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Women’s History Month Spotlight: Marina Bay Sands' Penny Lo Outlines Her Career Journey and Key Learnings

3BL Media

I had worked in Shanghai from 2004 to 2009 in an Asia Pacific attorney role and was traveling regionally for my job. multinational corporation, I spent a lot of time doing mergers and acquisitions work divesting large global business divisions and handling environmental issues in China and India.

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There's a big climate cost to failing to recognize Indigenous sovereignty

Corporate Knights

billion in divestment from banks backing the project and nearly $1.4 One analysis from researchers at First Peoples Worldwide at the University of Colorado at Boulder estimated that resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline drove the project cost upwards of $7.5 That includes more than $4.3

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The Long Game

Chris Hall

A nascent sector When Crossman joined Rathbones Greenbank Investments – Rathbones’ in-house boutique for ESG investments – as an ethical researcher in 2004, sustainability data wasn’t readily obtainable. When he started out in 2004, transparency was lacking, but he believes that it may now have gone the other way. “We

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Italy's ERG proves you can trade oil for renewables and win

Corporate Knights

In 2004, it dipped its toes into renewables, entering a joint venture with a Spanish renewable-energy company before purchasing an Italian wind company that expanded into the French market. In October 2023, ERG divested of its last remaining hydrocarbon asset, with the sale of a combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in Sicily.

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Operation Noah — No Room on the Ark for Fossil Fuels

CleanTechnica

Operation Noah is an ecumenical Christian charity, founded in 2004. It is based in the UK and campaigns exclusively on climate change, encouraging divestment from the fossil fuel industry. The Vatican called on Catholic institutions in 2020 to divest from fossil fuel companies because of their […].