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Category Archives: Sustainable Investing
Song of Sorrow or Call to Arms? Four Stratagems to Improve Our Politics
The TakeAway: While extremist politics dominate Washington, financial markets continue to seize, and US credit-worthiness takes a beating, advocates of sustainability and good governance need to stop moping and get off the bench. Here are four stratagems to reverse the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Politics, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing
Tagged "Super Congress", 501(c)(3) status, Bill Baue, Bob Massie, Ceres, Charles M. Taylor, Deborah Leipziger, debt ceiling, double-dip recession, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), income inequality, International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC), Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), Joan Bavaria, Joshua Gay, politics, Tea Party, wealth inequality
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Cancún Talks Bridge Trust Deficit
The TakeAway: COP16 climate talks accomplished more than expected, while restoring trust in the international process that can lead to stronger future measures. Despite media reports citing lowered expectations – and fear that Copenhagen’s dysfunctions would spill over to this … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Alden Meyer, Cancún, Cancún Accords, Christiana Figueres, Clean Development Mechanism, COP 16 Climate Summit, COP17, Copenhagen Accords, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Durban, Green Climate Fund, human rights, Kyoto Protocol, Patricia Espinosa, REDD+, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), South Africa, stakeholder engagement, sustainable development, sustainable forestry, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), United Nations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory
The TakeAway: Harvard’s Initiative for Responsible Investment works to build a “master narrative” for responsible investing, along with educational tools for improving trustee performance. Massive changes in financial regulations and ramped up activism – aided in part by interactive technology – make … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Interactive Technology, Investor Governance, Sustainable Investing
Tagged beneficial owners, communities of practice, Harvard, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Initiative for Responsible Investment, institutional investors, International Foundation, Lord Paul Myners, Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), real economy, responsible investment, Steve Lydenberg, sustainable prosperity, trustees
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IT Leads ET, But Needs Public Policy and $$$
The TakeAway: Information technology leader Google advances energy technology development, but clean energy progress relies on smart policy and capital flows, too. “Google it.” Over the past decade, the term has gone viral, as the name of the information technology … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Atlantic Wind Connection, Center for Sustainable enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC), clean energy technology, COP 16 Climate Summit, Copenhagen Summit, Dan Reicher, EEOS, General Electric, Google, Google Earth Engine, Google PowerMeter, home energy management, ReChargeIT, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, UMass Boston
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Divesting from Genocide: A Fiduciary Duty?
The TakeAway: Congressional hearing on ways to improve the Sudan Accountability & Investment Act proposes using the UN “Protect, Respect, Remedy” human rights framework to define fiduciary duty. The moral case for flexing investment muscle (from shareowner engagement to outright … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Investor Governance, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Adam Kanzer, Domini Social Investments, Eric Cohen, Fidelity, fiduciary duty, Franklin Templeton, genocide-free investing, Government Accountability Office, Investors Against Genocide, John Ruggie, JP Morgan, PetroChina, Protect, Remedy Framework, Respect, Sudan Accountability and Investment Act
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Both/And: The Big Tent of Socially Responsible Investing
Commentary by Murninghan Post Editor Bill Baue The TakeAway: Seeming dichotomies thrive side-by-side as complementary strategies at the SRI in the Rockies Conference. Attire at the SRI in the Rockies Conference last week in San Antonio ranged from tie-dye to … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Amy Domini, Bruce Kahn, Deutsche Bank, Domini Social Investments, ESG, Generation Investment Management, Goldman Sachs, Marc Fox, Mark Regier, Michael Jantzi, oil sands, Peter Knight, Petrobras, SRI, SRI in the Rockies, Suncor, Sustainalytics, Tim Smith, Walden Asset Management
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The Urgency of Water Stewardship
The TakeAway: The Carbon Disclosure Project’s new Water Disclosure program establishes water risk management as an investor concern while helping companies gauge their “water footprint”. Water is to the world what blood is to our bodies: the vetturale di natura, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Alliance for Water Stewardship, BRIC countries, Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP Water Disclosure, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), FTSE Global 500, Marcus Norton, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), water footprint, water risk, water stewardship
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Burma’s History of Freeing “The Lady”
The TakeAway: The release of Aung San Suu Kyi caps a long process of advocacy including state and local sanctions, shareholder activism, and consumer boycott campaigns. Saturday’s release of Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (fondly called “The … Continue reading
A Window on Corporate Anti-Sweatshop Efforts
Guest Commentary by Conrad MacKerron, Senior Program Director of As You Sow Foundation The TakeAway: Gap, Levi’s and Walmart top first-of-its-kind supply chain scorecard from As You Sow, while Abercrombie & Fitch, Saks, and Sears fail to provide info. Eight … Continue reading →