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Ethical Fund rejects accusations of inefficient investment
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Ethical investments business to gain from new endorsement system
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
The Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) aims to simplify the rating of companies with truly sustainable business practices. This in turn will encourage trust in ethical investments by the 44% who are still sceptical that so-called ethical, sustainable businesses really do make a difference.
Ethical Funds must dig for detail
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Ethical funds watchdog EIRIS has found that 45% of companies have no management systems in place to check labour standards among their suppliers, and therefore fail to report on the issue. Worst offenders on worker exploitation are consumer goods makers, particularly of clothing, toys, and electronics.
Norway pension fund stubs out tobacco for ethical investments
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Norway’s national pension fund has sold off Euro 1.8 bn in tobacco shares, citing ethical reasons. The individual investor can also opt for ethical investments, with over 100 ethical funds now available.
Reduce environmental impact, cut ink consumption with new green ‘typeface with holes’
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009An innovative font system from the Netherlands now enables computer users to print sustainably and lessen their environmental impact by cutting their consumption of ink and toner by up to 25%.
Reduced ink consumption can also result in significant financial savings, with Ecofont’s manufacturer, the Dutch marketing firm Spranq, claiming that a company with 5,000 employees could save over £100,000 a year on its printing costs.
Forty shades of green: how ‘ethical’ are ethical funds?
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The critics say that ethical funds are not transparent enough to convince investors they are genuinely green, or that the screening process limits the number of companies available to ethical fund managers, and therefore hampers their ability to maximise returns.
Pre-Budget Report favours renewable energies
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009The Chancellor has announced in his pre-budget report an additional £400m in funding for low-carbon growth initiatives and carbon reduction initiatives at domestic level.
This brings to over £15bn the amount of private and public investment in the low-carbon and renewable energy sectors over the next three years.
Ethical tax on financial transactions could fuel renewable energy
Friday, December 4th, 2009An ethical tax designed to raise up to 20 billion euros a year could be the key to funding renewable energy projects in the world’s poorer regions, according to proposals by the French delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next week.
The French concept of a ‘justice-climate’ plan could be funded by a tax on financial transactions, similar to that once proposed by the Nobel prizewinning economist James Tobin.
New eco-tax on way as Copenhagen hots up for climate week
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009The government has promised a new personal tax to help the environment, in the week when Copenhagen gears up for its international conference on climate change. The new ‘eco-tax’ would aim to vastly reduce the amount of plastic in circulation, by imposing a charge on the use of plastic carrier bags in shops and supermarkets. Despite [...]
New types of ethical investment, but consumers need convincing
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Following Ethical Investment Week (8th - 14th Nov), ethical market research specialist Eiris has highlighted a number of new ethical funds offering positive ethical investment opportunities, rather than ones which simply avoid the ‘sin’ industries. One product is a vaccine bond, issued this year by the International Finance Industry for Immunisation, which funds the purchase of vaccines for [...]
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