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Divesting works: Study finds ditching fossil stocks lowers corporate footprints

Corporate Knights

For the leaders of the divestment movement, which encourages institutional investors to sell off their shares in fossil fuel companies, winning isn’t everything. But after a decade of determined lobbying, the divest side is suddenly doing a lot of winning. That tally, they noted, is bigger than the combined GDP of the U.S.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. Michael Holder.

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Is one of Canada’s largest pension funds quietly divesting from fossil fuels?

Corporate Knights

The sale marks the third time in the last year that OMERS has divested a major fossil fuel asset. . As pension plan members, we’ve been asking OMERS to either demonstrate how its fossil fuel assets have credible decarbonization pathways or divest them. And OMERS might finally be listening. . To limit global heating to 1.5°C,

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To Meet Net Zero, Prioritize ESG Laggards

3BL Media

With the long-term goal of net zero in mind, it may be tempting for investors to focus on capitalizing ESG trailblazers over ESG laggards. Engaging for Net Zero. By 2040, the company aims to be net zero and expects their carbon management business will overtake their traditional business.

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Four key lessons from the world’s top responsible investors

Corporate Knights

Sustainability disclosure is the new normal Around the world, policies and regulations requiring companies to disclose their emissions and sustainability metrics have advanced at varying rates and to different stages of development, from barely nascent to quite mature.

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7 Companies Leading the Net Zero Energy Revolution

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero. SOURCE: Antea Group.

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Vanguard Drops Out of Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative

ESG Today

Vanguard, one of the largest investment managers in the world, announced today that it is withdrawing from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM), a major multi-trillion dollar group of investment managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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