalogue …

Rio+20 special from the Green Economy Coalition

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity, Sustainability News

Rio+20 has now arrived and we have been asked – what outcome does GEC want, and what does it expect? To answer that I would like to explain the evolution of our coalition as our own story offers insights to the more macro green economy journey. Our first phase (2009-2011) was about …

Climate Bonds: Windreich BBB+ wind energy bond / Local Govt PF makes climate bonds allocation / Diary alert 3 July: Peggy Liu on China energy / Clements-Hunt+Damerow join CB Adv Panel

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity

 > German wind company Windreich has placed another €5m of 5 year bonds, taking their issuance to €75m in total. The bond has an investment grade BBB+ rating – wind energy bond ratings are improving all the time! Interest rate is 6.5%. http://goo.gl/KcU5g >  $6bn Australian pension fund ‘Local Government Super‘ has announced it …