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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

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. economy $150 billion annually.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

A decade of pressure on companies to report on and reduce their contribution to climate change has created something of a blueprint for investors to demand the same in terms of the separate but interconnected biodiversity crisis.

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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. But other entities such as cities, regions as well as utilities, banks or any sort of company can issue such bonds to finance climate responsible projects.

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A Principled Stance

Chris Hall

But the government has drawn criticism regarding its ability to achieve agreed climate targets – such as a 100% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 compared with 1990 levels – even from its own Climate Change Committee. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

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. Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. As a result, grid parity is here or fast approaching.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Climate Change Conference in Paris. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org