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Socially responsible investing is not a new idea, but with growing environmental consciousness among companies of all sizes business and individuals alike are seeing the benefits of investing in a green future. This section covers news and trends in how financial institutions and their clients are putting money on the green economy.
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The latest figures from Ernst & Young show a 4.5 percent dip in investments in clean technologies last year. Given how bad the Year of Solyndra was for all things green, there's reason for optimism.
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Cushman & Wakefield provides drill-down information on why San Francisco emerged as the top market for green building opportunities in the U.S. for two years in a row....
The latest figures from Ernst & Young show a 4.5 percent dip in investments in clean technologies last year. Given how bad the Year of Solyndra was for all things green, there's reason for...
California joins New York and Washington in requiring insurers that that write in excess of $300 million in premiums to respond to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Climate...
A new report shows that U.S. cities can save billions in costs -- while cleaning waterways and green neighborhoods -- by leveraging private investment in green infrastructure.
A new book from Trucost executive Cary Krosinsky looks at how sustainable investment in an era of growing resource scarcity can yield significant opportunities for boosting your portfolio's...
In the first of our look at 10 trends that will shape corporate sustainability in 2012, we explore how and why the chief financial officer has become the centerpoint of green initiatives within...
Vickie Tillman, the soon-to-be-former head of sustainability at The McGraw-Hill Companies, has realized over the years that the CFO is critical to sustainability at any company. Here's what...
A follow-up study to a groundbreaking report from last year looks at how 12 institutional investors, with almost $2 trillion in assets, are building climate change into their risk assessments and...
Climate change poses a serious physical threat to everyone, but the insurance industry also faces a catastrophic financial risk. So you'd expect them to be among the most forceful corporate......
The head of sustainability at the company behind the New York Stock Exchange talks about the internal and external steps needed to make the market greener, as well as navigating the risks of a...
A multi-billion-dollar 'superhighway' to connect offshore wind turbines to the US electric grid sounds like a can't-lose idea, but it's adrift without clearing some big financial, regulatory and......
The indexes, which will track clean energy stocks in three regions globally, will soon be joined by industry-specific indexes; in the U.S., new sources of investment must be found to maintain the...
The anti-Wall Street tent cities popping up nationwide are just one result of unprecedented ill will toward the financial industry. Here are some ideas that might redeem the "too big to fail......
Investors controlling tens of trillions of dollars have asked policymakers to write better and clearer rules, in order to enable the transition to a low carbon economy....
It's an understatement to say that the business opportunities and benefits of sustainability and innovation practices have been well established. So how do we get investors to place a financial......
A coalition of 285 institutional investors say that effective domestic policies and a binding international agreement are needed to spur private investment in clean technologies....
The second full day of the 2011 Greenbuild conference brought a steady flow of news, with Marriott Hotels earning LEED volume certification for three of its brands, a challenge to the USGBC's 2012......
Rather than take the Solyndra meltdown as a call to end all government funding for clean energy companies, there are smart policy practices that can spur innovation and continue to make American......
Despite our ongoing economic woes, socially responsible investing is in a bullish cycle, with more than $3 trillion in assets in the U.S. alone. The upcoming SRI in the Rockies conference offers a...
The third annual Social Capital Markets conference, held last week in San Francisco, is charting a path to where investors and companies can incorporate the value of a clean environment into their......
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The third annual report on how companies are disclosing their impacts on the world's...- KPMG explains how 'megaforces' like climate change, urbanization and food...
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