This week’s interview is with Carron Howard, Portfolio Manager, Cadiz Asset Management, Cape Town, South Africa I am grateful to Carron Howard for this superb interview. It is clear and compelling, and provides a wealth of information about the situation in South Africa. And, it reads beautifully. Visitors to the …
Interview With Ji-won Shi, Head, Eco-Frontier Sustainable Finance Center, Seoul, South Korea
Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).” The series is now in its second year. Each interview “Five Questions about SRI” features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a …
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Claire Rentzke, Consultant, RisCura, Cape Town, South Africa – October 19, 2012
An interview from Emerging Markets ESG By Geoffrey on October 19, 2012 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).” The series is now in its second year. Each interview “Five Questions about SRI” features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging …
3 Steps to Funding Your Gift to the Global Shift
Without a doubt, you have a gift to share with the world. It’s what you came here to do. It’s the fire in your belly, the reason you get up in the morning (even if you don’t know it yet!). Maybe you’ve built a business around this gift. Or perhaps …
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Marieke de Leede, Impact Investment Analyst, SNS Asset Management, Utrecht, The Netherlands
By Geoffrey on June 8, 2012 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience. The goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: To collect a catalogue …
Rio+20 special from the Green Economy Coalition
Rio+20 has now arrived and we have been asked – what outcome does GEC want, and what does it expect? To answer that I would like to explain the evolution of our coalition as our own story offers insights to the more macro green economy journey. Our first phase (2009-2011) was about …
A Big Audacious Goal: Turning on the Lights for 1.4 Billion People
Cleanwatch The e-Letter on Clean Technology from Clean Edge Welcome to Cleanwatch. Each issue offers the latest news, events, and other resources on clean energy, transportation, water, and materials. A Big Audacious Goal: Turning on the Lights for 1.4 Billion People By Ron Pernick At the recent Fortune Brainstorm Green …
The Finance Lab Prospectus
Hello – As someone who champions of the Finance Innovation Lab, we’d like to share with you some good news which will be announced this weekend. Following 100s of entries from across the nation, The Finance Innovation Lab has been named as one of the 50 New Radicals in a …
A catalyst for social development: impact investing
A catalyst for social development: impact investing SUSTAINING LIVES AND MARINE BIODIVERSITY IN INDONESIA Bali Seafood 82% of the world’s fisheries are over-exploited and under- managed, despite more than 20 international treaties protecting global fish stocks. For all their best intentions, policymakers’ focus on controlling inputs and outputs — such …
Good-b Brings News and Views of Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street: What Are They So Angry About? Good-b CEO Monika Mitchell spent 11 years as a senior partner in a Wall Street recruiting firm specializing in institutional debt markets including the ill-fated mortgage-backed securities industry. Those years combined with her current role as a leader for socially responsible …