Commentary
2020 is a Critical Year for the World’s Forests
Jessye Waxman coordinates Green Century’s work to protect tropical forests. As the need to address biodiversity loss, climate change and ecosystem stability become more urgent, it’s more important than ever that investors turn their attention to mitigating the risks deforestation poses to individual companies’ supply chains and to their portfolios overall. Over the last decade individual…
Read MoreGreen Century’s Top 10 Highlights from 2019
From our award-winning shareholder advocacy work to protect tropical forests and curb antibiotic misuse to our support for the environmental and public health campaigns of our nonprofit owners and partners, Green Century had an environmental impact in 2019. Here are our top 10 highlights: 10. The Green Century MSCI International Index Fund turned 3 On…
Read MoreGreen Century Nominated for Arms Control Person of the Year
Green Century has been nominated for the Arms Control Person of the Year for explicitly prohibiting investments in corporations that manufacture or have “significant business involvement” in nuclear weapons or nuclear energy.
Read MoreAmazon Fires Aftermath: Our Ongoing Effort to End Deforestation
Deforestation briefly caught the world’s attention this summer, as thousands of fires – 84% more than the previous year – blazed in the Amazon. Concern surged as the “lungs of the world” went up in smoke and scientists warned that the Amazon was approaching a point of irreversible ecological collapse. Since tropical forests usually are…
Read MoreGreen Century endorses the Climate Risk Disclosure Act
Green Century is pleased to endorse the Climate Risk Disclosure Act. Climate change poses vast material risks to companies across all sectors and investors have a right to know how corporations are addressing those risks.
Read MoreCompany Spotlight: Autodesk*
Instead of supporting environmentally irresponsible corporations, Green Century invests in companies like Autodesk, a holding in the Green Century Equity Fund that is helping design a more sustainable future.
Read MoreTop 11 Impact Stories of the Shareholder Season
With the close of the 2018 – 2019 shareholder season, here are the top 11 impact stories of Green Century’s shareholder advocacy program.
Read MoreGreen Century Mobilizes Investors with $400 billion in AUM in Support of California Deforestation Free Procurement Act
Green Century recently mobilized investors with $400 billion in assets under management (AUM) in support of the California Deforestation Free Procurement Act.
Read MoreAttending International Sustainability Week in the Netherlands
Green Century’s shareholder advocate for tropical forest protection recently traveled to Utrecht, the Netherlands to attend International Sustainability Week, which was focused on deforestation-free supply chains and corporate operations.
Read MoreOil-Rich Norway To Divest
Norway is divesting. This month, the Norwegian parliament voted to divest $13 billion from the fossil fuel industry.
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