Please join us in Boston on November 19th for our third annual full-day Boston Security Analysts Society seminar. Sustainable Investing: Moving into the Mainstream will take place on Thursday, November 19th 2015 at the Westin Boston Waterfront. Our 2013 session
A Carbon Tax for Massachusetts?
Putting a price on carbon is widely regarded as the most effective way to address the market failures that are preventing the economy from responding effectively to the threats – and opportunities – of climate change. Cap & Trade and
Should sustainable investors have seen the VW disaster coming?
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