Category Archives: Environment

Oil & Gas Investors Are Underestimating This Systemic Risk: Plugging Costs

An issue to keep in mind as fossil fuel demand declines: plugging costs can no longer be kicked down the road.

‘Inexcusable’: Amazon Under Fire After Warehouse Collapse Kills at Least Six

“Requiring workers to work through such a major tornado warning event as this was inexcusable.”

Mandatory Household Food Waste Recycling Program Starts in California in January

California to launch mandatory residential food waste management program in January.

Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

Agrochemical and pesticide giants like Bayer and BASF are pushing for weaker action on harmful chemicals and climate goals.

Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High

Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.

Plastics Use in Farming Threatens Food Safety and Human Health, FAO Warns

The UN’s FAO publishes first effort report on how the use of plastics in farming erodes the health of soils, threatening food safety and human health.

Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past

Climate adaptation in the global South needs to be addressed through development. Moving from de-risking to diversification requires a developmental state committed to ‘green’ industrial policy – involving investment and technology.

Gravel or Green: What Will Become of Alaska’s Coastal Plain?

Oil companies and regulators must bolster nascent efforts to repair the damage that has already been done.

The PR Industry Has Been a ‘Major’ But ‘Overlooked’ Influence in Climate Politics for Decades, Says Study

PR firms have played a key role in obstructing action on climate change over the past 30 years.

Just Say No: IKEA to Phase Out Plastic Packaging By 2028

IKEA pledges to phase out plastics packaging; federal and state lawmakers should impose a similar bank on all U.S. companies

Too Big to Strand? Bond Versus Bank Financing in the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy

Banks continue to provide financing to fossil fuel firms that the bond market would not finance as long as they do not price the risk of stranded assets. In this setting, stranded assets risks may have shifted to large banks.

The US Biofuel Mandate Helps Farmers, but Does Little for Energy Security and Harms the Environment

Why biofuel is a scam, except perhaps as a subsidy to Big Ag.

Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.

Finance Group Fails To Deliver at COP26

Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.

Fifty Coral Reefs Selected as ‘Arks’ to Survive Climate Crisis

Australian scientists employ modern portfolio theory to target conservation priorities and generate a list of fifty priority coral reefs.