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Recent Featured ArticlesFeatured Articles September 21, 2009 As droughts expand and water supplies shrivel, is a world water war inevitable?
Source:Cold Truth - blog
If your neighbor had plenty of water but you hadn’t enough to keep your family, your livestock and your crops alive, would you fight for it? Would you go to war? Lots of people – from multi-degreed behavioral psychologists to... September 21, 2009 Europe takes tough line on banker pay ahead of G20 summit
Source:MarketWatch
European officials vowed over the weekend to press for tough restrictions on bankers' pay despite opposition from the United States when leaders of the world's most powerful economies meet in Pittsburgh later this week for the... September 21, 2009 Fed not acting like there's a recovery
Source:CNN Money
The economy is showing signs that it is emerging out of a deep recession, but don't expect the Fed to change course quite yet. September 19, 2009 Climate change legislation is unlikely to pass the U.S. Congress until the first half of 2010, and maybe not until 2011, Duke Energy Corp Chief Executive Jim Rogers said on Friday.
Source:The Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve's new push to regulate pay at U.S. banks will make things more difficult for boards and their compensation committees, already under fire for controversial pay practices. The planned Fed move could increase... September 19, 2009 U.S. climate legislation may wait to 2011: Duke CEO
Source:Reuters
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Reuters) - Climate change legislation is unlikely to pass the U.S. Congress until the first half of 2010, and maybe not until 2011, Duke Energy Corp Chief Executive Jim Rogers said on Friday. September 18, 2009 'Sustainable' investing: The tide is rising
Source:THe Business Times Singapore
SOCIALLY responsible investments (SRI) are often hailed as a means to finally effect meaningful change on the environmental landscape. The rationale is that ethical screens on an investment universe should nudge corporates... September 18, 2009 ESG equals fiduciary duty, says IPE survey
Source:IPE
EUROPE - For the majority of the respondents to an IPE survey environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are part of fiduciary duty. September 18, 2009 Social Responsibility Is Dead; Long Live Corporate Social Responsibility
Source:Ad Age Tim Sanders
Tim Sanders, author of the book "Saving the World at Work," argues that social responsibility should be viewed as a corporate opportunity. Here's why. September 18, 2009 Hate Calculus? Try Counting Cow Carbon
Source:The Wall Street Journal
Companies Are Measuring the Environmental Impact of Their Products, but the Math is Fraught With Complexity and Imprecision September 18, 2009 SEC to refocus on IFRS roadmap-official
Source:Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will make it a priority in the coming months to refocus on a proposed roadmap to move U.S. companies to international accounting standards, a top agency official... September 18, 2009 SEC to refocus on IFRS roadmap-official
Source:Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will make it a priority in the coming months to refocus on a proposed roadmap to move U.S. companies to international accounting standards, a top agency official... September 18, 2009 Fed Considers Limits on Bank Pay
Source:The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is preparing what would be the most sweeping rules yet to regulate the pay at banks across the country, people close to the discussion said on Friday. September 17, 2009 Global Compact Participant Reports Now on Bloomberg
Source:CSR Wire
New York, Sep. 17 /CSRwire/ - In a move to facilitate consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in investor decision-making, the content of annual progress reports issued by United Nations Global Compact...[more] September 17, 2009 China Carbon Truths; Authoritarian government makes greenhouse emissions worse.
Source:Wall Street Journal
China is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, and countries around the world from the United States to Japan are pressuring Beijing to lower emissions and to introduce an absolute cap on emissions. But... September 17, 2009 Transparency increases firms’ credibility
Source:Daily Journal of Commerce
What do Weyerhaeuser, Starbucks, Toyota, IBM, and Abbott Laboratories have in common? They rank among the most socially responsible companies in America. All file annual corporate social responsibility reports, as do... September 17, 2009 Where Were the Bank C.E.O.’s on Monday?
Source:The New York Times
Speaking on Wall Street at noon on Monday, President Obama laid blame for the crisis and recession of 2008-09 squarely at the feet of the financial sector. The diagnosis was sound but the rest of his speech was disappointing —... September 16, 2009 SEC advisory panel creates 3 subcommittees: The Investor Education Subcommittee; The Investor as Shareholder Subcommittee; The Investor as Purchaser Subcommittee
Source:Pensions and Investments
The SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee today announced the formation of three subcommittees to study and advise on specific regulatory issues. The Investor Education Subcommittee will focus on investor education, including the... September 16, 2009 China think-tank charts costs of low-carbon growth
Source:Reuters
BEIJING, Sept 16 (Reuters) - China needs huge flows of clean technology investment to maintain hope of keeping greenhouse gas emissions below levels that could help push the planet deep into dangerous global warming, a Beijing... September 16, 2009 Internet greatly expands government accountability
Source:Island Packet
One of government's greatest tools in offering openness and accountability to the people it serves is the Internet. Many have put this tool to very good use in recent years. September 15, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON FINANCIAL RESCUE AND REFORM
Source:The White House
THE PRESIDENT: It is wonderful to be back in New York after having just been here last week. It is a beautiful day and we have some extraordinary guests here in the Hall today. I just want to mention a few.[more] September 15, 2009 FASB Chair: US May Have Tougher Fair-Value Plan Than IASB
Source:Wall Street Journal
NORWALK, Conn. (Dow Jones)--The nation's top accounting rulemaker suggested Monday the U.S. may end up taking a tougher stance than international rulemakers on expanding the use of fair-value accounting. The Financial Accounting... September 15, 2009 Privatizing Fannie, Freddie Could ‘Mitigate’ Risks Caused by Government Intervention, Says GAO
Source:CNS News
(CNSNews.com) - A Government Accountability Office report says that privatizing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could mitigate the systemic economic risk caused by the federal government’s... September 14, 2009 Investors May Oust Compensation Panel Members In Coming Years
Source:Wall Street Journal
Activist investors are getting new tools that will help them put pressure on directors who sign off on controversial executive pay packages. There's even a possibility that some compensation committee members could be ousted in... September 14, 2009 Schwarzenegger may order a change in green energy rules
Source:Los Angeles Times
An order expected this week would require a third of energy to come from renewable resources -- possibly with no limit on importing such power from other states. He may seek to include nuclear power. September 14, 2009 But Who Is Watching Regulators?
Source:The New York Times
NOTHING succeeds like failure, as the saying goes. And nowhere is this dismal truth more evident than in our financial regulatory system, one year after the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers. |
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