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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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
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06-02-15
Investors, Major Brands Call for Stronger Standards from Palm Oil Certification Group
Institutional investors representing over $5 trillion in assets have joined together with some of the world’s largest and most recognizable consumer brands, including PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble, to call on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to strength...
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01-30-15
Dropping Oil Prices Highlight Growing Fossil Fuel Risks
In advance of ExxonMobil, Shell and BP quarterly earnings calls, investors and industry analysts today voiced growing concerns about excessive industry spending on high-cost, high-carbon fossil fuel projects that may be bad financial bets as the world continues to reduce its reliance o...