OECD Green Growth: Putting Green Growth at the Heart of Development

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

OECD Green Growth Newsletter June 2013                                               Contents   ·       Putting Green Growth at the Heart of Development ·       Focus: Green Growth in Cities ·       Making Growth Green & Inclusive: The Case of Ethiopia ·       New Date: OECD’s 2013 GG-SD Forum ·       Call for papers: 2014 Green …

Investor Alert: GVK’s US$10 billion Australian coal project uneconomic, an unacceptable risk

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Investor Alert: GVK’s US$10 billion Australian coal project uneconomic, an unacceptable risk Finanial analysis of GVK Alpha Coal Project in Queensland’s Galilee Basin concludes “probability of success remote”, “no investor should take part”.  Press Release Sydney, 19 June 2013 A new report released today by US-based Institute for Energy Economics …

Ceres Newsletter: Climate Change is Hitting the Slopes

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

  Ceres Newsletter – June 2013 Press and Media Press Release: Investors Highlight Policies That Could Spur Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity in Energy Efficiency Investments Blog: Water Protection Gets Shortchanged in Proposed Fracking Rules (National Geographic) News Story: Investor Group Proposes ESG Disclosure Rules(Environmental Leader) Press Release: New Study: More U.S. Mutual Fund Companies Supporting Climate …

BankTrack: There’s no such thing as a “Sustainable Global Bank”

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

There’s no such thing as a “Sustainable Global Bank” just yet, says BankTrack “Sustainable Global Bank of the Year” Santander has invested EUR1 billion in the arms trade Friday, 14 June 2013 Press Release Santander, announced yesterday as the winner of the Financial Times and International Finance Corporation’s Sustainable Global …

Product Launch | Quantitative Equity Model (QEM)

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Press Release GMI Ratings’ Quantitative Equity Model (QEM) Uses Forensic Measures of Issuer Risk to Predict Equity Returns Globally, Across Industries, Large-cap and Small-cap Portfolios New York (June 12, 2013) – GMI Ratings announced today the formal launch of the Quantitative Equity Model (QEM), which uses governance and accounting-related forensic risk …

[mp-public] Press Release- “Latin America 2030” by The Millennium Project is Discussed by Experts on CNN en Español: Is the Future Good for the Region?

Jay OwenTrendspotting

“Latin America 2030” by The Millennium Project is Discussed by Experts on CNN en Español: Is the Future Good for the Region? CNN en Español invited several experts to debate about the future of Latin America. Pulitzer-winner journalist Andres Oppenheimer interviewed Donald Trump and José Luis Cordeiro, who presented the …

Bank Track: New Equator Principles to have deeply underwhelming impact on people and planet: Commitments on community safeguards and climate change far below what is required

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

New Equator Principles to have deeply underwhelming impact on people and planet; Commitments on community safeguards and climate change far below what is required Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 4 2013 Press Release The long awaited new, third version of the Equator Principles (EPIII) (1) will have a deeply underwhelmingimpact on safeguarding the rights …

Bluefield Solar Eyes £150 Million IPO : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenGreentech

Bluefield Solar Eyes £150 Million IPO : AltEnergyStocks.com   Bluefield Solar Eyes £150 Million IPO Posted: 31 May 2013 08:54 AM PDT Bluefield IPO to Be the Second Green Energy Fund Flotation in London This Year by Alice Young Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited, an investment fund focussed on solar …

Alternative Energy Companies :Alternative Energy Mutual Funds and ETFs Post Solid Gains

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Read Entire Press Release Here The Roen Financial Report closely covers the universe of almost 30 alternative energy Mutual Funds (MFs) and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). We use a proprietary ranking method to pick the best funds, looking at measures that include fees, risk, tax liability, and the financial health of individual …