Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

14 – When world leaders jet into New York for the annual UN General Assembly this weekend, it will be hard. The post Protesters and private investors to pressure global leaders at Climate Week NYC appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning a series of protests targeting the City of London to demand an end to investments in fossil fuels around the world. Anneka Sutcliffe of XR’s “Actions” team named the Bank of England, Barclays, and HSBC as likely targets for protest. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31. Those who have attended protests and written about the disaster have been beaten by police and imprisoned in Vietnam. The company issued a public apology and paid $500 million to the Vietnamese government.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This was a rhetorical question asked by Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian energy minister, during the opening of the 24th World Petroleum Congress. On the eve of the conference about 300 protesters made their way from the Calgary Municipal Building to the Calgary Convention Centre.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

19, 2119 –– The global gathering of impact investors that pulled out of Santiago, Chile, because of street protests and curfews regrouped in Buenos Aires to take stock of what impact investing has to offer in the face of popular uprisings around the world. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By Rebecca Chilton, director, project finance; and Erica Reidy, associate director of project finance, Leyline Renewable Capital Recent protests over the deaths of countless Black men, women and children in America have brought a reckoning on race to our country.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Hundreds of climate activists are occupying a busy street in central London today in the first of two weeks of protest against the UK financial sector’s continued investment in fossil fuels. ” When asked about his dramatic protest, Ben said: “People have for decades been protesting and marching.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 17, 2023

The group has since mobilised protests in the UK and around the world, including in April this year, when it linked up with other environmental and social justice organisations to mobilise tens of thousands of people in central London.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Nigel Harvey has now been arrested three times in two years for taking part in climate crisis protests organised by activist group XR. After spending 11 hours in police custody, Harvey was released from Walworth police station in South London charged with failing to comply with a police instruction to end the protest. warming limit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Thousands of protestors marched through Glasgow today to demand action from world leaders and polluting companies, as the COP26 UN climate summit moves into its second week. Organisers say over 100,000 people joined the protests, with 300 other demonstrations taking place around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What will it take for the world to finally rally around rapid, sustained climate action? In an interview with DeSmog’s Michaela Herrmann, Fisher outlines why she thinks “severe, durable climate shocks” will be required to shake the world out of the fossil fuel status quo once and for all. Professor Dana R.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In order to restore balance in our environment, we must first listen to the natural world — and to those who know it best, Mitchell says. As Houska pointed out, Indigenous people make up only 5 percent of the world's population, yet Indigenous lands and territories hold 80 percent of the world's biodiversity. "I

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They were there to protest the plans by Norwegian oil company Equinor to begin offshore oil exploration later this year. The protests were focused in Mar del Plata, a beach town closest to the offshore blocks, but spread to other cities in the province and around the country. That set the stage for the big protests on January 4.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James was planning to hold a protest march in Gramercy in an effort to stop an industry-friendly ballot initiative. The time was marked by heightened racial unrest following the murder of George Floyd, which sparked Black Lives Matter protests to spread spread across the country, including in New Orleans. Two days before RISE St.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

For the world to have even a sliver of a chance to meet its goals under the Paris Agreement, the scientists warned, emissions must peak no later than 2025 and then enter a precipitously steep decline. “The So how did the world end up with a 1.5-degree A climate activist with the Fridays for Future movement protests at the COP26 U.N.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

Extinction Rebellion is gearing up for another wave of protests across London next week, in bid to further ramp up pressure on for ambitious action to tackle the climate crisis in the run up to the crucial COP26 UN climate summit being hosted by the UK government in November. This crisis involves everyone.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“We have to keep this coal mine in the spotlight, even after COP26, until the decision is made,” said community campaigner Jill Perry, whose speech in West Cumbria was transmitted to the London protest over speakerphone. “I I think the government is hoping that this mine will fall off the radar,” Perry added. “We Canaries in the Coal Mine.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Waving giant euro banknotes splattered with the words “blood money”, African protesters at U.N. People are dying in Africa because of Europe’s use of gas,” said Kwami Kpondzo, a Don’t Gas Africa campaigner from Friends of the Earth Togo, who joined today’s rally, where protesters chanted “Don’t gas Africa.”.

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I recently heard a Sustainability Professional protesting that their vehicle would have to pay Clean Air Zone (CAZ) charges. These regimes and economies fundamentally rely on oil and gas for their very existence, so Dubai hosting COP28 was a bit like the world’s turkeys population holding a fundraiser for Christmas.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 1, 2020

The federal government has bought the Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline which was designed to ferry tar sands bitumen some of the dirtiest, most carbon intensive energy in the world. Warming related impacts Canada is warming faster than the rest of the world and we are seeing record breaking heat in the Arctic. A town in B.C.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

New York Times : Climate Protesters and World Leaders on Same Planet, Different Worlds. With the world’s most powerful 250-kilowatt, 1,500-volt string inverter, Sungrow is providing disruptive technology for utility-scale projects. Support for this podcast is brought to you by Sungrow.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

A year ago at this time, we looked ahead and confidently saw more engagement, new initiatives and a continuation of the forward march of progress that constitutes a typical year in the world of sustainable business. We took in the enormity of the problems facing humanity and the planet, and scanned the horizon. That’s changing.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

A hundred protesters gathered in Parliament Square this morning to mark 100 days before the talks begin, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak of being “Missing in Action”. target alive is closing. target alive is closing. Boris Johnson has just 100 days to get his own house in order.”.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While the vast majority of environmental damage is done by massive corporations and world governments, rather than little old you, it’s important to remember that collective action can have an impact on helping the world become more environmentally friendly. Let’s find out! Insulate Your Home.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Among the articles, investigations, and projects that have benefited from his work include the following: editing an investigation into greenwashing by major oil and gas companies that earned significant media coverage around the world. uncovering how the tobacco and fossil fuel industries fund disinformation campaigns around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Read time: 6 mins While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country's oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sands oil, also known as bitumen, to the rest of the world. .

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Defend Our Future

JULY 23, 2020

But reading back on his life, it is remarkable just how many things he accomplished in his youth: When he was 21, he took part in the Freedom Rides, where he and others protested segregation at bus terminals by sitting in seats reserved for white people. He never forgot about the potential young people have to change the world.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The protest was part of Scotland’s first “Climate Camp” in over a decade , a weekend of dedicated climate activism in the area. Willie Hershaw, who lives in Lochgelly and attended the Mossmorran protest, recalled the promises made when the plant opened in the eighties: “The big promise was that there was going to be loads of jobs.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sustainability centers around leaving the world a better place for the next generation. Protesters march against police shootings and racism during a rally in Washington, DC on Dec. Now is the time to shake the foundation of how we operate as a society. This implicitly covers all people with no qualifiers. Racial Issues. Shutterstock.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The world-changing potential of STEAM-powered youth. The last time I profiled a young technologist working to change the world, she went on to be honored as Time Magazine’s first Kid of the Year. Our work brings accessible, affordable and diverse STEAM education to children all around the world, and it has been such a cool journey.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2019

trillion in new oil and gas projects around the world over the next five years, despite the fact that existing projects contain enough greenhouse gases to use up the remaining carbon budget. The industry also has plans to invest $1.4

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Defend Our Future

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Over the course of my professional career, I have observed several protest events. The Global Climate Strike on September 20th marked my first experience as an active, marching, sign-holding protest participant. When I confessed this to one of my colleagues in the NYC office, she rightly asked the question: What took you so long?

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Climate change is increasingly being harnessed as a human rights issue in legal claims and court cases around the world, as the mass popularity of disruptive climate activism over the past year - such as the protests from Extinction Rebellion in the UK - starts to influence how courts address the issue.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 11, 2020

There can be no sustainability in an unequal world. At a certain point, the protests will stop—the media will move on—but your voice will still be needed: to plan, to organize, to vote, and to support change. . And now, as we strive for a 1.5°C Indeed sustainability should embrace the three E’s of ecology, economy and equality.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A rag tag group of self-publicists, anti-vaxxers/climate change deniers and right wing nutters marched through Oxford to protest a series of bus gates designed to encourage motorists to drive around the city centre rather than through it (ironically bringing traffic in the city centre to a halt).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. They love to talk about how dependent African economic growth is on fossil fuels, never about how they've destroyed water sources and wetlands and murdered protesters there).

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The world actually came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels during a United Nations climate conference in Dubai last December. For context, the roughly two dozen industrial plants around the world that are designed to filter CO2 out of the ambient air were able to capture less than 0.01

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