Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

A report from the CDP   Executive Summary Businesses increasingly face the dual risks of climate and policy shocks. How companies build and demonstrate their resilience to these climate risks has important implications for their reputation with their stakeholders and for the value of their businesses. It is for these …

Ecocities Emerging

Jay OwenSustainability News

Ecocities Emerging To support humanity’s transition to the Ecozoic Era Ecocity Builders October 2013   Greetings,   Ecocity World Summit 2013, Nantes, France, has concluded. It was a very successful gathering and also a lot of fun! Our sincere congratulations and thanks go out to Nantes Metropole, Senator Ronan Dantec, …

MiniTrends Conference Predicts The Next Wave Of Social Business Success

Jay OwenPartner Announcements and News

  MiniTrends Conference Predicts The Next Wave Of Social Business Success   For Immediate Release The second annual MiniTrends 2013: The Integration of Profit & Social Responsibilty will host 19 visionary business leaders to forecast the leading edge of business so attendees can be ready to optimize opportunities in advance …

Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum

Jay OwenPartner Announcements and News

Now in its fifth year, CREF has grown to become the largest annual gathering of renewable energy stakeholders in the Caribbean. More than 400 delegates from 40 countries, including representatives from 19 regional governments and utilities, attended CREF 2012. This year’s conference is co-hosted by the government of Aruba in …

AsiaIIX: Capital Markets for a Social Good

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Advisors' Forum

Pioneering Impact: A Conversation with Wayne Silby                              MCS Lifestyle Photography/IIX© During the Impact Forum, the IIX and Shujog staff had the honor of spending time with Wayne Silby, a pioneer and giant in the space of …

Future 500 Newsletter: 10 Tips for Stakeholder Engagement with Activists

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Future 500 Newsletter June 2013 The bridge between corporations and NGOs HUMANIZING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DIVERSE GROUPS  This June we were pleased to partner with Sustainable Brands for their annual conference in San Diego. The conference motto was from “Revolution to Renaissance” and as Sustainable Brands founder KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz explained, companies no longer strive …

As G8 leaders meet for summit focused on increasing transparency, 150 business leaders and investors gather to advance a market-led solution

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

As G8 leaders meet for summit focused on increasing transparency, 150 business leaders and investors gather to advance a market-led solution   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As G8 leaders meet for summit focused on increasing transparency, 150 business leaders and investors gather to advance a market-led solution (London, Frankfurt June 18, 2013) – …

Ethical Markets welcomes these insights from Advisory Board member Terry Mollner and our colleague Andrew Bellak.

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Advisors' Forum

Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).”  The series is now in its third year. Each interview “Five Questions about SRI” features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide …

Bank Track: New Equator Principles to have deeply underwhelming impact on people and planet: Commitments on community safeguards and climate change far below what is required

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

New Equator Principles to have deeply underwhelming impact on people and planet; Commitments on community safeguards and climate change far below what is required Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 4 2013 Press Release The long awaited new, third version of the Equator Principles (EPIII) (1) will have a deeply underwhelmingimpact on safeguarding the rights …

Stakeholder Forum Network News: Engagement in post-Rio+20 and post-2015 processes

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

     www.stakeholderforum.org   Stakeholder Engagement in post-Rio+20 and post-2015 processes     Participatory democracy is the idea that involving all stakeholders, at every level, will result in better informed, and more thoroughly deliberated, decisions being taken. It means that all stakeholders will thereby take greater ownership of the outcome …