“Ethical Markets is happy to see that President Obama will continue his longtime climate advocacy and action since Copenhagen in 2009, when we published our first annual Green Transition Scoreboard® tracking $1.1 trillion of private green investors (like many of us personally!) who were already invested in green sectors worldwide. Our successive …
$1Trillion Annual Green Bond Milestone Tipped for end 2022 – $5Trillion Annual by 2025 is new Target
$1Trillion Annual Green Bond Milestone Tipped for end 2022 – New Market Survey $5Trillion Annual by 2025 is new Global Target says CEO Sean Kidney London 28/10/2021: 11:00AM GMT +1: Green bond investment in a single year is set to double and reach the $1trillion milestone for the first time by the end …
DEI survey webinar unpacks trends in creating truly inclusive cooperatives
BY: NCBA CLUSA STAFF In 2020, a renewed focus on racial equity spurred cooperatives nationwide to thoughtfully reconsider their efforts to create truly inclusive businesses. Now, the results of a recently concluded survey reveal how co-ops are doing as they seek to implement best practices in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). …
Kim Stanley Robinson on why he’s going to COP26
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this speech for COP26 by science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, whom I met in the 1980s at a retreat in California hosted by our mutual friend, physicist Fritjof Capra, who wrote the Foreword to my “Politics of the Solar Age” (1981, 1988). I was delighted to …
“Launch Of Global Green Finance Index 8” with Mike Wardle, Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 9:00 – 10:00 BST
Launch Of Global Green Finance Index 8 Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2021 Time: 9:00 – 10:00 BST Register Now Background: The eighth edition of the Global Green Finance Index provides the world’s most authoritative measure of the performance of financial centres in delivering green finance services.The report, assembled by combining the …
Nobel prize is a lagging indicator of climate change
“Ethical Markets is happy to see these physicists finally recognized for the work identifying causes of climate change . We have also urged the Nobel Committee for many years, together with Nobel’s descendent, lawyer Peter Nobel, that they should clearly de-link the Riksbank Prize in Economic Science (sic) in Memory …
Generation X is winning
Hello. Today we look at how wealth levels are changing across generations in America, two trends in Latin America and why learning economics can close gender pay gaps. They Got Their MTVs For a peer group associated with nihilistic grunge music, things have turned out pretty well for Generation X. Especially during …
The JUST Report: The Companies at the Leading Edge of Climate Policy
The Companies at the Leading Edge of Climate Policy This year’s Climate Week comes one month after the IPCC reported unequivocally that climate change is “rapid, widespread, and intensifying,” and that human influence is the key driver. While it is too late to reverse some of the negative impacts, …
Countdown to COP26: Carbon Pricing for Climate Action
In the second of our ‘Countdown to COP’ briefings, the Climate Bonds Policy Team examine the EU’s extension of carbon pricing policies into the economic and trade arena through the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). We delve into the implications of this shift and suggest what action should be …
The hunt for $100 billion, push for UN climate rights envoy and smart uses for carbon
As leaders gather at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, it’s crunch time for climate finance – yet again. After a roundtable bringing together rich nations, small island states, African and other developing countries, UN chief Antonio Guterres said he’d heard “encouraging declarations” …