GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Nordea’s divestment, along with pressure from other institutions, such as Norwegian pension fund KPL, led to a pledge from JBS to use blockchain to monitor its entire supply chain by 2025, including the problematic "indirect suppliers" that have been linked to illegal deforestation.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 This helps explain why more than $11 trillion have been divested from fossil ownership, even before the University of California announced that it was divesting its $80 billion portfolio. Surely the world runs on oil.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Water and Waste make up 14 and six percent, respectively.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Unlike many other countries, the UK has targets that are legally binding under the Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order 2019 – which Skidmore, in his former capacity of interim minister of state for energy and clean growth, signed into law in June 2019. We need long-term support to move to an alternative [energy source].”

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Now, installing new wind turbines or solar farms is cheaper than keeping coal fired plants, as per the investment bank Lazard. To BNEF the onshore wind levelized costs decreased by 50 percent since 2009 and the price of solar PV modules have been slashed by a massive 80 percent since 2008. Our future can be coal-free.

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Tobias Webb

MARCH 22, 2022

Likewise, companies in all sectors have been rushing to divest of holdings in Russia , or halt operations there. This piece examines sanctions and corporate divestments through a slightly more sceptical lens. These measures will, the mainstream logic goes, eventually cripple Russia, and force a volte face in her policy to Ukraine.

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