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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

Some previously untargeted companies, brands, institutional investors and geographies will be thrust into the limelight as central problems in the battle against climate change. As a result, we can expect to see personal, political and business incentives tilt in favor of more action to combat climate change.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

This helps explain why more than $11 trillion have been divested from fossil ownership, even before the University of California announced that it was divesting its $80 billion portfolio. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Contributors. Natural Gas.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

A decade of pressure on companies to report on and reduce their contribution to climate change has created something of a blueprint for investors to demand the same in terms of the separate but interconnected biodiversity crisis. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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How Breaking Environmental Regulations Can Hurt Company Stock Price

B the Change

on understanding how environmental regulation affects investor behavior and the implications for climate change. In this article, I describe what I learned about how investors react to regulation and what that means for companies, regulators, and investors. I’ve focused my Ph.D. This sell-off can be big. Simon Xu is a Ph.D.

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How Institutional Investors Can Be Involved in Climate Actions

Chris Hall

As the urgency to address climate change intensifies, institutional investors have a crucial role to play in driving sustainable practices and advancing climate actions. SFDR offers three main classifications: Article 6, Article 8, and Article 9.