Stemming the Transfer of Wealth from Main Street to Wall Street with Publicly-Owned Banks PBI Newsletter, November/December 2013 Stemming the Transfer of Wealth from Main Street to Wall Street with Publicly-Owned Banks From the Editor: As 2013 draws to a close, state, local, and federal governments are battling debt and interest …
Investing in a Growing, Changing Planet
Dear Friends: Below please find a brief summary of a recent report by TerraVerde capital management outlining investment opportunities arising from population growth, climate change, and resource depletion. Investing in a Growing, Changing Planet: The Fund of Hedge Funds Opportunity Since the integration of fossil fuels in the early …
Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013
A report from the CDP Executive Summary Businesses increasingly face the dual risks of climate and policy shocks. How companies build and demonstrate their resilience to these climate risks has important implications for their reputation with their stakeholders and for the value of their businesses. It is for these …
Climate regulations could cost fossil-fuel firms trillions. Should they be worried? By Brad Plumer, Published: October 25 at 1:17 pmE-mail the writer If the world ever got serious about addressing climate change, fossil-fuel companies could stand to lose billions of dollars — maybe trillions. These firms all have large reserves …
CSRwire Talkback: Renewable Energy: Profiting from Fossil Fuels’ Woes
By Rosalinda Sanquiche, co-author, Green Transition Scoreboard® Report Over $2 trillion has been privately invested globally since 2007 inrenewable energy, the highest sector monitored by the Green Transition Scoreboard®. While reduced cost and greater efficiencies are a large part of the story, renewable energy is benefiting also from changing attitudes toward …
Funding the US government and avoiding the fiscal cliff
By Dr Shann Turnbull, Co-founding Member of the Sustainable Money Working Group, Ethical Markets Advisory Board Member, October 2013 The US government could fund both its operations and avoid the fiscal cliff by introducing a self-liquidating and self-financing negative interest rate complementary currency. The US Treasury could issue say one trillion …
STOXX launches ESG weighted version of EURO STOXX 50 / STOXX Europe 50
STOXX Limited today introduced the EURO iSTOXX 50 SD-KPI and iSTOXX Europe50 SD-KPI indices. The two indices cover all 50 components of two Europeanblue-chip indices, namely the EURO STOXX 50 and the STOXX Europe 50. Thecomponents are slightly overweighted or underweighted (i.e. -10%, -5%, 0%,5%, 10%) on the basis of …
Ethical Markets Media’s Rosalinda Sanquiche
Rosalinda Sanquiche’s environmental journey started all the way back as a youngster in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she grew up surrounded by the beauty of nature. Her studies in environmental science eventually led her to Ethical Markets Media, a multiplatform company that examines environmental topics while asking individuals what …
Report: Global Climate Bonds Market Doubles As Investors Demand Low-Carbon Finance
Report: Global Climate Bonds Market Doubles As Investors Demand Low-Carbon Finance 2013-09-11 22:26:19.117 GMT By Andrea Vittorio (BNA) — Bonds and Climate Change Key Development: The global climate bonds market doubled from 2011 to 2012 to reach $346 billion as investors demanded more low-carbon finance, a new report says. What’s …
A Big Green Ray of Hope
It wasn’t that long ago that the green economy was seen as an outlier. Traditionalists were banking on the rebuild of established sectors like automotive and finance. The green economy was readily dismissed as tiny and although it might one day be important, that day was far off in the …