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Fight climate change with the EU Buildings Directive
In light of the public hearing before the ITRE Committee, EEB welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to increase the scope of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) as a potentially powerful tool in the fight against climate change. EEB applauds the move to expand the Directive to include all housing stock in the EU and not just large buildings, but would like to see stronger ...
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Ceres applauds SEC decision allowing financial risks in environmental and social resolutions
Ceres president Mindy Lubber praises the Securities and Exchange Commission for its decision yesterday to allow shareholder resolutions seeking information from companies on the financial risks they face from social and environmental issues including climate change. The decision, outlined in SEC Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14E (CF) reverses an SEC rule that prevented investors from directly asking ...
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WBCSD Welcomes President Bush`s Comments on Climate Change
Geneva - The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) welcomes recent comments from President Bush on developing a new post-2012 framework on climate change by calling for a long-term goal supported by interim objectives and national programs. President Bush's suggestions are very similar to elements of the Council's proposals for a new post-Kyoto international framework on ...
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UNEP to tell marketeers ‘climate change won’t wait’
Kaveh Zahedi of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for directing climate change strategy and programmes at the agency. His address to the 600 guests is expected to combine encouragement with a call for urgency to face environmental problems holistically and head on. In the run up to the event, Zahedi says’, confronting environmental problems - especially those caused ...
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Incr director mindy lubber issues statement on new mercer report “climate change scenarios – implications for strategic asset allocation”
The following statement was issued today by Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres and director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 95 institutional investors across North America managing more than $9 trillion in assets: “Mercer’s report lends credence to a concern that the Investor Network on Climate Risk has been voicing for years. Climate change poses real ...
By 3BL Media
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Ceres and World Resources Institute Join Growing Blue
The World Resources Institute (WRI), a global non-profit organization that focuses on the environment and economic development, and Ceres, a non-profit group that mobilizes business and investor leadership on sustainability challenges, have become the newest members of the Growing Blue network. Growing Blue is a data-driven, online resource designed to help local communities and businesses ...
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Ceres & Trillium seek nominations to honor leaders in building sustainable global economy; nomination deadline is March 1
Ceres and Trillium Asset Management are seeking nominations for the fourth annual Joan Bavaria Awards for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets. Submissions will be accepted until March 1 and nominations can be submitted at http://www.ceres.org/bavaria_awards. The Joan Bavaria Awards are given annually to two leaders working to move the capital markets toward a system that balances ...
By 3BL Media
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The Walt Disney Co. joins ceres corporate network
Ceres today announced the approval of The Walt Disney Company (Disney) as a Ceres network company. Disney will work with Ceres to improve its efforts on key environmental and social sustainability issues. Disney will also engage key stakeholders to help advance its sustainability strategy, disclosure, and performance. “Ceres looks forward to working with Disney to further develop a ...
By 3BL Media
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Ceres: SEC climate change disclosures need more work - by Leon Kaye
Last year the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued interpretative guidance on what public companies should disclose to investors concerning risks related toclimate change. While the interpretive release did not create any new legal requirements, it provided SEC registrants a framework by which they could outline climate change-related material risks in annual, quarterly, and proxy ...
By 3BL Media
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Ban Ki-moon to set up new climate change centre to support Pacific island countries
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has announced that the United Nations and Samoa plan to establish an Inter-Agency Climate Change Centre to help coordinate support to Pacific Island countries to combat the impact of global warming in their region. Given the direct impact of climate change on vulnerable States in the region, the new agency will focus its support on the mitigation, adaptation and ...
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Addison designs tool to help companies compete: ceres` roadmap for sustainability
Addison, a creative services company specializing in strategic business and investor communications, designed Ceres' recently released report, 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability. 'Few can match Ceres when it comes to demonstrating how corporations can begin to comprehensively tackle sustainability in a way that is meaningful to their bottom line,' said Roger Byrom, ...
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More extreme weather: America Prepares for Hurricane Sandy’s Impacts
With much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast bracing themselves for Hurricane Sandy’s landfall, it’s important to note the human toll this hurricane has already left in its wake. At least 39 lives were lost in Haiti and Cuba, and more than 3,000 buildings were damaged in eastern Cuba alone by the hurricane. Many are predicting that this storm will bring significant damage to United ...
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CA technologies joins Ceres network of companies
Ceres announced today that it is has approved CA Technologies, a global IT software management company, as a Ceres network company. The New York-based company is the first software firm to join the Ceres company network. Founded in 1976, CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and ...
By 3BL Media
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Ceres president issues statement at annual conference condemning gulf of Mexico oil spill
The following statement was issued this morning by Ceres president Mindy S. Lubber on the opening day of Ceres annual conference, 'Roadmap for a Sustainable Future,' May 5 and 6 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel. Ceres was launched in 1989 in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. As the Gulf Coast community braces for what may be one of the biggest environmental disasters the ...
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Company scores plummet in Greenpeace`s new Greener Electronics Guide
With expanded and tougher criteria on toxic chemicals, electronic waste and new criteria on climate change only Sony and Sony Ericsson score more than 5/10 in the latest Guide to Greener Electronics. Nintendo and Microsoft remain rooted to the bottom of the Guide. The Greener Electronics Guide is our way of getting the electronics industry to face up to the problem of e-waste. We want ...
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EPA Provides Training to Help Communities Prepare for Climate Change
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released an online training module to help local government officials take actions to increase their communities’ resiliency to a changing climate. The virtual training, which was informed by the National Climate Assessment released one year ago today, was developed with advice from ...
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Ceres and CalPERS announce initiative to accelerate corporate action on global sustainability challenges
Amid rising global temperatures, population growth and resource constraints, Ceres formed a collaboration today with Nike, the Skoll Foundation and the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest public pension fund, to use their collective clout to urge the nation's largest companies to move more quickly to understand global sustainability risks and develop new ...
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EPA takes critical step in President’s climate action plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today advanced the President’s climate action plan with a revised and common sense proposal to curb carbon pollution from new electricity plants. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, issued this statement: “We have an obligation to protect future generations from climate change. This is a critical step in that ...
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WRI names David Waskow to lead its international climate initiative
The World Resources Institute (WRI) announced today that David Waskow has joined the institute to lead its International Climate Initiative, within the Climate and Energy Program. Waskow will oversee the Institute’s work to advance ambitious national actions to reduce emissions and prepare for the impacts of climate change. This includes working toward a strong, equitable, and effective ...
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Voters Overwhelmingly Support EPA Air Pollution Rules
A new, nationwide poll shows that by a wide margin, voters of both political parties and in all regions of the U.S. disagree with Congress' anti-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agenda and support the EPA's new rules to limit air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Two-thirds of the respondents – 67 percent – oppose Congress delaying implementation of the air pollution ...
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