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Policy Priorities - Environmental (Green) Investing

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Environmental (Green) Investing

Leveraging investments and spending – controlling our environmental footprint.

SCB will follow its carbon offset precedent and its strategic policy plan by working with its subgroups, foundation partners and others such as the UNEP-Finance Initiative and UN Principles for Responsible Investment to make conservation science more accessible to makers of investment and procurement policies and decisions.

Environmental (Green) Investing News:

Your investment choices also make a difference in the world. When you support the most responsible companies with your investments, or use your shareholder clout to push less responsible companies to improve, you're voting for a greener future for people and the planet. Click here for more information from Co-Op America about socially responsible mutual funds and more.
UNEP Finance Initiative -- Biodiversity Work Stream Update -- February 12, 2008 (word doc)
New Environmental Performance Ratings of Nations Released by Yale and Columbia: US falls further
Yale, Columbia, others collaborate to rate the Environmental Performance of Nations
Top 20 Sustainable Companies Announced

Issues:

1) What are the most accessible and effective conservation-enhancing investment and spending options for those groups, jurisdictions, and individuals?

2) How best can SCB inform those making investment decisions concerning the impacts on biodiversity of their spending and investment choices?

3) How can environmentally conscious investors affect the policy process more effectively?

4) How can employees, both public and private, be given more environmentally friendly retirement investment options.