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California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Letters: Be thankful for California's leadership on climate changeSacramento Bee
I am very thankful for California's leadership to address global warming and reduce the financial and human cost for future generations. Carbon ...
If state is a climate leader, why is CalPERS backing firms that burn rainforests down?
Sacramento Bee
If state is a climate leader, why is CalPERS backing firms that burn rainforests ... legislators are boldly stepping up to the challenge of climate change. However, there is one disappointing gap in California's leadership on climate.
Embattled former PUC chief Peevey resurfaces with a green energy book
Los Angeles Times
The book, “California Goes Green: a Roadmap to Climate Leadership,” ... I care deeply about climate change and a whole series of other things ...
Sustainable Investing:
This college class is an object lesson in sustainable investingGreenBiz
Inspired by the student-run club at Brown University on socially responsible investing (or Brown SRIF), its own financially outperforming portfolio is ...
Sustainable investment joins the mainstream
The Economist
Fans of “socially responsible investment” (SRI) hope that millennials, the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, will drag these concepts into the ...
Socially responsible investing: The next paradigm for businesses
Livemint
Stakeholders now recognize the importance of responsible investing and the role of financial markets in fostering sustainable development.
Global Reporting Initiative:
Univar Goes Digital with Annual Sustainability ReportMarkets Insider
The report covers fiscal year 2016 (Jan. 1, 2016 – Dec. 31, 2016) and references the reporting standards set forth by the Global Reporting Initiative ...
Business and Human Rights - What Swiss companies need to know
Lexology
... human rights impacts and adhere to international reporting standards. ... the UN Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Council of ...
Commentary: EM companies must recognize investors are front-row in the audience for ESG ...
Pensions & Investments
It is no secret that global institutional investors increasingly integrate ... the Global Reporting Initiative and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Rate Certainty Sets Stage for New Private Investments, Solar Energy DevelopmentWILX-TV
(WILX) - Consumer Energy is proposing a plan for renewable energy which won't raise customer's rates. An order setting rates for renewable energy developers from Consumers Energy will create the certainty necessary to spur private investments and new growth in solar energy while ensuring utility ...
Opportunities outweigh obstacles for clean, renewable energy investment in Iran
Daily Sabah
1) Iran is quite rich in fossil fuel resources, but also has comprehensive natural capabilities in clean and renewable energies, such as wind, solar, ...
UPS stepping up investment in green energy fleet
Houston Business Journal
Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) is sprucing up its green-energy credentials. UPS announced an agreement Nov. 20 with Nebraska-based Big Ox Energy to buy 10 million gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG) per year for its vehicle fleet, the company's largest ...
CDP Sustainability:
CDP recognises Amcor for 'best performance' across its sustainability programsWorldPressOnline (press release)
CDP recognises Amcor for 'best performance' across its sustainability programs ... CDP, a not-for-profit organisation that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, states and regions to manage environmental impacts, on Tuesday 21 November awarded Amcor 'best performance across ...
STMicroelectronics Recognized for Leadership on Environmental Actions by CDP
GlobeNewswire (press release)
CDP assigns the ST results to its Leadership level, underlying that the ... More information about ST's approach to Sustainability is available here.
PTTEP recognized as global leader in sustainable water and climate management
The Nation
PTTEP also attained leadership level by CDP for its achievement in climate management for the fourth consecutive year, making it the only company in the South East Asia to receive leadership level recognition in both categories in 2017. The awards ceremony was held at Hong Kong Stock Exchange ...
Impact Investing:
MythBusters: Further Proof That Impact Investments Reap Healthy ReturnsForbes
More evidence pointing to the potential for impact investors to make healthy returns from their investments. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) just came out with a report reviewing available research on the financial performance of impact investments. Its conclusion: Across private market ...
High Water Women to Hold Fifth Symposium on Impact Investing
PR Newswire (press release)
NEW YORK, Nov. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- High Water Women (HWW), the not-for-profit volunteer organization with a focus on empowering women and youth, is holding its fifth annual Symposium on Impact Investing in New York at the City of New York Graduate Center, this Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.
Zurich Insurance ups 'impact investment' target to $5 bln
Reuters
LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Switzerland's Zurich Insurance plans to more than double its “impact investments” to $5 billion, it said on Thursday, aiming to improve the lives of five million people a year. The target forms part of a move by insurers to tackle the causes of climate change and other social ...
Resource Conservation Investments:
N/ASocially Responsible Investing:
Socially responsible investing: The next paradigm for businessesLivemint
Stakeholders now recognize the importance of responsible investing and the role of financial markets in fostering sustainable development.
Thomson Reuters Boosts ESG Monitoring And Socially Responsible Investing Capabilities In Eikon ...
Exchange News Direct
Thomson Reuters has launched ESG Peer View on its flagship desktop product Eikon, a significant enhancement of its ESG data capabilities that is ...
4 Ways Socially Responsible Banks Are Good for You and Your Wallet
NerdWallet (blog)
A dozen U.S. banks have proven their commitment to upholding social and environmental values by becoming B Corporations, joining the Global Alliance for ... Another financial activity that can increase your social impact is socially responsible investing, but as with any investing, you risk losing money.
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
The craze for ethical investment has reached JapanThe Economist
A less photogenic one has hit finance: investing in assets screened for ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors. In 2014-16 funds invested in ESG assets grew faster in Japan than anywhere else (and not just because of better reporting and a low base). Today Japan's sustainable-investment ...
Sustainability Investing:
Who Will Pay For Nature? How To Catalyze Private Investment In SustainabilityForbes
As more and more world leaders call for action on climate change, a difficult challenge arises: How do we pay for it? It will take an estimated $5-7 trillion per year over the next 15 years to solve climate change and to meet the other U.N. Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), from ending extreme ...
Philanthropic Investing:
Learning by giving: How today's students can become tomorrow's philanthropistsWBIR-TV
So far, foundations like the Learning by Giving Foundation, founded by philanthropist Doris Buffett — Warren Buffett's sister — and the Once Upon a Time Foundation, funded by ... And philanthropic education gets students to think about their responsibilities to invest in the communities in which they live.
JPMorgan Chase Deploys First $10 Million of Chicago Investment
Business Wire (press release)
JPMorgan Chase Deploys First $10 Million of Chicago Investment ... of its employees to maximize the impact of its philanthropic investments and help ...
Take more risks, and four other venture-philanthropy takeaways
ImpactAlpha
Investors, grant-makers, banks and business schools, met in Oslo earlier this month to boost capital flows and ecosystem support for social ventures ...
Green Bond Funds:
Why is Europe's deep pool of funds attractive for Chinese green bond issuers?South China Morning Post
Ten years after the world's first green bond, Chinese issuers – the largest globally – have stepped up efforts to tap the fast growing European funding pool. Their increasing use of international climate bonds standard to raise offshore funding underlines their early success in dissipating doubts about their ...
Toyota Financial Serves Up First Euro-Denominated Green Bond
Auto Finance News (blog)
This ABS marks the fourth green bond the company has issued. The €600 million bond — $707.8 billion USD — will be used to fund the acquisition of new retail finance contracts and beneficial interests in lease contracts for nine Toyota and Lexus vehicles that meet specific clean air criteria, including ...
Green bonds reach $100 billion milestone
Climate Action Programme
At the same time, France became the second nation to issue a sovereign green bond to borrow €7 billion to fund its energy transition plan, followed by Fiji which was the first emerging economy to ever issue a sovereign green bond. According to Climate Bonds Initiative, the top countries for 2017 are ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Budget 2017: Government unveils EV funding bonanza, confirms no new low carbon leviesClean Energy News
The UK government is to mobilise hundreds of millions of pounds of new investment into vehicle charging infrastructure as it bids to take the lead in ...
Interview with Eva Halvarsson, Chief Executive Officer, AP2
Climate Action Programme
Climate Action caught up with Eva Halvarsson, Chief Executive Officer, Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2), on scaling up low carbon investment and her participation in the first Sustainable Investment Forum Europe. 1. AP2 is one of the largest asset owners in Northern Europe, what are your ...
Isles of Scilly to become low carbon tech lab for rest of the UK
Cornwall Live
Minister for Local Growth, Jake Berry, said: "This is an exciting example of a Local Enterprise Partnership using government's Growth Deal funding to deliver savings for local people and businesses and offering environmental benefits. "It also shows that innovation is not confined to big cities and I hope it ...
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