Les banques se mettent au vert, mais elles ne sont pas les seules à proposer des ISR. Effectivement, WWF International, l’ONG la plus importante en matière de lutte pour la protection de la nature et de l’environnement, a lancé, il y a six ans déjà, un fonds d’investissement socialement responsable. Elle a, pour cela, créé [...]

Why do you buy The Big Issue? Is it to feel good about helping those on the margins of our society? Or is it to get something interesting to read? The answer — and that is the uniqueness of the paper launched by John Bird in 1991 — is that it is both. [...]

Thursday, 7 May 2009, 12h00 - 14h00, Cercle de la Terrasse, 4 rue Eynard / Members only
Sustainable Finance Geneva will hold its second members-only roundtable to discuss the effects of the financial crisis on sustainable finance. Thursday, 7 May 2009, 12h00 - 14h00, Cercle de la Terrasse, 4 rue Eynard, Geneva. Image: waivestar.com.au

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Unige Lunchtime Conferences. Thursday 23 April, Uni Mail, Room MR 150, 12.30 - 14.00. Graham Sinclair, Managing Principal, Sinclair & Company LLC, Adjunct Profexxor, Kenan-Flager Business School, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Fees: Chf. 20.- including documentation and refreshments. The full programme as well as the on-line registration form are available on: http://www.unige.ch/formcont/CSR/events.html. You can [...]

While the world faces the current financial crisis, companies and the media speak more and more about the importance of Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) while continuing to support their economic growth. How do big companies move from being purely profit oriented towards ethical business? How does Nestlé evaluate its overall corporate citizenship record, and how [...]

5% à 10 % des échanges commerciaux actuels s’effectuent dans le cadre d’une économie sociale et solidaire (ESS). Les coopératives de production, de consommation et de logement, les programmes de crédits solidaires et [...]

Mike Scott asks investors, both in the mainstream and SRI fields, whether the practice of selling short on stocks is always a bad thing – or might actually serve as a responsible investment tool. Short selling – profiting from price falls by selling stocks you do not own and buying them back at lower prices [...]

The Global Footprint Network, together with the IUCN, is proud to announce its first training course on Footprint methodology and applications in Switzerland. If you would like to explore how different sustainability practitioners are using this tool to strengthen their work please join us for a hands-on training course, to be held from 18-19 May [...]

From 8 to 26 June 2009, UNEP-FI will be running e-Learning Course on Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector. The course will enable senior and mid-level executives in financial institutions to learn about climate change and how it affects their industry in a flexible, cost-effective and accessible e-learning training environment with opportunities [...]