Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

From Europe to Australia, South America to China, Florida to Oregon, investors are asking how they should modify their portfolios. [I’m not sure how many in finance have really questioned core assumptions yet, but this letter will kick off some tough conversations.] Consumers are asking, so banks are responding.]

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Since the last climate conference took place in Madrid in 2019, we’ve seen wildfires in Greece, Australia, Canada, and South America, biblical floods in China, the UK, Germany and America, and record-breaking hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes across the globe. Coal is by far, the worst of our fossil fuel dependencies.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and fend off action. Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and associations.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

In Mexico, Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association, is courting investors for funds to support a new agave agroforestry project. He says he has seen cases in South America where people have worked to transform degraded cattle ranches into cocoa plantations. Close Authorship.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 26, 2024

The projects have been made possible with the support of the Regional Governments (GORE), public organizations that provide finance through the Innovation Fund for Competitiveness (FIC), a financial instrument administered by each GORE which is specifically aimed at financing projects. The last camp was held on November 8th.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

The International Energy Agency warns in a new analysis that if the world hopes to reach net zero emissions by 2050, widely seen as necessary to meet the Paris climate agreement goals, there should be no investment in new fossil fuel supply projects or in new coal-fired power plants that don’t capture their carbon emissions.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Frank for NPR and Floodlight) Chevron’s bid to control the public discourse comes as efforts to combat climate change threaten the fossil fuel industry, especially in California. Most of the people who work at the Chevron refinery live outside the city. State regulators would effectively ban the sales of gas-powered cars by 2035.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

In Mexico, Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association, is courting investors for funds to support a new agave agroforestry project. ” He says he has seen cases in South America where people have worked to transform degraded cattle ranches into cocoa plantations.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity. The frustrating thing for us is there is no need for this deforestation or climate pollution. There are 1.6

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