May media monitor for you: 5 stories in the Financial Times!!! + WashPost, EnvFinance, BusinessGreen, EnergyPost, CNBC, Bloomberg, ABC Australia

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Financial Times, Climate change is a business problem(link is external), Mike Scott Probably the most interesting green bonds article of this month is one by Mike Scott of Financial Times. Written in the perspective of the UN IPCC report calling for a drastic action needed in order to avoid catastrophic temperatures …

[SFM Participants] Taking the nSFM debate to the mainstream media

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Beyond GDP

Colleagues   I’ve recently had 2 opportunities to argue the case for sustainable markets in mainstream fora and I thought you might be interested to see them but also I wanted to raise a generic idea.   The first was a TV debate about financial reporting with the UK regulator, FRC …

CDP: US Utilities Now Pricing Carbon as Part of Core Business Strategy

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

June 30, 2014 NEW METRICS CDP: US Utilities Now Pricing Carbon as Part of Core Business Strategy In response to increasing recognition of climate risk, fresh insights into how a price on carbon pollution might benefit companies and the US economy as a whole were released Friday in a new …

Power Forward 2.0: How American Companies Are Setting Clean Energy Targets and Capturing Greater Business Value

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Report from Ceres, WWF, Calvert Investments and David Gardiner and Associates, 2014   Clean energy has entered the mainstream at the world’s largest corporations. In this report, the second in the Power Forward series, we expand upon the analysis of clean energy and climate targets from the U.S. Fortune 100 …

The Great Coal Cap: China’s energy policies and the financial implications for thermal coal

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

The Great Coal Cap: China’s energy policies and the financial implications for thermal coal | Carbon Tracker Initiative Carbon Tracker Initiative Financial specialists making carbon investment risk real today in the capital market.   The Great Coal Cap: China’s energy policies and the financial implications for thermal coal Since the …

Cutting Edge Capital is Open for Investment!

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Crowdfunding

  June 2014 IN THIS ISSUE CEC News Blog Roll Client News Upcoming Events CEC News Cutting Edge Capital is Open for Investment!             We are pleased to announce that our DPO is now LIVE on our website! On June 11th, we officially launched our …

IEX HIRES FORMER SEC HEAD OF DIVISION OF TRADING AND MARKETS

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

IEX HIRES FORMER SEC HEAD OF DIVISION OF TRADING AND MARKETS IEX today announced that John Ramsay, until recently the Acting Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets, is joining the company as its Chief Market Policy and Regulatory Officer. In this role, he will …

Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree Posted on June 20, 2014 by Ellen Brown Finance is the new form of warfare – without the expense of a military overhead and an occupation against unwilling hosts. It is a competition in credit creation to buy foreign resources, real …

Joining Forces And Connecting Dots For Impact Investing And ESG At TBLI CONFERENCE USA 2014

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Joining Forces And Connecting Dots For Impact Investing And ESG At TBLI CONFERENCE USA 2014 Amsterdam, 19 June 2014 TBLI CONFERENCE™, dedicated to building a community of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and impact investors, held its second USA conference on 29 and 30 May in New …

Carbon Winners and Losers – There’s a New Rule in Town

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

:: Alternative Energy Companies A financial newsletter focusing on high quality stock picks Solar Wind Alternative Fuels Efficiency Environmental Smart Grid Carbon Winners and Losers – There’s a New Rule in Town Posted: 6/16/2014 by Harris Roen, Editor Roen Financial Report June 16, 2014     A seismic shift in …