Source: Rebel shareholders with percent of the vote – The Washington Post

ExxonMobil shareholders voted Wednesday to install at least two new independent directors to the company’s board, a resounding defeat for chief executive Darren Woods and a ratification of shareholders’ unhappiness with the way the company had been addressing climate change and its lagging […]

Source: The Climate Crisis Newsletter

Bill McKibben in the New Yorker:

In what may be the most cataclysmic day so far for the traditional fossil-fuel industry, a remarkable set of shareholder votes and court rulings have scrambled the future of three of the world’s largest oil companies.

 On Wednesday, a court in the Netherlands […]

Source: A Top German Court Toughens the Nation’s Climate Goals, Requiring Explicit Details

The year 2020 will forever be notorious for the COVID-19 pandemic but it might also be known by historians for a precipitous rise in second order climate change consequences — a new elephant in the r

Source: Climate Crisis: Elephants in the Room are Getting Nastier

Source: The Coming COP Flop? Four Realizations to Energize the COP26 Climate Summit – United Nations University Centre for Policy Research