Chile Creates a Center for Renewable Energy
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Chile has created a Renewable Energy Center (Centro de Energias Renovables – CER) to serve as a national focal point for research, development, information and promotion of investment and technology transfer in non-conventional renewable energy (known by its Spanish acronym, ERNC), such as solar, wind, geothermal and ocean. CER was created jointly by the National […]
IFC: Financial Institutions Still Not Integrating Environment Issues Into the Investment Process
Friday, January 30th, 2009From the International Finance Corporation (IFC): New Report Urges Financial Industry to Integrate Sustainable Investing Practices A new report by IFC, the United Nations Global Compact, and the Swiss government finds that although the financial industry understands the necessity of developing methodologies and tools that examine environmental issues in the investment process, it is still […]