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Wasted Money & Sunken Assets: Subsidies and Financing for Fossil Fuels

August 12, 2024 admin air quality, Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, divestment, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, fossil fuel subsidies, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, HEALTH, India, india solar power, investment, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, Solar energy, subsidies, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:23:47 +0000

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. With the … [continued]

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California Aims To Boot Dirty Investment With California Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (SB 252)

February 12, 2023 admin California, climate change, divestment, fossil free, fossil fuel divestment, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:51:59 +0000

California continues to be a climate and cleantech leader. One of its big recent announcements in this regard is that state policymakers have introduced the California Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (SB 252). Naturally, this divestment move was stimulated by young adults, students. It was then introduced by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), Senator Lena Gonzalez […]

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Future-Facing Commodities

September 12, 2022 admin Australia, australia coal, Coal, divestment, fossil fuel divestment, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:34:34 +0000

The new buzz expression for Australian mining companies that are leaving fossil fuel assets behind to chase greater profits is: “future facing commodities.” No virtue signaling here — it’s all about long-term shareholder value. CEO Mike Henry told a Sept. 8 shareholder call: “The divestment of our petroleum business and some of our smaller coal […]

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BlackRock Battles Texas Again Over Divestments

September 5, 2022 admin blackrock, carbon emissions, climate change, divestment, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, renewable energy, texas

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:00:28 +0000

At stake are legitimate clean energy industries — those that don’t pollute the environment or question our future existence as a species.

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Keep It In The Ground Grassroots Campaign Is A Success Story

September 1, 2022 admin 350.org, activism, divestment, Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:00:17 +0000

Taking a look back: 350.org’s grassroots campaign “keep it in the ground” is a success story – and not yet finished. By taking a step back, sometimes solutions for complex problems seem to be surprisingly easy. If you don’t want carbon in the air, leave the raw materials that produce it in the ground. That‘s […]

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Texas Is In Turmoil, As Green Finance Is Very Appealing To Major Funds

May 6, 2022 admin carbon emissions, climate change, divestment, Fossil Fuels, investment, renewable energy, texas

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 18:59:06 +0000

Laws to limit divestment in Texas have met with resistance, as bankers and analysts have figured out ways to detour around Big Oil in portfolios.

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Students At Top Universities Demand Divestment

February 21, 2022 admin carbon emissions, divestment, Fossil Fuels, green economy, HEALTH, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:10:54 +0000

How did students attempt this month to persuade their institutions to divest? How is it different than previous actions?

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Tesla [TSLA] Stock Soars Over $900?! Why?

February 4, 2020 admin cars, catl, clean transport, consumer technology, divestment, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, ford, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, oil companies, panasonic, porsche, tesla, tesla batteries, tesla model y, tesla stock

Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:12:49 +0000

As I write this, Tesla stock has soared for the second day straight to over $900. Even as someone who has become more bullish on the stock thanks to my research, I’ll be the first to tell you that I can’t honestly say that I understand why this movement is happening all at once and so suddenly, nor does it seem that anyone else does

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2019 Divestment Year In Review

January 2, 2020 admin 350.org, amundi, Bill McKibben, blackrock, climate change, divestment, european investment bank, fossil free, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:40:54 +0000

$11 trillion in divestments! That’s the grand total movement away from fossil fuels as of end-of-year

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Investing In Fossil Fuels = Burying Your Money — 20th Century Fuel Is Staying In The Ground

December 31, 2019 admin clean power, clean transport, climate change, co2 emissions, Coal, divestment, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, market research, natural gas, Oil, oil industry, policy & politics, research, United States, US

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:33:59 +0000

Given the accelerating effects of climate breakdown — established by scientific consensus and visible with our own eyes — it is rational for investors to expect much tighter carbon regulation in the near future

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