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GLOBAL CHALLENGES INDEX

The Global Challenges Index is a real innovation on the financial market. For the first time, it maps out trends in the model of sustainable development consistently and intelligibly in an index. Sustainability-oriented investors will profit from the Global Challenges Index, which

  • defines “sustainability” in concrete terms by focusing on seven future-relevant fields for action,
  • sets stringent and consistent performance criteria for the companies listed and
  • identifies pioneering companies that make active use of the opportunities provided by global change.

The Global Challenges Index focuses on seven global challenges for this millennium which politics, society and the economy must face up to:

  • combating the causes and consequences of climate change
  • securing adequate provision of drinking water
  • stopping deforestation
  • preserving biodiversity
  • dealing with population development
  • combating poverty
  • supporting responsible governance structures

The Global Challenges Index comprises companies which are actively facing up to this responsibility and have made substantial, forward-looking contributions to surmounting the global challenges. The Index contains 50 securities from globally active large companies as well as small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), which are promoting sustainable development through their range of products and services and are simultaneously opening up opportunities for the future development of their business.


An independent advisory board assists the Hanover stock exchange and oekom research in the drawing up and composition of the Index.

LATEST NEWS

Warmer World May Mean Less Fish
Climate change is emerging as the latest threat to the world's dwindling fish stocks a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests. At least three quarters of the globe's key fishing grounds may become seriously impacted by changes in circulation as a result of the ocean's natural pumping systems fading and falling they suggest. These natural pumps, dotted at sites across the world including the Arctic and the Mediterranean, bring nutrients to fisheries and keep them healthy by flushing out wastes and pollution.

Meanwhile there is growing concern that carbon dioxide emissions will increase the acidity of seas and oceans. This in turn may impact calcium and shell-forming marine life including corals but also tiny ones such as planktonic organisms at the base of the food chain.

"The worst concentration of cumulative impacts of climate change with existing pressures of over-harvest, bottom trawling, invasive species infestations, coastal development and pollution appear to be concentrated in 10-15 per cent of the oceans," says the report. This 10-15 per cent of the oceans is far higher than had previously been supposed and is "concurrent with today's most important fishing grounds" including the estimated 7.5 per cent deemed to be the most economically valuable fishing areas of the world, it adds.

"We are getting more and more alarming signals of dramatic changes in the oceans. It is like turning a big tanker around. Our ability to change course and reduce emissions in the near future will be paramount to success", said Dr. Nellemann, lead author of the UNEP report.


The report “In Dead Water” is available at http://unep.org/pdf/InDeadWater_LR.pdf

  
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