Climate change/ climate action

For decades, environmental justice communities have been elucidating how businesses largely caused the four intertwined crises we face—climate, biodiversity, injustice, and democracy—and made a windfall doing it.

And the four biggest American banks—JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America—are responsible for more than a trillion dollars of that.

You get more food per acre with small farms; more food per dollar with big ones.

The deepest problem that local-food efforts face, however, is that we’ve gotten used to paying so little for food. It may be expensive in terms of how much oil it requires, and how much greenhouse gas it pours into the atmosphere, and how much tax subsidy it receives, and how much damage it does to local communities, and how many migrant workers it

When that BankFWD analysis factored in these new numbers, Google’s carbon emissions went up 111% overnight. Microsoft’s financed emissions were even higher than Google’s. And Netflix has more carbon coming from its cash than from all the servers around the world dishing out TV every night.

That study looked at the financial holdings of the big tech companies, Google, Apple, and so on because (a) these guys have a lot of money, and (b) they’ve all pledged to go net zero. Well, it turns out the money these tech companies have sitting in the bank is producing far more carbon than anything they’re doing with their operations, because the

Of more than 500 global companies, 69% report higher-than-expected financial returns on climate initiatives.