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[Energy & Climate News] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): If sovereign wealth funds, which manage assets of $3 trillion, invested in clean tech, they could help plug the chronic shortage of funding to tackle climate change. Clean tech or other socially responsible investment (SRI) projects could serve a multitude of purposes for the burgeoning sovereign wealth fund industry.

[CorpGov.net] CorpGov.net » SIF Funds Outperformed: This analysis underscores the reality that socially responsible investments offer what are genuinely competitive returns,” said Cheryl Smith, chairman of the board at SIF and president at Boston-based Trillium Asset Management Corporation. “In fact, the 2009 data show that SRI funds specializing in large cap stocks have turned in an extremely strong performance that outpaced the S&P 500 over both the short term and the long term.”

[News] Wow! UK parliamentary investigation into Climategate may not be a ...: “The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has taken this approach in its ongoing series of assessment reports, and it has done an admirable job of highlighting the important conclusions while acknowledging the caveats. It has made some errors, such as its use of questionable data about the retreat of Himalayan glaciers (see page 276), but these mistakes are exceedingly rare in reports that can total more than 1,000 pages, a testament to the IPCC’s rigorous peer-review process.”

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] China e-commerce giant Alibaba calls shareholder Yahoo 'reckless ...: BEIJING ”” Google on Tuesday postponed the launch of its mobile phone in China, adding to the potential commercial fallout of its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking. One person briefed on Google's decision said it was linked to the company's threat that it will shut its Chinese-based search engine if restrictions aren't eased.

[WWWATTS: Drive Different - The best blogs and podcasts related to electric vehicles, electric vehicle technology, and related issues.] OilDrum: Drumbeat: January 17, 2010 | WWWATTS: Drive Different: Over 140 fund managers, mutual funds, pension funds and individual investors co-filed a resolution, co-ordinated by social responsible investment campaign group FairPensions, in December 2009. Shell has since confirmed that the resolution is valid, and will be addressed in its annual general meeting on May 18.

[MacroScope] SWFs and ethical investing: serving multitude of objectives ...: Sovereign wealth funds, eager to be accepted in the West, are increasingly interested in showing the world that they care about environment and governance by investing in socially responsible firms. It all sounds good, but the biggest shortfall of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is that it lacks convincing performance details.

[John Lothian Newsletter] John Lothian Newsletter: January 25, 2010: US Stock Exchanges To ...: 2009 marked the best annual hedge fund performance in a decade, according to a new research piece released by the Credit Suisse Tremont Index. The report, "Hedge Funds Hit a High Note: 2009 Industry Review," that examines hedge fund performance in 2009 with a focus on the key factors that contributed to the turnaround seen in the industry last year.

[PR Hub] Globeleq Acquires 70% of Central American Renewable Energy Business: LONDON - Globeleq Generation Limited - the power generation company solely focused on the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and the Americas - has further strengthened its executive management team with the appointment of Mikael Karlsson as Chief Executive Officer. Mikael brings extensive senior management experience in global development, acquisition, financing and equity investments of energy and infrastructure assets with 19 years in the industry.

[Trinidad and Tobago News Blog] Disaster Capitalism Headed to Haiti « Trinidad and Tobago News Blog: As a result, wars are waged, social services cut, public ones privatized, and freedom sacrificed when people are too distracted, cowed or in duress to object. Disaster capitalism is triumphant everywhere from post-Soviet Russia to post-apartheid South Africa, occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, Honduras before and after the US-instigated coup, post-tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, New Orleans post-Katrina, and now heading to Haiti full-throttle after its greatest ever catastrophe.

[Integrity ResearchWatch] Integrity Research» Blog Archive » Thomson Reuters Acquires ASSET4: The acquisition by Thomson vindicates the firm’s strategy of aggressively building a large ESG dataset as the core product.  ASSET4 collects 900 data items, such as pollution, water use and violations of corporate governance, and 250 performance metrics on some 3,000 companies.

[Online Universities] 100 Great Blogs for Green Students | Online Universities: The Oil Drum: If you're curious about how the oil industry and the energy crisis are really related, read this blog. Idealist.org: Idealist.org's blog and podcast series discuss green jobs, making global connections, nonprofit work, and more.

[The Big Picture] The Big Picture » Blog Archive » SEC Helped AIG Hide PassThru ...: I say, it all should be blown to smithereens and we start over. Very simply, the new can’t take root until the old is destroyed.

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