BlackRock CEO recently announced he will take action towards a more sustainable investment. Whereas, in the early stages, responsible investing meant excluding from portfolio highly controversial and problematic stocks, such as gunmakers. Nowadays, responsible investment means selecting carefully the assets in portfolio and constantly monitoring to...
According to a report by Zion Market Research, the global AI in oil and gas market was around USD 1.75 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach around USD 4.01 billion by 2025. On January 16th 2019, Microsoft announced the company will be carbon...
What is the right business plan for an oil and gas company as people's awareness about the threats of climate change leave no space for fossil fuels in the future? In May 2017, Shell top brass discussed the future of the world’s biggest dividend payer to...
A group of 13 companies known as Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) spoke out on Monday about the progresses they made in promoting investments in carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS). OGCI said it is ready to make investments. These, though, relies heavily on technology in order...
“We will not be dinosaurs,” –said Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of Total,-“We’re going to be the energy company of the future, I’m convinced.” On Monday few blocks away from the UN headquarter in New York, where 66 countries signed their intent to achieve zero carbon emission for...
Controversial news coming from the White House: Trump administration has taken another step back for US environmental regulations. Indeed, it proposed to remove the limits and rules for companies which are required to prevent methane leaks during drilling operations for oil and gas. The issue with methane...
As the Financial Times points out in the article dated August 4, 2019, climate change is not anymore just a mere ethical issue concerning our planet health, but also as the call for socially responsible investments. "Rise of electric vehicles makes solar and wind better long-term investments than...
A report from Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) found out recently that BlackRock lost $6.5tn by betting on oil companies and missing out growth in clean energy investment. According to the IEFA report, BlackRock ignored “the serious financial risk of investing in fossil fuel and...
A US$ 500m ETF run by Vanguard that claims in its marketing material to specifically exclude "fossil fuel" stocks invest in several companies in the oil and gas industry, including oil services company Schlumberger, pipeline company Kinder Morgan and crude oil refiner Marathon Petroleum, as of...
The University of Edinburgh is dumping all its fossil fuel investments, making it the largest UK university endowment fund to be completely free of all coal, oil and gas holdings. Following this decision, the University of Edinburgh will sell its final £6.3m of fossil fuel...
NY City has set a goal of divesting New York’s $189bn pension funds from fossil fuel companies within five years in what NYC officials say would be “among the most significant divestment efforts in the world to date”. Currently, New York City’s five pension funds...