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- A new element; To evaluate climate risks and strategic opportunities, investors need more disclosure from corporations.(Other Views)
- Byline: Douglas G. Cogan Investors and companies are just now coming to realize how the decisions they make today will influence the climate and global economy for generations to come. To sustain economic growth, effective climate governance pract Byline: Douglas G. Cogan ...
- Research articles 2006-09-04
- Funds raise global warming alarm to SEC; Pension leaders link investment risk with enviro concern.(News)(Securities & Exchange Commission)
- Byline: Elizabeth Thompson Beckley Leaders of 13 major pension funds are calling on the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to issue guidance on the enforcement of existing rules that they say include disclosure of the financial risks o ...
- Research articles 2004-04-26
- The new off-balance-sheet risk; CLIMATE CHANGE.(Frontlines)(Scores of companies related to addressing financial risk posed by climate change issues)(Brief Article)
- Byline: Barry B. Burr BP PLC, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Alcoa Inc. and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. score highest in addressing financial risk posed by climate change issues, while Exxon Mobil Corp., General Electric Co. and TXU Corp. score lowe Byline:...
- Research articles 2003-07-21
- Green index funds fight smog, global warming.(Short Interests)
- Byline: Riva Froymovich NEW YORK - The FTSE Group's FTSE4Good Index Series has released a new set of standards for inclusion in the index. Those standards aim to identify companies behaving responsibly with regard to carbon...
- Research articles 2007-03-05
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- Abandoning Ship: Nike Quits Chamber Board Over Climate Change Stance
- Nike -- a longtime proponent of reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- has resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce board to protest the business group's opposition of climate-change legislation. Nike fundamentally disagrees with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the issue of climate change and their recent...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Climate Change Denial: Where It Counts, It's Not Going Up
- George Monbiot is beside himself. He writes in his post Death Denial: "There is no point in denying it: we're losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to...
- News items 2009-11-08
- International recognition for BASFs efforts in climate protection and sustainability; The Chemical Company again listed in Climate Leadership Index and Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-22 September 2006-BASF: International recognition for BASFs efforts in climate protection and sustainability; The Chemical Company again listed in Climate Leadership Index and Dow Jones Sustainability IndexC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22092006 BASF has again been included in the prestigious Climate...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- Energy Insights Predicts Climate Change Issues to Drive Increased Tech Investment in 2008
- FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Leading independent research and advisory firm, Energy Insights, an IDC company, today announced the release of its annual Worldwide Energy Industry 2008 Top 10 Predictions. According to this new study, climate-focused energy policies, consumer and business concern with climate change, and increasing attention by investors in sustainability...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Exelon Ditches U.S. Chamber Over Climate Policy, Who Will Leave the "Voice of Business" Next?
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's stance on climate-change legislation continues to alienate its member base. This time it's Exelon, the third utility to desert the U.S. Chamber in a week. It's not quite a exodus. But momentum is building against the powerful lobbying group -- described as...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- NY AG and AES Agree on Climate Change Disclosures
- « Ohio AG Sues Rating Agencies | Main | SEC & CFTC Issue Joint Orders on Security-Based Futures Contracts » New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced an agreement that requires the AES Corporation AES - a global energy company operating in 29 countries with annual revenues exceeding...
- News items 2009-11-20
- Five and Counting: Apple Quits Chamber of Commerce
- Apple has turned in its membership card to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- effective immediately -- over the business lobbying group's opposition to the Environmental Protection's Agency effort to limit greenhouse gases. Apple's departure from the Chamber may not be as surprising as say, three utilities quitting the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Google (with Al Gore's Help) Takes Users On Guided Climate Change Tour
- Google launched today a series of guided tours developed to give users a bird's eye view of the potential impact climate change could have on the world. The search engine giant -- embracing the seeing is believing mantra -- uses its virtual globetrotting program Google Earth and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Aussie Googler hits the world stage for climate change
- Comments 77 A Google Map lets users drill down to view votes by country, city and even postcode. An online platform developed by an Australian Googler in his "20 per cent time" has been adopted by the United Nations to show world leaders the extent of global support for climate...
- News items 2009-12-02
- Sen. Byrd - coal-hater and climate fanatic?
- It looks like Sen. Robert Byrd, a lifetime loyal supporter of the West Virginia coal industry (see his definitive biography, "Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields"), stabbed Don Blankenship/Massey Coal and the rest of the W.Va. environmentally destructive "mountaintop mining" industry in the back last Thursday, in an...
- News items 2009-12-07
- Cisco Makes Presence Known at Climate Change Confab
- When delegates arrive in Copenhagen for the United Nation's Climate Change Conference Dec. 7, Cisco will be extending the conferess' global reach with the company's Global Climate Change Meeting Platform.When the United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Copenhagen Dec. 7, Cisco will be there and there and there as...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Moms Against Climate Change - Kids vs Police / Demonstration - (2009) :30 (Canada)
- This PSA is making waves in Canada as part of a new campaign to demand action from Canada's Prime Minister at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. I hate to say that kids joining en masse in demonstrations reminds me of the punk-soundtracked ad for KPA Pension...
- News items 2009-11-04
- The Risk Intelligent Energy Company: Applying A Risk Intelligent Framework To Climate Change Issues
- Risks associated with global climate change require a fresh and highly integrated approach that helps mitigate the unparalleled challenges of so much uncertainty. Energy companies face many significant risks every single day. Issues and concerns around climate change have heightened the need for enterprise-wide risk management efforts. Treating climate change...
- White papers 2008-03-19
- Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?
- Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Can nuclear-generated electricity lead us off fossil fuels?After years of sitting in the energy dustbin, nuclear power is enjoying a renaissance. Countries such as France, Germany, Japan and China are furiously building nuclear plants to deliver cheap electricity and help combat climate change. Yet in the...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Why should policymakers, investors, and businesspeople care about youth in Copenhagen?
- by Terry Tamminen Of the estimated 20,000 people converging on the U.N. climate conference this week and next, half of them are expected to be under the age of 30. My colleague in Copenhagen, Kristina Haddad, reports, "I observed that many in the crowds of...
- News items 2009-12-11
- Betting Against Climate Change Legislation and the Most Important Week Ever
- While global investors -- and their $14 trillion -- pen their support for climate change legislation, there are still plenty of folks out there betting against the bill. American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard is one of those ready to toss his chips into the pot. Valero...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
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