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Climate Policy in the World’s Fourth Largest Country

Legal Planet

As an archipelago, Indonesia is at the prey of sea level rise. Jakarta, a city of ten million, is only two feet above sea level. Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas. It gets relatively attention in the United States. Several official plans.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. gigatons CO 2 equivalent in 2020, about that of Japan. First, who can stand as a plaintiff? C and an 85% chance for 2°C.

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Opinion: At COP28, climate finance takes centre stage

A Greener Life

One of the great failures of climate finance has been that of developed countries to furnish the USD 100 billion per year by 2020 that they promised to developing countries back in 2009 to support climate action. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

Titled The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires , it provides a concise overview of the peer-reviewed study and makes policy recommendations for the Biden administration and Congress. CP: Major fossil fuel companies and their trade groups knew that burning fossil fuels would dramatically reshape our climate since at least the 1960s.

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Taking Stock Ahead of UN Climate Conference: Five Things to Watch for at COP28 in Dubai

Union of Concerned Scientists

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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ESG Disclosures for Financial Institutions

Arnold Porter

Moreover, the Institutional Shareholder Services 2020 proxy voting guidelines devote a full section to ESG related proposals. Following the 2020 rulemaking by the SEC, nearly every large financial institution included a risk factor addressing climate change in their 2020 Form 10-Ks. and (b) transition risks (i.e.,

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Maybe if we took the subsidy off and it was challenged and had to perform, people would take it to a new level.”