CDSB statement on the UK Environmental Audit Committee’s report Yesterday, the UK Environmental Audit Committee released its latest report “Greening finance: embedding sustainability in financial decision making”, as a result of its Green Finance Inquiry into climate change reporting regulation. CDSB supports the findings of the report, in particular as …
UNVEILING THE ET RISK TOOLBOX: SCENARIOS, DATA AND MODELS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT
June 15th 2018 | 1:00 – 4:40 pm |the Norrksen House, Birger Jarlsgatan 57C, Stockholm Dear friends and members of 2ii, The ET Risk consortium is pleased to invite you to the Stockholm workshop “Unveiling the ET risk toolbox: scenarios, data and models for risk assessment”. Join us together with Kepler Cheuvreux, Carbon Tracker Initiative, I4CE, Oxford Smith School Sustainable Finance Programme, S&P …
Use of behavioural insights may help educate investors, say IOSCO/OECD
IOSCO/MR/15/2018 30 May 2018 Use of behavioural insights may help educate investors, say IOSCO/OECD Financial regulators, public authorities, and other organisations are increasingly using behavioural insights to educate investors to make more informed financial decisions, according to a report published today by the International …
WHEB launches Impact Report 2017
WHEB Annual Impact Report 2017 Interactive Impact Microsite Press Release We are delighted to share our latest Impact Report and new Impact Microsite with you – available on the links above. Our fourth Impact Report has a new and improved format as described in the press release. Most importantly, we …
Open Banking: How can citizens benefit? Plus: jobs and events!
“Ethical Markets welcomes this Consumer Manifesto for Open Banking from our friends at the Financial Innovation lab, based in London. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Open Banking requires the nine biggest banks and building societies to open up their data. Now, new players like start-ups and big tech companies are able to …
Reprint submission: “Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work”
Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work Posted on May 26, 2018 by Ellen Brown California has over $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking …
Money and the power of financial activism
Money and the power of financial activism Financial activism is an emerging topic that faculty at the RSF Integrated Capital Institute reflect continually on, from purpose to implementation to assessment. In this dynamic exchange, Akaya Windwood, Joel Solomon, and Marian Moore personify the diverse and intellectually rich set of ideas …
Environmental Audit Committee: Top Pension funds Mixed Response to Climate Change
UK’s top 25 Pension funds show mixed response to climate change 25-05-2018 01:01 AM BST The Environmental Audit Committee publishes responses it has received from the UK’s 25 largest pension funds Railways Pension fund green finance response 25-05-2018 01:00 AM BST
European Commission: new legislative proposals
European Commission releases its first legislative proposals on investor duties and sustainable taxonomy Today, the European Commission released the first legislative package under the Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth. There are four proposals: 1. A unified EU classification system (‘taxonomy’) 2. Investors’ duties and disclosures 3. Low-carbon benchmarks …
Markets may be underpricing climate-related risk
“Ethical Markets is glad to see The Economist weighing in on this issue. It’s about time! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor “ Daily dispatch The latest from The Economist Wednesday | May 23rd 2018 Markets and the climate Loose change Are the markets paying enough attention to climate-change mitigation? From insurance companies to …