Accounting for Sustainability Properly
A client coaching session last week focussed on investment appraisal and how it can block sustainability progress – in this case investment in renewables. As...
Sustainability in Portland, Oregon (Part III)
Jul 30, 2015
So I had my meeting with sustainability officials at the City Council of Portland, which is unlike any local Government I've come across before. It...
Putting my money where my mouth is…
Nov 10, 2014
I've just made a modest investment in Triodos Renewables via the TrillionFund. This follows a smaller peer-to-peer loan to another renewables project I made earlier...
Are Investors Bothered About Sustainability?
Jul 20, 2012
I was sat in the foyer cafe of one of the most impressive corporate headquarters I have ever visited, formalising a business relationship with the...
Greening the bean counters
Sep 12, 2011
I usually start off my seminars by asking delegates why their company should go green (try it - much more effective than you telling them...
What's a Green Investment Bank?
Mar 24, 2010
With today's UK Governmental budget expected to be all doom and gloom, one green diamond in the murk could be Mr Darling's well trailed Green...
Green jobs in a green economy?
Oct 1, 2009
There's an interesting article on Fast Company giving three estimations of the potential for new green jobs by 2020:2.7m in the EU according to Greenpeace...
Green Energy Investment Overtakes Fossil Fuels
Jun 8, 2009
In 2008 wind, solar and other clean technologies attracted $140bn (£85bn) compared with $110bn for gas and coal for electrical power generation (source: Guardian). There...
A good time to go green
Jul 2, 2008
Things have settled down here a little at Terra Infirma Towers after the most busy (and it has to be said lucrative) month in our...
Clean Energy Investment Booms
Feb 29, 2008
New Energy Finance is reporting that "Clean" energy investment almost hit $150bn last year - up 60% on the year before. Their press release states:Among...
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