Beyond GDP Newsletter November 2019

Jay OwenSustainability News, Beyond GDP

Intro: “Ethical Markets highly recommends this Newsletter from the European Commission still tracking all the changes to  update  GDP, that were first pointed out at the original Beyond GDP conference in 2007, on which I served as advisor and on the EU Commission’s organizing committee!  Ethical Markets funded three surveys …

CLEANWATCH Q3 2019 | Latest Nasdaq Clean Edge Stock Index Performance

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Beyond GDP, Latest Headlines

Stock Indexes / gridCONNEXT / Research / About Us Welcome to Cleanwatch. Each quarterly issue highlights stock index performance, industry trends, event programming updates, and more.View: Q3 2019: Stock Index Review & Key Clean-Tech Developments By Ron Pernick Nasdaq-Clean Edge stock indexes cover U.S. and global clean energy, water, and grid infrastructure markets. On a total return basis year …

Who’s Attending New Metrics ’19 | Mastercard, Walgreens, IKEA, H&M, Target…

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Beyond GDP, Latest Headlines

“Ethical Markets highly recommends this conference on the kind of essential new metrics we advocate. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ The Sustainability Sr. Product Manager at Amazon is attending. So is the Director, Financial Operations Sustainability at Comcast, the Manager of ESG at The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., and the Head of …

Who’s Attending New Metrics ’19 | Mastercard, Walgreens, IKEA, H&M, Target…

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Beyond GDP, Latest Headlines

“Ethical Markets highly recommends this conference on the kind of essential new metrics we advocate. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Who attends New Metrics?The Sustainability Sr. Product Manager at Amazon is attending. So is the Director, Financial Operations Sustainability at Comcast, the Manager of ESG at The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., and …

In Case You Missed It: 2019 Social Progress Index

Jay OwenBeyond GDP, Latest Headlines

The 2019 Global Index is Live! On September 18th, we released the 2019 Social Progress Index. This year’s index, which has expanded coverage to 149 countries across six years of data, is already generating important discussions about the currently trajectory of social progress in our world and documents the slow …

Mayors Recognize Global Climate Emergency, Support Global Green New Deal

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News, Beyond GDP, Latest Headlines

“Ethical Markets recommends all Sustainable Brands conferences around the world, helping lead corporations to see the necessity of shifting to help meet the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ratified by its 195 member countries in 2015. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Post-Climate Week momentum toward building a climate-stable future continued this week: …

International SRI targets climate change & social inequality-GreenMoney Oct19

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Beyond GDP, Transforming Finance, Latest Headlines

“Ethical Markets highly recommends Green Money Journal as indispensable to ethical, green, impact investors. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Welcome to GreenMoney’s October issue. While exploring the world of SRI for this issue, we discovered that an international SRI issue has its own unique set of challenges — namely, the fast moving and unpredictable …

Global Current Issues and Trends: November 2019

LaRae LongBeyond GDP

Total non-farm payroll employment increased in October by 128,000 jobs.  After revisions upward in August and September, job gains have averaged 176,000 per month over the past 3 months.  The US government laid off 20,000 workers who completed work for the 2020 Census. The temporary layoffs of the 800,000 federal …