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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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After 2 years, Coca-Cola’s promise to scale up reusable packaging is dead (grist.org)
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The pledge was born out of shareholder activism — and was withdrawn as regulators crack down on greenwashing.

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[–] grue 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If the corporation will not do what the shareholders ask of it, then who is calling the shots?

Mutual fund managers, especially of the big index funds at Vanguard, Blackrock, Schwab, Fidelity, etc. They get to vote all the shares of the working-class investors whose 401(k)s are invested in those funds, and I'm pretty sure they always vote for whatever management recommends as a matter of policy.

In other words, the thing that's supposed to be a check & balance against management fuckery... isn't.