TRUE COST OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE INDEX Amount of soil lost worldwide,according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): 75 billion tons Approximate annual economic cost of that lost soil: US $ 400 billion, or about US $ 70 per person, per year (FAO) Approximate percentage of the world’s …
IORP II, Eurosif, ShareAction, Friday people, Strathclyde, Merseyside, divestment lobby, Rockspring
IORP II should mandate environmental risk assessment, urges ShareAction Strathclyde adds £300m multi-asset credit for ‘enhanced yield’ shift Friday people roundup Merseyside tenders for manager, adviser on £400m property portfolio Divestment lobby ‘over-simplifying’ sale of fossil fuel assets, argues union Rockspring fund backed by Danish …
ENB Vol. 32 No. 23 – UN Sustainable Development Summit – Issue #3
Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Volume 32 Number 23 | Sunday, 27 September 2015 UN Summit Highlights Saturday, 26 September 2015 | UN Headquarters, New York Languages: EN (HTML/PDF) FR (HTML/PDF) Visit our IISD/ENB Meeting Coverage from UN Headquarters, New York at: http://www.iisd.ca/post2015/summit/ The UN Sustainable Development Summit continued on Saturday, 26 …
ENB on the Side – UN Sustainable Development Summit – Issue #2
ENB on the Side Coverage of Selected Side Events for 26 September 2015 at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 Issue No. 2 – Sunday, 27 September 2015 Events convened on Saturday, 26 June 2015 A Call for Joint Action to Achieve the SDGs: Advancing Integrated Solutions to Accelerate …
Ethical Markets 6: Beyond Economics TV series entering global distribution
Ethical Markets Media TV Series Ethical Markets 6: Beyond Economics In distribution with Films Media Group beginning Winter 2015/2016, www.films.com Individual episodes available at www.EthicalMarkets.tv. SERIES SYNOPSIS: These TV shows scan major aspects of rapidly accelerating change in today’s Interconnected Global Economy. The shows examine how this is driving restructuring …
OECD Green Growth Newsletter – September 2015
Contents Recent Publications Green Growth and Sustainable Forum, 14-15 December 2015 Other key events Retrospective: GGKP Webinar – Publication launch of Towards Green Growth? Tracking Progress 27 July 2015. Recent Publications OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels 2015 Government support to fossil fuel consumption and production in OECD …
Three New Climate Change Index Series Launched by S&P Dow Jones Indices
London, September 17, 2015: S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), one of the world’s leading providers of financial market indices, has today announced the launch of three new climate change index series: S&P Global 1200 Carbon Efficient Index Series, S&P Global 1200 Carbon Efficient Select Index Series and S&P Global …
Cleanwatch: The Clean Power Plan and the Need for Open, Accurate Market Data; Transportation Rankings;
Security analysts still need to overhaul their fossilized asset allocation buckets, as I have proposed in Fossilized Asset Allocation Still Mispricing Energy and Risk, Hazel Henderson, Editor Measuring the Measurable: The Clean Power Plan and the Need for Open, Accurate Market Data By Andrew Rector If you work or track data …
IIRC Newsletter – August Edition
Influential investors call for <IR> as best practice for governance A group of influential New Zealand institutional investors has recommended that boards should provide an integrated report, “that puts historical performance into context and helps shareholders understand a company’s strategic objectives and its progress towards meeting them.” Read More …
Beyond GDP: Interview with Michael Green
Beyond GDP Measuring progress, true wealth, and the wellbeing of nations August 2015 newsletter Interview Quote In the spotlight In brief Agenda On the web In this edition of the Beyond GDP newsletter: Interview with Michael Green Quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt Spotlight on The social dimension of …