Check out these awesome headlines from the last few weeks!
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Headlines:
Rewild
Rare Florida butterfly bounces back, offers lesson for saving other critters
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/460260-rare-florida-butterfly-bounces-back-offers-lesson-for-saving-other-critters/
Thanks to the Yurok Tribe, condors will return to the Pacific Northwest
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/thanks-to-the-yurok-tribe-condors-will-return-to-the-pacific-northwest/
Drawdown
China Pledges to Stop Building Coal-Burning Power Plants Abroad
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/chinas-pledge-to-end-building-coal-plants-abroad-improves-belt-and-roads-reputation-development-bank-says/ar-AAOLxnB
EPA To Cut Greenhouse Gases Thousands Of Times More Powerful Than CO2
https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-cut-greenhouse-gases-thousands-times-more-powerful-co2
Divestment
Boston University to end endowment investments in fossil fuels
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/573649-boston-university-to-end-endowment-investments-in-fossil-fuels
The MacArthur Foundation announced that it will divest from fossil fuels
https://jack1065.com/2021/09/22/macarthur-foundation-joins-investment-shift-away-fossil-fuels/
Cash Money
California rolls out biggest climate package in state history with an unprecedented $15 billion investment
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/09/23/newsom-wildfires-climate-change-sequoias/
Philanthropists pledge record $5 billion to protect nature
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/philanthropists-pledge-record-5-billion-protect-nature-2021-09-22/