By Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update90 As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the United Kingdom. Food riots are spreading across Algeria. Russia is importing grain to sustain its cattle herds until spring grazing begins. India is wrestling with an 18-percent annual food …
IDB Issues Poverty Reduction Bonds
Supporting better living conditions for new generations in Latin America and the Caribbean The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (rated Moody’s: Aaa / S&P: AAA) and Daiwa Securities Group announce an issuance of the Poverty Reduction Bonds (the “Bonds”) to support poverty alleviation and improve living conditions of new generations in …
CSR News: What Australia’s Floods Can Tell Us About Climate Change
Editorial Highlights •CSR and defending the indefensible •Is Data Secrecy a Prescription for Health, Wealth and Innovation? •What the 2011 Census Says about Sustainable Food •CES & Technology Vegas Style •Why Carbon Capture and Sequestration Won’t Stop Climate Change •Differences between “Shared Value” and CSR – Part II •In A …
Stakeholder Engagement in Practice: Global Challenges, Possibilities and Limitations
Overview In partnership with Euromed Management, the Bentley Center for Business Ethics and Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility proudly present this year’s Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium, sponsored by the State Street Foundation. The seventh in a multi-year partnership, the event brings together international academicians, corporate and civil …
Invitation January 19, 2011: New Rules for Global Finance Annual General Meeting
New Rules For Global Finance Annual General Meeting January 19, 2011 RSVP REQUIRED: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Board Members only: 12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Open Meeting of Members: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Venue: Offices of K&L Gates 1601 K Street, NW (16th and K St) Washington, …
The Gores Group to sell energy efficiency company Lineage Power to GE
DEALS NEWS The Gores Group to sell energy efficiency company Lineage Power to GE Jinko Solar issues bonds to supplement cash position China’s wind turbine giant Sinovel sees shares slide in initial trading InfraVia Fund buys Frasie to access French industrial water market Click here to read the newsletter
OECD calls on Japan’s giant Government pension fund to integrate ESG
RI News Alert: › OECD calls on Japan’s giant Government pension fund to integrate ESG › India’s new Responsible Investment Research Association gets OK Click here to read the newsletter
The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street
Ellen Brown January 11, 2011 www.webofdebt.com The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers for bankers, and it has served them well. Out of the blue, it came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free credit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit …
Shaping Tomorrow Insight Newsletter: Harsh Realities of Hacktivism
The scale of the WikiLeaks’ information release and the responses on all sides demonstrate the emergence of new harsh realities for security, privacy, transparency and protest. Companies and governments alike will be vulnerable. In recent weeks Shaping Tomorrow has raised the issues of the rise and changing nature of cyber-crime, …
A New Approach to Considering Current Affairs, Public Policy, Planning, and Foresight
The world of well-informed books and reports on current affairs is far larger than anyone imagines—at least one thousand titles per year! Many of these books and reports are addressed to a general audience, but access has heretofore been limited. In the early 2009-early 2011 period alone, some 80 English-language …