David Nelson and Brendan Pierpont, Climate Policy Initiative, March 2013 Available via Creative Commons A move toward renewable energy sources will require significant long-term, low-cost investment. Policymakers, faced with fiscal constraints and a still-recovering financial system, have begun to look to institutional investors – principally pension funds and insurance …
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What if women ruled the world?
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PRESS RELEASE: A substantial funding gap for climate action under the next EU Financial Framework, new report warns
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Dear Friends, Join me for the Celebrate Your Life conference in Chicago, June 8-11, along with Neale Donald Walsch, Don Miguel Ruiz, Marianne Williamson and many more powerful presenters. I will be presenting the following workshops at the event: June 9, 2012 – 11:00am – 12:30pm The Emergence Process: Making …
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Frozen in time: Gender pay gap remains unchanged for 10 years
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The Energy Storage Market Quadruples in Five Years
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10 Reasons to Care About Economic Inequality
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