At UN meeting in Geneva, Ban spotlights trade as driver of global sustainable development

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

1 October 2014 – The critical role played by international trade in lifting economies out of poverty is an invaluable one but must remain consonant with the objectives enshrined in the sustainable development goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today in an address to the world trade organization (WTO). Speaking at …

Toward an Inclusive TPP Trade Pact

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Toward an Inclusive TPP Trade Pact   By Dr. Harsha Vardhana Singh*   NEW YORK, Aug  2014 (IPS) – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have been hitting headlines recently, but not for all the right reasons. The media provides an incomplete picture of its implications, focusing mainly on its process …

Suitpossum: Post-crisis Adventures in Financial Subversion

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Global Citizen

Suitpossum: Post-crisis Adventures in Financial Subversion LSFA: Building a financial hackerspace in 3 phases Posted: 30 Mar 2014 03:41 PM PDT     Over the last 5 years I’ve been working on ways to break down the oppressive wall of mystique that shrouds global finance, and to experiment with methods …

Sustainable Development Update – 2 December 2013 – Sustainable Development Policy & Practice

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

OWG on SDGs Considers Macro-economic Policy and Energy Themes 27_November 2013: Participants at the fifth session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressed the thematic issues of: (a) sustained and inclusive economic growth, macroeconomic policy questions (including international trade, international financial …

ASBC Public Announcement – August 9, 2013 – Business Owners Urge Minimum Wage Increase

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Featured Story The Obama Administration recently proposed a new rule for hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) including those in the national forest system as well as federal lands nearby many treasured national parks. The Bureau of Land Management is currently …

CSRwire: Challenging Traditional Finance: Mapping The Transition To Sustainability

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Challenging Traditional Finance: Mapping The Transition To Sustainability A whole-system global transition is underway and accelerating as human activities encounter planetary boundaries. Globalization of our technologies of transportation and communication are unleashing disruptive business models while changing demographics and new political forces are now clashing with incumbent industries and elites. …

ENB Vol. 21 No. 71 – Animals and Plants Committees of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora – Summary & Analysis

kristyEarth Systems Science

CITES ANIMALS AND PLANTS COMMITTEES MEETINGS: 15-30 MARCH 2012 The twenty-sixth meeting of the Animals Committee (AC26) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) convened from 15-20 March 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. AC26 was followed by the Joint Meeting of the AC …

Cites Animals And Plants Committees

kristyGreen Prosperity, Sustainability News

CITES ANIMALS AND PLANTS COMMITTEES MEETINGS: 15-30 MARCH 2012 The twenty-sixth meeting of the Animals Committee (AC26) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) convened from 15-20 March 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. AC26 was followed by the Joint Meeting of the AC …