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Challenges Remain for Financing Renewable Energy
At the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden recently stated that the United States is ...
Clinton, Branson Launch Major Building Energy Efficiency Projects
President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative and Richard Branson's Carbon War Room have both launched partnerships with companies such as Lockheed Martin, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs ...
At Clinton and UN Forums, Investors Push for Sustainability Ratings, Mandatory Integrated Reporting
Investors have launched two major drives to improve the quality of information on companies and funds, pushing a rating system for social ...
Ikea: Stock Market Pressures Hinder Sustainability
Ikea's private ownership helps the company act sustainably, according to the firm's CEO, in a case study prepared for the launch of ...
Umow Lai’s Director of Sustainability Discusses Aussie Carbon Tax
With the introduction of the carbon tax fueling intense debate about sustainability across Australia's economy, Straight Talk sat down with Umow ...
ROI of 11-12% Predicted for Commercial Renewables
Businesses that invest in renewable energy could make average returns of 11 to 12 percent, with the potential for returns in excess of 20 percent, according ...
FBI Raids Offices of Bankrupt Solar Company
FBI agents searched the offices of recently-bankrupt solar company Solyndra on Thursday, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
The raid is believed to be in connection ...
Coke, HP Lose Places on Sustainability Index
Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard and natural gas producer Encana are to be dropped from, and Societe Generale will be added to, one of the world's leading sustainability ...
Global Green Investment Tops $2.4tn
Global private sector investment in green companies and technologies from 2007 to Q2 2011 totals more than $2.4 trillion, according to Ethical Markets Media’s Green Transition Scoreboard.
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Deutsche Lowers EU Carbon Price Forecast
Deutsche Bank has downgraded its year-end forecast for the price of carbon in Europe’s emission trading program.
The bank has lowered its year-end 2011 ...
Report: Insurers Not Ready for Climate Change
Despite broad consensus among major insurers that climate change will affect extreme weather events, only an eighth of such companies have formal policies in ...
China, U.S. Keep Renewable Investment Top Spots
China and the United States have maintained the top two places in Ernst & Young’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index.
The Chinese government has announced in the ...
GreenX, ICE Launch Calif. Carbon Futures
Exchange firms GreenX and IntercontinentalExchanges have today launched futures contracts tied to the California carbon market.
ICE announced that the first trade of the California Carbon Allowance ...
CFO’s Sustainability Role Still Growing, E&Y Says
Recent trends in corporate sustainability are changing the CFO’s role in the three critical areas of investor relations, external reporting and financial risk ...
TruCost, FactSet Combine Environmental and Financial Data Services
Trucost and FactSet have created an integrated platform for analyzing environmental and financial risk, with pension fund CalSTRS their first high-profile customer.
The two organizations ...
Carbon Futures Platform to Shut; Offsets Near Record Lows
Financial markets firm Intercontinental Exchange Inc. is to shut its emissions derivatives trading platform, Chicago Climate Futures Exchange, by the end of the first quarter, the ...
Oil Prices Plunge in Wake of S&P Downgrading
The price of oil fell to its lowest point in over eight months after Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the U.S. credit rating ...
NYSE Euronext Goes Carbon-Neutral
NYSE Euronext has become the first carbon-neutral global exchange operator, the company has announced.
The parent company of markets including the New York Stock Exchange ...
Lend Lease, Best Buy, Major League Teams Sign Up to Better Buildings Commitments
Best Buy, Lend Lease and a coalition of 25 major sports teams are among 14 initial partners that have signed up to the ...
CFO’s Role In Corporate Sustainability
Straus Family Creamery CFO Deborah Parrish talks to the challenges of being a CFO adjusting to new questions on asset ...
