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  • Applause for SSE’s sector first Just Transition strategy

    Energy utility company SSE has just published a sector first Just Transition strategy.

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  • The end of the cliff edge – we’re changing our application process!

    Calling all incredible thinkers; experimenters; and innovators seeking funding for your ideas to trans...

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  • Solar trains pioneer first UK business to make legal commitment to ‘just transition’

    Solar trains company Riding Sunbeams has incorporated the principles of a just transition into its leg...

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  • Cazenove declared winner of the ‘ESG investing olympics’

    Friends Provident Foundation, the Joffe Charitable Trust, and the Blagrave Trust have announced the wi...

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  • The Economics of Belonging

    Fuelled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised ...

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  • Short food supply chains needed in the face of climate change and pandemics

    Shorter food supply chains can make the UK more resilient in the face of pandemics and climate change

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  • Open letter to asset managers ahead of climate vote at today’s Total AGM

    Asset managers must get the basics right on ESG if they are to be taken seriously

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  • Total’s climate ambition is poor, investors must support our shareholder resolution

    In April, we were delighted to co-file our first ever shareholder resolution ...

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  • The Colour of Money: race and economic inequality

    While there is some dispute about how far inequality in Britain has risen or fallen in the past decade...

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