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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

As a group, over the course of the past decade (2012 to 2021) these 20 companies slashed their net GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 43%, from 862 million tonnes to 489 million tonnes. Yet the pace and scale of their reductions is in the realm of what every company and country must do by 2030 to keep the faith of the Paris Agreement.

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Fueling Disinformation: How Big Oil Obstructs Climate Education

Richard Matthews

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. The divestment solution. Divestment is an increasingly popular approach to combating the fossil fuel industry’s influence. The case for divestment is persuasive.