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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Necessary Climate Transition Partners
“Of saying that these are necessary transition partners, we hear this all the time, of you should be investing in these companies to either help them transition faster, or because we're not going to be able to solve climate change without them, and that just co…”
Replacing 209 of 210 US Coal Plants With Renewables Is Cheaper
“There is probably a recent report you probably saw that 209 out of the 210 coal plants that are operating currently in the U.S. Would be cheaper to shut them down and just invest in the capital cost of building renewable energy to replace them.”
Divesting Colorado's Pension From Fossil Fuels Would Have Added $2.7B
“If they had divested from fossil fuels in 2012, they would have had 2.7 billion more dollars. In that fund. It would have been about an additional 4100 dollars per pensioneer for that.”
BlackRock's ESG Funds Heavily Invest in Fossil Fuels
“And so BlackRock, for example, has hundreds of ESG funds. A lot of them invest you in fossil fuels, an industry which fundamentally cannot exist in a world where we have solved climate change.”
ESG Became Vulnerable to Political Attacks Because It Lacked Definition
“The problem here, and this is a problem to ESG and why it was so vulnerable to this, is it was not well-defined.”
Climate Investors Should Pressure Energy Consumers, Not Fossil Fuel Suppliers
“We think that engagement and pressure is incredibly important, but that focusing on supply makes no sense at all. Right now, ExxonMobil is like a business with a line out the door and around the block. It really doesn't make sense to go to the guy behind the c…”
BP Increased Focus on Fossil Fuels Following 2022 Market Conditions
“At the beginning of this week, BP, which is probably the most notable as going, not as British petroleum, but beyond petroleum, they came out and said, yeah, we're actually just going to focus more on fossil fuels. Given what happened in twenty-twenty-two.”
Solving Climate Change Requires $5T to $9T Annually in Solutions
“We need to be investing five to nine trillion more dollars per year into climate solutions and stop investing in new fossil fuel expansion.”
Stein: Decarbonization is impossible without electric utilities participating
“There is no way we are going to be able to do it without the participation of utilities.”
Stein: Carbon Collective does not identify as an ESG company
“We do not identify as an ESG company, and I think I'll answer your question by maybe taking a step back and giving some definitions of how we see these terms.”