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AB: Can Tomorrow’s Natural Hazards Inform Today’s Investment Decisions?

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2025’s upgrade broadens Columbia’s and AB’s collaboration among leading academic and public institutions, including NASA. Applying the latest weather science, climate research and sophisticated modeling, NHI 3.0 In 2023, we partnered with the university on a version 2.0

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How Big Oil has infiltrated universities and shaped climate research

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How did the fossil fuel industry manage to raise a generation of climate change deniers? A research group has just identified a big component of that attitude shift: the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to bury the truth by cozying up to universities and discrediting climate science.

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Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics

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Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said. Read the full story from The Guardian.

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Scotiabank's Net-Zero Research Fund Now Accepting Applications in Celebration of World Environment Day

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DESCRIPTION: TORONTO, June 13, 2022 /3BL Media/ - In celebration of World Environment Day, Scotiabank is announcing that from now until July 14th, Scotiabank's Net-Zero Research Fund is accepting funding applications from think tanks and academic institutions that are supporting key sectors in their efforts to decarbonize the economy.

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MSCI Launches New Sustainability Institute

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Investment data and research provider MSCI announced today the launch of the MSCI Sustainability Institute, a new initiative aimed at enabling collaboration across the capital markets ecosystem on the creation of sustainable value and addressing global challenges such as climate change.

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Don't let climate grief and despair defeat climate solutions

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A summer of wildfires, smoke alerts, heatwaves, and storms is producing a new wave of grief and despair that must not paralyse the solutions we need to get the climate crisis under control. The reaction is utterly understandable when you can taste climate change in the back of your throat. Keep on building wins, big and small.

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Guest Post: Climate Risks To Financial Performance Are Hugely Under-estimated

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By: Emma Cutler, Senior Analyst, Verdantix News of climate change- and El Nino-driven drought slowing traffic in the Panama Canal hit headlines last week. Where the news will likely never appear, however, is firms’ own reporting, even for those that experience significant losses, at least not as a climate-related loss.