There is an understandable, but misleading, narrative circulating around the Volkswagen emissions deception disaster – that the primary question is whether sustainable investors could and should have seen this coming and warned everyone. A reader poll in the daily CFA
Accounting practices matter for water as well as businesses
Financial analysts assessing the health and future prospects of a business look at the numbers. Those that do it well look most carefully at the assumptions made by the company and how the numbers are calculated. Some of the biggest
Canada Announces Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Target Of 30 Percent By 2030
As reported in Climate Progress on 5/15/15 Author: Joe Romm Canada announced Friday that it was committing to a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2030, an announcement that comes in
Report: Fossil Fuels Receive $5.3 Trillion A Year In Subsidies Worldwide
As reported in
21st Century Engagement – A US Investor’s Guide
On May 28th, BlackRock and Ceres jointly published a 68-page guide to corporate engagement aimed at US investors. As you would expect from the world’s largest asset manager and a not-for-profit with a 25-year history of action on corporate sustainability,