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Exxon Investors Signal Growing Ill Will

Chris Hall

But, as a long-term investor, we also believe that Exxon and the other companies we own must take seriously the risk that climate change poses to business and to the overall health of markets over the long term.” Exxon is required to disclose the full breakdown of votes at the AGM within four business days.

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Now or Never

Chris Hall

We have primarily concentrated on the oil and gas industry, but the outcomes have been disappointingly limited, particularly with recent target reversals. “It may be necessary to reconsider our approach.” However, for some investors the limited progress of the oil and gas industry on climate forced them to cut ties with the sector.

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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. By February 2014, Jacobson, with the help of students and colleagues, finished a draft of the roadmaps for all 50 U.S.

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Exxon Exits: After the Storm

Chris Hall

This slashes portfolio emissions and sends a strong signal to oil and gas firms about the financial consequences of failing to set out credible transition plans. The writing is on the wall for oil and gas firms. As highlighted by the IEA: there can be no more new oil and gas production if the world is to achieve a 1.5°C C scenario.

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Fueling Disinformation: How Big Oil Obstructs Climate Education

Richard Matthews

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. Climate education is a problem at many of America’s 100,000 public schools. trillion climate-focused infrastructure bill. The divestment solution.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.