Survey shows waning interest in fiduciary management in Netherlands NETHERLANDS – Pension funds less likely to outsource asset management, IPNederland survey shows. 12/12/12 Wednesday people roundup ABP settles with JP Morgan over ‘false, misleading’ RMBS sale OECD review to trigger ‘major’ pension reforms in Ireland Pension funds have ‘heads in …
World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006
World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 …
Capital Institute 2012 Year in Review
With the year’s end fast approaching, we cannot help but reflect on our busy and productive year: research and practice around holism, biomimicry, and entropic thrift; debate around impact investing in the anthropocene, climate change, and stranded assets; discussions of the Financial Transactions Tax and Dodd-Frank. We made significant headway …
Guess what next year’s top 10 issues are?
Future 500 believes passionately in the promise of corporations and NGOs coming together to advance systemic solutions to our most urgent sustainability challenges. Each fall we identify what we anticipate are the Top 10 issues that activists and corporations will likely contend with in the coming year. From Money In Politics, Infrastructure Disruption, Ending Climate …
Aung San Suu Kyi and Gareth Evans Close Record-Setting Forum 2000 Conference
Ethical Markets is proud that our president, Hazel Henderson, also served on Forum 2000’s International Advisory Board from 1995- 2000 and now serves on the Forum’s Program Council. In a video address, where she confirmed her plans to serve on Forum 2000’s International Advisory Board, longtime Burmese dissident turned politician Aung …
Chargemaster buys Elektromotive to expand geographic reach
Chargemaster buys Elektromotive to expand geographic reach Flextronics International buys US-based Saturn Electronics Atlantic Power closes debentures worth C$100m Bright Light Systems secures equity investment US DOE awards $4m to 7 proposed offshore wind projects HelioVolt closes $12.17m from existing investors SolarCity drops share target after delaying IPO, may trade …
Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2
Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2 Posted: 12 Dec 2012 07:26 PM PST Continuing on from yesterday’s “Renewable Energy Big Pic” post, here’s Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2. As noted yesterday, this two-post series is basically a presentation I gave to a class of renewable energy graduate students this …
Wind News: What is Onshore Wind’s Future in Europe?
The Big Question: What is Onshore Wind’s Future in Europe? by David Appleyard, Chief Editor, Renewable Energy World Magazine | December 12, 2012 | Post Your Comment Renewable Energy World asks leading players in the industry for their verdicts on a key question of the moment. In this edition we asked for …
NSFM report published today: Financial Transaction Tax will help, not harm, pensions
Network for Sustainable Financial Markets has posted a new item, ‘NSFM report published today: Financial Transaction Tax will help, not harm, pensions ‘ 11th December, 2012: A Financial Transaction Tax would not adversely hit pension funds according to a new report published today by the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets. …
Crowdfunding – Greetings from Dubai
Ethical Markets congratulates our friend Sherwood Neiss and his associates for all this progress on crowdfunding, Hazel Henderson. Editor What an amazing year 2012 has been. A year ago we were fighting the good fight in the US Senate to legalize Crowdfunding, now we have a tremendously bi-partisan Crowdfunding Law …