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neptunium1 ago

HSBC issues corporate sustainable development bond

HSBC has launched a new type of sustainable bond based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).

Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, said: “A dramatic expansion in creative financing is going to be crucial for catalysing the transition to a low carbon, sustainable world. It is happening, but needs to happen with greater urgency, speed and scale. So, congratulations to HSBC for this innovation and its explicit support for the SDGs and the Paris Climate Change Agreement—we look forward to many more financial institutions following suit.”

Patricia Espinosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Espinosa

Patricia Espinosa Cantellano (born October 21, 1958) is a Mexican politician and diplomat who is currently serving as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She was Mexican Ambassador to Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Slovakia and served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.

[No mention of her brother.]

Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa found dead

A Mexican photojournalist has been found dead along with four other people in a flat in Mexico City.

Ruben Espinosa, who worked for the investigative magazine Proceso, had recently moved to the city from the eastern state of Veracruz where he said he had been threatened and harassed.

Rubén Espinosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Espinosa

Siblings: Patricia Espinosa, Alma Espinosa

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/who-killed-ruben-espinosa-and-nadia-vera

A group of four young women standing near me were embracing each other, and they couldn’t stop sobbing—the uncontrollable sobbing of deep grief and terror. As Rubén Espinosa’s sister addressed the crowd from the base of the statue, telling how her brother had been her angel and would remain so always, tears overflowed my eyes.

neptunium1 ago

Eric Gill, the Pedophile Founder of Distributism http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/j005htGill_Distributism_Odou.htm

Eric Gill (1882-1940) was born in Brighton, England, to a minister of a small Protestant sect. He eventually became an artist, well known for his sculptures, engravings, sketches, writings, and type fonts. He married in 1904 and joined the Fabian Socialist Society in 1905. As is noted in Distributist Perspectives, he is one of the founding members of the Distributist worker community at Ditchling, Sussex. It was there that he entered the Catholic Church in 1913. In his lifetime, he would found two more worker communities. He would receive many important and prestigious commissions, including works for Westminster Cathedral, the League of Nations, the BBC, and the London Transport before his death in 1940.

“Distributism is an economic and social theory based on Catholic social teaching, regarded as a ‘third way’ between Capitalism and Socialism. It is one of the ideological roots of the Catholic Worker Movement, and has had an indirect influence on the New Economics of E. F. Schumacher and through him on today's Green movement.”