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Public Pension Plans Face up to Politicisation  

Chris Hall

Pension funds are confronted with immense pressures such as meeting their liabilities, managing deficits, navigating turbulent global economies, and coping with growing regulatory burdens. California’s proposed divestment laws addresses the systemic risk of climate change, he says. It can be an uneasy relationship.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.