Today’s Solutions: November 28, 2024

On Thursday, as the U.K. was taking its big Brexit vote, German legislators in Berlin voted on a very different kind of exit. The city became the latest in Europe to decide to divest its resources from the fossil fuel industry. Berlin’s $825 million pension fund will no longer invest in coal, oil, and gas companies. Since it began ramping up on a handful of college campuses in 2011, the global fossil fuel divestment movement–which

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