Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Online pension platform aiming to roll out one of UK's first fossil fuel-free funds after receiving £31m in fund commitments from customers in under a week. The move would make PensionBee one of the first UK pension providers to go completely fossil fuel free. per cent, it said on Tuesday.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

We knew departments in our university took money from fossil fuel companies, but we were shocked by the sheer scale: since 2015, Oxford has received over £8.2 Incredibly, we found the fossil fuel companies themselves were generally more transparent about their research funding and donations than a public university.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 7, 2020

The fossil fuel divestment movement has come a long way and this increasingly includes mainstream institutions. Banks, insurance companies and investors are all making the case that fossil fuels are dying. The city of New York is divesting roughly $5 billion in city workers’ pension funds from fossil fuel companies.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Ed Miliband last night promised that a Labour government would provide long-term certainty to businesses through the delivery of an ambitious new climate policy framework, as he hailed the net zero transition as "not just the ethical choice; it is the economic choice as well". Now, of course, fossil fuels are not the answer.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The overwhelming majority of UK banks offering current and savings accounts lack convincing plans to reduce their carbon impact, according to new research from Ethical Consumer magazine. They also explicitly ruled out financing all future fossil fuel projects, a requirement for banks to receive a top score in the rankings.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

It also points to predictions that the computing (technology) sector will soon consume around 20% of global electricity, due to energy still being produced by fossil fuels. Earlier this month it was suggested by 8 Billion Trees that the sending just one short email to an individual via a wi-fi connected laptop consumes 3.3

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf. Weld County also employs Capitol Solutions, a lobbying firm it shares with the Kiewit Corp.,

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

Divesting from fossil fuels is a way to remove your financial support from industries that threaten our survival here on earth. Divestment operates on a simple capitalistic theory – when demand decreases, the supply of fossil fuel will eventually decrease as well in order to try and slow falling prices.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

An important first step was taken last week when the UK's biggest pension fund, NEST, took the decision to ban investments in fossil fuels and shift £5.5bn into sustainable stocks. This marks a line in the sand, that if followed, could mean the end for fossil-based stocks. This should make common sense.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Here are some key steps that can be taken towards achieving this: Transitioning to renewable energy sources One of the key pillars of a sustainable economy is transforming fossil fuels into renewable energy sources. Solar, geothermal and wind power, all offer a cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

But sustainable finance campaigners have warned the group's long-awaited oil and gas position paper is toothless because it contains little to require firms signed up to the $11tr alliance to stop funding and enabling new fossil fuel infrastructure. temperature pathway recommended by scientists.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. billion Euros in bonds to the fossil fuel industry, Milieudefensie says. “We

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The fossil fuel divestment movement — including Green Business Bureau — calls on investors and companies to divest from fossil fuels and instead support and invest in clean energy solutions. . Divesting from fossil fuels is a way to remove your financial support from industries that threaten our survival here on earth.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Read time: 14 mins Emails exchanged between an Oregon county commissioner and Pembina, the parent company of the proposed $10 billion fossil fuel export terminal Jordan Cove, raise ethics issues and may create openings for legal challenges to key permits for the controversial Jordan Cove project.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2024

“Powered By How” was referenced in a joint DeSmog-Drilled investigation , co-published with the Intercept and The Nation in December, that explored commercial ties between the fossil fuel industry and Bloomberg, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, and The Washington Post.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

But this gagging clause was just one in a whole list of serious ethical breaches that we uncovered. And when the SMG’s Chair Mary Archer took part in one of the museum’s “Climate Talks” , she pushed the fossil fuel industry’s argument that, “if there was no demand for fossil fuels, they wouldn’t produce them”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

Comic Relief, which banned fossil fuel investments last year, has joined more than 30 charities that have signed the Funder Commitment on Climate Change. The commitment builds on Comic Relief's ban on fossil fuel investments, which was adopted last year.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

Approximately twenty years after the publication of UNESCO’s Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations towards Future Generations, the need to protect the earth for the future generations has finally received a significant consideration in the field of ethics. 3. Application of Ethics.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Apart from industry-led changes, external factors such as consumer demand for ethically sourced products and government regulations promoting sustainable farming practices also push the sector toward being more eco-friendly. Techniques like rainwater harvesting and water recycling systems have been introduced. Mitigation of soil degradation.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. Cities failing to measure and publish their emissions data will find themselves under renewed and intense scrutiny. For the unprepared, the damage could be severe.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

.” “I believe that when you have the power of making the world a better place by your action, let’s do it”, Yannick Bolloré told Thomas Kolster, an activist advocating for ethical advertising, in a June 2023 video interview about the advertising industry’s role in solving climate change. billion euros (around $2.49

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We had huge celebrations around achieving B-Corp status,” said the second insider, referring to Havas London’s attainment of a significant ethical business certification, and company leaders “constantly sent around all staff emails about new sustainability initiatives and carbon tracking programs.”

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canadians will spend less money on energy than they do today as we transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, but big challenges remain: the way energy will be consumed and paid for will change, and certain families may find the whole process difficult without help. She is a member of the Federal Net Zero Advisory Body.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 3, 2023

PR and Ad Agencies Face “Real Risks” Other firms that service and enable fossil fuel clients could soon find themselves roped into these lawsuits, climate campaigners and experts say. This growing wave of lawsuits poses real risks to PR and advertising agencies who are working with fossil fuel companies to mislead the public.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2022

Most electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels which emit greenhouse gasses and other harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels, water, and land are all scarce resources that are at risk without proper energy efficiency initiatives. Protects scarce resources such as fossil fuels, water, and land.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. Stephen Curran, manager of Eco-Congregation Scotland, said the move meant all churches in Scotland now had "a duty to make prudent and ethical decisions with any money in their stewardship".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. So that's my aspiration."

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The finance sector is increasingly reluctant to finance fossil fuel expansion, and ‘Big Ag’ could be next in the divestment campaign firing line, argues Charlotte Moore from SIGWATCH. Calls for financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels have become a cornerstone of NGO climate campaigning over the past decade.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

Is it ethical to even research such technologies? president — Lyndon Johnson in 1965 — suggested it as a way to halt rising temperatures without stopping the use of fossil fuels. Companies heavily invested in fossil fuels could also use it as an excuse to avoid reducing the use of oil and gas. Last year, the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

"Cobalt is a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries and knowing that we are being supplied with ethically produced, low-carbon cobalt is a signal to the market that we are living by our values," he said.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 30, 2023

They effectively add a voluntary carbon tax to the use of fossil fuels, adding to the economic pressure to drive down their use. I maintain that the offsetting concept is ethically sound – in theory. While that may sound superficially convincing, does it stack up in practice?

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Grist

JANUARY 24, 2020

Divestment from fossil fuels. Voters need to know if their politicians are bankrolled by fossil fuels, and corporations need to disclose their carbon assets. Here are the two interventions that the researchers say can be achieved very rapidly, i.e. within a few years. Subsidies for green power.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies. They were working for ‘blood money’.”.

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