Fossil fuel divestment:

• NJ Spotlight News: Fossil fuel divestment gets big boost
• The New Republic: Princeton Will Stop Taking Oil Money. Now the Pressure Is on Harvard, MIT, and Columbia.
• Corporate Knights: Canada’s pension fund must stop investing in oil and gas 
• Pensions & Investments: U.K. funds lead way with first climate reports
• The Daily Texan: UT Energy Symposium debate addresses fossil fuel divestment by universities
• Loyola Maryland University: LMU Advances Responsible Investing, Fossil Fuel Divestment
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Princeton has cut ties with 90 fossil fuel companies. Fossil Free Penn says there’s more to do. 

No such thing as safe fossil fuel project:

• The Tyee: First Nations Partnerships Say Pipeline Companies Owe Them Millions
• Reuters: AXIS to stop insuring energy, other projects without community support
• POLITICO: Biggest reinsurer limits support for new oil and gas drilling
• Chicago Sun Times: Chicago may end natural gas hookups for new homes, businesses
• AP: Some risks too big: Insurers withdraw from fossil projects
• WSJ: Nord Stream Blasts Were Likely Result of Sabotage, German Probe Finds

Here come the Midterms:

• New York Times: ​​Ahead of the Midterms, Energy Lobbyists Plan for a Republican House
• POLITICO: Democrats passed a huge climate bill. Now they’re talking oil.
• E&E News: Haunted by 2010, greens amass record midterm war chest
• Hill Heat: ‘Woke Capitalism’ in the Arizona Treasurer Campaign
• Newsone: Black And Brown Voters Experience Increasing Wait Times At The Ballot Box
• E&E News: N.M. enacted a climate law 3 years ago. Then things got hard.
• HuffPost: Climate Group Aims To Fire Up Liberals In Wisconsin Governor’s Race 

Greenwashing accountability on the rise:

• CBC News: Why environmentalists went after Canada’s biggest bank for alleged greenwashing
• BBC News: HSBC climate change adverts banned by UK watchdog
• Reuters: Financial services firm TIAA faces academic backlash over energy holdings
• The Guardian: Pat Cummins says he will not appear in any more ads for Cricket Australia energy company sponsor 
• iHeartRadio: University students protest presence of RBC on campus
• The Globe and Mail: Competition Bureau launches inquiry into RBC’s green advertising
• Bloomberg: Exxon Jobs Exodus Brings Scrutiny to Corporate Culture
• Mongabay: What is greenwashing?

The Great Enablers:

• Bloomberg: Wall Street Blames War, GOP for Making Climate Goals Harder to Meet
• Bloomberg: Bankers Told They Can Ignore Binding Fossil-Finance Restrictions
• Bloomberg: BlackRock, Vanguard Tell UK They Won’t Phase Out Fossil Fuels
• Bloomberg: Banks Try Quiet Quitting Net-Zero as Fortune Favors Fossil Fuels
• FT: Mark Carney’s Glasgow financial alliance in talks to review oversight by UN climate body
• Grist: World Bank invested nearly $15 billion in fossil fuel projects despite climate commitment
• The Guardian: Australia’s big four banks face shareholder ire over funding fossil fuels  
• Bloomberg: Companies Keep Climate Goals Secret as ‘Green Hushing’ Takes Off

Lawsuits & litigation:

• North Jersey: NJ sues oil, gas companies, alleging they deceived public over climate change
• ExxonKnews: The Supreme Court calls DOJ off the sidelines on climate accountability
• Bloomberg: Banks Run by Women Lend Less to Big Polluters, ECB Study Finds

Woke Capitalism, Anti-ESG & opposition:

• HEATED: The curious origins of the anti-ESG movement 
• WSJ: How a New Anti-Woke Bank Stumbled ​​
• WSJ: CEO of Anti-Woke Bank Startup GloriFi Resigns
• FT Advisor: What is needed now for ESG investing?
• Bloomberg: Texas School Asks UBS for Refund After Energy Boycotter Label 
• Bloomberg Law: Public, Private Pensions Set to Collide Over ESG Investing
• Bloomberg: Empty ESG Pledges Ensure Bonds Benefit Companies, Not the Planet
• New York Times: Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society. 
• Pensions & Investments: BlackRock sees Louisiana withdraw $794 million from its funds over ESG investing 
• Reuters: Missouri pulls $500 mln from BlackRock over asset manager’s ESG push
• Idaho State Journal: GOP leaders target ‘woke’ investments through state pension funds
• CNBC: Why the ESG vs. GOP war over energy and climate change is going nowhere 
• POLITICO: The state comptroller needling BlackRock

Russia’s fossil-fueled war:

• CNBC: Europe is still quietly importing Russian nuclear energy 
• New Scientist: Extreme weather threat to energy security is as serious as Ukraine war
• CNN: EU produces record wind and solar energy as it shirks Russian gas 
• Bloomberg: Trudeau Says Russia’s War in Ukraine Speeds Up Energy Transition

Biden Admin:

• The Guardian: The supreme court is in session – and every case is potentially a climate one
• POLITICO: Treasury wants climate data from insurers 

Climate (in)justice:

• Inside Climate News: Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville
• PV-Tech: Greece runs entirely on renewables for the first time in its history
• National Geographic: Australia hands control of its newest national parks to Indigenous peoples 
• NBC News: Jackson, Mississippi residents facing high water bills amid crisis 
• The Guardian: ‘The US dammed us up’: how drought is threatening Navajo ties to ancestral lands
• New York Times: 20 Nations at High Risk From Global Warming Might Halt Debt Payments

COP27:

• Quartz: COP27 is all about the money 
• Grist: Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy nations like it or not 
• E&E News: Finance titans to skip COP 27. Does it matter?
• The Guardian: Young people demand climate justice in run-up to Cop27 UN talks 
• The Guardian: ‘I have a voice’: African activists struggle to attend UN climate talks in Egypt
• Grist: Ahead of COP27, Scotland calls for climate reparations
• Bloomberg: US Seeks Deals to Wean Countries Off Coal Ahead of Egypt Talks

Creative action:

• Reuters: UK climate change protesters throw soup at van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
• Reuters: Iran toughens crackdown as some oil workers reported to join protests

Op-eds:

• Atmos: The World Must Stand With the Women of Iran
• The Globe and Mail: Mark Carney’s fraying green banking alliance highlights the risks of voluntary measures
• Financial Post: Terence Corcoran: Ménage à trois: Greens + RBC + the Bureau
• FTAdviser: We can’t afford ESG goals to fall behind
• Bloomberg: Jamie Dimon May Want to Send Powell a Thank-You Note 
• CT Post: The time for insurers to reckon with climate change is now 
• The Globe and Mail: What if Canada could have a bigger oil and gas industry, and lower emissions? It’s possible

Climate impacts:

• Bloomberg: How Pakistan’s Flood Crisis Bends Climate Talks Towards Reparations
• Reuters: Nigeria’s flooding spreads to the Delta, upending lives and livelihoods
• Protocol: IEA: Carbon dioxide emissions grew less than 1% in 2022
• The Guardian: Wildfires in US west fueling extreme weather in other states, study finds 
• Inside Climate News: Hurricane Ian Highlighted Why Climate Plans Must Consider Disabled People 
• Yahoo! News: Climate change is causing more billion-dollar weather disasters 
• Gothamist: NYC storm resiliency ‘far from complete,’ quarter of post-Sandy federal funds unspent: Comptroller
• NPR: Undocumented immigrant workers are helping clean up Florida after Hurricane Ian 
• AP: 28 dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall 
• The Guardian: Toxic air pollution particles found in lungs and brains of unborn babies
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Extreme rainfall and historic floods are transforming life in the vast Mississippi River basin. The challenge: How do we respond? 
• Grist: Study: Climate anxiety is spreading all over the planet
• CNN: Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the waters of the Bering Sea