Major investors demand climate action from big polluters

As ice shelves shatter and millions of acres burn, investors collectively controlling assets worth $47 trillion are demanding environmental action from the world’s biggest corporate polluters, of which cement giant LafargeHolcim – parent company of Aggregate Industries – is one.

Only 161 companies in the world are collectively responsible for up to 80% of global industrial emissions. Are politicians blind?
Investors that manage US$47tn demand world’s biggest polluters back plan for net-zero emissions. https://t.co/afnY4l5EUW

— Sasja Beslik (@SasjaBeslik) September 14, 2020

"The decisions we make collectively over the next few years will be consequential on geologic timescales. Global heating could last hundreds of years, and biodiversity loss could last millions ... We must radically transform how we live on this planet"
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— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 13, 2020

A massive chunk of ice -- larger than the city of Paris -- has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said Mondayhttps://t.co/toUIpiRMur

— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 14, 2020