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(Outlet: Marketplace) Last year, JPMorgan Chase was once again the number one fossil fuel financier in the world, according to the 15th Banking on Climate Chaos report compiled by a group of environmental organizations. Banks have collectively invested almost $7 trillion in fossil fuels since the Paris Climate Agreement went into effect. “The banks that are based in the U.S. are just the biggest banks in the world. I mean, that’s not just true of oil and gas; that’s true of all sorts of lines of business,” said University of Pennsylvania finance professor Dan Garrett.…Read More

(Outlet: The New York Times) Wharton Climate Center Affiliated Scholar R. Jisung Park writes about how we don’t see what climate change is doing to us, and the changes we must make to our social and economic systems to survive the escalating warming. …Read More

(Outlet: Environmental Innovations Initiative) In recent work, part of the Public Deliberation on Climate Transitions and Well-Being research community, supported by the Environmental Innovations Initiative, Quinn, Kimbrough, and colleagues are seeking community input to understand how to enhance collective action on climate change through public deliberations. …Read More

(Outlet: Wharton Business Daily) R. Jisung Park, Penn and Wharton Assistant Professor, joins Wharton Business Daily host Dan Loney to discuss his new book, Slow Burn, and the hidden costs of climate change.…Read More

(Outlet: Daily Pennsylvanian) Sarah Light has been appointed as the inaugural Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professor at the Wharton School. Presidential professorships aim to help Penn attract and retain accomplished scholars and recognize their contributions. The Wharton appointment is one of three such professorships at Penn, with the other two housed in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine. …Read More

(Outlet: Wharton Press Release) Penn Interim President J. Larry Jameson and Wharton Dean Erika H. James are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Sarah E. Light as the inaugural recipient of the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professorship at the Wharton School, which is one of three Presidential Professorships Dr. Mitchell J. Blutt, C’78, M’82, WG’87 and Mrs. Margo Blutt have generously established at the University of Pennsylvania. The three Presidential Professorships are at the Wharton School, Penn Arts & Sciences, and the Perelman School of Medicine, the three Penn schools Dr. Blutt attended.…Read More

(Outlet: Newsweek) In response to Florida’s escalating insurance costs, Senate leaders have issued a tax reduction strategy proposing a 1.75 percent cut on insurance premium taxes for homeowners with properties valued at $750,000 or below, sparking a debate over its adequacy and focus.…Read More

(Outlet: FactCheck.org) Pending regulations under review by the Biden administration could greatly increase the number of electric vehicles sold in the U.S. But if implemented, the proposals to reduce tailpipe emissions and raise the fuel efficiency standards of cars and trucks would not “ban” the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles, as a trade group for fuel makers falsely suggests in an ad campaign.…Read More

(Outlet: Wharton Business Daily) In this episode of Wharton Business Daily, Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Sarah Light explains private vs. public environmental governance, and how the former is now an accepted and powerful environmental policy tool, as discussed in her new book, Private Environmental Governance.…Read More

(Outlet: The New York Times) In this Letter to the Editor, Eric W. Orts, professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, responds to “Fringe Climate Proposal, a Giant Space Parasol, Gains Interest” (front page, Feb. 3).…Read More