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Jeff Bezos Unveils Sweeping Plan to Tackle Climate Change
Bezos expects 80% of Amazon’s energy use to come from renewable sources by 2024, before transitioning to zero emissions by 2030.
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- Energy, Environment
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Viewpoint: Can ‘Climate Finance’ Fund a Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy?
UN Climate Action Summit hopes to catalyse the private sector to lead global shift away from fossil fuels to renewables.
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- Environment, Finance
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- climate change
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Climate Change Moves to Top of Investors’ List of ESG Issues
As institutional investors spend an increasing amount of time thinking about environmental, social and governance risks and strategies for dealing with them, the issue of climate change continues to push its way to the top of the list.
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- Environment, Investing
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Press Release: Major Private Sector Institutions Present Solutions for Mobilizing Climate Finance
Drawing on the direct perspective of some of the world’s largest institutions across the investment chain, including private banks, asset managers, and asset owners, the report identifies concrete opportunities for leadership by the public and private sectors to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
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- Environment
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- climate change
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Viewpoint: How Making Smart Financial Decisions Can Have a Positive Impact on Climate Change
Skeptics question the effect of ESG investment on financial performance, but we emphasize that climate change and other ESG-related risks materialize only over the long term.
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: The Energy Transformation Is Not Happening Fast Enough
Climate finance as promised at the 2015 Paris meeting could have helped to avoid the recent construction of many new coal-fired power plants in Asia and Africa, which will be adding to the legacy of our industrial era for decades to come. But alas, as economic nationalism and ethnic chauvinism have taken roots, the willingness for international cooperation has dwindled, and with it the willingness to cooperate.
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- Energy
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The Planetary Potential of Banishing Kerosene Lighting – And How Entrepreneurship Can Help
Kerosene lamps are still used by hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to climate change by releasing not only CO2 but also black carbon, an especially potent greenhouse gas. What's more, they exact a grim human toll, from burns and fires to toxic smoke and poisoning hazards. Alicia Oberholzer and Fid Thompson at Solar Sister call for an end to kerosene lighting, and highlight how women's entrepreneurship can make it happen.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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India Looks to Rope in China, Emerging Markets to Push Paris Climate Deal, Seeks $100B From Rich Nations
“Brazil, South Africa, India, and China put together has one-third of the world’s geographical area and nearly 40% of the global population and when we unitedly speak in one voice, it shows our determination,” said Prakash Javadekar in the 28th Ministerial meeting on climate change in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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- Environment
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- climate change