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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Investing – Recap

Thanks to everyone who joined the last event – it was a packed house with great speakers, challenging questions, and frank discussion, which continued on afterwards during drinks at the lovely Bedales Wine Bar.

We covered a lot of ground. Although we are seeing signs of progress with more and more investors taking ESG factors into consideration, it’s clear that there remain many barriers and challenges to sustainable investing.

- Asset owners tend to have a longer-term time horizon and have been the primary drivers of sustainable investing; however smaller pension funds have limited negotiating power and end up being […]

By |January 24th, 2013|Finance & Investment, Marketing & Communication, Past Events|0 Comments
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Sustainable Finance

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Come and hear from leading sustainable finance experts about their exciting work in international climate change projects, sustainable banking and Socially Responsible Investing.

Sustainable finance is topical right now.  In the aftermath of the global financial crises, everyone seems to be trying to make finance more sustainable. But what are the upcoming trends and initiatives out there that really stand to make a difference?

An essential event for aspiring and existing sustainability professionals!

Scott McGregor – CEO, Camco

offers an overview on the international sustainable finance market, drawing on its global clean energy projects in […]

By |May 16th, 2012|Events, Finance & Investment, Upcoming Events|0 Comments
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UPEACE Certificate in Sustainable Business

If you are interested in participating in this course please e-mail: hello@idealmedia.org.uk

Sustainable Business: Leading the Change

Sustainable business in 2010 means working with the bigger picture and aligning business goals with social and environmental objectives.

The UN mandated UPEACE Centre for Executive Education is visiting London to deliver a workshop on corporate responsibility (CR). The course will give professionals working in sustainability or CR practical knowledge that can be used for planning and implementing strategy as well as introducing other departments and stakeholders to sustainability issues. The course will be valuable for professionals at, or wishing to work at; blue […]

By |October 7th, 2010|Entrepreneurship, Finance & Investment, Personal & Professional Development, Upcoming Events|0 Comments
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Accounting Revolution!

Date: September 21st 2010, 6.30-9pm
Location: The Hub, Kings Cross, 34b York Way, London N1 9AB
Panelists: Henning Drager, Head of Sustainability at ACCA and Mark Bromley, Head of Business Performance at EDF Energy

What is the exposure to “petrochemical risk” in your portfolio?  If the price of crude oil doubled over the next month, would your business be seriously affected?  How do you quantify the ethical performance of your suppliers?

Net Impact London is launching its autumn calendar with an in depth look at an important reporting trend.  Business reporting on financial and non-financial information in a single document has experienced huge […]

By |September 21st, 2010|Accounting, Finance & Investment, General, Strategy, Upcoming Events|0 Comments
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BP – Blame Pensions?

Prompted by a comment of James Cameron, that “every one in five pounds paid out as a dividend in 2009 came from BP” we checked the figures. It is indeed true.

UK companies paid out £56.9bn to investors in 2009.

BP and Shell paid a quarter of all UK dividends according to the Guardian newspaper.

BP alone paid out £10.9bn, i.e. just short of 20% of the UK total dividend.

So what?

Well, BP could be in the middle of the sort of crisis which cripples a company. The Deepwater Horizon blow-out is now expected to be the second worst […]

By |June 1st, 2010|Finance & Investment, Strategy|0 Comments
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    May 24th: Post-Election Who’s Who in the Sustainable UK Economy

May 24th: Post-Election Who’s Who in the Sustainable UK Economy

Join us at 6.30pm at the BBC’s flagship redevelopment in central London – Broadcasting House.

Following the Queen’s Speech announcement of an Energy Security and Green Economy Bill, Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent at the Financial Times; James Cameron, Founder of Climate Change Capital; and someone to represent the government perspective (tbc) will be discussing who in government and in business has the resources, the vision and the mandate to deliver the major changes which are needed to help the UK’s transformation to a sustainable economy.

We have also invited H2ope to give a short presentation on a programme […]

By |May 24th, 2010|Finance & Investment, Past Events, Policy & Advocacy|0 Comments
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Green Business Leaders – Roadmap to 2015: Event Insights

We have posted some video clips from the Green Leaders event.

Scott McGregor of Camco discusses progress to systematise sustainability/emissions management in business in the UK and the US.

You can view Jeremy’s comments on Peak Oil and the process of “re-engineering capitalism” which is needed to avoid severe global macroeconomic impacts.

By |April 28th, 2010|Finance & Investment, Policy & Advocacy|0 Comments
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