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In response to unprecedented interest and demand, FTSE Group has launched the FTSE ET50 (Environmental Technology) Index in collaboration with the environmental technology specialist, Impax Asset Management.www.ftse.com...
26.02.2008 | 10:18:11
Henderson Global Investors, Insight Asset Management, RAILPEN Investments, and the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) have launched an initiative to explore the investment consequences of unavoidable climate change....
26.02.2008 | 10:16:41
The high carbon intensity of Asian listed companies, compared with their peers elsewhere, leaves investors in many Asian equity funds more exposed to carbon risks. The carbon intensity of Asian equity funds can be reduced by some 30 per cent without sacrificing performance....
26.02.2008 | 10:06:00
Vigeo currently covers all the stocks of the DJSTOXX 600 Europe Index. Vigeo and OWW will work to extend the coverage: by the end of 2008 all the stocks of DJSTOXX 600 Asia – Pacific will be included into Vigeo’s research.www.vigeo.com...
26.02.2008 | 09:53:05
by Anne Moore OdellSocialFunds.com -- Investing in the environment is rich soil to till, reports a survey released by Allianz Global Investors. Almost half of those surveyed said that in the next year they are likely to invest in a company or fund that is proactive on environmental issues.The survey of over 1,000 adults on the environment and investing was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media for Allianz.Seventy-one percent of investors surveyed said that environmental technology was a "buy" and the most desirable sector to invest in....
26.02.2008 | 09:35:40
Novethic, Amadeis and Eurosif member affiliate BNP Paribas AM recently released their sixth annual Socially Responsible Investment survey of the French institutional market. 50 French institutional investors, whose total assets are currently valued at more than 700 billion euros, were surveyed showing that in 2007, 61% had already ventured into SRI, compared with 48% in 2006....
12.12.2007 | 12:50:30
On 30th November 2007, the business leaders of 150 global companies published a communiqué to world leaders calling for a comprehensive, legally binding United Nations framework to tackle climate change....
12.12.2007 | 12:48:11
In early 2008, Chevron may be ordered to pay the largest damages in environmental law history for Texaco’s deliberate dumping of 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into an inhabited area of the Ecuadorian Amazon during three decades....
12.12.2007 | 12:40:10
Assets in SRI retail funds distributed in Germany, Switzerland and Austria grew rapidly during the first three quarters in 2007. Latest figures from the Sustainable Business Institute (SBI) report 166 SRI funds with assets totalling nearly EUR 30bn being registered in these three countries at the end...
12.12.2007 | 12:37:08
While socially responsible investors and shareholder advocates applaud the decision by the SEC (November 28, 2007) not to pursue its controversial process to curtail or even eliminate the right to file shareholder resolutions, many of them strongly oppose the SEC decision to limit the rights of shareholders to participate in the nomination of directors....
12.12.2007 | 12:31:35
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