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Sharif Tarver published Endowments Across U.S Search for Bargains After Brexit Tumult in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 23:25:15 -0400
Endowments Across U.S Search for Bargains After Brexit Tumult
By Michael McDonald, June 30th, 2016Some U.S. university endowments that were sitting on cash have become buyers following the global market plunge from Britain’s vote to exit the European Union. For endowments, most of which are on a fiscal year that ends June 30, Brexit was the final straw to a volatile year.
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Sharif Tarver published BlackRock Launches Two 'Sustainable' ETSs in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 23:22:23 -0400
BlackRock Launches Two 'Sustainable' ETSs
BlackRock Launches Two ‘Sustainable’ ETFs | Barron’sBy Chris Dietrich, June 30th, 2016BlackRock (BLK) unfolded a pair of it's expanded suite of “sustainable” exchange-traded funds on Thursday. The iShares MSCI EAFE ESG Select ETF (ESGD) and iShares MSCI EM ESG Select ETF(ESGE) target, respectively, Europe/Asia/Australian and emerging-market companies that “demonstrate positive environmental, social and governance” characteristics.
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Sharif Tarver published Conservative to Fund Republicans Who Back Climate Change Action in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 23:17:05 -0400
Conservative to Fund Republicans Who Back Climate Change Action
Conservative to Fund Republicans Who Back Climate Change Action | The New York TimesBy Coral Davenport, June 29, 2016The spending comes as Republican leaders have questioned or denied the established science of human-caused climate change and attacked President Obama’s climate change policies. This self described conservative North Carolina businessman has promised to spend at least $5 million through his political action committee to back five Republican congressional candidates who have supported taking action to curb climate change.
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Sharif Tarver published 400 ppm CO2? Add Other GHGs, and It’s Equivalent to 478 ppm in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 23:14:02 -0400
400 ppm CO2? Add Other GHGs, and It’s Equivalent to 478 ppm
400 ppm CO2? Add Other GHGs, and It’s Equivalent to 478 ppm | Oceans at MITBy Genevieve Wanucha June 6th,2016The Keeling Curve record from the NOAA-operated Mauna Loa Observatory shows that the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration hovers around 400 ppm, a level not seen in more than 3 million years when sea levels were as much as 80 feet higher than today.
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Sharif Tarver published Fossil fuel industry ramps up anti-divestment strategy in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 23:09:20 -0400
Fossil fuel industry ramps up anti-divestment strategy
Fossil fuel industry ramps up anti-divestment strategy | E&E Publishing, LLCBy Benjamin Hulac, E&E Reporter June 27th, 2016The Fossil fuel industry experiences added pressure to formulate anti-divestment strategies,Yet fossil fuel companies deny the campaign is affecting them and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)has until now largely stayed out of the debate. Several recent signals show that business leaders are now hitting back hard against a growing threat to their sectors.
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Sharif Tarver published After 6 years of working on climate at Harvard, I implore it to show the courage to divest in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 23:06:43 -0400
After 6 years of working on climate at Harvard, I implore it to show the courage to divest
After 6 years of working on climate at Harvard, I implore it to show the courage to divest | The Guardianby Benjamin Frata June 29th, 2016Divestment, though central to fixing climate change conceptually and perhaps practically—is one issue of many. Yet it has revealed the tip of an iceberg, demonstrating that words of concern on climate only go so far. This indicates that the struggle to fix climate change is not simply partisan but is a deeper test of who we are; it is to be found within even our most enlightened institutions—and within ourselves.
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Sharif Tarver published Metrics & ICT efforts to protect workers in their supply chain from forced labor in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 22:59:51 -0400
Metrics & ICT efforts to protect workers in their supply chain from forced labor
June 2016This benchmark methodology has seven themes, selected to capture the key areas where companies need to take action to eradicate forced labor from their supply chains: commitment and governance; traceability and risk assessment; purchasing practices; recruitment; worker voice; monitoring; and remedy.
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Sharif Tarver published Companies Are Responding to Shareholder Calls to be more Sustainable in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 22:55:21 -0400
Companies Are Responding to Shareholder Calls to be more Sustainable
Companies Are Responding to Shareholder Calls to be More Sustainable | Environmental Leaderby Ken Silverstein June 27, 2016The old corporate truism has been to take care of your shareholders — to increase share value, and everything else will fall into place. But that thinking is now evolving. Why? Because corporate owners — the shareholders — are demanding that companies focus on sustainability.
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Sharif Tarver published Towards A Sustainable University in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 22:51:53 -0400
Towards A Sustainable University
Towards a Sustainable University | Great Transition InitiativeBy Anthony Cortese, June 2016The creation of a healthy, just, and sustainable society must become a strategic imperative, not simply a hoped-for byproduct of fragmented academic or operational programs. To do this, higher education institutions will have to help define the attributes of a socially, economically, and ecologically resilient society—and then turn them into a reality.
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Sharif Tarver published Impact Investing Takes Hold on Business School Campuses in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 22:49:51 -0400
Impact Investing Takes Hold on Business School Campuses
Impact Investing Takes Hold on Business School Campuses | Fortune Magazineby Nathan Allen, WeSeeGenius June 28th,2016It may seem as if do-gooder investors are taking over elite B-schools. But ask any top-shelf finance professors and he or she will pump their chests telling you how this is nothing new and they’ve been doing some form of impact investment instruction since the 1950s, when sustainable, responsible, and impact investing (SRI) was first conceived.
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Sharif Tarver published HP, Apple Lead Tech Firms in Forced Labor Response in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 22:46:43 -0400
HP, Apple Lead Tech Firms in Forced Labor Response
HP, Apple Lead Tech Firms in Forced Labor Response | Bloomberg Briefby Jason Strongin, Bloomberg BriefA handful of technology companies have taken actions to address the risk of forced labor in their supply chains, HP Inc., Apple Inc., and Intel Corp., ranked highly among technology companies for their policies to reduce the risk of forced labor, such as supplier training and monitoring, according to the report from Humanity United, an initiative backed by the philanthropic arm of eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar.
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Sharif Tarver published US SIF Foundation Releases Report On Impact of Sustainable Investment | US SIF in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 22:37:48 -0400
US SIF Foundation Releases Report On Impact of Sustainable Investment | US SIF
by US SIF Admin, June 29th, 2016Drawing upon a range of data, surveys and examples, this report focuses on four significant impacts of sustainable, responsible and impact (SRI) investors over the past 25 years. See wheat four major areas sustainable, responsible investors have changed the investment landscape..
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Sharif Tarver published Students team with senior leaders at Brown to create a fund for sustainable, socially oriented investing |Brown University in Weekly News Round-Ups 2016-07-01 22:29:45 -0400
Students team with senior leaders at Brown to create a fund for sustainable, socially oriented investing
Students team with senior leaders at Brown to create a fund for sustainable, socially oriented investing | Brown Universityby Brown University's News Staff, June 23rd, 2016
Brown has launched an investment fund that gives donors who wish to support the University philanthropically a sustainability-focused giving option structured to invest in companies that meet high standards of environmental, social and governance practices.
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Yingjie Wang
Yingjie Wang is a senior Economics major at Yale University, focusing on economic development and public health. On campus, she is part of the Board of Directors at Dwight Hall, the umbrella nonprofit service organization at Yale, and has interned at Innovations for Poverty-Action, a development think tank. Last semester, she studied comparative public health abroad in Vietnam, South Africa, and Argentina and wrote her thesis on the cost of economic development on human health while performing field work on the impact of food subsidy cuts on health and finances in Buenos Aires. Having worked for three years at various nonprofits, she is passionate about helping organizations promote their missions without sacrificing financial performance.