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Divesting works: Study finds ditching fossil stocks lowers corporate footprints

Corporate Knights

For the leaders of the divestment movement, which encourages institutional investors to sell off their shares in fossil fuel companies, winning isn’t everything. But after a decade of determined lobbying, the divest side is suddenly doing a lot of winning. That tally, they noted, is bigger than the combined GDP of the U.S.

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Stronger climate regulations for banks might not actually cut emissions

Corporate Knights

Advocates say new regulations that will force banks and insurance companies to disclose climate risks don’t do enough to force financial institutions to address those risks, too. Implementing their suggestions could force Canadian financial institutions to divest their fossil fuel company loans or refuse to insure oil and gas companies.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea’s divestment, along with pressure from other institutions, such as Norwegian pension fund KPL, led to a pledge from JBS to use blockchain to monitor its entire supply chain by 2025, including the problematic "indirect suppliers" that have been linked to illegal deforestation.

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Texas Adds NatWest to Divestment List for “Boycotting” Energy Companies

ESG Today

UK-based financial services group NatWest has been added to a list of financial companies published by the Texas Comptroller’s office that may be subject to divestment by the state’s pension funds for “boycotting” oil and gas companies. Texas is the largest net energy supplier in the U.S., Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Time for a fair phase out of fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

Divestment from fossil fuels is accelerating around the world. Besides dozens of universities (including Harvard and the University of Toronto), the divestment list now includes France’s Banque Postale, the State of New York, and Europe’s largest pension, ABP.

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Clean200 - Resources

Corporate Knights

The current list has been updated with data through January 29, 2025. The ranking was first calculated on July 1, 2016, and publicly released on August 15, 2016, by Corporate Knights and As You Sow. The Clean200 companies are ranked by their clean revenues in U.S.

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Clean200 - Resources

Corporate Knights

The current list has been updated with data through January 29, 2025. The ranking was first calculated on July 1, 2016, and publicly released on August 15, 2016, by Corporate Knights and As You Sow. The Clean200 companies are ranked by their clean revenues in U.S.