Executive Summary For 2014, the Green Transition Scoreboard® (GTS) is focused on water, which added $484 billion to the overall total of $5.3 trillion of private investments tracked since 2007 in Q4 of 2013, 9% of the overall total and more than either the Green R&D or Cleantech sectors. Global …
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines: UTILITY TRENDS TO WATCH
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ TODAY AT NewEnergyNews, December 31: * TODAY’S STUDY: UTILITY TRENDS TO WATCH * New Year’s Eve Videos, December 31: The Question About Auld Lang Syne; …
Inaction on Climate Change: The Cost to Taxpayers
Inaction on Climate Change: The Cost to Taxpayers When we examine the full costs of public programs that pay for disaster relief and recovery from extreme weather events—ad hoc disaster assistance appropriations, flood insurance, crop insurance, wildfire protection, and state run “residual market” insurance programs—we can begin to understand the price to U.S. …
Scoping a green economy: a brief guide to dialogues and diagnostics for developing countries
Published by IIED, September 2013 This guide aims to encourage early dialogue and diagnosis in and by developing countries on what a green economy would mean for their country. Read the report.
Utility-Scale Solar 2012
By Mark Bolinger & Samantha Weaver Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory September 2013 An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States Large-scale solar projects in the United States have made great progress in delivering competitively priced renewable electricity. The price at which …
Energy [r]evolution
Report from GWEC and Greenpeace 2013 ASEAN energy scenario A Sustainable ASEAN Energy Outlook Publication – September 24, 2013 Southeast Asia needs energy – sustainable, clean energy! Renewable energy is the solution to the region’s energy needs and it is undeniable that the potential for the 10-member countries of the …
The 3% Solution
Life is full of dif?cult choices, particularly for corporate CFOs and COOs. But choosing between increasing pro?ts and protecting the planet doesn’t have to be one of them. Whether your company has been on the climate journey for years or has just begun, this report will change the way you …
Evolution of an Impact Portfolio: From Implementation to Results
Evolution of an Impact Portfolio: From Implementation to Results October 2013 Sonen Capital, a leading Social & Environmental impact investment firm, in collaboration with the KL Felicitas Foundation (KLF), announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind report detailing the financial performance of an impact investing portfolio. The report, titled Evolution of an Impact …
Too Much Finance?
by Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes and Ugo Panizza This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We use different empirical approaches to show that there can indeed be “too much” finance. In particular, our results suggest that …
The Kay Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-term Decision Making
Click here to download the report (PDF) by John Kay for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, UK, July 2012 “Financial intermediation depends on trust and confidence: the trust and confidence that savers who invest funds have in those they choose to manage these funds, and the trust and …