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[Climate Action Programme - News and Articles] Norwegian pension fund report urges chemical, transport industries ...: But the Norwegian Fund has more leeway to address these issues than most pension funds because of the lower population of the country in comparison to its relatively large investment gains. This has made the Fund a target for questions about ethics, questioning its history of funding controversial industries including arms and tobacco.

[brianloffler's posterous] Climate Advocacy Fund: In 2006 James Thier took some time out from his work with Australian Ethical Investment to travel to the US, UK and the Netherlands on a Churchill Fellowship scholarship. His goal was to examine the mechanisms of shareholder advocacy, especially resolutions proposed at Annual General Meetings, used to improve the ethics of corporations and promote ecologically sustainable and socially just enterprises.

[Crikey » Politics] The Oz versus the Greens: well beyond the normal News Ltd bias ...: Anyone interested in this subject should listen to today’s radio interview with John Menadue on the failure of the media, during the election campaign - most notably the partisan sheet that The Australian has become and more particularly the echo chamber of the ABC.

[both kinds of politics] Secular Party Candidate for Boothby, Avi Chapman, responds to our ...: It is therefore the policy of the Secular Party that all those authorised to solemnise marriages do so with reference to the fact that “marriage is a voluntary union entered into for life by two people to the exclusion of all others”. It is also our policy that civil celebrants should have a status equal to ministers of religion in relation to witnessing statutory declarations, and in relation to GST exemption.

[Blogocrats] Criticisms of the CPRS and calls for a carbon tax « Blogocrats: It might be fair to argue that the Government hasn’t effectively explained that under a cap and trade scheme Australia’s emissions will only reduce by the cap and that unilateral efforts to reduce emissions (short of buying permits and ensuring they are never acquitted against emissions) wont result in us having lower GHG emissions; but it is hardly a strong economic argument to assert that people are being duped into thinking they are making an actual difference to the amount of GHG being emitted and that this is somehow an inequity worth of economic intervention.

[Sustainabilitank] SustainabiliTank: The Valentine's Day 2008 Investor Summit On ...: Noting that climate change presents both material risks and significant opportunities, the investors pledged to collectively invest $10 billion in clean technology opportunities over the next two years and to incorporate green building standards ”” such as LEED (Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design) and Energy Star ”” into their investment decisions. Calling energy efficiency “one of the fastest, easiest and cheapest ways to significantly reduce emissions and improve the bottom line,”

[REDD-Monitor] Carbon Planet's Dave Sag on carbon trading in PNG | REDD-Monitor: Kirk Roberts, in a statement released to the media at 1200 hrs ESST, said the following, “Carbon Planet Limited and all and any companies and staff related to Carbon Planet Limited have no right to represent themselves as our Agents, Initiators, Marketers, or Sellers, effective immediately. Any agreement previously entered into by them in their name as it relates to our business or the business of our Clients, is not considered valid by us, and while we are happy to renegotiate any agreement on proper commercial terms directly with any Client company, we are not bound and will not support any commercial activity Carbon Planet Limited may or may not have entered into or concluded in its name while alluding to represent us.

[Ethical Man blog] BBC - Ethical Man blog: Should Indians drive cars? Part 2: While the UK may have contributed tremendously to CO2 emissions during 1950 to 2000, India added nearly 600,000,000 people to the planet during that time. Even if all Indians don't buy cars, providing them with the basics like nutritious food, good education and healthcare will undoubtedly place a great pressure on the planet's environmental resources.

[Gongjidin's Blog] 2004 June - - molt to grow - all of happiness and ”¦: She was 19 years old, I am 23 years old. . Her second, I.. She read well, year after year for the scholarship, slightly fat man is not beautiful, but very cute, especially the eyes. I graduated from high school every day and the band of ...

[Meganomics] Allow a conscience vote on climate - Meganomics Blog | The Australian: If our plastics factory moved to Asia to avoid the 10% carbon cost to its production we should be open and confidant about imposing a 10% carbon tax on those imported plastics products from that non-carbon taxing country. That gives us ownership of our carbon production costs and transmits a message internationally that this a genuine global problem that requires a genuine global response.

[News Blog] Should Australia set greenhouse targets? - The Sydney Morning ...: Per capita, Australia is among the highest greenhouse gas emitters on the entire planet, but in absolute terms our emissions represent a mere 1.5% of the global annual output. The reason our per capita emission value is so high is because we live on a continent of significant proportions - a continent that requires electrical power, transport routes, drinking water accessibility and just about every other basic necessity you can think of to as much land mass as possible.

[Greens MPs latest] Racism does exist in Australia | Greens MPs: educated) young indian students rather than looking at the nation average - Jim, I know this data probably wasn't readily available for a comment on a blog), but it would be worth the soundbites and/or page space in the popular press to show a statistical analysis of this nature. In addition, using this type of argument at an inter-governmental diplomacy level may serve to minimise the damage done by an Australian (and even more apparently an Indian) media which took a perfect opportunity to conflagrate a potentially benign news event, turning it into the holocaust mk II.

[subaltern] Silence in republic: Carbon Trading and American Dazzle of DOLLARS ...: And with the conference highlighting a deep rift between rich and poor nations, hecklers chanting "Social justice now!" disrupted a speech by Australian Environment Minister Penny Wong. Meanwhile, two draft texts prepared by bureaucrats in the run-up to high-level talks had failed to materialise on time, highlighting a lack of consensus among the nearly 200 delegations.

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