Emerging Markets ESG – Gender Composition of Management Boards and Supervisory Boards of Companies Listed on the Main Index of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the WIG20, as of June 30, 2013

Jay OwenThe Power of Yin

According to the Polish Central Statistical Office, there are currently more women (51.6%) than men (48.4%) in Poland. Despite this, the proportion of women in top management and on the boards of the largest listed companies in Poland remains strikingly low. Agnieszka Ploetzing, graduate of the School of American Law …

Press Release – Launch of the Renewables 2013 Global Status Report

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Media Contact: Christine Lins, Executive Secretary, REN21 Tel: +33 1 44 37 50 90 christine.lins@ren21.net | www.ren21.net/gsr Media Contact: Miriam Wolf, Press Officer, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Tel: +49 69 154 008 290 m.wolf@fs.de PRESS RELEASE   Renewable Energy: World Invests $244 billion in 2012, Geographic Shift to Developing Countries The sister …

Global Crowdfunding Update: Updates from the World Bank and Africa

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Crowdfunding Global Update June 3, 2013 Crowdfunding was the featured topic in this month’s Entrepreneur Magazine, which looks at innovation in funding start-ups. The article explored the ways in which governments, development organizations and investors in many countries are working to create entrepreneurial ecosystems and innovation.  Crowdfunding is a solution that …

Florida’s Solar Energy Really Sizzles in April “, by Kevin Spear

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Ethical Markets is happy to see Florida catching up  with US  and Global Trends  we track in our GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD®   www.greentransitionscoreboard.com  –  Hazel Henderson, Editor   Nothing brings a surge of solar energy in Florida like the mild, sunny days of April. Hundreds of thousands of solar panels in Jacksonville,Gainesville, …

Global Trends 2030 report from the U.S. National Intelligence Council

Ethical MarketsTrendspotting

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment in the National IntelligenceCouncil’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. As with previouseditions, we hope that this report will stimulate strategic thinking by identifying critical trends andpotential discontinuities. We distinguish between megatrends, those factors that will …