UNEP Finance Initiative: Sustainable Stock Exchanges

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

  With just under two weeks to go until the start of the 2013 Sustainable Finance Week (SFW) and the biennial UNEP FI Global Roundtable (GRT), I would like to thank everyone for their support so far, and for their commitment to Sustainable Finance. It is this support, that will change finance and finance …

Global Financial Integrity: Income Inequality, Wealth, And Illicit Financial Flows In Asia

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

SmartPlanet Daily: Saudi Arabia is building a massive $22 billion metro to cut oil use

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Manage my newsletters  |  Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online.  |  Previous Edition    SmartPlanet Daily August 01, 2013 A daily briefing of the newest stories on SmartPlanet, five days a week. From the Desk of … Saudi Arabia is serious about getting off the nonrenewable sauce. For now, their money is on …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: No Species Is Safe From Illicit Wildlife Trade

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Tuesday, March 12, 2013 HSBC, Panama: “Exit, Stage Right” Video: Raymond Baker at the Wilson Center on Illicit Financial Flows from Russia Senator Carl Levin to Retire After 2014 Denmark Increases Corporate Transparency One Thing We Learned From The Senate’s Too Big To Jail Hearing Yesterday Congress Must End …

Global Reporting Initiative launches Focal Point for a more sustainable Africa

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release: Friday 22 February 2013 Global Reporting Initiative launches Focal Point for a more sustainable Africa The Global Reporting Initiative will officially launch its Focal Point South Africa at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange next week, with a mission to make sustainability reporting standard practice for companies …

Corporate sustainability reporting one of the main outcomes of Rio+20?

kristySRI/ESG News

For immediate release Tuesday 19 June 2012 Corporate sustainability reporting one of the main outcomes of Rio+20? GRI welcomes the efforts of governments to encourage corporate transparency, especially in the current political climate, where countries are under pressure from the financial crisis, and where sustainability should be part of the …

New Coalition Forms to Fight Tax Dodgers and Financial Secrecy

kristyReforming Global Finance

A publication of FACT Coalitiion New Rules for Global Finance is pleased to join with other organizations in announcing the launch of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) campaign and coalition. As the name indicates, FACT is a campaign to achieve greater financial accountability and transparency within financial institutions, …