A coalition of institutional investors led by Ceres announced last week that it is pressing oil and gas companies to better disclose its spill prevention and response plans for deepwater wells worldwide. The coalition of 58 mostly institutional investors, that together manage $2.5 trillion, is requesting, among other things, that companies disclose their investments in spill prevention [...]

Our friends at Ceres just let us know about this new report on a clean energy future. Ceres, headed by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur Mindy Lubber, just released The 21st Century Electric Utility: Positioning for a Low-Carbon Future, authored by Navigant Consulting. This important and timely report outlines the measures that today’s utilities should undertake to successfully adapt to [...]

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is focusing on social entrepreneurs currently on “What Matters,” its online platform for talking about key business issues.  Timed in conjunction with the Skoll World Forum, which McKinsey is supporting this year, the current “What Matters” asks the question, “Can social entrepreneurs create large scale change?”  There are currently five [...]

Ceres, led by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur Mindy Lubber, is celebrating an important move by the SEC on climate risk - a move Ceres has been fighting for for a number of years.  The SEC put out yesterday “new interpretive guidance that clarifies what publicly-traded companies need to disclose to investors in terms of climate-related [...]

Skoll CEO Sally Osberg reports from Copenhagen:
Just a couple of highlights from the Climate Leaders’ Summit:

-Leadership on climate change - both moral and real - is coming from the sub-nation state levels and small countries.
-President Nasheed of the Maldives was articulate and inspiring. “No negotiating with Mother Nature and the laws of physics.”  On the [...]

Copenhagen has come to mean all things climate, with literally tens of thousands of representatives from government, the civic sector and business descending on the Danish capital these first two weeks of December.  But the formal Council of Parties conference (COP-15) is only open to governmental folks.  So what is everyone else doing?  Side events.  [...]

The Skoll Foundation, along with a  number of Skoll social entrepreneurs and partners, will be participating in the Copenhagen meetings on climate change later this month.  Reflecting the high caliber of environmental leaders in the Skoll portfolio, some 10 Skoll social entrepreneurs and/or their organizations will be at Copenhagen: ACORE, Amazon Conservation Team, BioRegional Development [...]

Mindy Lubber, a 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur and the president of Ceres, is taking part in an online debate on Politico.com over the Waxman Markey legislation on energy and climate.  She is arguing for passage of the legislation.  William Kovacs, the senior vice president for the Environment, Technology & Regulatory Affairs Division of the U.S. [...]

Ceres, founded by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur Mindy Lubber, has just landed another big new member in its network:  beverage company PepsiCo. In an announcement yesterday, Ceres said PepsiCo would be one of more than 25 Fortune 500 Companies that have now joined Ceres.  Joining entails a commitment by a company to “improving its sustainability [...]

Ceres, headed up by Mindy Lubber, a 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur, has just published new research showing that companies with the most to lose by failing to account for a low-carbon global economy are among the worst in incorporating climate risk information in their SEC filings.  Published in conjunction with the Environmental Defense Fund, the [...]