"ï "ï Here's a scoreboard from campaigners trying to force BlackRock to vote its shares in climate-friendly ways. By their count, the world's largest investment manager did the wrong thing in four proxy votes, did the right thing twice, and split the difference at Exxon's annual meeting, where it backed three of the four dissident candidates for the board, but did not vote against reappointing C.E.O. Darren Woods to the board.
"ï "ï An ingenious new method of using satellites to measure the evaporation and transpiration of water through vegetation yields sobering results: evapo-transpiration jumped 10 percent between 2003 and 2019, largely because of higher land temperatures. In other words, the global water cycle is intensifying, leading both to more drought and to more downpour.
Warming UpPatti Smith, Michael Stipe, and Dave Matthews are among the artists committed to a live-stream concert on June 4th to mark World Environment Day, put on by the indefatigable impresarios at Pathway to Paris. Make sure not to miss the Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal.
Bill McKibben
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