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Impact Investing And The O’Reilly Factor
May 1, 2017 – Do you want your investing or your purchasing decisions to have a social impact? Perhaps you have some cause to promote like the environment or gender equity? In this essay I … MORE
Green Muni Bonds Playbook
This fifteen page report provides guidance for cities and other public entities that issue municipal bonds to pay for infrastructure such as energy, water and transportation. It describes the state of the market, the benefits of issuing green bonds, how the market defines what is green and the steps cities need to take to access this growing market. MORE
RELEASE: New Report Offers Cities Guidance on Accessing the Vast Green Bond Market
AS YOU SOW RELEASE – July 28, 2015 – The U.S. branch of the Green City Bonds Coalition, a group of global organizations working to facilitate green bond expansion, has released The Green Muni Bonds … MORE
M.I.T. Debates Whether to Drop Fossil-Fuel Investments
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – Apr. 10, 2015 – Last night, speakers at the nation’s most prestigious engineering school held forth on an array of financial and educational strategies to crack the challenge of man-made climate change.
Exxon Mobil should return profits to investors, not build more reserves
THE GUARDIAN | The oil giant should focus on value rather than investing money in expensive projects to build the very fossil fuel reserves that endanger its own – and the planet’s – survival.
Shareholders propose that Exxon Mobil return capital to offset climate change risk
PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS | A shareholder proposal filed Tuesday calls for Exxon Mobil Corp. to return capital to shareholders to protect investor value from potential risk of stranded fossil-fuel assets from climate change disruption.
Exxon Investors Demand Dividend Boost In Lieu Of New Oilfields
FINANCIAL ADVISOR | Activist investors who called a truce with Exxon Mobil Corp. this year over climate change disclosures demanded the world’s biggest energy company give cash to shareholders rather than invest in costly new … MORE
Green Bonds in Brief
Green Bonds in Brief: Risk, Reward, and Opportunity, a new report from As You Sow and the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, offers a look at how green bonds are directing funds to environmental projects. MORE
The Divestment Movement is Gaining Steam. What Can it Achieve?
Grist – October 08, 2014 1:32 AM The most attention-grabbing event during the week of the U.N. Climate Summit was the People’s Climate March, of course. But the second most attention-grabbing event was perhaps the Divest-Invest coalition’s announcement that at least … MORE
Green Bonds
Green Bonds in Brief offers an in-depth guide into Green Bonds. Forty billion dollars in 2014. One hundred billion in 2015. That’s how much funding Green Bonds are projected to provide in the next year … MORE
Green Bonds Market Could Grow to $100bn by Next Year – Industry Group
RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR – February 19, 2014 – The international green bonds market could grow to $100bn by the time of next year’s United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, according to the Climate Bonds … MORE
Cleantech Redefined
After years in development, cleantech is now going mainstream. Cleantech infrastructure, technology and services are revolutionizing how we make, grow, transport and consume things. They’re helping the world meet energy demands. They’re creating livelihoods and prosperity in uncertain economies. Is there still time for investors to make good returns in cleantech? Yes. Here’s why.
The Reinvestment Handbook: Green Endowments Initiative
The Reinvestment Handbook is a resource for the next generation of responsible investors. It is designed to help students better understand their university endowment, the key pillars of SRI funds including screening for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, performance of ESG investments, funds, and portfolios, and basic finance concepts. MORE
RELEASE: Carbon Divestment Does Not Increase Portfolio Risk, New Report Shows
As You Sow Press Release
Fossil-Free Investment
As institutional investors such as university endowments begin divesting from coal and fossil fuel companies, there is a tremendous opportunity for carbon-free reinvesting to fund energy efficiency and clean technology and to speed the transition … MORE
Getting the Carbon Out
FINANCIAL ADVISOR – January 29, 2013 – Who are the Filthy 15? They are public companies in the coal utility and extraction business that groups criticize for damaging the environment and contributing heavily to climate … MORE
