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Activist group ‘Follow This’ launches climate campaign against Big Oil backed by huge investors

Green share-holder activist movement Follow This gets the support of investors who represent $1.3tn in assets under management. That is encouraging…

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Los Angeles Finally Bans Oil and Gas Exploration, Protecting Residents and the Environment

It’s hard to believe that it has taken this long, but the city of Los Angeles is finally banning oil and…

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Germany cut the cost of using trains to €9 a month to encourage people to ditch their cars

The popularity of the €9 a month rail pass scheme—meant to slash pollution, emissions, but also to help wean Germany off…

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AI-enabled robotic boat cleans waterways to stop plastic trash reaching the ocean

Clearbot can collect up-to 15L of oil and 200 kg of floating trash in a day, costs less than $0.1/km in…

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UK’s NatWest Bank to sever ties with most polluting clients

The NatWest Group has said it will stop doing business with a number of coal companies and end lending to certain…

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How human hair is making waves in ocean cleanups as a free, highly effective & never-ending resource

The Clean Wave Program felts waste fibres into mats that soak up petrochemicals, and the organisation says human hair is the…

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Greenland halts oil and gas exploration, stating climate costs are ‘too high’

The future belongs to renewable energy, says Greenland’s Inuit-led government, which will not be issuing further fossil fuel exploration licenses on…

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Spain bids “Adios” to oil and gas drilling

As renewables produced half of the country’s electricity for the first time last month, Spain becomes the latest European country to…

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Keystone XL Pipeline project officially dead

Pipeline developer TC Energy has officially confirmed termination of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline Project after a decade-long battle over climate…

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Chevron and ExxonMobile face shareholder rebellions over climate

On the same day activists in Europe scored a big win against Royal Dutch Shell, both ExxonMobile and Chevron’s shareholders pressed…

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Activist group ‘Follow This’ launches climate campaign against Big Oil backed by huge investors

Los Angeles Finally Bans Oil and Gas Exploration, Protecting Residents and the Environment

Germany cut the cost of using trains to €9 a month to encourage people to ditch their cars

AI-enabled robotic boat cleans waterways to stop plastic trash reaching the ocean

UK’s NatWest Bank to sever ties with most polluting clients

How human hair is making waves in ocean cleanups as a free, highly effective & never-ending resource

Greenland halts oil and gas exploration, stating climate costs are ‘too high’

Spain bids “Adios” to oil and gas drilling

Keystone XL Pipeline project officially dead

Chevron and ExxonMobile face shareholder rebellions over climate

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