Dear Friends: Below please find a brief summary of a recent report by TerraVerde capital management outlining investment opportunities arising from population growth, climate change, and resource depletion. Investing in a Growing, Changing Planet: The Fund of Hedge Funds Opportunity Since the integration of fossil fuels in the early …
RI INSIGHT DENMARK: asset owner leaders in ESG and renewables
RI INSIGHT DENMARK: asset owner leaders in ESG and renewables Exclusive interviews with six of Denmark’s largest pension funds:ATP, PBU, PensionDanmark, PFA, PKA and Unipension. Free content: Download the PDF via the RI Reports channel. In 2009, the Danish government allowed UN-sponsored PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) or UN Global Compact membership to represent a company’s legal corporate social responsibility requirement. It led to a significant …
Join us at the 2014 Ceres Conference!
The Future is Now Join us and more than 600 sustainability leaders at the Ceres Conference 2014 April 30th – May 1st in Boston to celebrate Ceres’s 25th anniversary and build a sustainable global economy. Register today to take advantage of our early registration rates! Check out the Conference Program Throughout the …
Shelton Green Alpha Fund Conference Call – Investing for the Next Economy (Thursday, December 19th, at 9 AM Pacific)
Green Alpha Advisors (sub-advisor to the Shelton Green Alpha Fund) believes the green economy is the economy of the future. Green economy companies work to improve human well-being, while reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. Learn more about Green Alpha Advisors’ unique investment philosophy and outlook on the green economy by joining …
Third Industrial Revolution News: China Announces an $82 billion Plan to Establish a Third Industrial Revolution Energy Internet Across the Country
China Announces an $82 billion Plan to Establish a Third Industrial Revolution Energy Internet Across the Country Liu Zhenya, Chairman of the Chinese State Grid Corporation, lays out China’s ambitious plan to lead the world into the Third Industrial Revolution in an article titled “Smart Grid Hosting and Promoting the Third …
Government by big business goes supranational
http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta Le Monde diplomatique, English edition, December 2013 Government by big business goes supranational The corporation invasion A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want – the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental …
Inrate Sustainability Breakfast: Why impact matters
Inrate Sustainability Breakfast: Why impact matters The Inrate Sustainability Breakfasts on December 3rd in Geneva and on December 5th in Zurich received again high approval. On the Inrate website, you will find now these presentations: · Sustainable economy – an opportunity for growth: Prof. Dr. Lucas Bretschger, ETH Zurich (in German) & Prof. Salvatore …
IPE: Dutch funding, Pension Protection Fund, ERAFP, ESG roundup, ING, GreenOak
Tuesday 10 December 2013 Hazel Henderson Change Newsletter settings TODAY’S TOP STORIES Funding at Dutch schemes suddenly drops as deadline approaches Consultancies warn that increasing number of pension funds now facing rights cuts French civil service pension fund awards US equity mandates Bond returns narrow deficits at UK DB pension …
Sustainability data is foundation stone of Integrated Reporting, says GRI as Framework is unveiled
We at Ethical Markets fully support the Integrated Reporting approach and applaud this collaboration with GRI. ~ Hazel Henderson, Editor gri press release For immediate release: 9 December 2013 Sustainability data is foundation stone of Integrated Reporting, says GRI as <IR> Framework is unveiled The global reporting initiative today welcomed the …
Businesses support evidence that there is no basis to change the fourth carbon budget
Businesses support evidence that there is no basis to change the fourth carbon budget Embargoed: 11th December 2013 00.01am A large and powerful alliance of Britain’s biggest businesses have publically supported a review by the Committee on Climate Change which concludes that there is no basis to change the Fourth Carbon …