For companies like BlackRock, the climate crisis is a valuable investment opportunity. They've positioned themselves to make money no matter how — or whether — governments address climate change. In his 2020 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, proclaimed that “climate risk is investment risk.” A... Continue Reading →
Canadian banks are playing a growing and globally significant role in fueling climate destruction and are more exposed to climate risk than they are telling their shareholders according to data in a new Greenpeace report. The report finds that prior to the pandemic, Canadian big 5 banks steadily increased their fossil fuel loans and investments since... Continue Reading →
Canadian Banks Are Fueling Climate Destruction
Originally published: Red Flag News by James Plested (December 10, 2019 ) The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather–cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves. It’s burning forests in Australia, the Amazon, Indonesia, Siberia, Canada and California. It’s... Continue Reading →
How the rich plan to rule a burning planet
Exxon Mobil Corp. lobbyist Keith McCoy listed six Democrats the oil giant saw as key allies to push its legislative agenda in the Senate in a secretly recorded sting video Greenpeace UK published late last month. New analysis of campaign disclosures found the six Democratic senators ― Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Joe Manchin... Continue Reading →
Exxon Lobbyists Paid The 6 Democrats Named In Sting Video Nearly $333,000
From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds. In 1908 the U.S. government seized some 18,000 acres of land from... Continue Reading →
How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature
The Guardian’s new series of articles on fossil fuel companies’ culpability for the climate crisis is entitled “Climate Crimes.” Is this too extreme a title? After all, Exxon and the others were just working within our legal, economic, and political systems to provide a commodity we all use every day. They may have known that... Continue Reading →
Big Oil’s lies about climate change—a climate scientist’s take
Option to listen to the article instead of reading it is enabled... Islands like the Bahamas are paying the price for wealthier nations’ emissions — an injustice crying out for a global remedy. This May — 20 months after Hurricane Dorian unleashed its cruelty upon my Bahamas — I looked down from an airplane’s window... Continue Reading →
Climate Change Is Destroying My Country. The Rich World Must Help…
(this article is dated, but still very valid) Climate change will impact us all, no matter who we are or where we live. But that doesn’t mean it will hit us equally. Climate change may not discriminate, but people do. As a reporter at ProPublica, my focus is on environmental justice, how low-income, underserved and... Continue Reading →
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