Posts Tagged ‘financial markets’
Future Finance – Policy Brief: Legal non-enforcement as an instrument of financial market regulation
by Jakob von Uexkull World Future Council In many legal systems claims resulting from gaming or gambling are not enforceable. This is designed to protect the debtor from driving himself into financial ruin through gaming and betting debts. There is a German saying that “a gambling debt is a debt of honour”. Older case-law applied this [...]
Climate, Bonds and Standards by Nick Silver
Sustainable Financial Markets Climate, Bonds and Standards by Nick Silver Posted: 27 Nov 2011 05:34 PM PST NSFM director and Climate Bonds Initiative co-founder Nick Silver sets the bar for investors who say they have a long-term investment approach and a commitment to taking inter-generational matters seriously as they discharge their [...]
European Parliament seals ban on ‘sovereign debt speculation’
News European Parliament seals ban on 'sovereign debt speculation' 15 Nov 2011 EUROPE – The European Parliament has voted into law a regulation to curb short selling and trading in credit default swaps (CDS). With the vote, naked CDS trading – the purchase of default insurance contracts without owning the related bonds – has now [...]
Energy Storage: A Bloody Q3 is Creating a Great Buying Opportunity
Energy Storage: A Bloody Q3 is Creating a Great Buying Opportunity Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT John Petersen Tom Lehrer is frequently credited with a quip that perfectly summarizes my feeling about the financial markets in the third quarter, "Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" During the quarter we were given [...]
Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis
by Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute, http://www.zadek.net/blog Originally published on OpenDemocracy.net Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis: History will wrongly vindicate Standard & Poor’s in downgrading their view of US creditworthiness, because they made the right call for the wrong [...]
Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis
Articles by Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow, Global Green Growth Institute; Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis: History will wrongly vindicate Standard & Poor’s in downgrading their view of US creditworthiness, because they made the right call for the wrong reason. [...]
ITUC OnLine: Union Leaders call for emergency G20 Summit to respond to run on financial markets
ITUC OnLine 150/080811 Union Leaders call for emergency G20 Summit to respond to run on financial markets Brussels, 8 August 2011 (ITUC OnLine): As the collapse in world share values threatens to trigger renewed downturn and with it a surge in unemployment, union leaders have called on G20 leaders to convene an emergency Summit to take [...]
The Carbon Tracker – Unburnable Carbon
The Carbon Tracker initiative focuses on the fossil fuel reserves held by publically listed companies and the way they are valued and assessed by markets. Current financial markets have an unlimited capacity to treat fossil fuel reserves as assets. As governments move to control carbon emissions, this market failure is creating systemic risks for [...]
WWF, Pro Natura and Solidar Suisse revert to Inrate’s expertise
Media Release WWF, Pro Natura and Solidar Suisse revert to Inrate’s expertise Inrate developed assessment methodology for the ecological evaluation of Swiss power providers as well as for the first Swiss community rating on global responsibility July 4, 2011 – The sustainability rating agency Inrate on behalf of WWF and Pro Natura has [...]
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Dr. Matthew Kiernan
An interview from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Dr. Matthew Kiernan, Founder and CEO, Inflection Point Capital Management, Canada --May 20, 2011 By Geoffrey on May 20, 2011 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features [...]
