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Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)
ASrIA is a not for profit, membership association dedicated to promoting corporate responsibility and sustainable investment practice in the Asia Pacific region. As an association, ASrIA acts for and on behalf of its members. To achieve its mission, ASrIA aims to be primarily a web-based resource, supporting partnership initiatives on the ground throughout the region.

Australia
Ethical Investment Association
Ethical Investment Association, EIA's primary objective is to promote the concept, practice and growth of ethically, socially and environmentally responsible investing.

SRI Forums in Americas

Canada
Social Investment Organization, SIO
The Canadian Association for Socially Responsible Investment, A members organization promoting SRI in Canada

United States
US Social Investment Forum
A members organization promoting SRI in the United states

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Europe
European Social Investment Forum
A members organization promoting SRI in Europe

Belgium
Belgium Social Investment Forum
An organization promoting SRI in Belgium

France
Forum pour l'Investissement Responsable (FIR)
(French SIF - Social Investment Forum)

Germany
Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen
(German Sustainable Investment Forum)

Italy
Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile
(Italian Forum for Sustainable Finance)

Netherlands
Vereniging van Beleggers voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (VBDO)
(Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development)

Dutch portal for Social Responsible Investing
(The Dutch SRI portal)

Sweden
Sveriges Forum för Hållbara Investeringar (SWESIF)
(Swedish SIF - Social Investment Forum)

United Kingdom
UK Social Investment Forum
A members organization promoting SRI in the United Kingdom



Organisations promoting SRI and related issues

Asian Development Bank
ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1966.

CERES- Network for change
CERES provides an innovative forum for corporations, activists and socially responsible investors to have honest, meaningful dialogue on corporations' environmental and social practices.It enables an exchange and a unique opportunity for real accountability and real results.

Charities Aid Foundation
CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) is an international non-governmental organisation which provides specialist financial services to other charities and their supporters. With more than 75 years of experience and a global network spanning five continents, CAF is committed to increasing the resources of charities worldwide and helping individual and corporate donors add value to their generosity.

Chicago Climate Exchange
Chicago Climate Exchange is a self-regulatory exchange that administers the world's first multi-national and multi-sector marketplace for reducing and trading greenhouse gas emissions. CCX marks the first time a cross-section of North American corporations, municipalities and other institutions have, on a voluntary basis, entered into a legally binding commitment to establish a rules-based market for reducing greenhouse gases.

CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre (CII-Sohrabji Godrej GBC) is a joint initiative of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the house of Godrej and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), with the technical support from USAID-an unique model of public-private partnership. The CII-Sohrabji Godrej GBC is the centre of Excellence for Energy, Environment and climate change activities in India.

Cleaner Production in China
Developed by the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission, this English-language Web site offers an overview of clean-production projects, policies, and legislation in China. Find out which organizations in China are responsible for various aspects of implementing cleaner production or combating pollution, on foreign donors, and on projects with foreign financing. The site includes case studies and audit reports carried out in factories in various sectors as well as profiles of factories implementing cleaner production. Also find links containing general information in the field of Cleaner Production.

Clear Profit
Clear Profit is a free independent email newsletter containing exclusive news, features and opinion on global efforts to integrate social, environmental and ethical decisions into financial decision making. To sign up email, subscribe@clear-profit.com

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, CGAP
Build financial systems for the poor

ECO-PAGES 2004
Promoting your Environmental Products, Services and Image at an Affordable Cost for Maximum Results via advertising / listing in the Company Showcase of ECO-PAGES 2004. See the flyer.

Ecosystem Marketplace
The Ecosystem Marketplace is the place where providers and beneficiaries of ecosystem services get together to capture the value associated with ecosystem services. It provides a coordinated and informative platform for users and providers of ecosystem services to meet and communicate. Furthermore, it improves the quality and value of ecosystem transactions by providing up-to-date information, news, and expertise.

EPA Victoria
They co-ordinate and promote UNEP's Finance Initiatives in Australasia. Their mission is to enable the safe clean and sustainable environment that Victorians seek.

Ethical Markets
Ethical Markets© showcases the organizations, trade associations, shareholder activities, the mutual funds and pension funds asset managers, financial planners, venture capital groups, innovative technologies and companies, as well as this vision of maturing, socially-responsible, ethical capitalism fitting humanity's aspirations for a more peaceful, just and ecologically sustainable world.

Ethical Performance
An independent newsletter for socially responsible business. Ethical Performance's online service includes news and analysis directly from the Asia-Pacific region. The online version of the independent business newsletter on corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment offers news from 29 Asia-Pacific countries at http://www.ethicalperformance.com Ethical Performance Online also includes a detailed list of links to companies, consultancies, investors, civil society groups and other organizations in the region that are playing a key role in CSR and SRI. You can browse the Asia Pacific section for a taste of what Ethical Performance Online offers.

Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth defends the environment and champions a healthy and just world.

Friends of the Earth (HK)
Established in 1983, Friends of the Earth (FoE HK) is a registered charity, dedicated to protecting and improving the environment locally and regionally through education, research and campaigns.

Gas Technology Institute
GTI is the leading research, development and training organization serving energy and environmental markets. GTI is dedicated to meeting the nation's current and future energy needs and environmental challenges by developing solutions for consumers, industry, and government.

Global Reporting Initiative
The GRI is an international multi stakeholder effort to create a common framework for the voluntary reporting of the economic environmental and social impact of organization-level activity.

Good Practice
The Good Practice website been jointly developed by the ICMM, UNCTAD, UNEP and DfID and is designed to provide access to a library of good practice guidelines, standards, case studies, legislation, and other relevant material that are leading examples of their kind globally.

GreenBiz.com
The nonprofit, nonpartisan GreenBiz.com works to harness the power of technology to bring environmental information, resources, and tools to the mainstream business community.

Greener Buildings
The resource for environmentally responsible building developement is a free, Web-based resource to help companies of all sizes and sectors understand and address building design, construction, and operation in a way that aligns environmental responsibility with business success.

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
ICCR is a thirty-year-old international coalition of 275 faith-based institutional investors including denominations, religious communities, pension funds, healthcare corporations, foundations and dioceses with combined portfolios worth an estimated $100 billion. As responsible stewards, they merge social values with investment decisions, believing they must achieve more than an acceptable financial return. ICCR members utilize religious investments and other resources to change unjust or harmful corporate policies, working for peace, economic justice and stewardship of the Earth.

Japan For Sustainability
It shares information on developments and activities originating in Japan that lead toward sustainability, with the aim of building momentum toward a sustainable path for the world.

New Ventures
New Ventures is a project of WRI's Sustainable Enterprise Program. For more than a decade, WRI's Sustainable Enterprise Program has harnessed the power of business to create profitable solutions to environment and development challenges.

Project Flamingo
The Web of Hope launches Project Flamingo. In a bid to accelerate the replication of the role models recognised as Hopes on our Resource, WoH launched Project Flamingo (PF) in October 2004. During this seven year campaign, they will be offering an evolving series of guidelines, or toolkits, which outline seven steps you can take to integrate these Hopes within your family, business or community life. "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."

Simply Sustainable
Simply Sustainableis a web-based toolkit which helps New Zealand businesses implement sustainable business practice. It was created by the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment. Simply Sustainable provides New Zealand businesses easy to understand information on sustainable business practice: what sustainability means for business, how it provides benefits to businesses (for example by saving money, opening businesses to a market that demands sustainable products and services) and how businesses can implement sustainable practice.

Sustainable Development, HKSAR Government
The Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) is under the Administration Wing of the Chief Secretary for Administration's Office since April 2001. The main tasks are to facilitate the integration of sustainable development into new Government initiatives and programmes and in the community generally, and to provide support to the Council for Sustainable Development upon its establishment.

Sustainable Development and Quality of Life
The Sustainability and Quality of Life Statisticians are a new global movement. Most still use economic statistics, but reject macroeconomic measures such as GNP and GDP.

SustainAsia
SustainAsia is a Hong Kong based consultancy whose mission is to imagine and facilitate clean and sustainable solutions towards long term business objectives, in balance with peoplešs needs and the environment. SustainAsia also provides local expertise to companies from the Cleantech and Eco-efficiency sectors, in view of accelerating their market entry into China and SE Asia.

SVN Asia
SVN's mission is to promote business awareness leading to environmental responsibility, basic human rights for all, and justice for every party concerned while considering differences in resources, opportunities and real potentials of organizations or individuals.

United Nations Development Programme
UNDP is the UN's global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. They are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.



Corporate Governance and CSR

Community Business
It is a Hong Kong based charity working with member companies on CSR. Its main focus areas are Community Investment and Diversity in the workplace. Community Business provides its member companies with advice, assessments, training and an opportunity to share experience with each other.

CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. It works to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.

CSR Asia
CSR Asia provides information, research, training and analysis of CSR issues in the Asia Pacific region. Founded by Richard Welford of the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme (CEGP) at the University of Hong Kong and Stephen Frost of the South East Asia Research Centre (SEARC) at the City University of Hong Kong, CSR Asia has offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shenzhen and plans to expand further around the region.

CSR wire, The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Service
Resources for Promoting Global Business Principles and Best Practices

SynTao
SynTao is a CSR information provider that was developed from a personal Blog, http://csri.blogchina.com. SynTao aims at reporting cutting edge CSR information both inside and outside China. It is completely a bilingual website. All articles of this website are with English and Chinese contents. With this unique feature, SynTao can contribute to the communications between China and the rest of the world.

Webb-site.com
An independent non-profit commentary on Hong Kong's corporate and economic governance.

World Bank Institute Program on Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
The CSR and Sustainable Competitiveness program has developed a strong set of initiatives with the goal of strengthening CSR practices worldwide. These include courses and global e-dialogues for a variety of stakeholder groups and a program component specifically designed to reach young people, addressing the importance of social responsibility and sustainable development for the next generation.



Research Providers

Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS)
It provides research into corporate behaviour needed by ethical investors, primarily for the UK & Europe.

Innovest
Strategic Value Advisors is a specialized financial information services and investment advisory firm which has developed an environmental performance rating model.

Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility
Working Together for Peace, Economic Justice and Stewardship of the Earth

Investor Responsibility Research Centre
IRRC is a source of high quality, impartial information on corporate governance and social responsibility issues affecting investors and corporations worldwide.

Pensions and Investment Research Consultants
Provides corporate governance and SRI services to UK investors.

Sustainable Investment Research International Group
The Sustainable Investment Research International (SIRI) Group is a coalition of ten research organizations devoted to the global advancement of social investing.



Investment & Professional Services

Business for Social Responsibility
BSR, through its products and services, aims to help companies be commercially successful in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment.

Co-operative Insurance Society
CIS offers a range of award-winning products that protect the things you care about, from motor and home insurance to pensions and unit trusts. As the UK's only co-operative insurer, CIS has been recognised for its leading socially responsible investment policy and is part of a wider financial services group which includes the Co-operative Bank and smile, the internet bank.

Ethibel
Ethibel is an independent consultancy agency for socially responsible investments that advices banks and brokers offering ethical savings accounts and investment funds.

Ethical Corporation
Ethical Corporation magazine is an independent business information provider and events producer on the issues in and around corporate social, financial and environmental responsibility.

Impactt Limited
Impactt works to shift the balance toward more mindful capitalism. It works with companies, organisations and individuals to open their eyes to new possibilities and to develop business practice which extends the number of people who benefit from international trade and investment.

Impactt is more than a consultancy, it is a catalyst. Its role is to empower and support individuals, organisations and companies to gradually transform the way they work, bringing about positive social change.

ishareowner.com
Sustainable and Responsible Investment Strategies - A Guide for Fiduciaries and Institutional Investors.
Leading provider of news, data, and analysis to the sustainable and responsible investing and corporate social responsibility markets.

iStrategies
Integrative Strategies provides a range of services to help your operation stay ahead of the rapidly developing wave of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).

KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. 
KLD promotes global socially responsible investing by providing superior corporate social research products and services to institutional investors.

SocialFunds.com
SocialFunds.com is a website of SRI World Group, Inc., a news, research, and consulting firm that advises clients regarding sustainability investment issues and corporate responsibility practices.

Sustainable Business.com
Sustainable businesses offer products and services that fulfill society's needs while contributing to the well-being of all earth's inhabitants.



Financial Institutions

www.sustainable-index.com
A global SRI index run by Dow Jones and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM)



SRI Studies

Hong Kong Sustainable Development Index
The Hong Kong Sustainable Development Index annually measures the progress on key social, environmental and economic priorities that are important for furthering the sustainable development of Hong Kong.

SriStudies.org
It studies in the field of Socially Responsible Investing. This website is intended as a resource for people interested in the impact of social screening on investment performance, and in other quantitative aspects of socially responsible investing (SRI).