Investors from around the globe are urging world government leaders to step up ambition on climate change...
Ceres
Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization working with the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through powerful networks and advocacy, Ceres tackles the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.
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08-01-19
Major Investors and Companies Urge Colorado to Adopt a Strong Zero Emission Vehicle Program
Influential investors and companies called on the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission today to accelerate the state’s transition to clean transportation and adopt a strong standard that would increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on Colorado’s roads.
The Commission i...
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09-14-18
Leading Global Investors Managing $6.4 Trillion Call on Companies to Eliminate Deforestation in South American Cattle Production
As carbon pollution from global cattle production and tropical deforestation continues its alarming rise, 44 investors with app...
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09-01-17
Hurricane Harvey Starkly Exposes the Financial Burden of Climate Change on Economy, Environment and Human Health
Hurricane Harvey, potentially the costliest disaster in U.S. history, “starkly exposes the colossal financial burden of climate change and its impacts on the economy, the environment and human health,” Ceres said in a statement today.
Cynthia McHale, the director of insurance at Ceres, add...
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08-11-17
New Analysis Shows Fuel Economy and Emissions Standards Enhance Auto Industry Financial Prospects
As disruption from new technologies, mobility models and global trends threaten financial prospects for legacy automakers, nati...
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05-26-17
Senate Bill to Cut MPG/Emissions Benefits is Bad for Business, the Economy and Consumers
A new bill would roll back the many benefits of fuel economy standards that are currently working to protect jobs and keep hard-earned dollars in local economies, Impax Asset Management and Ceres said in a statement.
The bill, introduced today in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missou...
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05-12-16
Ceres Commends EPA for First Ever National Rule Today on Methane Pollution
As the clean energy transition continues to pick up steam globally in the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, the nonprofit sustainability Ceres and major investors welcomed today’s commitment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to significantly cut methane ...
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03-29-16
More than $90M Awarded to Promote Sustainable Supply Chains
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, one of the world’s largest conservation funders, announced more than $90 million in grants designed to advance conservation by decoupling food production from negative environmental impacts.
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03-11-16
Ceres Commends U.S.-Canadian Agreement on Climate and Energy and the Arctic
The nonprofit sustainability advocacy organization Ceres issued the following statement today in support of the announcement by President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada on climate, energy and Arctic leadership.
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07-02-15
Investors Worth $1.5 Trillion Support White House’s Methane Emissions Reduction Plan
As recent data show methane emissions rising from the oil and gas industry, and the White House moves forward with rules to reduce this pollution, leading investors representing $1.5 trillion in assets under management released