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![Photoshopped 100 dollar bill with top center edge burnt away and on fire, with Earth in the center instead of Ben Franklin]()
What’s wrong with the economy? Climate change, for one.
A new book argues that Corporate America is waking up to climate action. It’s all about the bottom line.
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![A securities and exchange commission plaque on the outside of a building]()
A rule to make corporate climate action more transparent is one step closer to reality
The Securities and Exchange Commission could require companies to report their annual emissions in financial filings.
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![Alberta oil sands tar sands]()
Canadians’ $100 billion oil and gas problem
Canadians and investors continue to funnel money into fossil fuel assets that researchers warn will soon become worthless.
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![Two workers in reflective tops working on installing solar panel on the rooftop of the house]()
Biden waived tariffs on solar panels from four countries. Here’s why.
Advocates say the move will accelerate the clean energy transition and benefit national security.
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![Green rectangle with shadowy photo of oil jack silhouette overlaid on top and white colored Fidelity Investments logo to the left of the oil jack]()
![Green rectangle with shadowy photo of oil jack silhouette overlaid on top and white colored Fidelity Investments logo to the left of the oil jack]()
Report sheds light on Fidelity’s little-known fossil fuel ties
Climate is not a priority for the asset manager. Could its owners’ oil and gas company have something to do with it?
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![Collage of bar graphs; one with a wind turbine on top, one with a solar panel on top, and the third bar placed underneath a smokestack]()
![Collage of bar graphs; one with a wind turbine on top, one with a solar panel on top, and the third bar placed underneath a smokestack]()
Think climate action is expensive? Inaction could cost $178 trillion.
But zeroing out emissions could create a green Industrial Revolution, a new report says.
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![A composite image of Arnette Arjoon and the Guyanese coast.]()
‘We can’t eat a new road’: Fears over the true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza in Guyana
A multibillion-dollar deal promising to be an economic boon for Guyana may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners.
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![Marshall Islands' Climate Envoy Tina Stege reacts after speaking to intervene during an informal stocktaking session at the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on November 12, 2021.]()
![Marshall Islands' Climate Envoy Tina Stege reacts after speaking to intervene during an informal stocktaking session at the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on November 12, 2021.]()
Pacific Island nations want more renewable power. Climate financing may help.
Maui-based Mana Pacific is helping to give Pacific nations greater access to renewable energy infrastructure through collective buying power and resource sharing.
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![Collage of solar panel on top of abstract shape with black images of american flag and 100 dollar bill]()
![Collage of solar panel on top of abstract shape with black images of american flag and 100 dollar bill]()
How ‘USA-first’ failed the solar industry
Solar tariffs were supposed to save the U.S. solar industry. They slowed it down instead.
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![A drone hovers in front of a tractor with fertilizer equipment during a 2021 technology show in a field in northern Saxony. A multispectral camera on the drone detects the fertilizer needs of the arable plants.]()
![A drone hovers in front of a tractor with fertilizer equipment during a 2021 technology show in a field in northern Saxony. A multispectral camera on the drone detects the fertilizer needs of the arable plants.]()
Although the data is thin, advocates say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture
Because most of the systems aren’t yet on the market, there’s precious little real-world data proving they work.
