Daily News Alert 01.08.13 2013: Life on the Edge of the Sustainability Cliff The Great Recession shook loose the pillars of trust between the public, investment community and companies, particularly among the millennial generation, which increasingly believes that Wall Street no longer serves Main Street and companies care more about …
Capital Institute 2012 Year in Review
With the year’s end fast approaching, we cannot help but reflect on our busy and productive year: research and practice around holism, biomimicry, and entropic thrift; debate around impact investing in the anthropocene, climate change, and stranded assets; discussions of the Financial Transactions Tax and Dodd-Frank. We made significant headway …
Joint Global Reporting Initiative, WBCSD, CEBDS press release
Joint Global Reporting Initiative, WBCSD, CEBDS press release For immediate release Friday 15 June 2012 Rio+20 should adopt an approach to making sustainability reporting standard practice say leading business organizations Ban Ki Moon asked to lead establishment of global policy framework for sustainability reporting Rio de Janeiro 15 June 2012 …
Transforming Finance to Grow Green Sustainable Economies
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WRI Digest: GHG Protocol, Climate Science, World Resources Report
Manage Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Measure Them! On October 4, 2011, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) launched two new standards that empower businesses to better measure, manage, and report their greenhouse gas emissions. Developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Corporate Value Chain …
Pacific Energy, ICT, Transport Ministers Conclude Inaugural Joint Meeting
Pacific Energy, ICT, Transport Ministers Conclude Inaugural Joint Meeting 8_April_2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) convened the inaugural Joint Regional Meeting for Energy, Information and Communication Technology and Transport, from 4-8 April 2011, in Noumea, New Caledonia. The meeting discussed the cross-cutting impacts of the three sectors in …
GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD™ FOR INVESTORS WORLDWIDE
Welcome to the Green Transition Scoreboard™, created by Ethical Markets Media as a service to all progressive groups accelerating the transition to the worldwide Solar Age. We support more equitable, greener, healthier human development models based on utilizing the power and productivity of natural systems and billions of years of …