Climate Finance

View In: Climate FinanceThe Texas blacklist follows a similar move by West Virginia in July and came the day after Florida barred its pension fund from considering environmental, social and governance factors in investment decisions.

Alternet.org
View In: Climate FinanceNew research released Wednesday by a Ukraine-based climate action group reveals that while the U.S. is sending another $3 billion in aid to the country amid Russia's invasion, American banks are among the biggest investors in high-emissions projects which are helping to fund the war as well as pushin...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Climate Finance“When you don't care who you're doing business with,” said one climate campaigner, “it does translate into human suffering and lives lost.“

Grist
View In: Climate FinanceClimate is not a priority for the asset manager. Could its owners’ oil and gas company have something to do with it?

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Climate Finance“Dirty energy companies are using the corporate bond market as the back door to secure large amounts of cash for expansion projects,” said one climate activist. “This has so far received too little scrutiny.“

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Climate FinanceThe biggest financiers of fossil fuels face some tough questions this shareholder season.

Popular Resistance
View In: Climate FinanceThe world faces twin debt crises. On the one hand, a well-publicized financial debt crisis looms for countries across the Global South, limiting governments’ ability to take public health action, alleviate poverty, adapt to a warming world, or pursue ambitious low-carbon development. Policy makers i...

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Climate FinanceGreenpenny invests in a range of renewable energy and home efficiency projects. The post Online bank funds climate solutions, not fossil fuels appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Truth Out
View In: Climate FinanceThe American Legislative Exchange Council is driving a surge in state laws modeled on anti-BDS legislation.

The Guardian
View In: Climate FinanceThe IMF allots voting rights and emergency funds according to an outdated and unfair quota system established in 1944, before most colonies were free. Let’s change itActivists pushing for global reparations for colonialism and slavery are often accused of asking for the politically impossible. At th...

Jacobin Magazine
View In: Climate FinanceCalifornia’s two biggest pension funds have invested a staggering $43 billion in fossil fuel companies, and their opposition to divesting from the industry — including fighting legislation that would have stopped them investing in firms involved with the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) ...

Truth Out
View In: Climate FinanceMajor U.S. banks committed to net zero emissions by 2050, but they continue to support the fossil fuel industry.

NationofChange
View In: Climate Financen recent years, a growing movement to achieve climate justice has connected the root cause of climate change not just with greenhouse gases but also with a more entrenched, insidious foe: capitalism. The United States supports a system that allows a few corporations and people to earn money off climat...

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Climate FinanceExperts voice pro and con attitudes about fossil fuel divestments. But what they don’t debate are the big numbers of dollars and investors in the mix. The post Big numbers – dollars and institutions – behind divestments from fossil fuels appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

The Daily Poster
View In: Climate FinanceRegulators are taking aim at how insurance companies are helping to fuel the climate crisis.

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Climate Finance“Wall Street's toxic fossil fuel investments threaten the future of our planet and the stability of our financial system and put all of us, especially our most vulnerable communities, at risk.”

Common Dreams
View In: Climate Finance“We are not going to let bank CEOs ignore the deadly consequences of their actions.”