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Big Oil Vs. Green Finance: Exxon Sues Sustainable Investment Firms

ExxonMobil is suing two sustainable investment firms in an attempt to block a shareholder proposal from going to a vote at their annual ...

Big Oil Pivots Away From Renewable Power on Low Returns

Policy plays a central role in dictating oil firms' low-carbon investment in the US. Tax credits, funding opportunities, and tightened emission ...

Big oil in VC funding of GreenTech — positive sign or cynical ...

Proponents argue that oil and gas companies investing in green energy are a positive development that can help accelerate the transition to a ...

Oil firms must finance green energy | LSE Business Review

Major oil and gas firms are investing in low-carbon and renewable energy sources. However, the scrutiny of and the quantum of their investments ...

Big oil vs. green finance: Exxon sues sustainable investment firms

Oil giant ExxonMobil XOM +0.9%+0.9% is wading into a heated battle over climate change and corporate governance.

Big Oil's 'Low Carbon' Investments and Lobbying Do Not Match its ...

'Green' PR versus 'green' investments ... Big Oil's 'green'-focused public communications strategies contrast with its investment in 'low carbon' ...

Big oil in the transition or Green Paradox? A capital market approach

Our empirical analysis reveals an increased exposure to oil price changes inconsistent with decarbonization but consistent with the Green Paradox.

Big Oil's climate planning not good enough, investor group says

The current low-carbon transition plans of 10 of Europe's and North America's biggest listed oil and gas companies are not good enough to ...

Big oil companies are spending millions to appear 'green ... - CNN

An analysis from London-based energy and climate think-tank InfluenceMap found that the amount of climate-positive messaging used by five major ...

Big Oil Vs. Green Finance: Exxon Sues Sustainable Investment Firms

Oil giant ExxonMobilXOM is wading into a heated battle over climate change and corporate governance. ExxonMobil is suing two sustainable ...

The clean energy transition is happening. But Big Oil isn't budging.

The fossil fuel industry is backsliding on its climate pledges. Earthjustice is filing lawsuits to keep pushing for the clean energy ...

Banks under pressure to reveal data comparing green and fossil fuel ...

... oil and gas companies and projects and a big leap in financing of renewables and real energy-related climate solutions. “We would also urge ...

Big oil companies are driven by profit – they won't turn green by ...

Internal rates of return (IRRs) – the standard commercial measure of an investment's profitability – are around 15% to 20% on hydrocarbons, or ...

In the fight against climate change, did the financial sector cut ...

Despite the promise to divest or reduce investments, global finance still holds profound ties with the fossil fuel sector.

Bank funding for renewables stagnates vs oil and gas - report

"Banks' financing to fossil fuels should be phasing out as financing to renewables increases drastically to have any chance of reaching the ...

InfluenceMap Big Oil's Real Agenda on Climate Change

The trillion dollar Norwegian Oil Fund recently proposed to shift away from companies involved solely in exploration and production, allowing oil majors to ...

Banking on Climate Chaos: How Big Banks and Big Oil Are Stalling ...

Unfortunately, in the years since the Paris Agreement was signed, big US banks have continued to increase their financing for fossil fuels, ...

Green Lending Tops Fossil Fuel as Big Oil Gets Cash Elsewhere

For the first time, more money was raised in the debt markets for climate-friendly projects than for fossil-fuel companies. But there's a catch.

Why Oil Companies Support Renewable Energy

His recent research explores the pressure that oil companies face from policymakers and financial markets to reduce their climate impacts. Full ...

How European “green” finance is funding Big Oil - VoxEurop.eu

How European “green” finance is funding Big Oil ... Fully fifty percent of the money in European investment funds is labelled as "sustainable". An ...