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Unsustainable Cities Are Bankrupting the Planet’s Resources
In 2007, humanity passed a historic milestone. For the first time ever, more people lived in urban environments – namely, cities – than in rural areas. Since then, the trend...

Governor Brown Hopes Cap and Trade Will Live Up to the Hype
For those of us who don’t speak economics as a native language, California’s extensive cap and trade program tends to arouse one of three reactions: support, apathy and suspicion. We...

We Need to Do These 3 Things to Scale Up Renewables in Transport
“The Week that Electric Vehicles Went Mainstream” was the headline of a recent blog posted by Tesla Motors. Just one week before, the company began taking reservations for its long-awaited consumer-priced...

Volkswagen Greens Up Its Business Strategy
Volkswagen just laid out an environmentally-friendly roadmap that it hopes will clean up its tarnished image from the diesel emissions scandal and put it at the forefront of the fast...

Meet the Shadow Lobby Behind Lawsuit Overturning BLM Fracking Regulations on Public Lands
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog In a ruling on the Obama Administration's proposed regulations of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on U.S. public lands, U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming Judge Scott Skavdahl...

Elon Musk Wants to Merge Tesla and SolarCity
Tesla’s board of directors formally offered to purchase SolarCity’s outstanding shares and create the first vertically integrated solar power, energy storage and electric transport company. Elon Musk, the founder and...

Trader Joe's to Reduce Emissions From 453 Stores
The national grocery store chain Trader Joe's has agreed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from its refrigeration equipment in 453 stores. The company agreed to the reductions as part...

These Big Banks Are Betting Against Humanity's Future
Big banks back coal, oil and gas extractions with billions of dollars in financing every year. The 2016 $horting the Climate report exposes the holdings of the world’s largest privately-operated...

Global Supply Chains Are Threatened by Climate Change
Climate change affects people and the environment the world over. However, the financial community has been slow to respond to climate risk. In fact, a recent study shows that global...

TransMexico: Keystone XL Owner Wins Bid For Underwater Gulf Gas Pipeline
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog TransCanada, owner of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline currently being contested in federal court and in front of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) legal panel,...

Bankrupt Peabody Funded Climate Change Denial, and Citigroup Helped
Bankruptcy protection filings from the world’s largest private coal company, Peabody Energy, recently revealed a mine of funding for climate denial advocacy. The coal company financed dozens of organizations working to...

World’s Largest Private Coal Company Funded Dozens of Climate Denial Groups
Man-made climate change is taking place on a regular basis. Of course, not everyone wants the news out. If enough people truly believed that fossil fuels were contributing to global...

Documents: An MSNBC 'Lean Forward' to Promote Fracking
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Cable TV network MSNBC has made headlines in recent days for apparently moving away from its "Lean Foward" progressive brand, catering instead to a more center-to-right-leaning crowd. "People might...
EnergyNet: Public Lands Online Auctions For Oil/Gas May Be Industry-Owned, Run
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog If the recent past serves as prologue, then online leasing of oil and gas on U.S. federal lands may resemble the proverbial fox guarding the hen house,...

IRENA’s Adnan Z. Amin: “Renewable Energy Looks Like a Very Smart Business Decision”
A Q&A With IRENA’s Director-General, Adnan Z. Amin The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has, since its formation in 2009, pushed for the adoption and sustainable use of renewable energy...

New Green Revenues Model Can Help Investors Track Sustainable Corporations
Nearly 2,500 Publicly Traded Companies Profit From Eco-Friendly Operations Companies around the world increasingly acknowledge the growing role that sustainability initiatives play in business strategies. However, corporate executive are struggling...

Corporations Acknowledge Sustainability but Grapple With Monetization
Corporate professionals are acknowledging the role of sustainability in business. The recently published 2016 State of Responsible Business Report, which surveyed more than 2,000 professional around the world, found that...

How to Get Decision-Makers to Invest in Nature
Show us the data. That's what I hear almost every time I work with decision-makers. Governments and businesses aren't going to invest in conservation without data showing the effectiveness of...