Fossil fuel divestment:

• BestColleges: Why Do Universities Divest From Fossil Fuels? 
• BestColleges: These Colleges Have Divested From Fossil Fuels
• The Guardian: Fossil fuel recruiters banned from three more UK universities
• The Nation: Students Tell Their Universities: Keep Fossil Fuel Companies Out of Climate Research 
• OPB: Oregon’s treasurer wants $90B pension fund to drop fossil fuels
• P&I: Finnish pension fund manager Varma to blacklist funders of fossil fuel companies
• NPR: As Harvard’s endowment abandons fossil fuels, oil-rich University of Texas catches up
• P&I: Nordic, U.K. pension funds join call for climate finance in emerging markets
• Chief Investment Officer: Canadian Pension Giant Aims to Close Net-Zero Reality Gap
• Westword: As CU Hosts Global Climate Summit, Students Renew Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment
• The Actuary: how pension funds demonstrate action on climate risk 
• Dailyuw: UW’s fossil fuel divestment: What does it mean?
• WKAR: Sunrise MSU activists escorted from Breslin Center following fossil fuel divestment protest
• Yahoo! Finance: How Much Has Harvard’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Cost It?
• Insurance Journal: Climate Change Could Cost Pension Funds Billions of Euros

US Midterm reflections

• Gizmodo: What the Midterms Told Us About the Future of Climate Action
• E&E News: What the midterm results mean for ESG investing
• National Observer: A ‘green wave’ in America
• Vox: The midterm results on climate change in state races
• Times Union: New York voters overwhelmingly pass Environmental Bond Act
• The New York Times: Karen Bass Becomes First Woman Elected as Los Angeles Mayor
• Roll Call: Republicans ride ESG backlash to state financial offices

COP27 reflections

• Gizmodo: COP27 Was a Historic Compromise, and Not Nearly Enough
• Ricochet: Why is Canada inviting fossil fuel lobbyists to COP27?
• Bloomberg: COP27: EU, UK Join India’s Push for Tough Pledge on Fossil Fuels
• AP: People with disabilities raise voices at climate talks
• Context: Climate action is ‘good business’, UN climate chief says at COP27
• The Conversation: why a new insurance scheme for climate-vulnerable countries is a bad idea

The Great Enablers:

• FT: HSBC to stop new oil and gas project funding after backlash
• CTV News: Royal Bank of Canada signs deal to buy HSBC Canada for $13.5B
• Yahoo! Finance: HSBC cuts Canadian unit out of climate pledge ahead of RBC deal
• Jacobin: Private Equity Is Playing Games With Workers’ Pensions
• The Lever: Wall Street Readies An Avalanche Of Lies
• The New York Times: The Bottom Line on Banks
• Reuters: Morgan Stanley IM launches $1 bln climate-focused private equity strategy
• Bloomberg: Barclays Plans £500 Million Investment in Green Startups by 2027

Global Finance:

• FT: Get ready for a net zero business backlash
• The Guardian: Climate-focused reform of World Bank could be done in a year
• Reuters: ECB’s Panetta says green transition may help cut inflation
• Green Central Banking: ECB begins applying capital charges to climate laggards
• Bloomberg: Netherlands Says ESG-Linked Debt Is Longer-Term Possibility
• Financial Post: McKenna-led UN group calls for regulation, end to greenwashing in net-zero pledges 
• FT: An actual ESG success story?
• Bloomberg: Why Is Wall Street So Hot for Biodiversity Right Now?

Woke Capitalism, Anti-ESG & opposition:

• The Globe and Mail: Responsible investing still a big opportunity in Canada despite growing scrutiny of ESG
• S&P: Even as ESG market narrows, money managers in the space prioritize climate
• The Daily Caller: Witness Testifies Bank Threatened To Withhold Loan If He Didn’t Tweet ‘Climate Change’ Talking Points
• LA Times: The GOP’s war on green investing is bad for the climate — and investors
• The New Yorker: The C.E.O. of Anti-Woke, Inc.
• The New York Times: The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s National Crusade Against Climate Action
• Reuters: Florida pulls $2 bln from BlackRock in largest anti-ESG divestment
• NY Magazine: Why the GOP Will Lose Its War on ‘Woke Wall Street’
• Fox News: Biden wants your retirement savings to go woke. Here are 3 ways to protect yourself
• POLITICO: New anti-ESG group aims to amplify attacks on ‘woke’ investing
• Florida Politics: In Andrew Warren suspension trial, Gov. DeSantis officials answer: What does ‘woke’ mean?
• Reuters: Texas may offer exit path for sanctioned financial firms
• P&I: CalPERS CEO pushes back against politicization of ESG investing
• WSJ: This Former BlackRock Executive Says ESG Investment Model Is Broken
• Vox: The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility
• POLITICO: Republicans plan surge of attacks on ‘woke’ investing after the midterms

No such thing as safe fossil fuel project:

• AP: Kansas oil spill biggest in Keystone history
• The East African: Why Britam backed out of Uganda, Tanzania oil pipeline insurance deal
• National Observer: Canadian banks, insurers pour nearly $2 billion into new fossil fuel projects in Africa
• Express News: Equipment designed to cut methane emission is failing, raising questions about plans to stop it
• E&E News: Coal emissions on pace for record-setting 2022
• Gothamist: Lawmakers, advocates press Gov. Hochul for fossil fuel ban in new construction 
• WBUR: Residents rail against proposed gas pipeline in Springfield at state energy siting board meeting

Biden admin, Congress & US agencies:

• E&E News: Takeaways from the Democrats’ Big Oil investigation
• Axios: GOP plans climate probes the left might like
• The Hill: Senate to vote on Manchin’s permitting amendment to defense spending bill
• The Washington Post: Odd bedfellows fight Manchin’s permitting deal
• WSJ: Labor Department Clears Path for 401(k) Plans to Offer ESG Funds
• Gizmodo: What the Midterms Told Us About the Future of Climate Action

Litigation & accountability

• Reuters: Puerto Rican towns sue Big Oil under RICO alleging collusion on climate denial
• POLITICO: House to try to override veto of EPA spending bill
• Inside Climate News: Lawyers Press International Court to Investigate a ‘Network’ Committing Crimes Against Humanity in Brazil’s Amazon
• The Energy Mix: Competition Bureau to Probe Industry Greenwashing of ‘Clean’, ‘Natural’ Gas
• The Washington Post: Semafor hired a climate writer. Then Chevron ran ads on his stories.

Climate (in)justice:

• Atmos: 10 Environmental Justice Wins in 2022 to Celebrate
• Bloomberg: A New Era of Climate Disasters Revives Calls for Climate Reparations
• Bloomberg: Climate-Driven Disasters Fuel Calls For Wealthy Nations to Pay
• Canary Media: Low-income families don’t get a fair share of energy-efficiency funds
• Atmos: On Vancouver Island, Land Back Looks Like Going Home
• Atmos: Does Antisemitism Exist in the Climate Movement?
• The Guardian: Could Barbados blueprint be a Marshall Plan for the climate crisis?
• The Guardian: Iran ousted from UN body tasked with empowering women
• Lacrosse Tribune: Wisconsin utility regulators bless solar financing tool

Russia’s fossil fueled war:

• Atmos: Fossil Fuels Aren’t the Answer to European Energy Crisis—Peace Is
• Reuters: G7 coalition agrees $60 per barrel price cap for Russian oil 
• Bloomberg: Ukraine Wants Russia to Pay for Climate Damage Wreaked by War 
• The Guardian: Russian oligarchs and companies under sanctions are among lobbyists at Cop27
• POLITICO: Ukraine tells allies it may not be able to recover from more Russian attacks on energy systems

Creative action:

• Time: Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s Sister on the Aftermath of His COP27 Water Strike
• The Guardian: Tobacco companies can’t sponsor Australian arts. Should fossil fuel giants be banned too?
• DeSmog: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Buys Goodwill
• The Crucial Years: 32123!
• Gizmodo: In Memory of @BPDeezNutzz, the Best Greentrolling Account to Ever Grace Twitter
• Variety: Rainn Wilson Changes Name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson
• Reuters: At COP27, protesters within U.N. venue demand climate finance
• ABC News: Video Inside the radical climate protest movement

Op-eds: 

• WSJ: ESG Investing Is Consistent With Fiduciary Duty
• Inside Higher Ed: The global significance of fossil fuel divestment
• The Guardian Editorial Board: this is no time for apathy or complacency 
• The Forge: Building Resilient Organizations
• Context: Climate finance will only work if we gift power to the people, not governments
• Stanford Daily: We remember our pledge: No donations without divestment and dissociation
• P&I: Getting real in the journey to net-zero
• dailynebraskan: DivestNU fights for UNL to divest from fossil fuels
• NY Daily News: N.Y.’s unfinished business on climate justice
• The Varsity: Supporting RBC On Campus is supporting the climate crisis
• Context: UN climate negotiations need to talk about climate migration
• National Observer: The Order of Ontario rewards a climate villain
• Bloomberg Law: Why Big Oil Is Desperate to Avoid Climate Cases in State Courts
• Toronto Star: Oil executive should not be on board of teachers’ pension fund
• The Washington Post: How not to talk with Africa about climate change
• Toronto Star: We are rising in strength and power — it’s time to end the genocide of Indigenous women
• Context: The colonial exploitation of Africa’s fossil fuels must stop
• The New York Times: Big Oil Companies Are Bullies Who ‘Want to Be Seen as Good Guys’
• JHU Newsletter: Hopkins, put your money where your mouth is and divest.
• Canary Media: Is a green wave of climate finance finally gaining momentum?
• The New York Times: Paying for Climate Damage Isn’t Charity
• CNN: Where I come from, being a climate ‘activist’ isn’t a choice
• Baltimore Sun: Climate change lawsuits seek to hold corporations accountable
• Sierra Club: Right-Wing Attack on Sustainable Finance Is the Latest Form of Climate Denial

Climate impacts:

• The New York Times: At Least 141 Die in Congo After Floods Hit Kinshasa 
• Reuters: Counting the rising cost of climate disasters 
• AFP: Climate change fuelled rains behind deadly Nigeria floods: study
• The Guardian: Over 20,000 died in western Europe’s summer heatwaves
• InsuranceNewsNet: Mississippi River low water levels cause $20B damage and economic loss
• AP: 90% of US counties hit with disaster in last decade
• Yale CCC: Five countries have cost the world $6 trillion in global warming losses
• Inside Climate News: Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021?
• E&E News: 4 questions answered: Hurricanes and the grid
• Time: What Climate Change Is Already Doing to Children’s Brains
• Yale CCC: More than half of infectious diseases may be aggravated by climate change
• NPR: Investments of 125 billionaires have the same carbon footprint as France, study finds
• Reuters: Over 62,000 without power in Florida from storm Nicole
• E&E News: Why famine-hit Somalia didn’t get climate aid: It has no coal