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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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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. The document called for more study of global warming, “as a result of which glaciers and the polar caps recede, surfaces of lakes are reduced and ocean temperatures rise.”

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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.

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The Mechanics of Divestment  

Chris Hall

Timing and influencing the market are vital considerations for asset owners when divesting ESG assets. Since the success of the South African apartheid divestment campaign in the 1980s, investors must contend with similar pressure on other ESG issues, such as the growth of campaigns encouraging them to exit fossil fuels or tobacco.

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O-I Glass Selected by US Department of Energy to Receive $125 M Investment to Accelerate Industrial Decarbonization Technologies

3BL Media

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O-I Advances Sustainability of its Operations in Veauche, France

3BL Media

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Record Investment for O-I Glass in France: €95 Million to Upgrade Plants in Gironcourt and Reims

3BL Media

dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. It is not possible to foresee or identify all such factors.