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GB News Owner’s Hedge Fund Has $2.2 Billion Fossil Fuel Investments

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Paul Marshall is the chairman and chief investment officer of Marshall Wace, a London-based hedge fund that he co-founded in 1997. Marshall Wace is now one of the world’s largest hedge funds – an investment vehicle that bets on rising and falling share prices – with around $63 billion (£51.9 billion) in fossil fuel firms.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry

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billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. Taxpayer handouts to Canada’s wealthiest companies means that less money is available for the types of investments that could actually help people across the country who are deciding between food and energy bills,” she said.

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Policy, not politics, will change America's meat habits

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Policy, not politics, will change America's meat habits. I think the meat wars are going to be worse than energy," Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental policy expert at New York University, told the HEATED newsletter. It’s true that Big Meat vs Climate Policy could, indeed, be terrible for climate progress.

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Hospitals Are Investing Billions of Dollars in Fossil Fuels, Report Reveals

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Major hospital systems and medical institutions in the United States are betraying their oath to “first do no harm” through their investments in the fossil fuel sector, warns a new report from a campaign advocating for fossil fuel divestment in healthcare. private hospital systems.

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New Liz Truss Faction ‘Pops’ With Climate Science Denial and Fossil Fuel Ties

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The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. The policy was ditched by her successor Rishi Sunak.)

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Leading ‘Sustainable’ Investment Funds Backing Fossil Fuels, Research Finds

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Major investment funds available to UK consumers are marketing themselves as “sustainable” and “ethical” while financing fossil fuel companies, research has found. The fund with the most fossil fuel-linked holdings in its portfolio was iShares Dow Jones Global Sustainability Screened. Fuelling the Fire’.