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Gigantes dos combustíveis fósseis gastam 251 milhões em lobbying
12:19, 24 Out 2019
As cinco maiores empresas do sector dos combustíveis fósseis – nomeadamente petróleo e gás – e os respectivos grupos gastaram pelo menos 251 milhões de euros em actividades de lobbying com a União Europeia como alvo desde 2010. De acordo com um estudo reportado pelo The Guardian, o lobbying era referente a políticas climáticas.

Deste total, 123 milhões de euros chegam da BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil e Total. O montante restante tem origem nos 13 grupos industriais a que estas empresas estão associadas, segundo os dados divulgados por uma aliança de ONGs, incluindo Corporate Europe Observatory, Food & Water Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe e Greenpeace.

Os investigadores garantem que estes 251 milhões de euros são apenas a ponta do iceberg, uma vez que, em alguns anos, as empresas não declararam o valor gasto – trata-se de um registo voluntário. Além disso, o relatório não abrange os gastos em lobbying relativamente a parlamentos ou instituições nacionais.
https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/gigantes-dos-combustiveis-fosseis-gastam-251-milhoes-em-lobbying/
 


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Climate change could end mortgages as we know them

BY IRINA IVANOVA

NOVEMBER 8, 2019 / 11:51 AM / MONEYWATCH



Climate change could punch a hole through the financial system by making 30-year home mortgages — the lifeblood of the American housing market — effectively unobtainable in entire regions across parts of the U.S.

That's what the future could look like without policy to address climate change, according to the latest research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The bank is considering these and other risks on Friday in an unprecedented conference on the economics of climate change.

For the financial sector, adapting to climate change isn't just an issue of improving their market share. "It is a function of where there will be a market at all," wrote Jesse Keenan, a scholar who studies climate adaptation, in the Fed's introduction.

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No more mortgages?
The housing market doesn't yet factor in the risk of climate change, which is already affecting many areas of the U.S., including flood-prone coastal communities, agricultural regions and parts of the country vulnerable to wildfires. In California, for instance, 50,000 homeowners can't get property or casualty insurance because of the increased risk to their homes.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-could-end-mortgages-as-we-know-them/