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From: Sam, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ‘Every Day Matters’: Guardian Stops Accepting Fossil Fuel Ads
URL: Industry tries to prevent meaningful climate action by governments.
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‘Every Day Matters’: Guardian Stops Accepting Fossil Fuel Ads It said the decision was based on the efforts by the industry to prevent meaningful climate action by governments. The Guardian newspaper said it would stop accepting advertisements from oil and gas companies, making it the latest institution to limit financial ties to fossil fuel businesses. The announcement, the first of its kind for a British newspaper, highlights how the risk of climate change is increasingly recognized and discussed in the business world, just days after the subject took center stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Our decision is based on the decades-long efforts by many in that industry to prevent meaningful climate action by governments around the world,” said Anna Bateson, the acting chief executive, and Hamish Nicklin, the chief revenue officer, in a statement on Wednesday. The newspaper said in October that it would stop referring to “climate change” and use a term like “climate emergency” or “climate crisis” instead. “We need to tackle it now, and every day matters,” Katharine Viner, the editor in chief, said at the time. The Guardian is owned by a charity, the Scott Trust, which has already shifted its investments away from fossil fuel investments. Fossil fuel-related investments now make up less than 1 percent of its fund, the newspaper said. The Guardian Media Group has also committed to getting its emissions down to net zero by 2030. The Guardian and its Sunday paper, The Observer, rely on advertising for about 40 percent of their revenue, and advertisements from fossil fuel companies are worth about 500,000 pounds, or about $655,000, to the company. BP, Shell, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Total spent about £3.7 million on print advertising in Britain in 2019, according to Nielsen AdIntel. The executives conceded that the company could have taken bigger steps to put pressure on the companies that advertised with them. “Of course we know some readers would like us to go further, banning ads for any product with a significant carbon footprint, such as cars or holidays,” Ms. Bateson and Mr. Nicklin wrote in their blog explaining the reasons behind the decision. “Stopping those ads would be a severe financial blow, and might force us to make significant cuts to Guardian and Observer journalism around the world.” There has been a growing shift against accepting money more broadly from fossil fuel giants by institutions across the arts. Last year, British artists, including Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor, called on the National Portrait Gallery in London to cut ties with BP. The actor Mark Rylance resigned from a position at the Royal Shakespeare Company because it accepted money from BP to subsidize tickets for young people. The decision by The Guardian reflected an effort across all industries to grapple with increasing public awareness of the dangers of climate change and demand for action, said Douglas McCabe, the chief executive and director of publishing and tech at Enders Analysis, a research service. “The public perception has changed,” Mr. McCabe said. “They expect their cultural institutions, they expect their media, to be responsible citizens,” he said, predicting that other newspapers would follow The Guardian. “There is a visibility to the issue that was not there even one year ago.” The concern has spread to central banks. The Bank of England announced in December that it would test the resilience of banks and insurers to different climate outcomes. In public remarks on Thursday, Mark Carney, the bank’s governor, emphasized that the exercise was designed to change strategy within financial firms. He said he expected other central banks around the world to perform similar exercises. The chief executives of major European oil companies have reacted to the criticism by saying that they are working to reshape their companies into producers of energy that generates lower amounts of greenhouse gases, but that this shift will require decades, the cooperation of governments and a range of industries, and acceptance by consumers. “We cannot go faster than society. We cannot sell what customers don’t want,” Ben van Beurden, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, said during a call with reporters on Thursday. Mr. van Beurden characterized the move to lower-carbon energy as “a system challenge of unimaginable proportions that can only be done if we have collaboration at levels not yet displayed.” Mr. van Beurden said Shell was slowly building a portfolio of lower-carbon energy sources like natural gas and electric power generation, but he conceded that the industry had work to do to make clear to the public that it was working seriously on solutions for climate change. “The sector needs to do more to explain how it is serving society,” he said. |
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From: La Man, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Looks like you'll sip all flavors ot Koolaide.
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Even the outright bs ones. The irony of the media pretending to care about the environment while they propagate the same b******* that's destroying the environment with electric cars is not lost on this woke individual. You should read actual applicable science and things like that before pronouncing judgment on some nothing Internet Posting that no one's ever going to read. I always post Light reading to people here so it's easily absorbed and they have no excuse for not getting it. I'm sure you'll find an excuse or something especially New Yorkers there really is no hope. So hey let me put it in graphic graphic form just look above. Prince Charles said that they're using less and doing more as he moved into his mega mansion how quaint. Mixed race Markle guest play the race card as she's swearing off North America because of trump but has every plan to hobnob between Great Britain Canada in Los Angeles how quaint. I know maybe gym can driver from Canada down to Los Angeles in his electric car so as to listen for humongous carbon footprint I mean it's yuge. Even bigger than Donald Trump's hands. That's big really big that's like Trump Tower big. That's about the size of his Landslide election, November. As all the Union pro-union of politicians who are not from the working ranks AKA Hillary Clinton and spokespeople go out and preach to the United Auto Workers about voting Union and the United Auto Workers vote their jobs and they vote Trump imagine that. How quaint. Neither has she Markle give up her millions of dollars of endowments from the queen nor has she given up her official title. How quaint sounds like she's going to be in Dutch for quite some time extending that carbon footprint as large she can possibly make it while castigating those that aren't making their small carbon footprint even smaller how quaint. Tsk tsk Sam, how much carbon are you exactly using because you are cramping Markles style and she doesn't appreciate it so please dial it back a little bit |
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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Looks like you'll sip all flavors ot Koolaide.
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La Man wrote: "Mixed race Markle guest: ... "Neither has she Markle give up her millions of dollars of endowments from the queen nor has she given up her official title. " You really are an obnoxious, ignorant racist - the usual combination. The rest of what you write is the same ignorant tripe. "Prince Harry and Meghan will no longer use their HRH titles and will not receive public funds for royal duties, Buckingham Palace has announced. The couple will also no longer formally represent the Queen." |
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16966
From: La Man, [DNS_Address]
Subject: MY GOD! THE CHILDREN. COMMENCE BUNKER PROTOCOL THIS IS IT
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Steyer just bought his way up to his proper height of irrelevance so he his kinda needing y'all to purchase as many of those as 3x8 bunks as you can, 15k a pop, byob and food. Could be decades in there, as we just found out the extent of ocean rise due to Greenland melting and it is not pretty. Read heed and procure appropriate measures. This is not a drill this is for you Sam stick that electric car money where your mouth is and hit the ground running let us know how it goes I will be raft shopping immediately. I got that raft so you are able to have an Ingress and egress from your Waterworld bunker and you thought I was just another pretty face. I'm here for you go with God same as the Martin Sheen speech this weekend where he feebly attempted to be a West Wing writer and an actor at the same time and then it was not pretty and it was fairly contrived and he will go back home to his mansion and you make sure in the buck rep maybe he has an underground bunker mansion with Steyer, think of that? I mean here I am doing you a solid by let you know you are being played the least you can do is give me a tip on venmo five bucks cover it. Thanks |
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16968
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: MY GOD! THE CHILDREN. COMMENCE BUNKER PROTOCOL THIS IS IT
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