Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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.

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Climate Researcher Academics Climate Change Divestment 241

Chris Hall

APRIL 9, 2024

The Danish pension fund for academics has joined the European asset owners opting for divestment, as fossil fuel companies remain at odds with the Paris Agreement. P+, which has more than 110,000 members, recorded a 78.2% P+, which has more than 110,000 members, recorded a 78.2%

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Divestment Paris Agreement Net Zero Academics 59

James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. The University of Michigan Endowment Fund: Divesting from Fossil Fuels (Published 9.9.2020) In September 2019, there were climate change strikes at the University of Michigan.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Climate Change Development 98

Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Head of Sustainability at CDPQ Bertrand Millot highlights the pension fund’s focus on decarbonising the real economy, as well as comprehensively divesting from the oil industry. In addition to divesting from oil, CDPQ plans to deepen its practice in the biodiversity space and expand the scope of its commitments in nature-positive themes.

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Divestment Net Zero Climate Change COP26 81

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

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

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Climate Change Divestment Academics Development 101

Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

She stressed that the phasing out of fossil fuels and the scaling up of climate solutions are two objectives that are “closely intertwined”, not only from an economic standpoint but also in terms of policy signals. he said, adding that such concepts are yet to be embedded into investors’ decision making.

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Net Zero Climate Change Development Green Investing 52

Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C Remco Fischer, Head of Climate Change at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, sees less risk for investors taking bets on a 1.5°C

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Net Zero Paris Agreement Stranded Assets Climate Change 72