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New principles regarding fossil fuels to guide Yale’s endowment
The Yale Board of Trustees last week approved a new set of ethical investment principles (PDF) to guide the university’s decisions concerning companies producing fossil fuels.
The five principles, recommended by an expert faculty panel appointed in October by President Peter Salovey, create new standards for the activities, behaviors, and characteristics of fossil fuel companies that would warrant divestment.
The principles establish a framework through which Yale can encourage fossil fuel producers to adopt more sustainable practices and advance the shift to a decarbonized energy future – and to call out and make ineligible for investment by Yale those companies that do not.
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Hurricane wind speed grew 6 mph per decade
Bermuda gets some protection from hurricane storm surges from of its reefs. But coral is useless at shielding the island nation from winds. Now a study has shown that the maximum wind speed of hurricanes in the subtropical Atlantic around Bermuda (on average) has more than doubled in the last 60 years: from 35 to 73 mph. between 1955 to 2019. Why? Because the ocean surface temperature is rising, explain scientists at University of Southampton, publishing in Environmental Research Letters. The warmer the ocean surface, the more violent the wind, they explain.
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