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Colorado pension fund loses US$2.7 billion by not divesting from fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

Divesting from fossil fuels isn’t just good for the planet. billion in returns over the last 10 years by not divesting from fossil fuels. And in 2018, Ireland became the first country to divest its national investment fund completely from fossil fuel companies. It can be good for financial returns, too.

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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. In its Global Risks Report for 2021 , the World Economic Forum ranks biodiversity loss as the world’s No.

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Is the insurance industry walking away from fossil fuels?

Corporate Knights

In August of that same year, reinsurance company Munich Re published a report on the devastating impacts of recent floods, warning of the risks of climate change. It’s the result of rapidly increasing underwriting losses to climate-driven events that insurers and reinsurers are seeing worldwide.” In Canada, that year saw $2.1

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Canada's pension plan shouldn’t be a cheerleader for Alberta’s oil and gas industry

Corporate Knights

By pledging to grow its portfolio of oil and gas assets, CPPIB is making an alarming bet on the world failing to limit global heating to safe levels, putting the CPP at risk from an accelerating energy transition and our retirement security at risk from catastrophic climate change. This “consensus” is imaginary.

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Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs onto homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

Corporate Knights

It was 1973 when German insurance firm Munich Re began sounding the alarm on climate change. That year, Axa became the first major insurer to divest from coal. No one expects the insurance industry to solve climate change on its own. But it can start by not making things worse.

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Report: Meet the top 200 companies investing in a clean energy future

Corporate Knights

Since our first report was launched in the summer of 2016, a great deal has changed in the world. Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. Sustainable investments have now reached $4 trillion.

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How Big Oil has infiltrated universities and shaped climate research

Corporate Knights

How did the fossil fuel industry manage to raise a generation of climate change deniers? A research group has just identified a big component of that attitude shift: the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to bury the truth by cozying up to universities and discrediting climate science.