This week alone, Google put out a 35-page “policy roadmap” intended to reduce electricity emissions.
Stripe’s project could be viewed as a distraction from cutting businesses’ actual emissions.
The chorus is getting louder: New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who oversees New York State’s $279 billion pension fund, filed solicitations this week urging shareholders of Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo & Co.
and other big asset managers who hold shares in Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan and Bank of America, urging them to vote their shares in favor of proposals that would require the banks to report the greenhouse gas footprint of their lending activities.
Kentucky is making a list of companies it says are refusing to deal with the fossil fuel industry – and banning state entities from entering into contracts with them.
That state’s Republican treasurer, Riley Moore, is leading the crusade against divestment from the fossil fuel sector, both in public pension funds and banks’ financing.
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