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Extinction Rebellion’s 2022 climate action strategy needs to focus on stigmatising the fossil fuel industry if it’s to be successful.
By hiving off its oil and gas assets into a separate company, BHP is acknowledging it has no future in the carbon emissions business.
As public funding disappears, corporations have moved to the head of the table of higher education.
Investors who care about the environment are better off holding shares in and exercising their influence over fossil fuel companies.
In time Australia’s AAA credit rating will be at risk.
Many students and professors at US colleges and universities want their schools to divest holdings in fossil fuel companies, but it’s a hard sell for school administrators.
Once a niche market, sustainable finance is now expanding and accelerating, yet too few universities have committed their finance programmes to these issues. The time has come for change.
A recent study suggests that divesting in fossil fuels not only allows investors to address their climate change concerns, it also reduces financial risks and increases financial returns.
Researchers find that mainstream media in New Zealand tend to present fossil fuel development as positive for the economy, while framing opponents as irrational and extremist.
An analysis of media coverage provides lessons for how to move the climate debate forward and other highly polarized issues.
Fossil fuel divestment apparently works. Research suggests announcements of divestments have a significant impact on the fossil fuel industry’s share prices.
Universities have the power to transform society not just through how they operate their campuses, but also through how they invest their endowments and pensions funds.
“Shaming campaigns” have been successful in attracting attention to transnational issues like inhumane working conditions and environmental degradation. But shaming guilty corporations is only the first step.
A grassroots opposition movement against the Donald Trump presidency is growing. The question is can it be harnessed into globalised sanctions campaign?
Most businesses construct climate risk solely through the lens of profitability and market opportunity.
Risk management for climate change is starting to impact our day-to-day lives.
The pressure for organisations to divest from fossil fuels is coming from institutions with relatively little financial clout. But soon the richest and most powerful will have no choice but to join in.
This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. I wrote a column about her last October when her efforts to persuade the Australian superannuation…
A year ago Pope Francis called for better protection for the environment. Now Catholic institutions look poised for widespread divestment from fossil fuels.
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Sustainable Finance and Banking, University of Waterloo
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Chair & Professor of International Business, University of Manchester
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor of Finance, President, UWA Academic Staff Association, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Theology, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
