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ISSUES

Socially Responsible Investment

Socially responsible investment (SRI) is the consideration of non-financial factors in all types of management. This approach has been increasingly popular since 2000, although it represents a relatively small percentage of the overall financial asset industry. Europe is the most dynamic region in the world in terms of the innovation and creation of SRI funds. Compared to 2003 data, in 2006 the European SRI market rose 36% on average (Eurosif study). However, the strictest practices represent only €100bn in assets, or 1% of overall European assets. The first SRI fund was created in 1971 in the United States and by end-2005 investments totalled $2.29 trillion, or 12% of U.S. assets, according to a very broad definition of SRI. [Debate]
Some emerging economies such as South Korea, Malaysia and South Africa are beginning to invest in ethical funds. In Europe, at January 1, 2006, 96% of the SRI market was dominated by institutional i...

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - SAN FRANCISCO - Des chercheurs du géant informatique IBM et de l'université californienne de Stanford ont annoncé mardi...

FRANCE - PARIS - La présidente du Medef Laurence Parisot a demandé jeudi au gouvernement de "repousser" le projet de taxe...

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND - The Church of England has dealt a significant blow to Vedanta Resources plc by pulling £3.75 million worth of...

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DEBATES

Green Intelligence: Toward True Ecological Transparency

Daniel Goleman

Two months ago, Wal-Mart made an announcement that could set off an ecological earthquake: The giant retailer disclosed it was...

The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy

I live in the last small corner of Gaul still holding out...

Environment and businesses, down with discourse

There is no regulation of the financial criteria for...

FOCUS

Greenbusiness and Greenwashing

Ecology and economy are not necessarily contradictory. The world market of products and services related to the environment thus already reaches 1370 billion dollars a year. This figure could go up to 2740...

VIDEOS

26/11/2009

Ce documentaire présente ce qu'est l'économie sociale et solidaire,...

29/12/2008

La banque de micro-crédit Grameen a financé au Bangladesh l'installation...

GREEN TIPS

Poverty and microcredit

Today, 60 million people in the world already benefit from microcredits and each year, 5 % of them come out...

INDICATORS

Biocapacity
GDP per capita
Ratio of richest 10% to poorest 10%
Gender gap

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