Are fossil fuel giants wasting trillions of dollars on business-as-usual strategies?

Cecilia Keating
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Are fossil fuel giants wasting trillions of dollars on business-as-usual strategies?

Carbon Tracker deep-dive into the risks facing oil and gas investments is corroborated by study in Nature that warns overwhelming majority of fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground to cap global temperatures in line with global goals

Fossil fuel majors are putting both the planet and their future business models at risk through their failure to grapple with the "seismic implications" of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) recent...

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