Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Ethical Markets has campaigned for 30  years to  get all externalities internalized within company and  public sector balance sheets. We salute the IMF for this report  and  I hope to review the full volume soonest. Hazel Henderson,Editor   Previous IMF studies set forth the basic principle that getting energy prices …

Most Americans Support Action on Global Warming

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Earth Systems Science

  Today we are releasing the third report from our latest national survey. In Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies, November 2013, we report that most Americans support national action on global warming: Most Americans (83%) say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if it …

WRI Digest

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

At the end of September, WRI helped launch The New Climate Economy, the flagship project of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. The year-long research project will analyze the economic costs and benefits of climate action. In an OpEd originally posted on Project Syndicate, former President of Mexico and current …

Product Launch | Quantitative Equity Model (QEM)

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Press Release GMI Ratings’ Quantitative Equity Model (QEM) Uses Forensic Measures of Issuer Risk to Predict Equity Returns Globally, Across Industries, Large-cap and Small-cap Portfolios New York (June 12, 2013) – GMI Ratings announced today the formal launch of the Quantitative Equity Model (QEM), which uses governance and accounting-related forensic risk …

April 28: Anti-regulation agenda of business groups threatens health and safety at work

kristySRI/ESG News

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine 089/280411 April 28: Anti-regulation agenda of business groups threatens health and safety at work Brussels, 27 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): International trade unions are warning of the potentially devastating effect of business lobbying to weaken protection for worker’s health and safety as workers across …