“In a policy reversal long sought by shareholder advocates, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruled yesterday that investors can directly call on public companies to describe the financial risks they face from global warming,” according to E&E News ClimateWire.
Trillium has been a leader in pushing the SEC on this issue, and Senior Social Research [...]
The latest disaster in the financial markets has once again shown that some of the biggest risks investors face derive from the excesses of free markets themselves. This time it was unregulated lending, leverage and speculation. In 2000 it was over-optimistic and at times corrupt Wall Street analysts, gobbling up creative corporate accounting that massaged [...]
With all the talk out there about energy efficiency and reduced use, I can’t help but think of my mom, telling us kids to put on a sweater, the heat would not go up. I laugh at the person I’ve become, as I tell my own kids the same thing, adding the environmental commentary that [...]
Adam Seitchik, Ph.D., CFA, Executive Vice President of Trillium Asset Management Corporation, recently authored Climate Change From the Investor’s Perspective. This is part of the “Growing The Economy through Global Warming Solutions” series of reports developed by the Civil Society Institute (www.civilsocietyinstitute.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions [...]
Via RSS Feed
Via Email
