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Mutual Fund Benefits from Measuring Footprint
Green Century Balanced Fund is First U.S. Mutual Fund to Report its Carbon Footprint.
CSRwire.com — Boston, MA – July 22, 2009
The Green Century Balanced Fund announced today the results of its carbon footprint analysis, performed by leading environmental data and analysis firm Trucost. Based on measuring the tons of carbon emissions per million dollars [...]
Tax Credits=Grants
Good news for investors.
Investors frustrated by incentives for energy projects, now tied to tax credits, welcome the news about cash grants.
On July 9th, Treasury and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the long-awaited details of how they intend to distribute approximately $3 billion of the Section 1603 energy grants to eligible renewable energy projects.
According to [...]
NASDAQ OMX and CRD Analytics Launch New Index Tracking Corporate Sustainability
In the recent downturn, companies that have voluntarily reported sustainability metrics have tended to hold their share value better than those who don’t. For that reason, many large institutional investors are looking to evaluate their portfolio using a reliable and transparent method. Using a proprietary SmartViewTM system, The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 [...]
