Investors Managing $2.1 Trillion in Assets Praise SEC for Climate Disclosure Guidance
March 3, 2010 - More than 50 leading investors today sent a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission re-affirming their support for the SEC's recent issuance of interpretive guidance clarifying what publicly-traded companies need to disclose to investors in terms of climate change-related material risks and opportunities they face. More

Investor Progress Report on Climate Risk & Opportunities
January 2010 - This report reviews the substantial progress that investors have made toward the three key objectives in the 2008 Action Plan despite the economic turmoil of the past 18 months: (1) increasing investments in clean technology, (2) engaging companies, investors, and others in requiring climate risk disclosure, and (3) supporting strong policy action on climate change.
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New Report: Largest Companies Fall Short in Managing, Disclosing Water Scarcity Risks
Despite growing water-scarcity risks in many parts of the world, the vast majority of leading companies in water-intensive industries have weak management and disclosure of water-related risks and opportunities, according to a first-ever report issued today by Ceres, UBS and Bloomberg. More

WEBINAR: Energy Efficiency and Real Estate: Opportunities for Investors
On February 17, 2010 (1 PM EST), following the launch of a report by Ceres and Mercer, this webinar will review the evidence supporting the business case for investing in energy efficiency in real estate and present case studies from some investors and companies that recognize the potential for boosting their real estate portfolio value. More information

SEC Issues Ground-Breaking Guidance Requiring Corporate Disclosure of Material Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
January 27, 2010 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today issued new interpretive guidance that clarifies what publicly-traded companies need to disclose to investors in terms of climate-related ‘material’ effects on business operations. More

Investors Representing $13 Trillion Call on U.S. and Other Countries to Move Quickly to Adopt Strong Climate Change Policies
January 14, 2010 - On the heels of international climate treaty talks in Copenhagen, the world’s largest investors today released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to move quickly to adopt strong national climate policies that will spur low-carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change. More

New Report: Investment Managers Still Lagging in Response to Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
January 06, 2010 - Although there is overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is underway and governments are imposing regulations to curb greenhouse gases, the vast majority of the world's largest investment managers are not factoring climate-related trends into their short- and long-term investment decision-making, the result being significant 'hidden risks' in the trillions of dollars of investment portfolios they are managing. More

Note to Investors: Energy Efficiency Measures Can Enhance Value of Real Estate Portfolios
December 21, 2009 - A new report from Ceres and Mercer highlights the importance of energy efficiency for both real estate investing and climate change. The report also flags the potential risks to portfolios that don't embrace energy efficiency measures. More

Major Investors Call for SEC to Require Disclosure of Companies’ Climate Risks and Opportunities
November 23, 2009 – A supplemental petition, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission today by a broad coalition of 20 institutional investors, asks the SEC to provide interpretive guidance outlining climate-related 'material risks'. More

Ceres Applauds SEC Decision Allowing Financial Risks in Environmental and Social Resolutions
October 27, 2009 - Ceres, which directs the $8 trillion Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), today released a statement by its president Mindy S. Lubber, regarding SEC Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14E (CF). Read Statement

Boston Globe on 03/09/10: Making Clean Tech Cheap, As Well As Green
It’s called clean technology’s “competitive conundrum’’: how to get people to pay for cleaner energy when electricity produced from traditional sources like nuclear power, coal, or natural gas costs less. Read More

Financial Times on 03/4/10: Investors Increasingly Concerned About Climate Change
One way of judging investor sentiment is through the types of investor resolutions filed each year. This year, a record of 96 resolutions involving climate change have been filed. Read More

Huffington Post on 2/18/10: Banks Should Finance Energy Efficiency Loans, Not Subprime Mortgages
Mindy Lubber of Ceres blogs about how banks and financial institutions can refurbish their tarnished reputations by innovating new financial products that actually help average Americans. Read More

MarketWatch on 02/12/10: Climate Change Debate Crowded With Ignorance, Thomas Kostigen’s Ethics Monitor
Both global warming skeptics and climate change believers are using the snowstorms pounding the East Coast of the United States as fodder to further their debate. Read More

Deutsche Bank on 02/10/10: CleanTech Index
DB Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA) and the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) today announced the introduction of the DB NASDAQ OMX® Clean Tech Index (DBCC). The index is an accurate, real-time representation of the global clean technology sector with exposure to clean energy, energy efficiency, transport, waste management and water companies. This is the first clean technology index co-branded by a global exchange company and a global bank. Read More

The Hill on 02/08/10: Disclosing Financial Climate-Change Risks
Legendary House Speaker Sam Rayburn ushered in the 1933 Truth in Securities Act in the grim depths of the Great Depression. It was based on the principle that the purchase and sale of securities should be an honest bargain, and disclosure its cornerstone. Read More

New York Times on 01/30/10: Climate Change and the S.E.C.
There were predictable howls after the Securities and Exchange Commission told publicly held companies they should warn investors of any potential effects from climate change on their bottom lines. More

New York Times on 01/27/10: S.E.C. Adds Climate Risk to Disclosure List
The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday for the first time that public companies should warn investors of any serious risks that global warming might pose to their businesses. More

Business Week on 01/27/10: SEC Sets Corporate Climate-Change Disclosure Standard (Update1)
Companies must consider the effects of global warming and efforts to curb climate change when disclosing business risks to investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said. More

TIME on 01/15/10: After Copenhagen, Getting Business into Green Tech
This was the fourth Investor Summit on Climate Risk, occurring after Copenhagen, before the U.S. Senate begins its real work on climate legislation this year and just as investors begin to climb out of the recession. Investors, especially large-scale institutional funds that need to worry about the long term, are ready to bet on cutting carbon — but impatient. More

The New York Times on 01/14/10: White House Will Press Ahead With Climate Bill, U.S. Negotiator Tells Investors
U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern today urged nations that signed the Copenhagen Accord to submit their greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets and to hammer out details critical to implementing the broad agreement. More

The Wall Street Journal on 01/14/10: Clean Economy Investors At UN Conference Seek Market Clarity
Investors representing $13 trillion in assets Thursday said they are eager to invest in a low-carbon economy, but they need the certainty and transparency of a legally binding agreement "with ambitious greenhouse gas emission-reduction targets." More

CNBC (via UN Dispatch) on 01/14/10: Ted Turner and Sen Tim Wirth at the UN Today for Investors Summit on Climate Risk
Haiti has justifiably been taking up alot of energy and focus of the United Nations over the last two days. But it is worth noting that there has been a long scheduled meeting of entrepreneurs and investors concerned about climate change at the UN today.Earlier this morning, UN Foundation President Tim Wirth and Board Chair Ted Turner discussed both Haiti and today's summit on CNBC. Watch