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SRI Conference Nov. 9-11 | Climate Change: Solutions for Responsible Investors
The 27th Annual SRI Conference - on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing serves thought leaders, investors, and investment professionals in the ESG, Shareowner Advocacy, and Impact Investing space. Together, they are catalyzing the shift to a [...]
Upcoming events on Climate Change and Sovereign Bonds
ERISC Phase II Webinar: How climate change impacts sovereign credit risk 12 October 4:00 PM CEST/10 AM EDT/7 AM PDT This webinar will feature presentations and Q&A on the ERISC II report recently released by [...]
PODCAST: Susan Burns | What the Ecological Footprint tells us
By many measures, humans have shown themselves to be a pretty successful species. But we are living unsustainably. We are consuming more resources than the Earth can provide– we are in global ecological overshoot. The [...]
8 Sept.: Roadmap for ESG and Credit Ratings
WATCH VIDEOSusan Burns, Co-Founder of Global Footprint Network and Director of its Finance for Change Initiative, moderated this panel discussion at PRI in Person in Singapore.In his introduction, Nick Robins, co-director of the UNEP Inquiry into the [...]
Five charts that explain who gets hit hardest by food price rises
Global food prices will remain stable for the year ahead, suggest recent UN forecasts, but in the longer term we can expect much more volatility.That’s because the food sector is unable to cope with a [...]
New Research Launched on Food Price Shocks
Environmental risks in sovereign bonds are likely to be a fast growing area of interest, according to the panelists at the launch of Global Footprint Network’s ERISC Phase II report in London.The ERISC II report, [...]