Sustainable Finance: Special Focus

Throughout November, CSRwire will begin to shine the spotlight on the convergence of sustainability and finance including, green bonds, carbon pricing, impact investing, integrated reporting, shareholder engagement, sustainable stock exchanges and ESG / SRI metrics.

Can Investors Put 100% of Funds to Work for Social Benefit? An Emerging Movement Says Yes By Don Shaffer

Posted: Feb 17, 2015 – 06:00 AM EST
An enormous amount of energy is being poured into cultivating a vanguard of 100 percent impact investors, people who devote their entire portfolio to funding enterprises that strive to produce social and ecological benefits as a core part of their mission.
TD Continues Green Strategy with the First Bank-led Green Bond in Canada By Reynard Loki

Posted: Jan 29, 2015 – 12:33 PM EST
A conversation with Karen Clarke-Whistler, TD Bank Group's Chief Environment Officer, about TD's green bond, how it fits into TD's overall green strategy and the green bond climate in Canada.
Global Green Bond Sales Tripled to $35B in 2014 By Vikas Vij

Posted: Dec 23, 2014 – 11:46 AM EST
The market for these environmentally-focused bonds appears to be developing rapidly, with money managers jumping in to purchase them.
The Sustainable Investment Chain By Rich Turley

Posted: Dec 11, 2014 – 09:37 AM EST
Should investors be responsible to ensure that the activity that they are making possible through their investment is properly governed, has positive social and environmental impacts and has an overall net benefit to society?
Corporate Social Responsibility at Bank of America: Five Years Since the Crisis By Andrew Plepler

Posted: Dec 10, 2014 – 11:10 AM EST
Andrew Plepler shares the challenges, rewards and importance of actively engaging with external stakeholders as the head of CSR at Bank of America.
Sustainable & Responsible Investing: It's Now $1-in-$6 in the US Capital Markets! By Hank Boerner

Posted: Dec 08, 2014 – 06:00 AM EST
The recent US SIF survey gives us a look at the latest trends in sustainable and responsible investing.
Special Report – Sustainability Finance: The Unstoppable Train By Reynard Loki

Posted: Dec 05, 2014 – 06:00 AM EST
At Bloomberg, the demand for ESG is clear: Hits on ESG data have doubled each year on average. Unique ESG users are growing at an average annual rate of about 40 percent.
Japan At The Crossroads By Hazel Henderson

Posted: Dec 04, 2014 – 06:00 AM EST
Japan faces a snap election on December 14th with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” on trial. Will they take this opportunity to break away from the past GDP-growth stage?
Special Report – Researching ESG Risks and Green Bonds By Reynard Loki

Posted: Dec 03, 2014 – 06:00 AM EST
Calvert's Sustainability Research, Engagement, Municipal Bonds, and Green Bonds
Sustainability Indices: Benchmarks of listed companies’ future viability By Daniel Schmid

Posted: Dec 02, 2014 – 08:06 AM EST
Numerous studies have shown that sustainably managed companies grow faster than the market, but how can investors tell whether a company has its business’s financial, environmental and social risks under control? Sustainability indices are a valuable pointer.