Sustainability Reporting Attracts Investors and Improves ROI (Video)

Here is a panel discussion designed to improve returns and attract investors. This discussion offers practical insights and helps commercial property owners with reputation management, employee engagement and efficiency. It also increases access to capital. This discussion is ideal for all who own or intend to buy or sell real estate. It is also for property managers, developers, and sustainability professionals.

Moderator: Heather Gadonniex, Director of Sustainable Building and Construction, PE International

Panelists

Helen Gurfel, Executive Director, ULI Greenprint
Gary Holtzer, Senior Managing Director, Hines
Kristen Sullivan, Partner, Deloitte
Dan Winters, Director for North America, Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark



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Event - Sustainable Investing Conference: Risk Value Impact

The 5th annual Sustainable Investing: Risk, Value, Impact conference will take place May 4th–6th at the Westin Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Participants will learn about new approaches, trends and policy developments while networking with industry leaders.

This event offers a unique opportunity to network with leaders of the sustainable, responsible and impact investing community, and to learn about new approaches, trends and policy developments in the field. The conference will attract representatives of investment management and advisory firms, research firms, financial planners and advisors, broker-dealers, community development institutions and asset owners such as pension funds and foundations, along with policymakers and corporate leaders.

Unimpressive Year for Canadian Cleantech Stocks: Top Performers

It has been an unimpressive year for cleantech stock in Canada. The S&P/TSX Renewable Energy and Clean Technology Index opened at 109.26 on January 3, 2014 and it closed at 110.47 on December 24, 2014. The index has just one solitary stock single stock with a triple digit gain. 

Green Stock Outlook Post Santa Claus Rally

While markets have been generous once again this Christmas, there are some dark clouds on the horizon for green investors.

Almost ever year Wall Street enjoys a "Santa Claus Rally" and this commonly includes green stock. This year, as markets fell in December, investors where wondering whether bearish sentiments were going to deny them a Christmas rally.

White Paper - Communications Strategy for Green Investment

A 2013 white paper released by the publisher of the Global Green Economy Index™ addresses communications as a strategy for advancing green investment and growth. Research and data associated with the Global Green Economy Index™ (GGEI) suggest that strategic communications and better information exchange between consumers, businesses and policymakers is often an overlooked strategy for advancing green growth and cleantech investment.

The white paper from Dual Citizen LLC supports this finding through six cases where strategic communications and better information campaigns have a role to play in supporting investment, cleantech entrepreneurship and policy development that advances green economic growth.

Event - Investing in the UK Green Economy

Investing in the UK green economy: challenges and next steps for policy will take place on January 22, 2015, at Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, in London UK. Hosted by Westminster Forum Projects (WFP), this CDP certified conference aims to provide a timely opportunity to examine the progress and next steps in the ongoing transition towards a green and low carbon UK economy - examining the remaining challenges in meeting 2020 objectives, implications for sustainable investment with ongoing negotiations for 2030 targets, and priorities for Government policy in the next Parliament.

Required Climate Investments and Impact on Growth According the IPCC Synthesis Report

Massive investment is required for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Here is a summary of needed investments and their impact on growth from the IPCC's recently released Synthesis Report.

Concern about the impact on growth is one of the primary reasons why some resist mitigation efforts. However, the Synthesis report says that the impact of climate investment on global economic growth would be negligible. Such investment would not impede growth which is expected to be between1.6 per cent to 3 percent per year until the dawn of the next century.

Event - Solar Energy Investment & Technology Forum 2014

This event will take place on November 14th 2014 in Bengalure. Solar Energy Investment & Technology will be hosted by UBM India, the organiser of Renewable Energy India Expo. The theme for this event is, "accelerating solar energy for growth of large and SME industries."

Infographic: Investors and Sustainability

Lucrative Investment Opportunities are Driving the Growth of Sustainability

Climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are helping to fuel the growth of stock markets. Investors are increasingly seeing the wisdom of factoring sustainability into their investment equations. The S&P 500 recently surpassed the 2000 level and surveys indicate that companies on this index are mindful of climate change.

According to a 2012 report from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, almost 90 percent of S&P Global 100 Index companies identified climate change and extreme weather as current or future business risks. The growth of S&P mirrors the growth of the American stock market as a whole. One of the factors driving this growth is the increasing interest in sustainable investing.

White Paper - Sustainable Investing: Imperative and Opportunity

This whitepaper was produced by Morgan Stanley. As they explain on their Sustainable Investing website, they believe that private sector capital can play a key role in driving large-scale solutions to the most critical challenges to global prosperity and well-being.

Their Institute for Sustainable Investing seeks to help businesses, institutions and individuals direct capital to these challenges in scalable ways.

Cleantech Stocks are Following Technology's Downward Spiral

Declines in the Nasdaq are capturing headlines and cleantech composite indexes appear to be following suit. Despite being a top performer over the past two years, cleantech is being dragged down with the rest of the market. In 2013 the cleantech index was up 58 percent but there were plenty of stocks that doubled and even tripled.

Technology stocks have taken a big hit over the course of the last few weeks and this is directly impacted cleantech stock performance. Technology is one of the biggest drivers of sustainability. While cutting-edge green technologies have the potential to improve quality of life, reduce environmental impact and generate profits, the reverse is also true. A slowdown in cleantech can also slow technological efforts to address the environmental challenges we face.

Event - Casting a Vision for the Impact Investing Movement (Roundtable Discussion)

This roundtable discussion will take place on Thursday, April 17th, 2014, 9:30am - 11:30am EST / Streamed Panel Discussion: 7:00am - 8:30am PST / 10:00am - 11:30am EST / 16:00 - 17:30 (Paris-Brussels) meeting in New York.

The Impact Investing Movement may be in its infancy, but the baby is growing quickly! While the current size of the Impact Investing market is estimated at $36 billion, various projections predict that it could grow to anywhere from $500 billion to $1 trillion by 2020. To realize this growth, Impact Investing will need to attract mainstream capital from high net-worth investors, investment funds, sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, insurance and pension funds, foundations, and more.

Impact Investing differentiates itself from other investment approaches in that it seeks to measure both financial and social merits of an investment. Other approaches may only screen for investments with negative social impacts, prioritize financial performance over social impact, or provide only unintentional social benefits. Impact investing covers the full range of asset classes, from early-stage to mature, and many sectors, including environment, education, financial services, health, housing, and more.

Financing the Low Carbon Economy: The 2014 Clean Trillion Report

More investment is needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change. Without such investments we will not be able to avoid a temperature increase of more than two degrees Celsius (2 °C) above pre-industrial levels (this is the upper threshold agreed upon by scientists and governments in 2010).

On Wednesday January 15, the non-profit investment group Ceres launched their latest Clean Trillion Report, entitled Investing in the Clean Trillion: Closing The Clean Energy Investment Gap. The report incorporates data from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Ceres report was released as investors met in New York for a conference on climate risk where they called for a fossil fuel stress test.

To have an 80 percent chance of staying within this 2 °C limit we will have to build a low carbon infrastructure which will cost a total of $36 trillion by 2050. To be successful in this effort we will need to see an average investment of 1 trillion a year.

Video - Fossil Fuel Divestment Resources

Whether you want to know more, bring the divestment movement to your community, take an alumni divest pledge or personally divest from fossil fuels, 350.org has what you need:

Discussion - The Other Debt Ceiling: Using Finance to Balance Our Environmental Budget

This discussion will take place on November 20, 2013, and is presented by Solar One and NYC ACRE 7 p.m. -9 p.m. (Doors at 6:30), The WNYC Jerome L. Greene Performance Space 44 Charlton Street, New York City.

As weather events become more extreme, water shortages threaten, and human sprawl leads to biodiversity loss, there is a new focus on the global economic impact of environmental degradation. Studies from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Harvard School of Public Health, and others assert that our active growth and inactive conservation efforts have left us with a trillion-dollar bill.

Event - Social Return on Investment - Canadian Network Launch and Professional Development Session

Social Return on Investment - Canadian Network Launch and Professional Development Session Wed Oct 30, 2013,  from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) 215 Spadina Ave, Toronto Toronto. Come celebrate the launch of SROI Canada Network and take part in a full-day program offered by the international SROI Network’s Sheila Durie.

Investor Resolutions Focus on Climate Change and Sustainability

According to new data released by Ceres, shareholders in the US continue to show interest in disclosures regarding companies exposure to climate change risks. At the annual round of corporate shareholder meetings (aka proxy season) representing $500 billion in assets, Ceres reports that a total of 110 climate change and environmental sustainability-related resolutions were filed with 94 companies based in the US.

According to Ceres data, the number of investor resolutions relating to climate change and environmental sustainability has increased more than three fold from around 30 a decade ago to more than 100 last year.

Event - Trends and Opportunities in Risk Management

Tradinfo and Fair Impact will organise the 3rd Responsible Investment Corporate Access Conference, on the 5th of July 2013 in Zurich at Convention Point.

Platform for the financial community

The conference represents a unique occasion for listed companies, investors and Responsible Investment (RI) experts to discuss the latest hot-button issues in Risk Management and profitable business cases.

Event - TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investment) CONFERENCE™

TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investment) CONFERENCE™ will take place on Monday and Tuesday, June 17-18, 2013 at the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), New York, NY.

The TBLI conference is unique event in that it offers finance professionals a global perspective on a comprehensive range of ESG and Impact Investment topics, covering all asset classes. Over 15 years, it has built an international reputation as the platform to learn and find business partners. TBLI offers access to the largest network of thought leaders in the sustainable finance industry.

Theme for 2013: "Rethink the Past and Move on"

❖ Attendees remain able to determine their workshop choice at the conference

❖ Please note: This program is subject to change without notice.

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