Former UK Premier Gordon Brown to speak on financial stability at UNEP FI Global Roundtable

kristyReforming Global Finance, Beyond GDP

Former UK Prime Minister and current Member of Parliament Gordon Brown will address global financial leaders during the UNEP FI Global Roundtable meeting on financial sustainability to take place in Washington D.C. this October. Mr Brown, widely respected as the global leader who rallied the world’s financial policy-makers to respond …

Winds of change for social justice and democracy 1 May 2011

kristyGlobal Citizen

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine 091/280411 “Winds of change for social justice and democracy 1 May 2011” “Brussels, 1 May 2001 – common statement of the ITUC and its Global Unions partners”. Brussels, 29 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Today as trade unionists around the world celebrate the role of …

G20 Finance Ministers on Wrong Track

kristyReforming Global Finance

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine 067/230311 G20 Finance Ministers on Wrong Track Continued failure to tackle jobs crisis Further social unrest likely due to policy failures Destructive finance sector bonus culture left untouched Brussels, 23 March 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Trade unions are demanding a fundamental change in direction from …

G20 Must Act for Jobs, Regulation and Financial Transactions Tax

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION Publication from ITUC OnLine 039/170211 G20 Must Act for Jobs, Regulation and Financial Transactions Tax Brussels 17 February 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The international trade union movement is calling on G20 Finance Ministers, meeting in Paris on 18 and 19 February, to take action to avoid a …

UNEP FI Online Course on Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector

kristyGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Greetings from UNEP FI Geneva! The next UNEP FI online course on ‘Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector’ will be run from the 4th to 25th April and we would be very pleased if you could join us. The objective of this course …