Wall Street shifting gears back to climate finance after ESG backlash
After record heat all week, today could be the hottest day in the history of the Earth, until tomorrow.
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Trey Thoelcke
The unavoidable greenwashing of Scope 4 emissions
It looks like Scope 4 is tailor-made for companies’ marketing departments.
Endgame in startup EVs begins to play out
Plus, buying enriched uranium from Russia, EV demand is booming and what is an ecosystem?
Latin America preps for a drastic hurricane season, exacerbated by climate change
El Niño can throw a wrench in the forecast, but even one can be catastrophic.
Sanctions? What sanctions? U.S. pays billions to Russia for nuclear fuel
America’s reactors need enriched uranium from Russia. And Putin needs dollars for his war in Ukraine.
Strained Texas grid a showcase for how to manage renewables, and how not to
Plus, how China will define electric vehicle markets in the United States and Europe.
Europe quick to act as climate change bites from glaciers to islands
Plus, UK's Labour Party offers green opportunity for UK as election nears.
Biden’s climate successes won’t win voters
President Joe Biden popped into San Francisco this week to raise funds for his re-election campaign and dole out some $600 million in climate investments to a willing crowd. Returning to Washington, he meets with India…
Fidelity Monitor’s Jack Bowers on being a climate realist, and optimist, too
How the economy can transition from fossil fuels successfully and for less cost than expected.
Paris Air Show awakes to a new sustainable world, revenge travel
Plus, a breakthrough on electric plane batteries at MIT.
The promise, opportunity and challenge of green hydrogen
Early leaders in the $20 trillion race to build a new energy source.
Oil investors at pivot point this summer as clean energy surges
The party in oil and gas stocks that started last year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is clearly over this summer.
Your ESG fund may beat the market for reasons that have nothing to do with ESG
Most are loaded with growth stocks.
Tesla takeover of emerging U.S. charging network seems unstoppable
Plus, Toyota responds to shareholders with plans for 900–mile battery.
Adding up UAE and Qatar’s bad climate behavior as the orange smoke spreads
U.S. postal fleet eyes $6 billion in savings from switching to EVs.
New York wakes up to climate threat; London will have to wait 4,700 years
Congress is talking about a carbon border tax again.
How climate change will roll through capital markets – an early guide
Insurance rates, municipal bonds, national debt, commodities all will reflect coming disorder.
Zumiez Execs’ Insider Trades Signal Optimism Amid Weak Q1 Results
In the wake of Zumiez's lackluster first-quarter financial report, there is a glimmer of hope for investors.
Paris plastics treaty ensures only one outcome
Plus: Can COP28 go forward without a plan to cut fossil fuels?
U.S.-China climate relations restart with green shipping deal; plus, net-zero lawsuits begin
And Ohio tries to rein in climate teaching in schools.