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Airbnb Faces Blowback over Ban of West Bank Settlement Listings
January 11, 2019
Forbes reports that online rental company Airbnb is facing investigations and lawsuits following its decision to ban from its website listings for properties in Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank territory.
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Activists Eye “Attribution Science” as Climate Compensation Tool
January 11, 2019
Lawyer Stephanie Morton explains how campaigners on climate change are using an emerging field called “probabilistic event attribution science” to place various levels of blame on companies over their contributions to global warming with an eye to extracting resources from them to redistribute to alleged victims of their “climate impacts.”
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EU Council Agrees Position on Financial ESG Reporting
January 11, 2019
The Council of the EU recently agreed to a common position on requiring financial companies to disclose how they are integrating “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) impacts into their investment decisions and creating new benchmarks aimed at producing more information on the “carbon footprint” of investment portfolios.
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“Green New Deal” Plan Includes Vast Changes to Industry
January 09, 2019
Tom Elliott of Grabien examines the plan championed by newly elected House of Representatives Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a “Green New Deal,” which echoes the comprehensive UN Sustainable Development Goals in targeting a vast reorganization of American industry in pursuit of social and environmental goals.
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UN, Partners Host Event on “Investment-Ready” Climate Projects
January 09, 2019
The UN Development Programme, the World Bank, and consulting company World Climate Ltd organized an inaugural “Investment Conference of Parties (COP)” at the recent UN climate summit in Poland pushing global and regional investors to fund projects aimed at combating the impacts of climate change.
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