KOSMOS NEWS: Is Sharing for Sale?

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Global Citizen

MAY 27, 2014 NEWSLETTER Is Sharing for Sale? Dear Readers, Our featured author this week is Elisabet Sahtouris, an eloquent teacher of evolution biology and also a futurist. Like many of us, she senses that global transformation is underway in our hearts and minds, our communities, and slowly in our social …

Emerging Markets ESG – Gender Composition of Management Boards and Supervisory Boards of Companies Listed on the Main Index of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the WIG20, as of June 30, 2013

Jay OwenThe Power of Yin

According to the Polish Central Statistical Office, there are currently more women (51.6%) than men (48.4%) in Poland. Despite this, the proportion of women in top management and on the boards of the largest listed companies in Poland remains strikingly low. Agnieszka Ploetzing, graduate of the School of American Law …

Investor Alert: GVK’s US$10 billion Australian coal project uneconomic, an unacceptable risk

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Investor Alert: GVK’s US$10 billion Australian coal project uneconomic, an unacceptable risk Finanial analysis of GVK Alpha Coal Project in Queensland’s Galilee Basin concludes “probability of success remote”, “no investor should take part”.  Press Release Sydney, 19 June 2013 A new report released today by US-based Institute for Energy Economics …

Investors risk $6tn carbon ‘bubble’, warns report

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Investors risk $6tn carbon ‘bubble’, warns report  Economies will see over $6tn in wasted capital as investments exploiting coal, oil and gas reserves are proved stranded as policies aim to limit global warming. New research by Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment …

GMI Ratings Research Finding: Companies with Bottom-Decile Accounting and Governance Risk (AGR®) Ratings 3.6 Times More Likely to Experience Major Drops in Stock Price

kristySRI/ESG News, Advisors' Forum

Important research from Ethical Markets advisory board member, Robert A. G. Monks, founder of GMI Ratings September 25, 2012 in GMI Press Releases New York — September 25, 2012 — GMI Ratings, the leading provider of research on environmental, social, governance (ESG) and accounting-related risks affecting the performance of public …

Carbon Bubble Growing, but Markets Aren’t Listening

kristyGreen Prosperity

Published on GreenBiz.com (http://www.greenbiz.com) ——————————————————————————– Carbon Bubble Growing, but Markets Aren’t Listening By James Leaton Created 2011-07-15 04:46 How much carbon dioxide would be released if all the proven fossil fuel reserves owned by public companies was burnt? Carbon Tracker’s estimate: 745 gigatonnes CO2. How much carbon dioxide can we …