Divestment Of Endowment Funds At Colleges

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$140 Billion in Efforts to Cut Carbon Emissions

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This week senior White House officials hosted 13 of the largest U.S. companies representing $1.3 trillion in revenue, who have pledged to support the Obama Administration launch of the American Business Act Climate Pledge. The companies include, Alcoa, Apple, Google, Microsoft, General Motors, Bank of America, Berkshire

(Webster’s) Definition Of Decarbonize: transitive verb :  to remove carbon from.

OK now we know what it is...but..Who is actually doing anything about it?...Certainly not the investment community.

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Temperature data from four international science institutions. All show rapid warming in the past few decades and that the last decade has been the warmest on record.

From Bangalore’s water riots to Russia’s “river of blood”, rivers are under threat from many sources including industry, agriculture and climate change

All temperature & precipitation numbers are averaged from daily data for the years 2000 to 2014, collected from the National Climatic Data Center. In cases where measurements were unavailable for the entire span, only areas with at least 60 months of data were included.

Averages were restricted to this period to give you a broad based, yet current snapshot of the weather in each area.

Copernicus GmbH

Forzieri, G., Feyen, L., Rojas, R., Flörke, M., Wimmer, F., and Bianchi, A.

Abstract. There is growing concern in Europe about the possible rise in the severity and frequency of extreme drought events as a manifestation of climate change.