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By Wolfgang Kuhn, Director of Financial Sector Strategies, ShareAction Together with over 100 Barclays’ investors, ShareAction has filed the first ever climate-related shareholder resolution at a European bank. This is …
We’ve filed a climate resolution at Barclays – now it’s time for investors to back it Read More
DECEMBER 11, 2019 16:59 JST Smoke covers forest during fires in Kapuas regency near Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, Sept. 30. © Reuters JAKARTA (Reuters) — …
World Bank says Indonesia forest fires cost $5.2bn in economic losses Read More
Exports and imports fall across all major European economies, according to OECD data The global trade slowdown is hitting the EU the hardest, according to new OECD data, as uncertainty …
Global trade slowdown hits EU the hardest, new figures show Read More
The cabbies’ union welcomed the decision while the Uber drivers union called it a “hammer blow”. Two trade unions have reacted very differently to Transport for London’s decision not to …
Unions divided as London takes away Uber license Read More
VARNEY, West Virginia — Pigeon Creek flows through a narrow mountain hollow along a string of coal mining communities, its water trickling under the reds and yellows of the changing …
Appalachia’s Strip-Mined Mountains Face a Growing Climate Risk: Flooding Read More
Microsoft’s Japanese division found that reducing its working week to four days throughout the month of August caused an increase in productivity and a decrease in costs. Sales per employee rose …
Microsoft Japan’s four-day working week trial led to productivity improvements Read More
The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports. The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of …
Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota Read More
Former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson took the witness stand Wednesday in the company’s climate fraud trial and gave the clearest defense yet for his former employer. Tillerson denied that …
Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk Read More
The United States will officially leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) on Friday, marking what some worry will be the resumption of a new arms race between Russia and …
Landmark arms treaty set to implode on Friday as Pentagon eyes building new missiles Read More
“I’ve been to a few climate protests but this was one of the most effective I’ve seen.” – Lowell, a young Positive Money supporter On Thursday 11th July a group …
Bank of England Climate Protest: The Sequel Read More