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IC41 - Business On A Small Planet
Building It Right by Alan AtKisson A large construction contractor discovers that sustainable building practices put it a step ahead. How to Save for a Sustainable Future by John S. Adams Pension funds make up more than half of all stock and bond investments in the US - here's how they can be made ...
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Cautious Optimism About Fate of Mead/Wastvaco's 659,000 Acres in Maine and New Hampshire
New Hampshire, for other anonymous investors, and it is assumed that they are primarily institution and pension funds. Yale Universitys endowment fund entity has been confirmed in the past as an investor of Wagner ... of Maines most popular hiking areas. In recent years over $5 million in federal, state and private funds have been spent to protect nearly 20,000 acres in the area. The ATC is trying ...
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Friends of the Earth: Press Releases: 2001
SLAMS INQUIRY INTO FOOT AND MOUTH. Aug 9 GOVERNMENT FAILS TO STEM TRAFFIC GROWTH Aug 5 TOP PENSION FUNDS MUST RAISE THEIR GAME Aug 3 GOVERNMENT RENEWABLES PLAN: GOOD IDEA, LOW TARGETS Aug 2 END ... GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES NEW ROADS Mar 28 BUSH RATS ON CLIMATE TREATY Mar 28 FOE CALLS FOR ETHICAL PENSION INFORMATION Mar 28 SAINSBURY'S MISLED CUSTOMERS ON PESTICIDES Mar 26 GM RESEARCH TO GO AHEAD IN ...
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Paul Hawken - The Next Reformation
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. This makes it nearly impossible for local or ...
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John S. Adams - How To Save For A Sustainable Future
At present, the largest holdings in most pension plans include Philip Morris Inc., Exxon, General Dynamics, General Electric and Union Carbide - companies you ... very different set of social priorities than his or her workers, and through control of pension funds, could exercise social mandates that are contrary to your concerns or those of other ...
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Environmental Finance - Emissions Trading | Socially Responsible Investment | Weather Derivatives | Renewable Energy
EU ETS before 2012 IPCC, industry back CO2 storage Q-Cells set to take largest solar company crown Pension funds back greater reach for CDP DJSI returns to North America with new index US sulphur dioxide allowances overvalued ICF IFC releases final performance standards draft More... Features October 2005 Opinion Performance and value Info Management ...
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Environmental Finance March 2004 index
Bank response on extractive industries Exchanges eye emissions, weather contracts RWE in landmark UK wind energy deal Chile prepares to introduce emissions trading California treasurer urges greening of state pension funds Wetlands economic value ignored WWF 2003 sees jump in cat bond issuance Nord Pool offers green certificate trading More... Features March 2004 Carbon Trading Making a market ...
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Corporate Social Responsibility - Forests Forever
Equally, shareholders are voicing their concerns through AGM resolutions for example, BP and Rio Tinto. Government regulation of business changes were made to the 1995 Pensions Act in July 2000 requiring pension funds to disclose the extent to which they take social, environmental and ethical issues into account when investing money. But ...
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GEO-2000: Think Global, Act Sustainable
US$50,000 million. Indeed, ODA from governments is generally decreasing. While this reduces the ability to deliver public goods, private concerns such as transnational corporations, banks and pension funds are unlikely to pick up the bill for public health and environmental infrastructure costs. This situation is exacerbated by the massive debt burden which affects developing countries, notably ...
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Which Energy? Gets High Praise At Launch
It is quite right that improvements were financed by municipal bonds in previous centuries. However, Im cautious about telling pension funds where to invest their money. The answer is to allow organisations to float bonds with certain tactical edges. Then leave the pension fund to make up their own minds as to whether the returns are going to be good in those areas, ...
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