This roundtable brought together US-based participants and those from Europe, India, and Japan to discuss threats to democratic ideals from corporate-led globalization and neoliberal economic ideologies. Key topics included:

• Climate change as the overarching issue challenging existing structures

• Threats posed by social media giants (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, WeChat, TenCent, Baidu)

• Manipulation of public opinion affecting Brexit, 2016 US election, and elections in Brazil and Europe

• Data ownership and privacy rights

• The role of patriarchal values in unequal governance structures

The roundtable included a session with St. Augustine Mayor Nancy Shafer (just re-elected for a third term), who discussed efforts on resilience and adaptation to climate change as vice chair of Florid'a’s statewide committee of mayors.

This retreat focused on Steering FinTech Toward Global SDGs and COP21, assessing: Market-based and technological reforms (IEX, BestEx, blockchain-based systems)

• Energy-efficient solar powered server farms

• Standards, best practices, carbon tracking and pricing

• Accounting protocols and metrics (SASB, IIRC, JustCapital)

• Green bonds, cryptocurrencies, crowdfunding

• Universal basic incomes and global governance protocols

These retreats brought together Pioneer SRI Asset Managers focused on:

• Transforming Finance: Post-mortem on US Presidential election, outlook for EU, rise of Asia, climate disruption

• State of financial markets, high-frequency trading (HFT) issues

• Growing ESG, SRI, CSR and the Green Transition following RIO+20 Declaration by 191 countries

• Green Transition Scoreboard research showing $3.6 trillion in private green investing since 2007

• Empowering individual initiatives including Common Good Investing and Conscious Investing

The discussions were focused on

• EMQLI (formerly CHQLI)

• Green Transition Scoreboard updates (GTS)

• Transforming Finance

• Ethical Biomimicry Finance (EBF)

• Retreat participants

• Global Commission to Fund the UN - Co-founded with Alan F. Kay

• The United Nations: Policy and Financing Alternatives (1995, 1996) - Co-edited report

• Foreign Exchange Transition Reporting System (FXTRS) - Devised system to tax currency speculation

• Advocacy for taxing arms sales to support peacekeepers

• Ethical Markets® TV Series (EthicalMarkets.tv) – Showcasing thought leaders and innovative programs in finance and sustainability.

Ethical Markets Media Certified B® Corporation released its annual Green Transition Scoreboard for 2019-2020, tracking private green investments since 2009, as of 2020 a cumulative $10.387 trillion. New capital continues expanding Earth-saving clean energy, green construction, corporate R&D and widening the healthier global plant-protein food sector.

Why the Green Transition Scoreboard® Certified B® Corporation?

Educators, futurists and business leaders worldwide cite the Sustainability Megatrend as the defining design principle for the 21st Century. [3][4] The Green Transition Scoreboard brings attention to the amount and types of investments that are flowing into this Megatrend. In 2009, Ethical Markets postulated that $10 trillion invested by 2020 would be sufficient to tip the global economy into the Solar Age. 

The Green Transition Scoreboard tracks private investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, green construction, water, green R&D and Cleantech. It does not include government funding or investment in food-based bio-fuels.  Financial data and organizations included in the GTS are screened by rigorous social, environment, and ethical auditing standards. The latest sustainability auditing standards, including SASB, ICAEW and others are used. Data is gathered from green and sustainability indexes, financial media, UN and other international studies, and the Climate Bonds Initiative.

In addition to these auditing standards, the GTS definition of ‘green’ is strict. Clearly unsustainable sectors as well as certain technologies having unsubstantiated claims, negative EROI or unexplored or untested consequences are omitted. For example, the GTS omits coal carbon sequestration (CCS) due to its major government subsidies, huge costs, unproven technology and lower efficiency of energy production.

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Highlights the momentum bringing sustainable investing to Main Street,  Wall Street and international finance. The Directory lists businesses and organizations directly involved  with green investing, whether using SRI, ESG, triple bottom line, green, ethical, impact, circular investing, Ethical Biomimicry Finance® or other environmental and humanitarian standards and  metrics. The Directory is a public service and includes community development organizations, NGOs  

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