NYC Comptroller Lander and City Pension Funds Call on Major U.S. and Canadian Banks to Set Absolute GHG Emissions Targets for High Emitting Sectors

This statement was originally published by the New York City Comptroller on January 24, 2023. New York, NY – Today, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and three of the New York City Retirement Systems (the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, Teachers’ Retirement System, and Board of Education Retirement System) announced shareholder proposals at Bank of America, Goldman…

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100 UK universities pledge to divest from fossil fuels

This article was written by Helena Horton and originally published in The Guardian on October 27, 2022. One hundred universities in the UK have pledged to divest from fossil fuels, the Guardian can reveal. This equates to 65% of the country’s higher education sector refusing to make at least some investments in fossil fuel companies,…

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Oilsands Alliance Failing to Invest in Carbon Cuts, Report Finds

This article was written by Mitchell Beer and originally published in The Energy Mix on September 25, 2022. Canadian fossils are steadfastly refusing to invest significantly in new decarbonization projects, even though they’re flush with record amounts of cash, the Pembina Institute reports in a scathing analysis released last week. “Canadian oil and gas companies’…

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Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability

This article was written by Robert G. Eccles, Vinay Shandal, David Young, and Benedicte Montogomery and originally published in Harvard Business Review in the July - August 2022 magazine. Despite their reputation in the 1980s as corporate raiders, most private-equity firms attempt to improve the performance of their portfolio companies through better corporate governance. Historically their business…

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WHO, 192 Global Health Associations Back Fossil Fuel Phaseout

This article was initially published in The Energy Mix on September 15, 2022. The World Health Organization and nearly 200 global health associations have endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT), calling for an end to new fossil infrastructure and a “fair and equitable” phaseout of existing production. “The modern addiction to fossil fuels is…

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Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure.

This article was written on September 2, 2022, by Bruce Robertson and originally published in the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Carbon capture and storage is an old technology, first commercialized in the 1970s. Back then it was called enhanced oil recovery, because the carbon dioxide recovered from oil and gas production was…

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