Climate scientists swap fieldwork for finance
By Iain Withers, Carolyn Cohn and Simon Jessop
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF.
Now she s an analyst for Lombard Odier, charged with improving the $350 billion Swiss bank s green credentials. It s really important that finance recruits from science, said Velez, one of a growing number of campaigners and scientists who have switched to banking, which she hopes can play a role in greening the polluting industries .
Why some climate scientists are joining the finance industry
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Greenpeace USA, Movement for Black Lives, and Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy Release the Most Comprehensive Analysis to Date of Fossil Fuel Racism
by Ryan Schleeter
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New report details how fossil fuel production has created a public health crisis for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities
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Today, Greenpeace USA, the Movement for Black Lives, and the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy are releasing
Fossil Fuel Racism: How Phasing Out Oil, Gas, and Coal Can Protect Communities. Citing examples from Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” to California’s Kern County and beyond, the report examines how every phase of fossil fuel production extraction, transport, refining, and production disproportionately pollutes Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities.