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On the Jersey Shore, Surf’s Up — Way Up
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In New Jersey’s beach towns, there are two sets of data that always seem to be rising:…
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Ivory Trade Loopholes Close as Nations Race to Crush Poachers
(Bloomberg) — Since the 2000’s, an elephant poaching epidemic has raged across Africa, with populations in some areas decimated and…
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Engine No. 1’s Exxon Win Provides Boost for ESG Advocates
(Bloomberg) — The rejection of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s management team marks one of the most significant victories for shareholders who…
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A Message to Clean Tech Entrepreneurs: You Are Still Not Late
A week ago, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order urging his administration to create a comprehensive strategy on climate-related…
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What Climate Science Loses Without Enough Black Researchers
(Bloomberg) — Vernon Morris had often felt invisible in a profession defined by observation. As a climate scientist, he’s encountered racist…
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Fight Over Solar Subsidy Tests California’s Climate Commitment
“We’ve got to reform the program for the fairness of everyone,” said Kathy Fairbanks, a spokeswoman for Affordable Clean Energy…
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Green Finance Hires Political Stars to Protect $30 Trillion Boom
(Bloomberg) — Mark Carney to Brookfield Asset Management. Brexit architect Nigel Farage to DGB Group. A senior Obama aide to…
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Icon: We’ve Entered The Climate Decade, No Really
Many climate investors remember the early 2000s with a shudder. The promise of greentech riches mostly left a trail of…
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Pope launches green initiative, decrying “predatory attitude” toward planet
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis launched an initiative on Tuesday to make Catholic institutions ranging from families to universities…
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Jane Goodall on Covid, Resilience and Climate Change
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Jane Goodall, renowned conservationist and winner of this year’s Templeton Prize, has been a pioneer when it comes…
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Climate Voluntarism Won’t Deliver Needed Bank Action, Aviva Says
(Bloomberg) — If the financial-services sector is to play a meaningful role in supporting efforts to limit global warming, climate action…
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IBM Turnabout Adds Pressure to Keep Corporate Diversity Promises
(Bloomberg) — The year 2021 is shaping up to set records for diversity proposals at U.S. company annual meetings. Nine out…
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Transcript: Daniela Gabor on the Drawbacks of the ESG Boom
(Bloomberg) — It’s no secret that ESG investing has become a big business with tons of money flowing into businesses…
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EU leaders to debate who will pay for green transition
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders meet on Tuesday to debate how to split the efforts and costs of the…
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Biden to Direct $1 Billion for Severe Weather Preparedness
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden plans to announce on Monday a doubling of federal spending on preparations for severe weather…
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Pakistan Nears Debt-for-Nature Swap Agreement With Creditors
(Bloomberg) — Pakistan is closing in on a deal with bilateral creditors that would tie debt relief to the achievement…
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Ferrari Pitches $500,000 Hybrid Supercar as a Bargain for Daily Driving
(Bloomberg) — The main thing Ferrari will tell you about the 2021 Ferrari SF90 Stradale is how much of a…
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Arctic-Superpower Jostling Heats Up as Russia Takes on Key Role
(Bloomberg) — A battle of words between top Russian and U.S. diplomats this week is the latest sign of rising tensions…
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Colorado Is Committed To Solving Environmental Injustices. But First, We Have To Agree On What Those Are Exactly
It was later discovered that federal emergency maps were more than 30 years old and failed to show the park…
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Green Fuel Push Stirs Food Inflation Fears in Rebound From Virus
Demand for vegetable oils is growing so fast that North America will go from being a surplus region to facing shortfalls…
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NextEra Is Blocking a Major New Clean Power Transmission Project
(Bloomberg) — A major new transmission line intended to pipe carbon-free hydropower from Canada into the U.S. Northeast has met…
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The Biggest Ideas in Farming Today Are Also the Oldest
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Earth’s soil can sequester vast amounts of carbon — I’ve known this for years. But it wasn’t…
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Why Local Governments Don’t Pay for Expensive Disaster Insurance
What makes a disaster? When we think of calamity, most of us think of flood waters that submerge towns, or…
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How Do ECB Chiefs Invest Their Own Cash? Not Very Sustainably
When it comes to investing their own money to tackle climate-change or promote better corporate governance, European Central Bank officials…
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Germany’s more ambitious climate goals pressure industry to clean up | DW | 12.05.2021
Chastened by its highest court and harried by young climate activists, the German government has proposed one of the biggest…
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Asian Cities Face Greatest Environmental Risks, Report Shows
(Bloomberg) — Asian cities face the greatest risk from environmental issues including air pollution and natural disasters, according to a…
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Faulty Weather Forecasts Are a Climate Crisis Disaster
Predicting the weather can be a frustratingly imprecise science. The weather app on your phone is pretty good at forecasting…
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The Chinese Government Needs to Become a Clean Energy Supermajor
(Bloomberg) — China is turning to its state-owned coal power companies to helm the next stage of the country’s renewables…
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Atomic Superyacht to Offer $3 Million Eco-Tours With Scientists
A nuclear-powered ship full of scientists, activists and billionaires, sailing the world and examining the state of the oceans. That’s the…
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The World’s First Carbon Border Tariff, Explained
At least initially, goods produced in the EU will be more expensive than those not subject to emissions-reducing regulations, making…
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Russia May Be Carbon’s Last Refuge
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Second in a four-part series on oil-dependent economies and their transition to a zero-carbon future. Read part one…
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The Powerful New Financial Argument for Fossil-Fuel Divestment
In a few months, a small British financial think tank will mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of a…
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Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is a Green Jobs Plan
“Once you put capital money to work, jobs are created.” These are not the words of President Joe Biden, announcing…
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Fed sets up panels to examine risks that climate change poses to the financial system
The Federal Reserve has taken another step forward in efforts to ensure that the financial system is protected against climate…
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How to Judge Biden’s Record on Climate Change
Levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere were higher in 2020 than in any year in human history. They will be…
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Biden restores climate change page to EPA website, reversing Trump
A screenshot shows the climate change web page of the Environmental Protection Agency website, that was relaunched on March 18,…
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Europe seeks alliance with U.S. to tackle aviation emissions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union wants to work with the U.S. government to curb aviation’s contribution to climate change,…
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This must be the ‘decade of action’ on climate change, John Kerry says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – This year’s United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland must kick-start a decade of action to address…
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It’s Too Late for Big Oil’s Pivot to a Carbon Tax
The American Petroleum Institute is debating whether to support a price on carbon. It’s not every day that a top…
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This Company Helps Roughnecks Find Renewable Energy Jobs
(Bloomberg) — Alfred Burt grew up following his father across the oil patches of Texas. He carried on the family tradition,…
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster review: Bill Gates’s call to arms
By Adam Vaughan Bill Gates Courtesy of the author How to Avoid a Climate DisasterBill GatesAllen Lane (buy from Amazon…
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Why Texas Broke: The Crisis That Sank the State Has No Easy Fix
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — The Houston skyline was lit pink for Valentine’s Day. It was cold—really cold, at least by the…
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How Measuring and Reducing Emissions Has Become Its Own Business
(Bloomberg) — A new startup run by former employees of the payment processor Stripe Inc. will help companies analyze the…
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A New Link Tracing Beef From Amazon Rainforest to Grocery Stores
(Bloomberg) — Meatpacking powerhouses like JBS SA and Marfrig Global Foods SA have borne the brunt of watchdog efforts to root out…
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Renting All Your Furniture Means Never Discarding Another Sofa
(Bloomberg) — Plastic-wrapped foam mattresses, dilapidated plastic shelving units, three-legged Ikea chairs—Jay Reno calls this “end-of-life” furniture. And it’s accumulating…
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‘Portfolio Warming’ Is the New Climate Anxiety for Fund Managers
(Bloomberg) — All good money managers expect to outperform their benchmark, and by one such metric the French insurer and…
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Mexico Shifts Into Reverse on Electric Vehicles
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The combustible engine’s end date is firming up: General Motors Co., the largest of the Detroit big…
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