Hi Jessica:   I sent this out this morning.  Please circulate !

Warm regards ,as ever,

Hazel

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   “ GLOBAL CITIZENS RESPONSE TO   US  TRUMPED UP ELECTION “

     This morning ’s election of Donald Trump in the USA requires global citizens committed to  global Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) ,  to rethink our strategies and  communications .

We can   keep messaging our vision of how all the paradigm shifts we are steering toward the global transition to  low-carbon , inclusive , green , knowledge-rich sustainable societies are the most viable path to our common future on this planet.

My first draft for this messaging to  keep hope alive :

·         Hillary Clinton WON the national popular vote in the USA  by a healthy margin !   The electoral college totals reflect years of Republican gerrymandering , voter

      suppression , fossil fuel and other 19^th and 20^th century  fossilized industrial and financial special interests , further powered by  anonymous money due to  the Citizens United            Supreme Court ruling in 2010 and FBI Director James Comey’s last minute  intervention .

·        Donald’s acceptance speech stressed his first priority is to  have government fund INFRASTRUCTURE .  i.e.  Trump turns out to  be a Keynesian , pushing for stimulus , not austerity and budget balancing .  We must pull out all the stops to  make sure that this new infrastructure  is GREEN and keep promoting green bonds and green finance !   This can be facilitated by the boom in renewable energy and continuously falling costs of solar, wind, efficiency and  many innovations . We can also  cite the  $7.1 TRILLION already invested in these sectors which we have tracked  cumulatively in our Green Transition Scoreboard® www.ethicalmarkets.com  since 2007.

·        We in the USA need to  now demand  that Trump reveal his long-secret Tax Returns !

·        We can find a consensus  with fossil fuel investors , asset managers  and allay the fears of  pension fund and 401K losses if these fossil reserves are written down as “stranded assets”.   We can  call on asset managers to  correctly  re-categorize these “proven fossil reserves “ on so  many balance sheets more accurately as “ feedstocks”  for later use as chemicals, plastics, new building materials , etc.  rather than burning them .   As valuable future feedstocks , these assets can maintain their place on balance sheets while helping   meet global climate change goals  in Marrakech at COP22.  ( see Joel Makower’s  co-authored  The New Grand Challenge (2016) I reviewed at www.seekingalpha.com

·        We can re-energize Bernie Sanders’ voters by advocating the above strategies and emphasize that they were  correct in supporting the green transition, climate change mitigation and fostering local , homegrown economies, crowd-funding , cryptocurrencies like Solar Coin , small businesses , new electronic FINTECH platforms now taking over from  over-priced services of the legacy big banks and financial system.

·        We can keep  pushing for more correct indicators , metrics and statistics measuring companies’ performance by the now recognized 6 forms of capital : finance, built, intellectual, social human and natural (IIRC, SASB ,GRI , CASB, JUSTCapital, ESG,  CIMA  www.cimaglobal.com  et. al. ), as well as all the national indicators and accounts  (  CIW , Gross National Happiness, etc.) that take us Beyond GDP www.beyond-gdp.eu

     Let’s keep on moving forward !     Hazel Henderson,  Editor “

HAZEL HENDERSON, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA

President, Ethical Markets Media; Author, Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age

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