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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” “The simple reality is that it’s no longer free to pollute in Canada,” Guilbeault told media Monday morning. “We

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Energy Efficiency Must Move “Higher up the Agenda”

Chris Hall

At the heart of that guidance is a tool called the Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CCREM) which has been funded by the EU and a number of major institutional investors, including the Dutch pension funds APG, PGGM and Norges Bank Investment Management.

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Energy Transition Accelerator

Chris Hall

billion of first-phase financing, through mechanisms including grants, concessional loans and investments and risk sharing instruments, but it has taken time for details to be worked out on how funding would be channelled to support decommissioning of soon-to-be-stranded assets. . The deal committed US$8.5

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Fueling Disinformation: How Big Oil Obstructs Climate Education

Richard Matthews

Zou explained as follows: “Decades of documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity reveal a tightly woven network of organizations that works in concert with the oil and gas industry to paint a rosy picture of fossil fuels in America’s classrooms. It is fitting that educational institutions are divesting in droves.