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California's Leadership in Climate Change:
Chad Mayes sues California over climate change ballot measure, says it's misleadingThe Desert Sun
State Assemblymember Chad Mayes is suing California over a ballot measure that could help Republican lawmakers influence how the state spends its climate change funds, claiming that misleading language written by the state's Democratic attorney general will confuse voters so they oppose the ...
Episode 115: Leadership from the Climate Collaborative to the Climate Group to Palo Alto
GreenBiz
2. Can the natural products industry reverse climate change? (27:05). On March 3, Anaheim, California, hosted the second annual Climate Day at Natural Products Expo West, a trade show for the natural products industry — and our Executive Editor Joel Makower was its official MC. He spoke with Erin ...
Sustainable Investing:
EU and Asset Managers Clash Over 'Sustainable' Investing PlanU.S. News & World Report
The Commission will also look at how banks and insurers could benefit from lower capital charges if they invested in green projects. The Commission has retreated from an initial plan to go ahead with implementing these reductions after opposition from an advisory panel and central bankers who were ...
Digital Platforms Meet Sustainable Investing
Financial Advisor Magazine
Steve Wallman, founder and CEO of FOLIOfn, became an advocate of using technology to improve the user experience for investors and advisors when he was an SEC Commissioner (July 1994-November 1997). He recognized that by upgrading the technology they were using, investors could reduce ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
Delta Electronics' 2016 CSR Report Placed in Global Top 25 by CUNY Baruch CollegePR Newswire (press release)
The structure of Delta's CSR Report follows the Sustainable Index G4 version issued by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and has passed third-party verification for its adoption of GRI G4 core indicators, AA1000 Type II and High assurance level. To ensure rigorous information analysis, Delta also ...
Neopost receives "Gold" Certification from Ecovadis for its commitment to Sustainable Development
GlobeNewswire (press release)
The EcoVadis rating agency certifies companies' commitment to sustainable business development, specializing in assessing suppliers for global supply chains. Its rating methodology is based on international sustainable development standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United ...
SDG Knowledge Weekly: Gender Equality and an Agreement on Principle 10
IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub (press release) (blog)
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) published a short post flagging the importance of women and gender issues in corporate sustainability reporting, highlighting that quality reporting achieves greater levels of transparency and offers insight into potential discrepancies around hiring practices, parental ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
European Investment Bank Provided €1.05 Billion In Solar Financing In 2017CleanTechnica
The European Investment Bank announced last week that in 2017 it provided €1.05 billion worth of new financing for solar energy around the world, which represents the largest ever annual support for solar by the Bank, with India as the leading recipient for solar financing. Since 2002 the European ...
Renewable Energy Has More Economic Benefits Than You Know
CleanTechnica
Renewable energy is already cheaper than other energy options in most of the world, but it comes with other economic and societal benefits as well. Because of the number of countries investing in renewable energy, the complexity of their national economies and their energy infrastructure details, it isn't ...
Aristoteles levels playing field for investment into renewable energies
World Finance
Aristoteles is an innovative digital platform for managing renewable energy assets. Created by asset management company Kaiserwetter, it combines real-time performance data with predictive analytics and powerful risk management software. Kaiserwetter founder and CEO Hanno Schoklitsch explains ...
CDP Sustainability:
Borsa İstanbul Sustainability Platform's 9th Round Table Meeting Was HeldExchange News Direct
... Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Turkey, Banks Association of Turkey (TBB), Sustainability Academy, Arguden Governance Academy and Yıldız Technical University Center for Finance Governance and Sustainability (CFGS), “Integrated Reporting ...
As its wealth fund goes green, Norway's firms struggle to keep up
The Straits Times
In Norway, just two firms - DNB bank and property firm Entra - were on a CDP list of 160 "A" rated performers worldwide for disclosure in 2017. ... issues such as climate and water, and we are presently going through a strategic process to further improve our response to sustainability matters," she said.
More than 100 cities get 70% or more of their energy from renewables
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Forty can claim to be 100 percent powered by renewable energy. In 2015, only 40 cities used more than 70 percent clean energy, according to CDP, which makes for a 150 percent increase. This goes to show that our cities are acting as trailblazers for a more sustainable future. This is particularly true in ...
Impact Investing:
Foundation Impact Investing Is Gaining Steam. But Can Proponents Answer These Four Questions?Inside Philanthropy
I've long been a fan of more impact investing by foundations. It's always struck me as nuts that these institutions use only their pinkies to advance their missions, keeping the vast majority of endowment capital—the “other 95 percent”—off to the side, invested in whatever the bean counters say will yield ...
Impact Investing Via Mid-Sized Solar
CleanTechnica
But if you're looking to invest in your financial and our planetary future, there are more options than ever before that fit the latter concern as much as the former. One of the more exciting and widely discussed opportunities for sustainable investment is in solar. Solar is now cost competitive with traditional ...
WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: On Impact Investing, Performance Backtests, Mitzi Perdue on Secrets ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Using investment dollars to influence or reflect social issues has been in the news lately, with BlackRock, Blackstone and others pressing gun makers on everything from safety to background checks and staff training. Then there is the other side of the issue, where some investment managers say ...
Resource Conservation Investments:
Tim Purinton: Investments in conservation are crucial for Maryland's futureCapitalGazette.com
Additionally, deferring or raiding core investments in clean water and land conservation will catch up to us. Pressures from climate change, coupled with a growing population and the associated infrastructure needs, will only increase stress on our limited natural resources. As part of our ongoing ...
International sustainability forum held in Mérida
The Yucatan Times
As every year, TNC participates in the Latin American Impact Investment Forum, which, according to Ana Carolina Izaguirre Corzo, specialist in finance for ... have been invested in the conservation of these natural resources and more than 650 leaders are being trained in order to maintain this initiative.
Socially Responsible Investing:
A Focus on the 'S' in ESG: Socially Conscious InvestingETF.com
As advisers evaluate their equity market holdings, many investors are looking to socially conscious ETFs to provide exposure that does more than just track the market. In this upcoming webinar, Dave Nadig, Managing Director of ETF.com, sits down with Richard Cea of InsightShares to tease out the best ...
7 Socially Responsible ETFs to Buy in 2018
Investorplace.com
Socially responsible investing has come into the forefront over the last few years. From shareholders demanding equal representation for women on corporate boards to recent backlash regarding gun sales policies at retailers like Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) and Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS), ...
Is socially responsible investing 'over-pitched and under-delivered?'
Benefits Canada
When it comes to environmental, social and governance factors, investors are confronted by an alphabet soup of acronyms that can make it tough to determine which tools to use. But Meg Starr, vice-president at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, says investors need to be clear about their objectives ...
Funds for Sustainable Investing:
Why It's So Hard to Invest With a Social ConscienceNew York Times
In the first couple of decades of sustainable investing, the funds that aimed to invest on principle often avoided, say, oil stocks. Some of this still goes on today. One fund company called Inspire, according to one of its prospectuses, avoids companies that have “any degree of participation in activities that ...
New Principles for Sustainable Fisheries Investment Unveiled at World Ocean Summit
Environmental Defense Fund
(Riviera Maya, Mexico – March 8, 2018) With a growing list of adopters and endorsers, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Meloy Fund, and Encourage Capital today launched new guidelines for investing in global fisheries to drive needed capital into scaling sustainably managed fisheries and ...
New sustainable fund will test limits of eco-friendly investing, experts say
GW Hatchet
GW's new eco-friendly investment fund could set a standard for social responsibility, but experts say its overall financial impact will likely be negligible. Officials revealed plans last week to invest $2 million of the University's $1.7 billion endowment in a fund dedicated to sustainable companies. Experts ...
Sustainability Investing:
Global Impact Investing – After Enlightenment Comes The DishesValueWalk
In 2010, during my tenure on the board of the non-profit “Miriam's Kitchen”, I became aware of, and subsequently enamored with, the concept of impact investing. I spent hours reading through the technical aspects of the world's first social impact bond, Social Finance Ltd's work on reducing recidivism in ...
Philanthropic Investing:
Can Ford Foundation's $1 Billion Impact Investing Commitment Alter the Field?Nonprofit Quarterly
Most commentators have applauded Ford for assertively focusing on “mission-related investing.” Said David Bank, editor of ImpactAlpha, “For decades, philanthropy has been stuck in a rut, with only five percent of philanthropic endowments paid out in charitable grants each year, while 95 percent of the ...
Issuing Bonds to Invest in People
New York Times
The bond works like this: A group of private and philanthropic investors, led by the European bank BNP Paribas, put up $11.2 million. The agency set specific goals: Clients should have more clean drug screens, fewer reports of child mistreatment and fewer foster care placements, compared to a control ...
Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Nathan Cummings Foundation announced Tuesday it plans to place all of its nearly half-billion-dollar endowment solely in investments that aim to reduce social inequality and mitigate climate change, making it the largest foundation to try to use its entire investment portfolio to generate social ...
Green Bond Funds:
Frustrations dog green bond marketPensions & Investments
A number of strategies that invest in green bonds, the proceeds of which are used to fund climate-friendly investments, will reach their three-year anniversary this year — a crucial point for fund buyers, sources said. Green bond issuance has continued to grow, hitting about $160 billion in 2017 vs. about ...
Growthpoint issues first Green Bond on the JSE
BusinessTech
Growthpoint Properties is the first South African company to issue a Green Bond on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Green Bonds raise money that is specially allocated for funding projects that result in positive environmental and climate benefits. The R1.1 billion ($94 million) Green Bonds ...
Landsvirkjun issues green bonds to help fund hydro, geothermal development
International Water Power and Dam Construction
Landsvirkjun has announced it has successfully secured funding via debut Green Bond in the US Private Placement market, with the funding to be used to build the Burfell II hydropower station and the Theistareykir geothermal power station in Iceland. Landsvirkjun reached an agreement with US and ...
Low Carbon Funds:
Scottish Power's £15m fund to invest in low-carbon technologyThe Times
Scottish Power is launching a £15 million investment fund to help communities around the country to invest in low-carbon heating and transport technology. The initiative, through SP energy networks division, is backed by the Scottish government and the energy regulator. An independent panel of ...
Ontario offers funds for low-carbon innovation
REMI Network - Real Estate Management Industry Network
The Ontario government has pledged up to $300 million in seed funding to advance low-carbon technologies and/or implement strategies to make greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction more economically viable. Ontario-based companies and organizations will have until May 7, 2018 to submit their ...
Apparently We Can Let the Stock Market Fight Climate Change
WIRED
The California State Teachers' Retirement System put $2.5 billion into its own low-carbon index fund. The next step: “Get some quantitative criteria that can be used in risk models,” says Davis. “There's a lot of research going on with the likes of BlackRock and State Street to try to figure out just that.”.
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