Republicans Fighting for Bad Market Practices
[social_buttons] Republicans are supposed to be more of the “let the market take care of things” people. However, when it comes to an issue they don’t want to address at all, some of them are...
View ArticleNew Clean Air Act Rules Could Create 1.5 Million Jobs, Study Finds
At the Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference held in D.C. on Wednesday, green investment group Ceres announced the findings of a new study conducted at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s...
View Article$20 Trillion for Urgent Climate Change Action
Say what? 285 top investors who represent $20 trillion in assets pushed leaders of the world to take urgent climate change and clean energy action in a letter last week $20 Trillion for Urgent Climate...
View ArticleNew Record: $260 Billion Invested in Clean Energy in 2011; US Overtakes China...
Ceres, director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), “a network of 100 institutional investors with collective assets totaling about $10 trillion,” informed us of the above, yesterday, as...
View ArticleStop the Environment vs Economy Nonsense… or ‘risk becoming irrelevant’,...
A top GE executive is calling the political battle between economy and environment “nonsense.” In a video interview (featured below) at an international clean energy investment conferencelast week,...
View ArticleRomney Gets a Wind Power Tax Credit Smackdown from Starbucks, Yahoo!, & Others
The last thing presidential candidate Mitt Romney needs this week is a bit of piling on by some of American’s top corporate icons, but that’s exactly what went down on Tuesday in the form of a wind...
View Article2/3 Of Top Global Corporations Have Set Important Green Targets
This article has been reposted from Climate Progress. Last year, $260 billion was invested in clean energy globally, marking the one trillionth dollar put into the sector since 2004 and the first...
View ArticleThe Aqualibrium Garden — The Future of Food, For Any Apartment, House, Or Room
Pure, fresh food increases a sense of pleasure and well-being. Enzymes and proteins from food are one thing that no human can do without. They are essential to an active, purposeful daily life. Food,...
View Article$36 Trillion Push For Clean Energy Investment
Oh, the irony. With the devastating coal-related West Virginia chemical spill barely a week behind us, hundreds of leading investment and financial executives gathered at the United Nations for the...
View ArticleSustainability Progress Report: Long Road Ahead For US Companies
In 2010 the sustainable business organization Ceres launched the Roadmap for Sustainability to help US companies identify guideposts for facing 21st century challenges — you know, like climate change,...
View ArticleSouth Australia Might Be 1st 100% Renewable Energy Mainland State
Originally published on Renew Economy. The South Australian Labor government gained a lot of credit – and success – when it announced a 33 per cent renewable energy target for the state by 2020. It...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Saves Fortune 500 Companies Over $1 Billion
A new report shows that big mainstream corporations using renewable energy are saving a lot of money: over $1 billion collectively Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 500 Companies Over $1 Billion was...
View ArticleNet Savings Of $71 Trillion By 2050 With Transition To Renewable Energy
The transition to a global renewable energy economy could save $71 trillion by the year 2050, according to an IEA report. Or, to say that another way, $44 trillion in investment by the year 2050 would...
View ArticleThe Big 340: Trickle Of Renewable Energy Investors Turns Into Flood
That Niagra-scale roar coming out of midtown Manhattan this morning is the sound of 340 global renewable energy investors itching for a fight The Big 340: Trickle Of Renewable Energy Investors Turns...
View ArticleCorporate Climate Leaders Redefine Business As Usual
Over the past year or so, corporate climate leaders have begun to take responsibility when international agreements can only provide useful answers, not actions. We saw this demonstrated visibly last...
View ArticleBusiness Leaders Implore Negotiators For Long-Term Emissions Goal In Paris COP21
With the deadline for a climate deal to be reached in Paris closing fast, business leaders from around the world have called for a long-term emissions goal. In a letter to Heads of State and Government...
View ArticleHow Much Does It Take To Make The Electricity Sector Compatible With A 2°C...
How much should we invest in renewables by 2040 to make the electricity sector compatible with a 2°C scenario? $12.1 trillion, says BNEF. Data released last week by BNEF and CERES on the occasion of...
View ArticleShow Me The Green: Why Climate Risk Disclosure Is Key To Meeting Climate Goals
Editorial note: If, like many Brazilians, you were on holidays for most of January, you might have missed two important international summits of relevance for climate and energy. Luckily for you,...
View ArticleMore Fortune 500 Companies Are Accelerating Renewable Energy Targets
More and more Fortune 500 companies are turning their attention towards renewable energy and energy efficiency priorities, with almost half now boasting at least one type of climate or clean energy...
View ArticleMajor US Businesses Call On ITC To Reconsider Solar Tariff
Major US businesses and members of the Ceres BICEP Network have this week added their voices to the many already hoping the US International Trade Commission will reconsider imposing a solar tariff...
View ArticleWhy Energy Efficient Buildings Are Worth the Investment
Investing in energy efficiency is a critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Given that the built environment accounts for 39 percent of total energy use in the US, real estate investment...
View ArticleThe Renewable Energy Money Train: Mainstream Investors Can Climb On Board...
Big-dollar investors can bet their assets on renewable energy in new low risk environment, according to new report from the sustainable investment organization Ceres
View ArticleTrump Or Not, Pollution From US Power Plants Is Going Down
Energy efficiency is not a sexy beast like solar cells and wind turbines, but it factors in to the retirement of coal power plants in the
View ArticleNearly 400 Investors With $32 Trillion In Assets Step Up Climate Action To...
Nearly 400 investors with assets worth $32 trillion announced The Investor Agenda last week, a first-of-its-kind global agenda aimed at demonstrating and supporting investors in accelerating and...
View ArticleClean Power Plan Or Not, Coal Caught In Corporate Death Squeeze...
Why coal jobs are never coming back: in the face of an existential threat from climate change, global corporate titans are juicing demand for clean power
View ArticleGlobal Investors Worth $32 Trillion Call For COP24 Leaders To Address Climate...
A total of 415 global investors with $32 trillion in assets under management have this week called on leaders at the United Nation's COP24 global climate change conference currently underway in...
View ArticleGlobal Food Investors Want To Have It Their Way, So They Told Restaurants To...
Isn't it time for fast food companies to be held responsible for the environmental impacts of their supply chains
View ArticleAmazon, AT&T, IKEA, Clif Bar, DHL, & Others Launch “Corporate Electric...
When we think about the need for the world to go electric, we generally think about the need for people — individual humans — to go electric. However, more than half of the vehicles on US roads are...
View ArticleAmazon, IKEA, AT&T, DHL & Others Join Electric Vehicle Alliance
Some of the largest corporations in America have joined the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance, an organization started by the non-profit Ceres to support greater commercial EV adoption. DHL, Amazon,...
View ArticleMission Possible Partnership: Joining Forces to Decarbonize Heavy Industry
The financial sector faces a challenge: institutions that want to decarbonize their portfolios can’t always do so at scale while the world continues to rely on carbon-intensive heavy industry.
View Article300 Business Leaders Ask Biden Administration To Double Emissions Cuts
300 leading businesses have signed a letter urging President Biden to slash carbon emissions by 50% no later than 2030.
View ArticleSmall Oil & Gas Producers Have Outsized Methane Emissions
Many of the oil and gas industry’s top emitters of methane are small, little-known companies, a new analysis of US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions data found. The analysis, commissioned...
View ArticleLarge Corporations Present EV Blueprint To Top Auto Manufacturers
Members of the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance have presented a roadmap for developing the types of EVs that companies plan to buy in the US over the next five years to top automotive...
View ArticleCompanies Are Clamoring For Electric Trucks, But Is Anyone Listening?
There are two electric vehicle markets: one is for private passenger cars and the other is for electric trucks for commercial customers. Many Americans are cool to the idea of driving an electric car....
View ArticleSolid Oxide Fuel Cells Are Having A (Big) Moment
Wallflowers no more: solid oxide fuel cells are ready to do the green hydrogen dance.
View ArticleFleet Owners Just Want More EV Charging Stations, Not The Moon
Fleet owners that represent more than 2.5 million vehicles on the road and claim more than $1.1 trillion in annual revenue figure they should have some say in the matter of building out the national EV...
View ArticleInstalling Home EV Chargers Just Got Much Easier (And Cheaper)
A simple, inexpensive meter retrofit could blow the home EV charging field wide open (photo courtesy of NREL).
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