SDG Update – 17 October 2017

Jay OwenSustainability News, Trendspotting, Beyond GDP

FEATURED Annual World Bank, IMF Meetings Launch Initiatives on Poverty, Women Entrepreneurs, City Resilience 15 October 2017: The Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) considered topics related to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as improving human capital, gender equality, youth, sustainable mobility, …

EthicMark® Winners: “All That We Share” and “Refugee Nation” Best Advertising Campaigns For 2017

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Sustainability News

    EthicMark® Winners: “All That We Share” and “Refugee Nation” Best Advertising Campaigns For 2017   Advertising campaigns promoting unity honored by sustainable investors at The SRI Conference.   (San Diego, CA) November 2, 2017 — Advertising campaigns from TV2 from Denmark and Amnesty International were announced today as …

Latest ESG and Impact Investing News!

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

The TBLI Weekly ESG and Impact Investing News Robert Rubinstein Read paper ? Latest ESG and Impact Investing News Here is a sampling of some breaking news that confirms ESG and Impact Investing is going mainstream. Germany is producing so much renewable energy it’s driving electricity prices below zero Robert …

Good news from China : salt water rice

Jay OwenSustainability News, Trendspotting

“Ethical Markets has been pointing to the need to use salt-loving plants (halophytes) in human foods for decades, See for example our TV show “Investing in Desert Greening” and our Green Transition Scoreboard 2014 “Plenty of Water”!. Good news from China: rice grown in salt water is now on the …

SDG Update – 26 October 2017

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News, Greentech

GUEST ARTICLES Realizing Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Through Trade Agreements Cleo Verkuijl, Stockholm Environment Institute; and Harro van Asselt, University of Eastern Finland and Stockholm Environment Institute; and Peter Wooders, International Institute for Sustainable Development With 2017 rapidly drawing to a close, several international summits this year can still significantly …