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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet. Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. Thu, 03/04/2021 - 02:11. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here.

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Replacing Coal with Renewables Could Save Energy Customers $8 Billion a Year, Financial Analysts Find

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Read time: 6 mins By Joe Smyth, Energy and Policy Institute. This was originally posted on the Energy and Policy Institute. Analysts at Morgan Stanley and Moody’s Investors Service expect that more electric utilities will accelerate their transition away from coal, with major financial benefits for both ratepayers and shareholders.

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Global Push for LNG Creates 'Gas Bubble' That Could Bust

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While far from British Columbia, the actions spooked investors in Energie Saguenay LNG. Tags: LNG Wet'suwet'en Coastal GasLink pipeline US LNG Exports American Petroleum Institute Without Berkshire Hathaway’s promised $4 billion investment, the project has stalled.

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DC Is the Latest to Sue Exxon and Big Oil for Climate Disinformation Campaigns

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is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP , Chevron, ExxonMobil , and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the climate crisis.

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Since Paris Agreement, Global Financial Firms Have Sunk $745 Billion into New Coal Plant Development

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That research , published by the German NGO Urgewald along with BankTrack and 30 partner organizations, reveals and ranks the financial institutions sinking money into the dirtiest form of fossil fuels in the three years since the Paris Agreement was signed.

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Fossil Fuel Ad Campaigns Emphasize 'Positives' After Climate Science Denial PR Lands Industry in Hot Seat

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The subject of these investigations isn’t the direct harm from the fossil fuel industry’s actions, it’s the ways that companies communicated about their actions, and how that misled investors or the public. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) #ExxonKnew climate science denial American Petroleum Institute Covering Climate Now 2019

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Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets

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Public debt increased by $12tr in 2020 according to the Institute of International Finance, exacerbating already high levels of debt in some emerging markets. In this context, policy makers, the private sector, and investors are asking whether the solutions to these challenges can be linked. Reducing risk and raising targets.