Trillium’s Sustainable Opportunities Strategy is One-Third as Carbon Intensive as its Benchmark
As of March 31, 2013 Trillium’s Sustainable Opportunities Strategy has been calculated to be 66.64% less carbon intensive than its benchmark, the S&P 1500® Index, on that date, according to a carbon footprint analysis conducted by Trucost, a leading environmental data and analysis firm. Trucost’s carbon intensity analysis is based on measuring the tons of carbon emissions per million dollars of revenue of the companies held by the strategy and those of the companies included in the S&P 1500® Index. Trillium’s Sustainable Opportunity Strategy seeks to provide long-term investment growth by investing in companies positioned to thrive during the transition …
Trillium's Sustainable Opportunities Strategy is One-Third as Carbon Intensive as its Benchmark
July 16, 2013 / / Boston, MA: Trillium Asset Management, the oldest independent investment advisor devoted exclusively to sustainable and responsible investing, announced today that as of March 31, 2013 its Sustainable Opportunities Strategy has been calculated to be 67% less carbon intensive than its benchmark, the S&P 1500® Index, on that date, according to a carbon footprint analysis conducted by Trucost, a leading environmental data and analysis firm. Trucost’s carbon intensity analysis is based on measuring the tons of carbon emissions per million dollars of revenue of the companies held by the Strategy and those of the companies included …
Sustainability Report – Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide (2013)
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors begin issuing an annual sustainability report (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) by October 2013. SUPPORTING STATEMENT Investors increasingly seek disclosure of companies’ social, environmental and governance (ESG) practices in the belief that they impact shareholder value. Many investors have concluded that companies which are good employers, environmental stewards, and corporate citizens, are more likely to generate stronger financial returns, better respond to emerging issues, and enjoy long-term business success. The United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment is an initiative whose members seek the integration of ESG factors into investment decision …
Trillium Subadvised Green Century Balanced Fund is First U.S. Mutual Fund to Report its Carbon Footprint
The Green Century Balanced Fund, which is subadvised by Trillium, just announced that it is the first U.S.-based mutual fund to disclose its carbon footprint. The carbon footprint analysis was conducted by Trucost, and the results indicate that the carbon intensity of the Balanced Fund is two-thirds less than that of the S&P 500 Index. Click here to read the carbon footprint report and full press release. …
Idacorp – Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction (2009)
WHEREAS In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are now believed to be the cause with greater than 90 percent certainty. In October 2007, a group representing the world’s 150 scientific and engineering academies, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, issued a report urging governments to lower greenhouse gas emissions by establishing a firm and rising price for such emissions and by doubling energy research budgets to accelerate deployment of cleaner and more efficient technologies. In October 2006, a report authored by …
Big Coal Losing Momentum in the U.S.
Poor coal. For so long, it has gotten away with being the largest contributor (41 percent) to global CO2 emissions from energy use, a widespread public health hazard by virtue of lead, mercury and other pollutants, the source of black lung disease, and now we can add deforestation to its achievements. “Coal will be coal,” they said. “Isn’t it great that it’s cheap and abundant?” Coal claims that it’s now clean and has offered to change its ways by burying its carbon instead of spewing it all over the atmosphere, but its persecutors have obtained restraining orders and are bent …
Spotlight on Your Portfolio: Carbon Footprinting Your Investment
You hear a lot of talk from Wall Street these days about how climate change presents “unprecedented business risks and opportunities.” While investment action doesn’t yet fully match this rhetoric, many major firms are establishing research shops focused on the investment implications of climate change. Some of the early (and quite excellent) work has been focused on the likelihood that the U.S. will pass legislation regulating carbon emissions in the next two years. It’s been decades since we’ve seen this kind of sweeping environmental regulation in the U.S. Carbon regulation on its own – as well as other climate change …
Bank of America – Moritorium on Coal Financing (2008)
WHEREAS Bank of America (BOA) is a diversified financial services company providing banking,investment, investment banking, credit card and consumer finance services.BOA recognizes that its ability to attract and retain customers and employees could be adversely affected “to the extent our reputation is damaged” and that “failure to address, or to appear to fail to address various issues” could damage the Corporation and its business prospects. (2005 Annual Report)BOA also recognizes that: The health of our company is dependent on the health of communities and our society; Climate change and atmospheric pollution represent a risk to the ultimate stability and sustainability …
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