DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Tags: fossil fuel industry climate finance big tobacco fossil fuel divestment Climate campaigners drew attention to CNBC 's Jim Cramer's comments on Friday, January 31 that he's “done with fossil fuels” because they're “in the death knell phase.”. Cramer added that “the world's turned on” the industry as they did with tobacco.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency fossil fuel divestment Tags: Bill McKibben Earth Day U.S. Simpler because our environmental troubles could be easily seen. The air above our cities was filthy, and the water in our lakes and streams was gross. There was nothing subtle about it.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

However, if they’d divested from fossil companies in 2009 while keeping their other investments at the same proportions, they could have amassed a combined additional $19 billion in ten years, the report published by Corporate Knights, a Canadian media, research and financial firm, concludes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2019

firms have been a little slower to move, but Chubb announced a divestment policy in July, and Liberty has confirmed it will not insure Australia’s Adani project. Tags: adani coal Insurance Industry fossil fuel divestment coal mining Other big firms such as America’s AIG are coming under increasing pressure.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. That said, huge as it sounds, that $7 trillion represents only a fraction of the more than $100 trillion in global assets under management.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it. That said, huge as it sounds, that $7 trillion represents only a fraction of the more than $100 trillion in global assets under management.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To get a better understanding of the city’s legacy, DeSmog tagged along to an activist-led tour organised by Brussels based advocacy group, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and local activists at Glasgow Calls Out Polluters. Gallery of Modern Art.

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