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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. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. Michael Holder. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00. Anyone doubting the seriousness of the campaign needs only look at the team behind it. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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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.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

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

Corporate Knights

Divesting from industrial animal farming in the pet food sector would deliver significant environmental benefits. A 2008 study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics found, for example, that cats are a bigger threat to fish stocks than humans in Australia, where the research was conducted, consuming on average 13.7

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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. They have to ensure that sustainability considerations don’t just inform what they do, but that they drive corporate decision-making.

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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. We need long-term support to move to an alternative [energy source].”