Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘Update from Crazy Abu Dhabi: green bonds part of UN Climate Summit / Jeffrey Sachs lays out 7 Step Survival Plan / Ban Ki Moon’s soft power‘ Abu Dhabi is indeed a crazy place: gold-leaf covered 7 star hotels surrounded by desal-water fed …
CIW update
Dear CIW International Advisory Network members, First, happy spring to all of you. The CIW is certainly out of hibernation. We would like to tell you about our busy month ahead: 1. We have been working with the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) through an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. …
Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street.
Financial Reform Newsletter April 3, 2014 Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street. A funny thing happened on the way to preventing another financial crash and more wall street bailouts. It’s called the rulemaking process, which is required to implement much of the financial reform law …
Green Economy Guidebook Series from the UN
NEW GREEN ECONOMY GUIDEBOOK SERIES The Division for Sustainable Development of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) has published a series of guidebooks to the green economy following the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). They can be found at:http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1224 These guidebooks provide practitioners and other …
Banking Union Time Bomb: Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts AND Bail-Ins
Banking Union Time Bomb: Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts AND Bail-Ins Ellen Brown http://EllenBrown.com March 29, 2014 “As things stand, the banks are the permanent government of the country, whichever party is in power.” – Lord Skidelsky, House of Lords, UK Parliament, 31 March 2011) On …
The Green Economy Barometer
We at ethical markets are members of the Green Economy Coalition and are happy to present this new Green Economy Barometer which complements our own Green Transition Scoreboard® , which measures private investments worldwide since 2007, Hazel Henderson, editor Dear friends, How are governments, north and south, responding to …
Ukraine crisis shows urgency of green energy: Russian nat’l gas blackmail
by Juan Cole, originally published by Informed Comment | MAR 8, 2014 Hawks are complaining that europe has been insufficiently belligerent in its response to Russian moves in the Crimea, blaming the declining military budgets in most European countries. But this focus on military hardware is misleading, since there was never any prospect …
Announcing Science in Society #61 – Spring 2014 Reclaiming Science for the Public Good
When scientists produced a report warning that the current level of climate change, the Bush administration did not simply ignore their findings. Instead, they changed the report to make it appear that the scientists’ carbon emissions ([1] Scientific Integrity in Washington, SiS 49, [2]). That was not just a bit of political spin; …
Nordic Cooperation on fossil-fuel subsidy reform in developing countries: Assessing Options and Opportunities
Nordic Cooperation on fossil-fuel subsidy reform in developing countries: Assessing Options and Opportunities Fossil-fuel MENA and southeast asia. Reforming and redirecting climate change puzzle. Savings enable cooperation around reform and makes specific recommendations. Download the working paper – a final report is due later this year. This project is …
Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change
Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change By CORAL DAVENPORTJAN – The New York Times WASHINGTON — Coca-Cola has always been more focused on its economic bottom line than on global warming, but when the company lost a lucrative operating license in India because of a …