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Investors Go Salmon Fishing With Climate Scientists

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DESCRIPTION: The global climate is an enormously complex system, and as climate change intensifies, damaging climate events are cascading from one another. Getting a better handle on climate science can sharpen these tools. By Sara Rosner - Director, Environmental Research and Engagement—Responsible Investment.

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

Corporate Knights

Canadians require a livable planet on which to retire, and climate scientists and energy modellers are clear that limiting global temperature increase to 1.5℃ The financial system must be aligned with a zero-carbon future, and many investors have stopped pretending that it’s possible to finance the decarbonization of fossil fuels.

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Tiffany & Co. Commits to Science-Based Climate Targets

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announces its plans to accelerate its commitment to combat climate change with a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its own operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and supply chain (Scope 3) by 2040 in accordance with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard. Tiffany & Co.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

That happened recently when I thought to myself, “Huh…it seems to me that the burden of proof on climate change has finally shifted in America.”. Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. Every now and again, I’m reminded of something I learned in one of those lessons.

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A climate scientist’s top 5 takeaways from the latest IPCC climate report

Sense and Sustainability

The report is the first installment of the latest climate change assessment by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It focuses on the physical science of climate change, and reports on the current state of the climate, possible climate futures, risk assessment and limiting future climate change.

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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

Stanford Social Innovation

In the late 20th century, US environmental policies were influenced by a mix of inflamed climate anxiety (surrounding, for example, the 1990s acid rain policies and ozone debates) and powerful, Big Oil-funded climate change denialism that hindered necessary action. The Cloud of Net-Zero.

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