Domini 400 Social Index Launched by KLD
KLD, a firm founded in Boston in 1989 by Peter Kinder, Steve Lydenberg and Amy Domini, launched the Domini 400 Social Index, the first capitalization-weighted index to track sustainable investments. The index is now the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index.
Ceres founded in Boston
In the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Joan Bavaria gathered a group of investors and environmentalists to establish Ceres, the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies.
Brundtland Report presented to the UN General Assembly
The Brundtland Report defined and popularized the term “sustainable development” as “development that meets the needs of the present without copromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
US SIF, the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, founded
