Don’t water down climate targets, Government warned

Jay OwenAdvisors' Forum

Ethical Markets Advisory Board member Tessa Tennant is one of the directors for the UK Green Investment Bank, instrumental in guiding the environmental policy in the UK which informed the report “Progress on Carbon Budgets” from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.   ~ editor 08 October 2013 MPs have …

Bristol pound is just one example of what local currencies can achieve

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

Councils in the UK and around the world are starting to recognise how local currencies keep money in their areas In Bristol local businesses can pay their rates in local pounds. Photograph: Paul C Stokes/Getty Images The budgets of local authorities are being cut while the needs of their populations …

Live Chat with the 2013CF Crowdfunding Industry Report Team

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS 2013CF: The Crowdfunding Industry Report: Chat Live with massolution’s Founder and Research Director — To learn more about the report and what went into creating it, plan to attend a live video chat via a Google+ Hangout On the Air this …

A Land Backed Currency Issued By A Local Authority

kristyCommunity Development Solutions

Ethical Markets Review is delighted to publish this brilliant original paper by Deirdre Kent, author of Healthy Money, Healthy Planet (2005). Deirdre has been an activist for a better common future and in New Zealand politics since the Values Party was founded in 1975. Many members of this early futurist …

To support humanity’s transition into the Ecozoic Era

kristySustainability News

Ecocities Emerging To support humanity’s transition into the Ecozoic Era Ecocity Builders April 2012 Greetings, Ecocity Builders’ members recently returned from another round of meetings with United Nations Member States and Major Groups in New York City in the lead up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, convening …

Un Urges Businesses To Join Corporate Responsibility Pact Ahead Of Rio Forum

kristyGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

UN URGES BUSINESSES TO JOIN CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY PACT AHEAD OF RIO FORUM New York, Feb 28 2012 7:05PM The world’s corporations are increasingly adopting a more sustainable course of doing business, a senior United Nations official said today, but voiced concern that participation was still lagging below expectations ahead of …

Rio+20: Making it Happen

kristyGreen Prosperity, Global Citizen

Rio+20: Making it Happen, Volume 2, Issue 18 Volume 2, Issue 18 of Rio+20: Making it Happen newsletter is a special issue dedicated to the perspectives of major groups stakeholders. In accordance with its mandate to facilitate implementation of Agenda 21, the Rio+20 Secretariat aims to enhance the participation of …

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Bulletin

kristyEarth Systems Science

Volume 141 Number 4 – Thursday, 12 May 2011 GLOBAL PLATFORM HIGHLIGHTS Wednesday, 11 May 2011 On Wednesday, participants continued meeting in plenary to discuss the economics of disasters, followed by an informal plenary on the implementation of the outcomes of the Mid-term Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action …

Briefing Note Of The Twenty-Third Session Of The Un-Habitat Governing Council

kristySustainability News

The 23rd session of the Governing Council (GC-23) of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) took place from Monday, 11 to Friday, 15 April 2011, at the UN Office in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of GC-23 was “sustainable urban development through expanding equitable access to land and housing, basic …