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pushing north across most of the uk, north and scotland may stick with something a bit colder, that is where we will have the coldest weather through the rest of the night, particularly in shetland with clear skies and some showers. some clear skies and some showers. some clear spells, aberdeen and hull will be one or 2 degrees, mounted to the far south—west, seeing more clouds, one area of rain pushing from the south west affecting southern england and parts of wales tomorrow, getting into the midlands. another band of rain will be drifting northwards across scotland, something wi...

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Especially when there are big short—term profits to be made from oil and gas? or is it better, as some other campaigners like extinction rebellion argue, to pressure shareholders to simply sell their shares in fossil fuel companies, something known as divestment? some critics say a problem with divestment and shareholder activism in general is that state—owned fossil fuel companies like the national iranian oil company or the china national petroleum corporation would simply fill any globalfossilfuel production gap created. it's worth noting that listed multinational oil companies in which...

Yet activists in favour of shareholder pressure within a company can point to the example of the danish firm 0rsted, which, since 2010, has successfully transformed itself from a fossil fuels company to a renewables giant. it's worth comparing the share price of 0rsted with bp since 2016. 0rsted is up 134%. bp, the yellow line, even after last year's jump during the energy crisis, is only 42% higher. it's a similar picture for most fossil fuel companies. their share prices over the longer term have stagnated relative to renewable companies. shareholder activists also point to the danger of soâ...