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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. Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. Michael Holder. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 Prices to frack a new well vary widely, depending on whether you’re drilling in West Texas or horizontally to frack under housing developments, varying from $40 to $90 a barrel. The costs multiply because fracked wells typically last less than a year. Surely the world runs on oil.

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Shrinking the pet food industry’s carbon footprint, one lab-grown cat treat at a time

Corporate Knights

Dogs and humans don’t have separate food systems,” explains Joshua Errett, the company’s vice-president of product development. So he developed a freeze-dried meat-free dog treat called Noochies! Divesting from industrial animal farming in the pet food sector would deliver significant environmental benefits.

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The Long Game

Chris Hall

Turning point The financial crisis in 2008 brought then brought that same debate front and centre. It concluded that one of the contributing factors in the 2008 financial crisis was lack of shareholder engagement, citing RBS’s disastrous acquisition of ABN Amro as an example.

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Behind My Title of Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer- And What It Means to Be an Impact Company

3BL Media

Take the decision we took to launch our unique Green PremiumTM program in 2008 to provide more sustainable products and be transparent with environmental information with our customers. The demand from them for sustainability advice has never been higher – and we’ve developed our talent base and capabilities accordingly.

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A Principled Stance

Chris Hall

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.

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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. Green bonds can be issued by multilateral development banks (MDB) which issued the first ones. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. City bonds are mostly AA.