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On the heels of the Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations, a half-dozen investors today announced the filing of shareholder resolutions with 10 fossil fuel companies, including Exxon Mobil, Chevron...

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014, ICAEW and Tomorrow’s Company launched Hazel Henderson's publication 'Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age

The Aspen Institute’s Partners for a New Beginning (PNB) announces receipt of a $125,000 grant awarded by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to fund a high-impact entrepreneurship delegation to New York City and Silicon Valley. The grants, totaling $1.6 million, were made through the second ann...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not adequately addressed the climate disclosure deficiencies of publicly traded corporations, despite four-year-old formal guidance requiring companies to disclose material climate change risks, according to a report published by Ceres today.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) today announced that New Skills at Work – its landmark, $250 million global effort to close the skills gap – will partner with the White House and use its ground-breaking local workforce research to provide critical data on the challenges facing the lo...

 Watershed Capital Group certified by the United States Department of Commerce, has announced the Second U.S. Impact & Sustainable Certified Trade Mission (CTM). The trade mission will take place the spring of 2014. Last fall, Wate...

Presidio Graduate School announced today a call for applicants for the Fall 2014 Big Idea Prize. The competition awards a full-ride scholarship to a Presidio degree program for the best "Big Idea" to move the needle in sustainability.

Last week, the Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Companies index was released at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Although down two places from last year in the overall ranking. Novo Nordisk was recognised for its strong and consistent performance throughout the past decade.

Export Development Canada (EDC) today priced its first Green Bond in the principal amount of USD 300 million, reflecting EDC’s commitment to the environmental aspects of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) principles.

EDC’s current portfolio of green assets includes loans made to com...