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Assertion Supported
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.”
Zach Stein Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 9:41 A theory of change for climate investing [partner content]
Assertion Supported
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.”
Zach Stein Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 4:07 A theory of change for climate investing [partner content]
Assertion Supported
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.”
Zach Stein Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 5:11 A theory of change for climate investing [partner content]
Assertion Contradicted
ESG Was Originally Created to Diversify Institutional Risk
“So ESG was originally invented by institutional investors who wanted to be able to diversify across new classes of risk.”
Zach Stein Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 11:47 A theory of change for climate investing [partner content]
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