MATTHEW McGARVEY Impact investment and fund development specialist Leading Impact investment and social entrepreneurship initiatives in Asia for 20+ years 10+ years in organic and regenerative agriculture throughout Asia and US Led financing strategy for over 6GW+ of clean energy in Asia Former PwC Corporate Finance …
Bloomberg Green: Climate-friendly shopping
“Ethical Markets congratulates Jess Shankleman and Bloomberg Green for highlighting Freecycle! We have covered all these and other electronic barter exchanges and local currencies we have documented for over 30 years ….whenever macroeconomic indicators and price-system based policies have failed to steer markets away from cliffs of unsustainability and destructive …
Reuters: Breakingviews Predictions 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT SERIES BREAKINGVIEWS 2022 PREDICTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS A WORLD IN TRANSITION THE MEGA SHIFTS SHAPING FINANCE, BUSINESS AND ECONOMIES SPONSORED BY Please join Reuters Breakingviews for a series of exclusive discussions with leading corporate executives and policymakers as we celebrate the publication of our latest book of predictions and …
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER | Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index 2021!
Join us this Wednesday as we launch the fourth iteration of the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index—the world’s only comprehensive assessment of the largest animal protein producers on critical environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. The session will begin with opening remarks from Jeremy Coller, Founder of the FAIRR Initiative and CIO …
Climate Bonds Initiative recognises Green Star as a pathway to net zero buildings
Climate Bonds Initiative recognises Green Star as a pathway to net zero buildings Two new proxies available for Certification under the Low Carbon Buildings Criteria Barangaroo/London: 24/11/2021: Green Star has achieved recognition as an international pathway to net zero emissions building, after the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) approved two of the Green Building Council of Australia’s rating tools as compliant with green bonds certification under the Climate …
Wall Street’s $22 trillion time bomb
The clock is ticking for banks, insurers and asset managers still providing support to oil, gas and coal producers. It’s not just the moral imperative—that fossil-fuel use is destroying the atmosphere and life on Earth with it. It’s that their financial health requires leaving such companies behind. According to Moody’s Investors Service, financial …
Guiding carbon market investments
Nations clinched the Paris Agreement six years ago but finished writing it only at COP26 in Glasgow this month. There, negotiators finally checked the box on something called “Article 6,” a section of the 2015 climate pact governing how countries can trade credits to emit CO2. The new standards should …
Tallying the cost of delayed climate action
US$150 billion per year. That’s the expected additional loss that the financial sector could face when climate action by companies is delayed, according to the launch report of a joint initiative by the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford and the non-profit think tank 2° Investing Initiative. According to the study, …
There’s big money in climate adaptation
At this month’s climate talks in Scotland, a lot of time was spent condemning the shortage of money available to fight global warming. Some of the loudest complaints came from less developed nations that are suffering its most extreme effects. Wealthy countries whose emissions are most responsible for the global catastrophe …
COP26 Daily: Protesters and negotiators agree
Where the talks stand By Akshat Rathi The parade of announcements this week from world leaders, finance figures and climate diplomats at the COP26 summit culminated in a weekend parade of protesters through Glasgow, Scotland. The message from the thousands carrying placards around the venue of the meeting is one most insiders would agree …