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UN Chief Calls for Insurance Industry Climate Action
April 27, 2016
In remarks at a meeting on "resilience" in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on leaders in the insurance industry to counter climate change by "greening" their portfolios - removing investments in fossil fuels - and by measuring their carbon footprint by the year 2020.
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Norway Fund Divests from Companies Active in Coal
April 27, 2016
Bloomberg reports that, to begin its compliance with a ban on coal investments passed last year by the Norwegian Parliament, Norway's sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank has removed its financing from 52 companies with over 30% of their activity or sales in coal.
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UN Climate Deal Supporters Call for Radical Economic Change
April 26, 2016
At a recent conference in Oxford, proponents of the UN's "sustainable development" agenda and recently agreed deal on climate change argued that, through measures such as a tax on carbon emissions and pressure to divest from fossil fuels, governments and businesses must rapidly transform the global economy in order to achieve the environmental movement's goals.
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WWF Pushes Sustainability Standards for Consumer Goods in Asia
April 26, 2016
The nongovernmental organization WWF has published a guide for Asian companies dealing in "fast moving consumer goods" on how to implement the UN's sustainability agenda through international supply-chain and environmental standards.
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NGO Responds to Apple Report with Packaging Critique
April 26, 2016
Greenpeace's response to technology company Apple's annual Environmental Progress Report praises the company on its greenhouse gas emissions pledges but criticizes the company for reliance on what the nongovernmental organization considers the wrong global standards for sourcing sustainable packaging.
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