Jay OwenSustainability News

  July 23, 2014 CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS The Road to Renewable Raw Materials Is Paved with Strategic Partnerships As the demand to reduce our carbon footprint intensifies, companies are looking for appropriate replacements for fossil fuel-based raw materials. To meet this challenge, a number of forward-thinking chemical companies are developing …

PSI Initiative Performs Triple Jump in Global Insurance Hub to Mark its Second Anniversary

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

 Members | Publications | Events | Training | About  May and June has been a historical period for the environmental movement, which was highlighted by the inaugural United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi.   Environmental policy makers at UNEA understood the need to mobilise private finance for sustainable development and showed keen interest …

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 …

The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

This forecast agrees with my Mapping the Global Transition to  the Solar Age (2014) which is a freely-downloadable  56-page summary of forthcoming book,Hazel Henderson,Editor     In the struggle to solve the climate crisis, a powerful, largely unnoticed shift is taking place. The forward journey for human civilization will be …

Final Global Infrastructure Basel Summit Programme Now Released

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

“Ethical Markets is happy to publish this presentation on Sustainable Infrastructure, presented  by John Williams, ceo of Impact Infrastructure, LLC, at our FINDING ETHICAL ALPHA  conference, May 12-13th   Finding Ethical Alpha:  Building Task Forces to Set the Course for the Future of Generating Sustainable Alpha May 13, 2014 Presentation …

UNEP FI Newsletter / March – April 2014 – Climate Science

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

   Members | Publications | Events | Training | About It is a delight to write this newsletter after two months in the role as Director and with the benefit of early insight into the workings of UNEP FI, the broader UNEP and UN environment, and with the extremely useful direct feedback from our …

What a win-win on unburnable carbon looks like

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

The recent IPCC report is clear: We need a dramatic change in the design of the global economy to avoid climate catastrophe and we need it now. The International Energy Agency estimates that to stay within 2 degrees Celsius of atmospheric warming, the global economy will have to avert emitting the carbon …

Green growth practitioners workshop to be held in Kinshasa, DRC

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Knowledge Update Issue 2014-3                                                                                      March 21, 2014 Green …

Sustainable Development Update – 6 March 2014 – Sustainable Development Policy & Practice

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

A compilation of items recently posted to the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase   Partnership for Action on a Green Economy Holds Inaugural Meeting 5_March_2014: The inaugural meeting of the UN-led Partnership for Action on a Green Economy (PAGE) explored national pathways and policies for the green economy, and provide guidance to governments on achieving a green economy transition. Over 30 ministers …

Mapping the global transition to the solar age

Jay OwenArticles by Hazel Henderson, Beyond GDP

Press Release Global Futurist Solar Age”   February 11, 2014, St. Augustine, FL — On Tuesday, February11, 2014, ICAEW and Tomorrow’s Company launched Hazel Henderson’s publication ‘Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age: From “Economism” to Earth Systems Science‘, at the Chartered Accountants’ Hall, Moorgate Place, challenges which are …