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

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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But, as the paper highlights, this reliance on forests has major practical and ethical concerns, from questions over the effectiveness of plantations to the opportunity for land grabs. Tree-planting, or any nature-based solution, must not become a way for companies or governments to keep burning fossil fuels.

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Sea level rise Climate change Biodiversity Ethics 195

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This book also reviews the regional and national development of Digital Earth around the world, and discusses the role and effect of education and ethics. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil-fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonization commitments simply may not be enough. This duty — which is both ethical and legal — requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Sea level rise Pollution 451

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonisation commitments simply may not be enough. This duty - which is both ethical and legal - requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner".

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Climate change Fossil fuels Sea level rise COP 70

AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil-fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonization commitments simply may not be enough. This duty — which is both ethical and legal — requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner.

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