Home » investors

Forests Carbon Offsets Endangered by New UN CO2 Credit Plan

Posted by Environmental Leader on 03/11/2009

Some forest carbon-dioxide credits under a new UN forestry climate agreement may be worth less after text that protected forests was removed last month, according to an investor’s group, reports Bloomberg News.This could leave some companies who have bought certain forest carbon offsets fee ...

Carbon Finance & Offsets Carbon Offsets/RECs Climate Conservation Emissions Feature Forests Global Government Policy & Law Carbon Markets & Investors Association Climate Negotiations CO2 Credits Plan Deforestation REDD Mechanism Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

---

Research Analyzes 270 Global Climate and Energy Policies to Drive Investment

Posted by Environmental Leader on 26/10/2009

Investors can’t justify moving capital into clean-tech technologies until governments mitigate the financial risks involved by enacting climate-change policies that are transparent, long-term and certain, according to DB Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA)To provide investors with an analysis o ...

Carbon Finance Carbon Finance & Offsets Charts Climate Financial Global Government Research & Technology Clean Energy Technologies climate change Climate Tracker Columbia University DB Climate Change Advisors Earth Institute Energy Policies International Energy Agency Investors Low Carbon Economy

---

Investors Pressure GM, Boeing, Deere, Xerox to Quit U.S. Chamber

Posted by Environmental Leader on 14/10/2009

Trying to ramp up pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its position on climate change, an investors group has fired off letters to 14 major U.S. corporations, asking them to publicly distance themselves from the chamber’s positions.Representing $16 billion in assets, the investors g ...

Climate Economics Feature Finance & Reporting Financial Green Marketing People As You Sow Catholic Healthcare West climate change Green Century Capital Management investors group membership Mercy Investment Program National Association of Manufacturers Portfolio 21 and Trillium Asset Management Corp. U.S. Chamber of Commerce Walden

---

Global Investors Favor Forest Carbon Market

Posted by Environmental Leader on 30/09/2009

A survey of investors, who manage approximately $7 trillion of assets, shows support for an expanded carbon market mechanism, which would address the estimated 20 percent of global carbon emissions due to deforestation and forest degradation, according to the WWF Forest Carbon Initiative. The inv ...

Carbon Offsets/RECs Conservation Finance & Reporting Financial Forests carbon emissions Carbon Market Deforestation Forest Carbon Market Forest Degradation Investors REDD WWF Forest Carbon Initiative

---

Businesses Demand Action on Climate Change

Posted by Environmental Leader on 22/09/2009

From the Copenhagen Communiqué to individual efforts, businesses across all industries are starting to flex their collective muscle to urge government leaders to develop a global plan to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions.The latest statement comes from a group of multinational manufactu ...

Climate Emissions Global Government Major Players Strategy & Leadership partnerships BASF BASF SE BP British Airways Plc climate change coca-cola Coca-Cola Co Copenhagen Talks ebay EDISON Four Seasons GAP Inc. GE greenhouse gas emissions HP Investors Johnson & Johnson P&G PepsiCo Rio Tinto Plc Siemens AG Starbucks Corp. Timberland UN Climate talks

---