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Koda Capital names head of responsible investments
Koda Capital has named Kate Turner as the head of responsible and impact investments and partner.
Australians take climate fight to UN
Ten Australians have lodged a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, alleging the federal government is breaching its human rights obligations by continuing to approve and support new fossil fuel projects.
US issues $25bn loan for nuclear power
The US Department of Energy is issuing a US$17.5 billion ($25bn) loan to finance the purchase of necessary materials for the construction of 10 large-scale commercial nuclear reactors across the country, with each generating 1.1GW of power.
Future Group partners with Aberdeen Investments
Future Group is partnering with UK-based asset manager Aberdeen Investments to invest in global sustainable infrastructure.
Whitepapers
Is there an ethical way to play AI?
Balancing innovation and sustainability in one of the most compelling investment themes of our time.
ESG implications of the US-Iran conflict
The US-Iran conflict is doing more than lifting oil prices. It is reshaping the ESG realm through energy security, food inflation, health risks and national ...
Critical minerals in the age of AI and tariffs
When we first explored the critical minerals arms race in early 2023, the dominant narrative centred on accelerating demand for the energy transition ...
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How economics and energy security are driving the next phase of the energy transition
Looking ahead, the next phase of the energy transition will be defined by practical system build-out rather than headline climate commitments.
Sustainability in 2025: Building resilience and navigating risks
In 2025, there is likely to be much scrutiny around US President Donald Trump's anti-green agenda in particular.
Balancing Investor expectations with entrepreneurial growth
Recent headlines highlighting corporate management shortfalls in companies led by their founders underscore the need for rigorous governance standards.
Avoiding the carbon budget risk
While many financial institutions have made public net zero commitments, how can we know whether these goals really amount to action on climate change?
Sustainable development is much abused term which rarely applies to all four pillars: economic; environmental; social and cultural
Social enterprises and cooperatives are best placed to deliver true sustainability simply because their performance metrics go beyond profit, turnover and shareholder value.
Deep down, Australians want transformational change; they want to live in a different way.
In a 2005 survey, Australians were asked which of two positive scenarios of the future they expected and preferred: one focused on individual wealth, economic growth and efficiency, and enjoying 'the good life'; the other on community, family, equality and environmental sustainability. Almost three quarters (73%) expected the former; 93% preferred the latter.7
Richard Eckersley
Over the past few decades, the deepening sense of the profound ecological challenges facing the planet and the growing despair at the inability of "traditional systems" to address economic failings have fueled an extraordinary amount of experimentation by activists, economists and socially minded business leaders.
Hundreds of "social enterprises" that use profits for environmental, social or community-serving goals are expanding rapidly.
As Al Gore would put it we didn't leave the stone age because we ran out of rocks. We found a better way.
[…] New co-op body to stress economic, social value of model […]
it might be of interest to look at how other countries for approaches as to how co-ops and mutuals are evidencing their value and impact -
in Canada, there's the 'co-op difference' programme: http://www.linkedin.com/redire...
and in the UK there's a set of metrics to report on how 'co-op' your co-op is (http://www.uk.coop/cespis) as well as an annual report on the size and value of the sector (http://www.uk.coop/co-operativ...