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California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Can 1.5 million college students address climate change?University of California
“Students at UC are already hard at work pushing for sustainability in ways that address intersectional issues while fighting against climate change, as seen in the Fossil Free UC movement, the California Student Sustainability Coalition and the amazing local champions on every campus, such as those ...
Action on Climate Change Advances in Oregon
Natural Resources Defense Council
While dismal news just keeps pouring out of the nation's capital on climate change, states are increasingly showing momentum to lead the way. ... If the bills pass, it will be because elected leaders in the state rise above the clamor of polluter lobbyists and provide the leadership on climate action that the ...
San Diego County Needs to Get Serious About Climate Change
Voice of San Diego
San Diego County is on the verge of adopting a climate action plan that won't do much to reduce our region's contributions to climate change. In an area vulnerable to sea level rise, drought and wildfire, you would think county leaders would take this issue seriously. Instead of leading with science and ...
Sustainable Investing:
Looking at Sustainable Investing Through a Gender LensInvestopedia (blog)
The opportunities to align investments with causes important to women are plentiful, ranging from microfinance to fighting ultra-poverty to gender parity in the workplace. Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy (WISE) promotes gender justice and advocates for women in leadership positions.
Shelton Group Reaches Sustainable Investing Milestone, Offering Natixis Sustainable Future ...
Business Wire (press release)
BOSTON & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Natixis Investment Managers announced today that Shelton Group has adopted the Natixis Sustainable Future Funds℠ into its retirement plan lineup, thus enabling Shelton Group's employees to invest their 401(k) retirement assets in the industry's only ...
Sustainable investing: why it makes sense to be on the side of the angels
MoneyWeek
So, while we have been known to express a touch of cynicism as regards ethical investing in the past, we're a little more keen on its latest incarnation as “sustainable investing”. Amid all the irritating buzzwords, meaningless jargon and bandwagon-jumping that you'd expect from any other part of the ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
The Role of Business in Driving Sustainable Consumption, ProductionSustainable Brands
Companies looking to engage further have many resources at their disposal, such as the SDG Compass, the WBCSD's SDG business hub, and the Global Reporting Initiative's reporting guidance on the SDGs. The business case for deeper engagement, including the potential of the SDGs to drive ...
Opinion: Ethical consumerism requires research, big-picture thinking
The Daily Barometer
Although it is difficult to quantify morality in any simple way, there are many resources that can help make choosing between brands easier. “Some players (the Global Reporting Initiative; Socially Responsible Investing) and standards (ISO 26000, 14000 series) have started to form around these ideas, ...
The financial rewards for good corporate citizenship
The Australian (blog)
A senior counsel and former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, he is president of the International Integrated Reporting Council, chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, chairman emeritus of the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam, and a member of the ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Market - Rising Investments in Renewable Energy to Drive Growth ...Business Wire (press release)
The transition from fossil fuels and conventional sources of energy to renewable sources such as wind and solar is the key to achieve social, economic, and environmental development. In 2016, it was estimated that the global investments in renewable energy were over USD 300 billion. But, the ...
Can The Middle East Make A Success Of Renewable Energy? It May Not Have A Choice.
Forbes
“In the oil producing heart of the Middle East we're seeing investments in renewables at costs that are really game-changing,” says Adnan Amin, director general of the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). With all this activity, the region is following a growing global trend.
In Trump's first year, US agency doubles solar investments abroad
Reuters
It also deepens confusion about President Donald Trump's position on government support for renewable energy as his administration downplays the global warming threat and aggressively promotes fossil-fuel development. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the government's international ...
CDP Sustainability:
Braskem featured on the list of the world's best companies in the CDP Supply ChainWebWire (press release)
“The leadership demonstrated by the A-List confirms that Braskem's participation in CDP in recent years, engaging suppliers with a sustainability bias, has indirectly contributed to companies taking actions that seek to reduce the environmental impact of their activities. The evaluation reinforces that we ...
Impact Investing:
Vogel: Impact InvestingVermont Public Radio
Another approach that's growing in popularity is called impact investing, which means trying to align our investments with our values. But to date, studies are inconclusive as to whether this kind of investing has a significant impact in changing government policies or the behavior of corporations.
Japan Urged to Tap Dormant Bank Accounts to Promote 'Impact Investment'
U.S. News & World Report
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should tap unclaimed money from dormant bank accounts to promote investment for social good, Ronald Cohen, a pioneering venture capitalist who chairs the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), said. The concept of impact investment has gathered momentum ...
ESG and impact investing: Do you know the difference?
InvestmentNews (blog)
As investors increasingly rally behind the concept that their investment choices yield the ability to positively impact social or environmental issues, interest in impact investing has skyrocketed. Of the more than 22,000 investors worldwide surveyed by Schroders for its Global Investor Study 2017, 78% ...
Resource Conservation Investments:
70 Years in the Last FrontierUSDA.gov (press release) (blog)
From protecting people and their communities to growing food in high tunnels to restoring streams for salmon to protecting precious soils, the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has been investing in Alaska's working lands for 70 years. The NRCS's commitment to agriculture in ...
Maine Voices: Lobstermen's conservation efforts an investment in the future
Press Herald
In doing so, they have earned a worldwide reputation as leaders in stewardship of marine resources. Their conservation practices certainly have paid off, according to a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Maine's lobstermen have built one of the world's most ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
DiNapoli a responsible investor of pension fundAlbany Times Union
... serious matter, but using the state pension fund as a political tool to demonstrate progressive bona fides is the wrong direction to take New York. Retirees depend on this fund, and taxpayers benefit from its strong returns. DiNapoli's record shows that he has been a socially responsible investor as well ...
Fidelity poised for a big move in socially responsible investing
Boston Business Journal
Fidelity Investments may be on the verge of a major boost in the race for investors interested in environmentally and socially responsible funds. The company is seeking to start an index fund, made up of bonds, that would follow an environmental, social and corporate governance — or ESG — strategy, ...
Seeking SRI Success Stories
Texas State University - The University Star
You might be surprised to know that socially responsible investing is still a new concept, despite taking the US by storm over the past decade. Writer Cary Krosinsky, at The Balance cites Al Gore and David Blood's Generation Investment Management, which consistently defies previously established ...
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
4 Funds for Building a Sustainable PortfolioMorningstar.com
Jon Hale: Sustainable investing involves the use of environmental, social, and corporate governance, or ESG, criteria to evaluate investments or to assess their societal impact. It's not hard to build a portfolio of funds around sustainable investing because the approach is used across a variety of ...
'Green' Investing Helps Shield Investors From Correction
Barron's
Investing in 'green' funds benefits more than just the environment; this type of investing can also be healthy for investors' bottom line, recent data says. In the first nine days of February—during which the S&P slid 7.2%—two-thirds of all sustainable funds available in the U.S. finished in the top half of their ...
Sustainability Investing:
Fit for the future: how ethical investing went mainstreamMoneyWeek
Ethical and sustainable investing is no longer simply about ditching cigarettes or saving trees. Investors are increasingly concerned about better returns and lower risks, says Sarah Moore. Late last year, Norway's sovereign-wealth fund announced that it plans to dispose of all its oil and gas investments, ...
Philanthropic Investing
JPMorgan will invest $1.75 billion into American communities — and the CEO says it's good for ...Markets Insider
JPMorgan Chase is investing $20 billion in its US operations over five years, $1.75 billion of which is going to philanthropic causes. These causes include enhancing educational and entrepreneurial initiatives in communities like the South Bronx and Detroit. He agreed with the ideals in BlackRock CEO ...
The Sackler family's drug money disgraces museums around the world
The Guardian
The issue is complicated by the fact that the Sacklers have been unusually wise and discerning in their philanthropic investing. The world would be a much sorrier place without the wonderful initiatives they have supported. Commitments once made are now very difficult to unmake, without doing grave ...
Oxfam scandal could deter wealthy from charitable investing
Verdict
Tom Hall, UBS Wealth Management's head of philanthropy services UK reportedly said: “Stories like [Oxfam] reinforce the need to have more rigour around one's philanthropic investment, particularly at the higher end.” Michael Maslinski, a partner at Stonehage Fleming, reportedly said: “I am absolutely ...
Green Bond Funds:
Will a lack of transparency hurt green bonds?eco-business.com
He said banks that finance coal projects and utility companies that own fossil fuel plants are issuing “fungible” green bonds—that is, funding once injected becomes untraceable—and the lack of transparency makes it difficult for investors to know that the funding is actually going towards a sustainable ...
Report: Nordics and Baltics have 'clear opportunity' for green bonds growth
www.businessgreen.com
Green bonds issuance in the Nordic and Baltic region is growing steadily but there remains a "clear opportunity" for the public sector to further fund climate action at a local level across these regions, a Climate Bonds Initiative study has found. The Nordic and Baltic green bond market has experienced ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Commentary: Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Invest in a Low-Carbon IndexFortune
While U.S. environmental policy is at a standstill under the Trump Administration, cities like New York and San Francisco are stepping up to embrace a low-carbon future by divesting their pension funds from fossil fuels. These commitments will, no doubt, have a significant impact in the fight against ...
Low-Carbon Investing Is Growing
Bloomberg
Amundi has been offering low-carbon indexes since 2014, based on the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Indexes. The strategy has grown popular with institutional investors such as Sweden's AP4 pension fund and Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund. Last month, the New York State Common ...
5 FAQs on the growth of low-carbon investing as a foil to climate change risks
BenefitsPro
Insurer AXA SA set a target to reach $14.7 billion in low-carbon investments by 2020 and Canada's second-largest pension fund, CDPQ, said it would boost low-carbon investments 50 percent, adding $8 billion in new investment. Samama spoke to Emily Chasan, Eric Roston and Brian Eckhouse on Feb ...
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