A pair of events over the past few days offers a preview of upcoming investor efforts to push some of the world's largest companies to get more active on global warming.
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As the climate crisis facing the planet becomes more immediate — fueled by powerful images that include devastating floods in Venice and uncontrollable wildfires in the Amazon — companies are waking up to the role they play in climate change and announcing plans for ways to reduce their carbon footprint.
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That was the reaction Wednesday from sustainability professional Jessica Davis after oil giant Chevron announced that it was writing down at least $10 billion and as much as $11 billion in assets.
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A New York judge found ExxonMobil not guilty of deceiving investors about how it accounted for the cost of future climate-change regulations.
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New York City's chief financial officer has called on three large U.S. utilities to institute an independent board chair in a move intended to help them navigate a transition to a low-carbon economy.
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A new report released Friday claims that if fossil fuel companies want to have any chance of hitting Paris Climate Accord numbers by 2040, they will have to cut production by over a third.
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Environmental advocates are claiming another victory in their fight to persuade insurers to sever ties with the fossil fuel industry.
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In the history of the earth’s climate two years is a infinitesimal blip, but in the recent history of investor-led efforts to push for action on climate change from corporations, two years has meant a great deal.
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Barely a dozen proposals on environmental issues put forward by shareholders reached a vote across 1,500 of the largest US companies, raising questions about institutional investors’ determination to push for meaningful corporate action on climate change.
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With the oil industry continuing to invest heavily in projects all but assured to lose money as the world moves toward a lower-carbon economy, as a study published last week shows, investors may increasingly turn to shareholder lawsuits to protect their investments.
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When the Trump administration announced its plans to roll back regulations that cut methane pollution—a greenhouse gas more potent than CO2—from oil and gas companies, even some oil and gas companies said that they didn’t want that to happen.
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Investors including Harvard University’s endowment, the Church of England and California State Teachers’ Retirement System, are asking oil companies to ignore the Trump administration’s plan to let them off the hook for monitoring -- and stopping -- methane leaks.
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Oil giants themselves have acknowledged that demand for their product will peak at some point as the worldwide transition to electrified transportation and renewable power generation continues.
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A $55 billion deal that saw the merger of two Texas-based oil and gas companies closed Thursday after a months-long bidding war.
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Prosecutors in New York are accusing ExxonMobil of trying to discourage potential witnesses from testifying about whether the oil giant misled investors over the costs it may face from future climate regulations.
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A bill that would require public companies to disclose the risks posed to their business by climate change passed a crucial committee vote in the House on Wednesday.
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Denying climate change is one matter.
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Democratic presidential candidates have a sweeping array of proposals to fight climate change, but virtually all the leading hopefuls agree on one relatively simple proposal: forcing companies to disclose the risks they face from a warming atmosphere.
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Large investors in General Motors Co. are urging the company to take a stronger stance against President Trump's efforts to unravel a key Obama-era climate policy.
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Shareholders at two of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers are urging the companies to adopt polices to reduce their impact on climate change.
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