NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ President’s Day At Newenergynews, 2-21: * Quick News, 2-21: Nyc Doubles Its Sun; The Av Smart Charger; Sonar Watching Ocean Energy; Seeking Justice From Calif Cap & Trade Sunday World, 2-20: * Bigtime World Bank New Energy Buy In India * …
GEG Project Participation in the UNEP Governing Council
Newsletter from Global Environmental Governance Project GEG Project Participation in the UNEP Governing Council The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will hold the 26th Regular Session of its Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) in the United Nations Office at Nairobi from the 21st to 24th of February. The GC/GMEF will …
Breakfast with Barroso: What the Giant P8 Pension Funds Talked About in Brussels
RI News Alert: › Breakfast with Barroso: what the giant P8 pension funds talked about in Brussels › P8 and P80 pension groups co-ordinator, Aled Jones, departs from Prince Charles-backed initiative Click here to read the newsletter
Premier US Environment NGO Joins Climate Bonds Standards Project
Posted on 19. Feb, 2011 by Sean Kidney in blog Speaking at a State Street Global Advisors Green Bonds Summit in Boston, Climate Bonds Initiative Chair Sean Kidney announced that the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) had joined the Governing Authority of the Climate Bonds Certification and Standards Scheme. The …
Restoring Economic Sovereignty: The Push for State-owned Banks
Ellen Brown February 15, 2011 www.webofdebt.com/articles “It is time to declare economic sovereignty from the multinational banks that are responsible for much of our current economic crisis. Every year we ship over a billion dollars in Oregon taxpayer dollars to out-of-state and multinational banks in the form of deposits, only …
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Jerome Tagger
A publication from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Jerome Tagger, Chief Operating Officer, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) By Geoffrey on February 18, 2011 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a practitioner’s insights about …
Sustaining Our Commonwealth of Nature and Knowledge
Article from CASSE by Herman Daly Let’s start with this phrase: “sustaining our commonwealth.” By sustaining, I don’t mean preserving inviolate; I mean using, without using up. Using with maintenance and replenishment is an important idea in economics. It’s the very basis of the concept of income, because income is …
UNEP Announces Chinese Firm Hisense as SEED Award Sponsor
Newsletter from Sustainable Development Policy and Practice UNEP Announces Chinese Firm Hisense as SEED Award Sponsor 15_February 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that Chinese electronics manufacturer Hisense has become the first corporate partner of UNEP’s SEED Award, which supports innovative and small-scale entrepreneurs worldwide to integrate environmental …
Chevron investors shrug off $8.6bn pollution fine
Newsletter from Environmental Finance News Forestry/REDD+ webinar series A reminder that the first of four forest carbon and REDD+ webinars is next Thursday 24 February. Click here for details. ——————————————————————————– ——————————————————————————– Republicans to block Obama’s green spending plan? Renewable energy and energy efficiency were major winners in President Barack Obama’s …
Low Carbon Investment in Asia Briefing Event – Hong Kong
Publication from ASrIA Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 9:00am – 11:30am Venue: 10th Floor, One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong Report Download •Sector report •Framework report Event Summary Investors Talk about Mainstreaming of Climate Considerations in Asia and the Challenges to Integrate Climate Change Criteria into Investment Decisions …