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Record Amounts Of Clean Energy Installed As Costs Continue To Fall

Forbes Green Tech

“If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy natural world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.”.

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Top Law Firms Called Out for Serving Fossil Fuel Industry Clients in New Climate 'Scorecard'

DeSmogBlog

This campaign is emerging as industries ranging from finance to insurance are facing greater scrutiny in a rapidly warming world. Tags: climate accountability law firms #DropExxon Paul Weiss climate crisis fossil fuel industry Sen. Whitehouse

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Adani Beware: Coal Is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins By John Quiggin , The University of Queensland The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months earlier, brings Australia into line with Europe where most major insurers have broken with coal.

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Exposed: West Virginia and Other States Relying on ‘House of Cards’ to Pay for Coal Mine Cleanup

DeSmogBlog

Tags: west virginia Jim Justice coal mines abandoned mine reclamation Tom Clarke ERP Environmental Fund ohio coal Indemnity National Insurance Company

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Brompton unfolds plans for bike subscription service

Business Green

Both schemes include free insurance for theft and damage and two services a year. This new subscription service will revolutionise the way people own a bike, giving them a premium product without the upfront price tag," Scriven said.

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Commercial trucking's future is in the details

GreenBiz

It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. Embedded in the price you pay for goods are things such as vehicle maintenance, insurance, driver labor, warehouse labor, packaging labor, fuel energy, transport tolls, packaging disposal and, of course, profit margin. Free delivery."

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

And then there are “sub-systemic” shocks, more localized climate-related impacts that “can undermine the financial health of community banks, agricultural banks or local insurance markets, leaving small businesses, farmers and households without access to critical financial services.” It placed the price tag at up to 10.5