“Ethical Markets highly recommends this issue of Bloomberg Green, on China’s approaches to decarbonization and what to expect at COP26 in Scotland in November. Although China and the USA are the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, we need to remember that on a per capita basis, Chinese people emit …
Healing the Ozone Layer Through Diplomacy
Policy Briefs Healing the Ozone Layer Through Diplomacy The Montreal Protocol shows what is possible when science, diplomacy, and business cooperate to implement international environmental agreements. What can we learn from the steps taken to heal the ozone layer – and have they been enough? Read …
Wildlife Trafficking to Come under Fire at IUCN Congress; Code Red for Humanity and the Planet; and more
Digitisation Boosts Mechanised Farming Among Kenyan Farmers When 33-year-old Kimani Mwaniki, an Irish potato farmer in Elburgon, Nakuru County in Kenya’s Rift Valley, heard about a farmer’s virtual school, he didn’t hesitate to enrol. He was keen to learn how the programme will enable him to get higher …
We need healthier air for a healthier planet
SEPTEMBER 07, 2021| KARIN KEMPER Air pollution is a multifaceted problem – representing the world’s leading environmental risk to health and costing the globe an estimated $8.1 trillion in 2019 , 6.1 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP). Air pollution is also deadly, causing or contributing to …
PAGE Bulletin — Green Economy News SEPT 2021
SEPT 2021 NEWS ‘Driving Force for Change’ Calls on South African Youth Entrepreneurs for 2021 Awards Following a successful 2020 edition, PAGE and South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) are hosting the 2021 Driving Force for Change II Youth Challenge. The Challenge is an opportunity for young entrepreneurs …
‘What’s next: a climate-related database on European SMEs’
New project to help financial institutions, supervisors and central banks develop risk and sustainability profiles for SMEs The Paris Agreement Strategy & Taxonomy Assessment project will develop a climate-related database covering at least 200,000 SMEs across Europe The global, non-profit think tank 2° Investing Initiative (2DII) has launched a …
Hear from industry leaders to build momentum towards sustainable finance
From September 21, the Sustainable Investment Forum North America will welcome a large online interactive audience of asset owners and managers, banks, development institutions, policymakers, think tanks and NGOs looking to drive meaningful change in sustainable finance. Join us to play a part in shaping the discussion and driving meaningful change by asking …
Listening to constituents; solutions to homelessness; generating positive externalities
August 19, 2021 Read the Fall 2021 Issue The Problem of Social Benefit By Frank Nagle Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate …
profitably decarbonizing heavy transport and process heat
Decarbonizing Our Toughest Sectors Can Be Profitable New paper by Amory Lovins shows how cutting carbon emissions from harder-to-abate sectors can create new strategic opportunities for business. AUGUST 4, 2021 (BASALT, CO)—As corporations and industries face rising public, policy, and market pressure to cut carbon emissions, the need for …
NEW REPORT: Rethinking Climate
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this well-researched, innovative report on more systemic approaches to the climate crises. Researchers Adam Dorr and Tony Seba are highly ethical, ecologically-aware systems thinkers, going beyond the obsolete price-derived GDP and all macroeconomic indicators which cannot embrace the real world changes now occurring as evolutionary jumps which biologists …