Hazel Henderson, president of Ethical Markets Media, LLC, has shared Green Money Journal\’s interest in the emerging green economy since she wrote The Politics of the Solar Age in 1981.
We in the USA are still mired in this “politics” with 75 members of Congress denying the realities of climate change. After the disappointing stalemate in Copenhagen in 2009, Henderson created the Green Transition Scoreboard® to counter all the mainstream and media dis-information still dominated by the incumbent fossil fuel and nuclear industries. In the Copenhagen UN Climate Summit, delegates wrangled about capping and trading carbon emissions and who was to blame. So, it seemed that the win-win strategy left on the table was simply to accelerate the shift to renewable resources.
Researchers at Climate Risk Pty in Australia have created their “Climate Solutions 2” computer model with WWF, showing that ramping up investments to $1 trillion per year until 2020 will speed the transition to the Solar Age. So, Henderson created the “barometer” icon we at Ethical Markets Media, LLC, use, and we have tracked all the private investments worldwide in green sectors since 2007 (not including nukes, coal, CCS or food and ag-based biofuels). Our 2011 total was $2.4 trillion, and we expect our update, to be released shortly, will top $3 trillion. We have recommended institutional investors shift at least 10% of their portfolios from risky hedge funds, private equity and commodity ETFs to direct green investments. Our new Green Transition Scoreboard® (http://www.greentransitionscoreboard.com ) shows they are making those shifts!
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Source: Ethical Markets Media
