Ecologic Newsletter No 115 ? June 2012 1. Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication – Videos for Rio+20 Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, released four videos addressing the themes of the upcoming Rio+20 Conference. The videos tell stories in which the fictional …
G8 Compliance Score Rises to 77 Percent, According to G8 Research Group
Chicago – G8 members have complied with the priority commitments they made at last year’s Deauville Summit at a level of 77%, higher than their score of 73% on the previous year, according to the 2011 Deauville G8 Final Compliance Report. They have fully complied with the commitments they made …
Taming the Casino
Taming the Casino Bloomberg View has joined its Wall Street customers in coming out against the Financial Transactions Tax proposed by Germany and France, and recommended by the European Union, declaring it politically unfeasible while undermining economic growth. FTT advocates have positioned it as a “tax on Wall Street,” a …
Bloomberg Doesn’t Like Financial Speculation Taxes and Is Prepared To Make Stuff Up to Make Its Case
Bloomberg Doesn’t Like Financial Speculation Taxes and Is Prepared To Make Stuff Up to Make Its Case Dean Baker Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:36 Bloomberg News Service really doesn’t like financial speculation taxes (FST). In fact it dislikes them so much that it is prepared to make things up to …
New release: Solar Photovoltaic Barometer for Europe
EurObserv?ER has released the European Solar Photovoltaic Barometer, which is available for free download at: http://www.eurobserv-er.org/pdf/baro202.asp (PDF, English/French language, 22 pages, 2.4 MB) Key data for the year 2010: – Photovoltaic capacity installed in EU-27 at the end of 2010: 29.3 GW – 13.0 GW of photovoltaic capacity installed in …
EU’s Silent Revolution in Economic Governance Undermines Democratic Control
http://www.corporateeurope.org/lobbycracy/content/2011/01/corporate-eutopia Brussels, 19 January 2011 – EU member state parliaments look set to lose important powers to control economic and social policy as a result of the EU’s response to the economic crisis according to a new article from Corporate Europe Observatory which analyses the proposals, likely to come into …
€5trn investor climate change plea to EU
RI News Alert: › €5trn investor group in climate change plea to European Union › MSCI’s governance revenues hit by declines in proxy research, voting › RI Agenda The RI Agenda is a rolling, downloadable calendar of responsible investment activity such as AGMs, company reports, conferences, fund launches, legislation / …