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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first? But Exxon knew it back in ‘79.

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From the Editor, February 2020

Unsustainable

Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. . · Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. Nearly 95% of major U.S. In a survey of 2,511 registered U.S.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. By focusing on how these institutions are sites of coproduction of knowledge and policy, this work brings to light the politics of science advice and details how these committees are contributing to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.

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Shell and the new era of climate risk

GreenBiz

This duty — which is both ethical and legal — requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner. Policy & Politics. According to Investopedia , the term refers to: a fiduciary responsibility held by company directors which requires them to live up to a certain standard of care. And it’s not just climate.

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Shell and the new era of climate risk

AGreenLiving

This duty — which is both ethical and legal — requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner. .” According to Investopedia , the term refers to: a fiduciary responsibility held by company directors which requires them to live up to a certain standard of care. And it’s not just climate.