November, 2010:
ECG founder Bryan Martel has been named to the Board of Advisors for the WHEB Group of companies, a leading investment management firm focused on environmental markets. Based in the UK, the WHEB Group has total assets under management of over £150 million. WHEB Group is comprised of multiple companies including: WHEB Venture Private Equity Fund 2 LLP, their second venture capital fund, which is focused on clean technologies, WHEB Asset Management, which invests in quoted equities involved in climate change, water and demographics, and WHEB Infrastructure which invests in renewable energy projects in Europe.

November 18, 2010:
ECG is honored by The Funding Network's (TFN) Strategic Funding Group with a grant to continue their work on the P8 through 2011. TFN is an affiliation of individuals from a variety of backgrounds who come together to fund social change causes. The Strategic Funding Group aims to raise second stage funding for 3 well-run, scalable charities that have been funded through TFN in the past. TFN first recognized Environmental Capital Group for their leadership in bringing together institutional investors to discuss and promote sustainable investments through the P8 in 2007.

Fall, 2010:
ECG members Cliff Brown and David Heppe recently contributed to the version 2.0 release of the Impact Reporting & Investment Standards (IRIS) initiative, a common language for reporting social and environmental impact. In 2008 the IRIS effort was initiated by The Rockefeller Foundation, Acumen Fund and B Lab in order to create a common framework for defining and reporting the performance of "impact" capital, i.e. investments intended to generate financial returns as well as achieving social and/or environmental objectives. This effort now resides within the Global Impact Investors' Network, GIIN, an industry group whose mission is to increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing.

Cliff and David provided their perspective in measuring the environmental performance of over 100 top cleantech companies in PCG AM's Clean Energy and Technology Fund. Cliff and David participated in the Energy, Environment & Water Working Group to refine the environmental performance measures in those sectors.

September 2, 2010:
ECG adopts the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. UN PRI is "an investor initiative in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact." The Principles provide a framework for investment professionals to give appropriate consideration to the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues that can affect the performance of their investment portfolios. More ...

June 16, 2010:
The first P80 ("Pensions 80") event began in Seoul, Korea today for Asian regional pensions. ECG's founder Bryan Martel, who helped establish and grow the P8 and P80, attended and worked to promote a public-private partnership for climate investments. Korea's National Pension Service graciously hosted the event with the University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership.

May, 2010:
The Prairie Trust of London, England again recognized ECG's work with the University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership in promoting sustainability amongst pensions and sovereign funds. They honored ECG with another generous grant to support their pro-bono work in this area.

February, 2010:
The Prairie Trust of London, England recognized the philanthropic efforts of ECG Founder Bryan Martel in addressing climate change. This year they are generously supporting Bryan's travels for the expansion of the P8 to the P80, and for the creation of a "clean" fund that will be the first public-private partnership of its kind. Bryan will work closely with the University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership, the pensions who are members of the P8 ("Pensions 8"), the Asian Development Bank, the UK's Department for International Development, the World Bank's International Finance Corporation and various U.S. Government agencies in the development of this fund.

February 16, 2010:
CalPERS released their AIM Clean Energy & Technology Program 2008 Environmental Measurement Results Report to the public today and discussed it at their investment committee meeting. While the program is still young, the environmental benefits generated by CalPERS' portfolio companies are already achieving significant success. Results include the reduction of 2.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions - this is equivalent to the annual CO₂ emissions of approximately 125,000 people in the U.S. This report also unveils ECG's new CLEAN framework for catalyzing the environmental impacts of clean technology investments. Download the report in Adobe PDF format.

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