Mary McAvity Cerulli_ClimateFinanceAction

This is one of the most inaccurate and unpatriotic statements I’ve heard from a US senator in a long time. I’m just going to assume that this clip was taken out of “context “. Really can’t believe that an American elected official would blame our country for Putins invasion of Ukraine

@DaveNadig @dimensional I wonder if public pension fund beneficiaries would generate the same preferences.

Best two slides from #SHIFT today: @dimensional study suggest peace of mind and lot more important than alpha:

We believe other states can do this too climatefinanceaction.org/in-the-news-bl… . @shankman @drvolts @GlobeOpinion @ftmoralmoney

@alex_avoigt That would be very good and fair. But the tobacco industry affects individuals. The FF industry is imbedded in a systemic issue that involves multiple sectors of the economy.

What happened to the tobacco industry will happen to the oil & gas industry. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they decided to spend billions to delay, distract, deceive and lie. It's the same playbook that the tobacco industry used. "The state of California sued several of the world’s biggest oil companies on Friday, claiming their actions have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage and that they deceived the public by downplaying the risks posed by fossil fuels." nytimes.com/2023/09/15/bus…

@ProfMarkMaslin @richardabetts @MichaelEMann @KHayhoe @ShookaBidarian @RGS_IBG @DrSimEvans @SiOldridge @fionaharvey @BBCJustinR @WillGompertzBBC It is inconceivable that some economists believe nothing much will happen to investor portfolios at +4C. To many economists, the approach pioneered by Dr. Nordhaus was increasingly out of step with the urgency lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

#ClimateChange: how bad could the future be if we do nothing? #ClimateCrisis is no longer a looming threat – people are now living with extreme weather events. There is still everything to fight for - reducing emissions now means we could stay below 2˚C. theconversation.com/climate-change…

An important reminder:

Thank you ⁦@SenWarren⁩ Insurers must be accountable for their part in underwriting fossil fuels. From the insurance hearing -

"How can you tell when a politician is doing the work of the oil and gas companies? When they start promoting carbon capture and storage (CCS)." @GeorgeMonbiot #ClimateEmergency theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The US climate movement doesn't agree on how to decarbonize - and in the wake of the IRA, that disagreement threatens to shatter the coalition. To keep the climate coalition together, we have to start talking about, and negotiating around, this disagreement. 🧵 1/

“None of the observed changes so far (with a 1.2C temperature rise) are surprising. But they are more severe than we predicted 20 years ago, and more severe than the predictions of five years ago. We probably underestimated the consequences.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🚨These are not photos of Mars. This is a TC Energy gas pipeline that just exploded in Virginia. And TC Energy is planning to *expand* this pipeline, increase its pressure and send *more* gas through it. @billmckibben @MarkRuffalo @PHMSA_DOT

This feels like a true battle between good and evil…Tolkien’s Lord of the Ring.

“For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.” abc.net.au/news/2023-07-2…

@krassenstein @WriteRabbitHole This effort is important and is in direct opposition to what Florida is doing with its American History education.

@WriteRabbitHole Both should be done. Preserving this story is also important for future generations to understand.

BREAKING: President Biden has announced that on Tuesday he will sign a proclamation to establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley. Details: - The National Monument will span across 3 locations in Illinois and Mississippi, and according to The Independent will "protect places that are central to the story of Till's life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers and his mother's activism, which helped spark the civil rights movement." - Emmett Till was lynched as a teen in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman. - Tuesday is the anniversary of Till's birth in 1941. This is an action that all Americans should be able to get behind. Thank you Joe Biden.

Some conservative states are making it more expensive to do sensible projects for their residents. The attacks on sustainable investing and the FIs offering financing is political theatre. #FreedomtoInvest oklahomawatch.org/2023/07/20/okl…

“How will I pay firefighters on a multi-week assignment if we can’t do direct deposit without a bank?” - AZ County Treasurer @sarahbenatar on risks associated with anti-ESG legislation.

Dominion in Dec 2022 unilaterally rolled out new solar interconnection rules, basically making it impossible to do large solar installs @itai_vardi …-dominionenergy-prd-001.azureedge.net/-/media/pdfs/v…

Financial Times editor: We need a new Marshall Plan on #climate. There’s too much to do, and given the urgency and the need to get the solution right, this isn’t a task for your favourite ESG-focused portfolio manager or the tech bros. The sheer scale of the physical infrastructure that must be revamped, demolished or replaced is almost beyond comprehension. Governments, not BlackRock, will have to lead this new Marshall Plan. And keep doing it. The western nations that did so much of the damage will have to finance the transition in the developing world — it is astonishing that this idea is still debated. Massive deficit spending will be necessary, not a new ETF. For all the cleantech advances and renewable deployment in recent decades, fossil fuels’ share of total global energy use was 86 per cent in 2000 and 82 per cent last year. Capitalism won’t deliver the energy transition fast enough . . ." Derek Brower, US energy editor of the Financial Times

It becomes clearer and clearer that ⁦@Shell⁩ will not shift to a different type of energy company. Is this new renewables team simply for show? reuters.com/world/uk/shell…

States shrug off warnings, plow ahead with anti-ESG laws ift.tt/1OD3hAe