Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Ethical Markets has campaigned for 30  years to  get all externalities internalized within company and  public sector balance sheets. We salute the IMF for this report  and  I hope to review the full volume soonest. Hazel Henderson,Editor   Previous IMF studies set forth the basic principle that getting energy prices …

Zevin Asset Management Q2 2014 Investment Results

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Zevin Asset Management Q2 2014 Investment Results   Please click here to see Zevin Asset Management’s Q2 2014 results and corresponding charts. Attribution analysis, factbooks as well as the performance of our taxable composites are available upon request.   During the quarter, our Global Appreciation non-taxable composite increased by 2.01%, …

European competitiveness and energy efficiency: Focusing on the real issue

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

              A discussion paper prepared by the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee) with support from Energifonden. 21 May 2013 The debate on the competitiveness of Europe seems to have started on the wrong foot. In a Council paper, “Energy challenges and …

New eceee paper highlights the real issue on energy and competitiveness

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

New eceee paper highlights the real issue on energy and competitiveness A discussion paper on competitiveness and energy efficiency published by eceee today argues that the EU debate wrongly focuses on high energy prices rather than looking at strategies for getting the costs down. The paper explores how energy efficiency …

Saving Energy: bringing down Europe’s energy prices

Ethical MarketsResource Efficiency

A Report from ECOFYS Apart from the environmental benefits -notably, reducing greenhouse gas emissions- energy savings have significant economic benefits for European economies: (1) they reduce the amount of money businesses and consumers need to spend on energy, (2) they have positive effects on employment and (3) they decrease dependency …

Global Consortium of Institutional Investors Integrate ESG Factors Into Real Estate

kristySRI/ESG News

Global Consortium of Institutional Investors Integrate ESG Factors Into Real Estate Investments GRESB to join forces with GRI to enhance disclosure on sustainability in real estate sector Amsterdam, April 4, 2012 – Thirty of the world’s largest pension asset managers, the major real estate industry associations and a large group …

Has the Sell-off Created Value Stocks Among Clean Energy Conglomerates? : AltEnergyStocks.com

Ethical MarketsGreentech

Has the Sell-off Created Value Stocks Among Clean Energy Conglomerates? Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:53 AM PDT Tom Konrad CFA The silver lining of all market declines is the chance to buy stock in quality companies at attractive prices.  That opportunity has been notably absent over the last two years, …

Global Energy Transition Finance

kristyGreen Prosperity

Communication to Dr. Steven Chu, US Secretary of of Energy Developing an economic response to the Energy Crisis in the time of of a Credit Crisis/Crunch.  Delivering a Transition Plan for any high fossil energy demanding economy worldwide. Dr. Gijs Graafland, Plank Foundation and Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets Media America …