Russian Election Hacking Efforts, Wider Than Previously Known, Draw Little Scrutiny A line outside a voting precinct before it opened on Election Day last year in Durham, N.C. Sara D. Davis / Getty Images By NICOLE PERLROTH, MICHAEL WINES and MATTHEW ROSENBERG September 1, 2017 The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North …
Green Economy Update – October 2017
“Ethical Markets welcomes all this good news from our coalition partners at the Green Economy Coalition. Our Green Transition Scoreboard® 2017 report “Deepening Global Finance” is now a free download from www.ethicalmarkets.com Enjoy ! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor” CONVENOR UPDATE An update from Oliver Greenfield, GEC Convenor Is this the political champion we …
IGF Bulletin – Vol. 210 No. 7 – 13th Annual General Meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development – Issue #2
IGF Highlights Wednesday, 18 October 2017 | Geneva, Switzerland Languages: EN (HTML/PDF)Visit our IISD/ENB+ Meeting Coverage from Geneva, Switzerland at: http://enb.iisd.org/igf/agm/2017/ The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) entered its second day of discussions, at its AGM on Wednesday at UN Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates continued …
NYTimes.com: Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend – The New York Times
Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend By Noam Cohen @noamcohen is the author of “The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball,” from which this essay is adapted.Oct 13. 2017 LATE last month, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a brief post on Facebook at the …
How shipping lobbies to stay outside of the Paris Agreement
Corporate capture of the UN IMO: How shipping has escaped climate regulation New research by InfluenceMap reveals how the shipping industry has aggressively lobbied the UN to obstruct climate change action for shipping, ensuring it remains the only sector in the world not currently subject to any emission reduction measures. …
MiFID II
“Ethical Markets is happy to see some responses to Europe’s MiFID II regulations on finance that they have had over a year’s grace before these go into force January 3, 2018, as I also reported in “Who’s Afraid of MiFID II: Fixing Wall Street’s Broken Plumbing”. The SEC was behind the curve …
Who’s paying for that Facebook ad? Bloomberg
“Ethical Markets fully supports this legislative approach to curb fake Russian ads, fake news, trolls and bots to help assure the integrity of our 2018 elections. A first step! Further, we probably need full hearings on the need to regulate these dominant social media as public utilities, as news organizations, …
SDG Update – 12 October 2017
GUEST ARTICLES Access and Benefit-Sharing: SDG Commitment and Challenge for the Food and Agriculture Sector Dan Leskien, Senior Liaison Officer, Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – SDG 2 on zero hunger and SDG 15 on …
Gearing Up for the UN Climate Talks
“Ethical Markets Media Certified B. Corporation is one of the signers of the “WE ARE STILL IN“ campaign. We follow the UN Climate Summits and publish the Green Transition Scoreboard ®, see “DEEPENING GREEN FINANCE“ 2017 at www.ethicalmarkets.com Hazel Henderson, Editor “ …
October Ethics Center News
Santa Clara University Spotlight Event: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and the Threat of War: Reflections by National Experts (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) Featuring William Perry, former U.S. defense secretary Jeffrey Lewis, director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program Kathleen Stephens, William J. Perry Fellow, Stanford University October 30, 7 p.m. SCU Library View all our fall …