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[Sox First] Tightening the rules for ethical investment: "Ethical investment, if followed seriously, could help avert such bitter alternatives. Financial markets have become the single most important sector of the global economy, and reducing their ecological footprint through credible legal standards for SRI (socially responsible investment) may yield a better dividend than any other environmental law strategy currently available."

[An Inconvenient Blog] Earthwire News 21st May 2008: BONN, Germany - The world faces a Herculean task to safeguard animal and plant life from climate change and pollution, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said at the opening of a UN biodiversity conference on Monday.

[ecogeos] United Kingdom: A climate change in ethical investments: The inaugural National Ethical Investment Week aims to highlight some of the options available to the environmentally and socially conscious investor.

[Green Money] NATIONAL ETHICAL INVESTMENT WEEK: Penny Shepherd, chief executive of UKSIF, said: 'Consumer interest in green and ethical investment has increased year on year for the last five years, and along with interest in organic and eco friendly products, looks set to escalate as consumers realise that they can invest their money in ways that benefit society and the environment, and still make as good a profit as they would with traditional investments.'

[EU funding news from Welcomeurope] Eu funding : Agriculture Ministers Discuss Pesticides Regulation ...: At their working lunch, the ministers discussed the contribution of research towards adapting the agricultural sector to climate change. The meeting was also attended by the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mariann Fischer Boel, and the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnik.

 [Sustainablog] Low Impact Living: Invest in the Best ”” Green Investing and SRI: Since July 2003, sustainablog has been providing information on environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics. The blog regularly features environmental leaders, experts in alternative energy and green technology, and real people trying to lighten their environmental footprints.

 [1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: Pope Benedict XVI said the world needed to care for the environment, but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given a greater priority than that of mankind, attacking climate change prophets of doom, warning that any solution to global warming must be based on firm evidence and on an agreement of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

 [Low Impact Living] Invest in the Best: Green Investing & SRI: These methods create investor pressure on companies, and can even garner media attention. As an SRI investor, your actions work to improve policies and practices, encourage good corporate citizenship and promote long-term shareholder value.

 [from the desk of Tim Blair; NEWS blog: Redondo-Des Moines, King County, Washington USA RIGHT NOW 2008] zenit: In a statement from the Argentinean episcopal conference, the prelates called for dialogue. "Experience has shown us that a society doesn't necessarily develop when its economy does, but when above all it matures in its capacity to dialogue and its skill in coming to consensuses that become state policies, which guide toward a common project as a nation.

 [Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: This is not the first time Gates investments have come under the ethical spotlight. In 2007, an LA Times article critiqued Gates Foundation investments”¦ Following the”¦ expose, the Gates Foundation promised ”˜formalize the .

 [Orange Coast Voice] Peak Politics: Mayor’s oily investments grease the press: But both papers overlooked Cook’s other provocative, non-oil, investments, including General Electric, which has a “a lengthy record of criminal, civil, political and ethical transgressions, some of them shocking in disregard for the integrity of human beings,” according to Corpwatch.org, and the Walt Disney Company, which has a record of severe labor rights violations in China and other developing countries.

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