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Michael Mazengarb
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Changes in certain share prices since Iran sent missiles into Israel: Lockheed Martin: +3.6% Raytheon: +3.6% Northrop Grumman: +1.8% Chevron: +3.8% ExxonMobil: +7.9% Shell: +5.5% BP: +4.8% Nobody does war profiteering quite like fossil fuel companies.

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The place: the Stavros Niarchos Library My brain: the Marco Inaros library

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But that said, there are some good events happening, particularly on University campus, that are more focused on climate justice issues. They just require more searching out.

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- locals love the IRA, and I think a feeling that policy is as good as it gets. - the lack of world leader involvement (despite UN general assembly happening now) is quite conspicuous Feels very much like the corporate side of recent COPs.

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My takeaways from the last couple of days: - program of events is a little chaotic. Anyone can create an event and have it labelled as being part of NY Climate Week, so there’s a lot of random events - lots of corporates doing corporate things (high consultancy presence, VCM day etc.)

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Kerry says voter pressure underpinned prior climate policy successes: “People shuddered at the prospect of losing their seats. By being a voting issue we passed the Clean Air Act… and we created the environmental protection agency in the United States of America.” #ClimateWeekNYC

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