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A group of the world’s biggest companies representing nearly US$17 trillion in market capitalization have valued the climate risks to their businesses at almost US$1 trillion – with many likely to …
Major Companies Face USD 1 Trillion in Climate Risks Read More
Microsoft, Pepsi, Levi’s and others are calling for carbon taxes or fees that could scale up innovation fast enough to combat climate change. An epic quest loomed Wednesday before the …
75+ Business Leaders Lobby Congress for Carbon Pricing. Did Republicans Listen? Read More
At BP’s AGM today, investors voted on two motions on the ballot to encourage the company to align its business model with the Paris Agreement. Over 99% of shares were …
Investors cast votes for Paris-aligned BP Read More
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself …
FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? – Bill McKibben Read More
This elections year, it is hard to imagine that European citizens will be satisfied with shallow political promises: they are furiously standing up against business as usual. All over Europe, …
The power of democracy against the power of finance Read More
The joint HuffPost UK-BBC Radio 5 Live poll found 30% of people in their 20s have no savings at all. The majority of young people in their 20s say money …
Half Of 20-Somethings Say Money Pressures Impact Their Mental Health Read More
Per Publisher Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of …
Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto Read More
Dimitri Zenghelis explains why Paul Romer’s theory of endogenous growth can be harnessed to direct and design a net-zero-carbon future while using William Nordhaus’s DICE and RICE models may already …
Nobel for Economics 2018 – a question of imbalance Read More
On the day of its AGM, a group of investors are calling on Italian bank, UniCredit, to start taking climate change seriously. In an action coordinated by responsible investment charity, …
Investors give Italian bank a wake-up call on climate change Read More
Heat waves are covering wider areas, and people are suffering the consequences. With 2°C of warming, most summers will look like 2018, scientists say. Click here to read full story
Extreme Hemispheric Heat Waves Like 2018’s Growing More Common with Climate Change, Study Says Read More