Banks with more than $47tn collectively in assets signed on to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) framework for climate action rolled out this week. Yet only three…
September 25, 2019
September 25, 2019
Market Watch: Banks worth $47 trillion adopt UN-backed climate pact — but only 3 of the top 10
Banks with more than $47 trillion collectively in assets signed on to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) framework for climate action rolled out this week. Yet only…
September 25, 2019
SFIST: Climate Activists Rally In Downtown SF, Block Montgomery Street
It’s another day of climate protest in San Francisco with activists vowing to disrupt business as usual in the Financial District until 5 p.m. Today’s protest focuses on banks in…
September 23, 2019
Politico: Inside the U.N. climate summit
U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will find four parallel universes this week on the East Side of New York, where the U.N. General Assembly is kicking off in earnest. In the first…
September 23, 2019
American Banker: Biggest banks sit out industry climate-goals pledge
Only three of the world’s 10 biggest banks joined the coalition of 130 global financial firms in agreeing to align their business with international efforts to address climate change and…
September 17, 2019
New Yorker: Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels? (Read More)
September 16, 2019
Splinter: What Do You Mean They Almost Called It the ‘Tropical Moist Forest’
In a very informative and fun piece over at Vox today, writer Dan Nosowitz reports on the history of the “Save the Rainforest” movement, jumpstarted by environmentalists with a PR…
September 16, 2019
VOX: How the Save the Rainforest movement gave rise to modern environmentalism
If you were a kid in America in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the concept of the rainforest probably has a permanent spot in your brain. From about 1986…
September 15, 2019
Salon: Major U.S. insurer says it will no longer underwrite and invest in coal
We may not immediately consider insurance as a key driver of climate change, but insurance companies provide a crucial service to dangerous fossil fuel projects: insurance coverage for everything from…
August 26, 2019
CNN: Opinion: We are facing a global emergency in the Amazon. Here’s what we can do
“The Amazon is burning, the Arctic is burning, and the list of scorched lands seems to continuously grow: Alaska, Greenland, Siberia, across Europe, and again in Indonesia. We must take action,…