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The European Investment Bank has agreed to phase out its multibillion-euro financing for fossil fuels within the next two years to become the world’s first “climate bank”.
The bank will end its financing of oil, gas, and coal projects after 2021, a policy that will make the EU’s lending arm the first multilateral lender to rule out financing for projects that contribute to the climate crisis…
Read Full Article; Guardian UK (11-15-2019)
The US President Doesn’t Care to Understand Global Warming; The Atlantic (12-29-2017)
It’s a shame—ours and his…
Trump to planet: Drop dead, CNN (06-01-2017)
“America First” is becoming increasingly America alone. Somehow, Donald Trump has managed, with a single, desperate and ill-conceived stroke, to sever the United States from the rest of the world…
Climate Progress, With or Without Trump; The New York Times (03-31-2017)
California lawmakers vote on bill to go emissions-free by 2045; CBS News (08-28-2018)
Companies to keep promise to Obama on reducing carbon use; Bloomberg (03-28-2017)
Many of America’s biggest corporations including Apple Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are sticking by their pledges to fight climate change even as President Donald Trump guts his predecessor’s environmental policies. Companies say their promises, coordinated by the Obama administration, reflect their push to cut energy costs, head off activist pressure and address a risk to their bottom line in the decades to come.
Top US firms including Walmart and Ford oppose Trump on climate change, The Guardian UK (12-01-2017)
As Trump Retreats, States Are Joining Forces on Climate Action; Yale E360 (10-09-2017)
Europe Now Has One Million Electric Vehicles on the Road; Yale E360 (08-27-2018)
