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  1. "Dutch pension fund Recreatie has terminated a BlackRock equity mandate, amid a wider push for cost efficiency and sustainability."

    "BlackRock's departure from climate coalitions has prompted moves from other asset owners to review their mandates with large US managers. PME, PFZW, People's Pension and Akademiker are among the list of asset owners who recently terminated mandates with large US managers, citing climate stewardship concerns."

    netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-v

    #ESG #SFDR #NL #BDS #Blackrock #pensions #funds #climateFinance #finance

  2. ”When our rewilding program started, many big corporations offered us huge amounts of money if we certified carbon credits. We consulted with communities. But our answer was that we don’t sell nature.”

    #climateFinance #wetlands #rewetting #prevention #deterrence #rewilding #Finland #Karelia #peatland #restoration #landUse #peatlands #nature #carbon #carbonSinks #CDR #wildfires #offsets #carbonOffsets #communities

  3. EU ETS revenues put €2.5bn into cleaner energy systems

    The European Commission said €2.5 billion of EU ETS revenues are being invested through the Modernisation Fund, with Romania and Slovenia among named beneficiaries.

    #EU #EUwide #Energy #CleanTech #Infrastructure #ClimateFinance

    ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc

  4. "It’s time to stop thinking of climate change as “merely” an environmental issue, which can be discarded when economic times are tough. Instead, we should recognise what it really is: a current and ongoing threat to our standard of living... Climate change has already made Australians in one state much poorer, and more’s to come." >>
    theconversation.com/climate-ch
    #FossilFuels #climate #ClimateFinance #inequality #NSW #OilandGas

  5. Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty

    "Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households."

    “There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where extreme wealth keeps skyrocketing while so many people are struggling to afford the basics, and governments claim there is not enough money for housing, healthcare, climate action and essential services." >>

    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #inequality #Australia #SocialCohesion #CostOfLivingPressures #HousingAffordability #housing #healthcare #transport #tax #ClimateFinance #FossilFuels

  6. The planet heats up - fossil fuel pollution has made extreme weather more violent.

    * “The only effective response is climate action equal to the crisis – ending the addiction to fossil fuels, accelerating the shift to renewables, protecting the most vulnerable, and delivering early-warning systems for all.” Guterres >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    * Arthur Snell new book, Elemental, examines how a climate crisis threatens the planet’s capacity to sustain life

    "...A world of great powers grabbing whatever they need to survive a changing climate from smaller ones – is essentially a new age of empire, except this time with the formerly colonised US and China waxing as former imperial powers such as Britain wane. "

    Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It, Arthur Snell >>
    theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

    * 45°C unending heat and no water: India faces brutal summer survival crisis
    indiatoday.in/science/story/in
    #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #ExtremeHeat #liveability #HabitableLand #disasters #Bushfires #food #starvation #MassMigration #ClimateFinance #populism #FarRight #conflict #GeopoliticalOrder #empire