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TheGuardian
MARCH 10, 2021
Bank’s vote, binding if approved by 75% of shareholders, follows investor pressure to cut clients’ loans HSBC has bowed to investor pressure by ramping up its climate commitments and tabling a shareholder vote on plans to phase out coal financing by 2040. Continue reading.
PYMNTS
APRIL 10, 2019
The Chinese Commission’s statement is that bitcoin mining has “seriously wasted resources,” which gives the nod to wasted natural resources such as electricity and the inputs that make electricity, such as coal. The country also banned crypto exchanges catering to Chinese investors and speculators, and ICOs are a no-no.
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CB Insights
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
As a result, utilities often must use dirty energy sources that can be fired up quickly, like coal peaker plants. Not only are these sources bad for the environment, the high voltages also create stress to the electric grid and are expensive for customers. During peak energy usage hours, demand for electricity surges.
Insights on Business
JUNE 14, 2017
Pressures stem from a myriad of sources: competition from fintechs; unrelenting regulatory environment; associated costs of compliance (or non-compliance!); Like diamonds masked by coal dust, banks possess insights rendered invisible by the sheer size and unwieldiness of massive amounts of unstructured data.
PYMNTS
JULY 2, 2020
In the following weeks, Americans witnessed a blazing-hot economy reduced to a bed of coals astoundingly quickly. Office shifters” who have shifted to working from home and want to go back to being outdoors and working in office environments. Dining habits also shifted, with 35.3
TheGuardian
JANUARY 24, 2023
Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance add their voices to Richard Curtis’s Make My Money Matter campaign A raft of famous names including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have joined activists and businesses in calling on the UK’s big five banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal expansion.
Bankelele
APRIL 29, 2015
After the morning session with the county officials, we had a chance to visit the planned site of the Amu Power coal plant at Kwasasi, on the mainland. See Part I of the visit to Lamu with Amu Power. This was my third visit to Lamu in four years, but my first chance to visit the mainland of Lamu County.
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