World Bank Group Financial Flows Undermine the Paris Climate Agreement: The WBG contributes to higher profit margins for oil, gas, and coal The full report by Urgewald can be found here: https://urgewald.org/sites/default/files/World_Bank_Fossil_Projects_WEB.pdf “These fossil fuel investments make up a greater share of the bank’s current energy lending portfolio than renewable projects, according to a new…
https://hackernoon.com/bernard-lietaer-a-financial-justice-warrior-who-fought-for-freedom-of-currency-25123ca599dd Goodbye Bernard. With heartfelt sympathy to friends and family, the Global 4C team.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on collaborative research on distributed ledger and blockchain technology for economic development. Participating institutions are the Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) and BRICS member banks—under the BRICS Interbank Cooperation Mechanism—including, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social or BNDES of Brazil, China…
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The following information is redacted from the links provided: The Future of Measuring Environmental Risk and Opportunity in Investment Portfolios 29 March 2016 Ben Caldecott (Director, Sustainable Finance Programme, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford) discussed environmental risk and opportunity in investment portfolios at the University Club of San Francisco on the 29 March 2016. The Californian…
Proposal for Global Climate Action Plan by global4c.org Solar Dollars: The World Currency to Price and Finance Carbon Mitigation The Global 4C project has entered the Solar Dollar policy concept into the 2015-2016 MIT Climate CoLab competition as a global climate action plan. Please vote for our proposal in the competition. The Solar Dollar is…
Avoiding Climate Disruption with a Global Price: Theory for a New World Currency Speaker: Dr. Delton Chen August 17th, 12:00-1:30pm (PDT) http://www.drawdown.org/august-17th-2015-delton-chen/
“Global 4C for a Brave New World” Synopsis Dr. Delton Chen will present Global 4C via ‘Google Hangout’ with digital currency enthusiasts at Decentral, Vancouver. Dr. Chen will explain why a Global 4C World Currency and a Global 4C Reward Scheme are needed to strengthen global efforts to mitigate climate change. The presentation will begin with an overview of sea ice melt in…
Delton Chen – Research Fellow June – July 2015 Delton Chen, Lead Author of Global 4C, will be working as a Research Fellow with The Drawdown Project this summer. Delton will be undertaking analysis and modelling of two technological solutions that could help mitigate CO2 emissions. The Drawdown Project will publish a book of 100 climate solutions in…
