Sentences with phrase «city divesting»

Could this be a start of a wave of cities divesting and institutions suing fossil fuel companies for damages?

Not content with granting the rights of personhood to rivers, or having its cities divest from fossil fuels, New Zealand is building on its already impressive green energy record by breaking up with coal power once and for all.

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There has been steady growth in interest in public banking, spurred by the 2008 recession, by criticism of investment practices of some Wall Street banks, and, in some cities, by recent campaigns to divest from banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

We called on you to divest your money from Trojan Horse businesses with no regard to community — to us the long - term residents and businesses of New York City.

Climate change activists around the city, including the leader of a Sunset Park group, are praising a decision by the de Blasio administration to divest $ 5 billion in pension holdings from companies dealing in fossil fuel.

In a fascinating chapter entitled «Augustine's Evil, Arendt's Eichmann,» Elshtain traces the likely origin of Arendt's concept of the «banality of evil» to the City of God, where Augustine divests evil of every pretension to glory.

New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.

Last year, after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the other three of the city's five pension funds to further divest their holdings in companies that manufacture weapons and ammunition.

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer sCity Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer scity's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer sCity Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

The fossil fuel industry is knowingly profiting off the destruction of the planet; New York City and State pension funds must divest fully from fossil fuels.

New York, NY — Just one day before dozens of New Yorkers will take action at the New York City pension fund meeting calling for full divestment from fossil fuels, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio added his voice, calling on New York to step into its leadership and divest from fossil fuels.

As a trustee of the City's largest public pension fund, I have repeatedly called for the divestment of all public pension dollars from gun retailers and manufacturers, and I am encouraged by the Mayor's call today to divest from assault weapon manufacturers.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisCity's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these priscity to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

Hours later, over 100 New Yorkers rallied at Comptroller Scott Stringer's office, delivering a divestment valentine with thousands of petition signatures urging the City's pension funds to divest coal, oil and gas holdings.

New York, NY — Just days after Mayor Bill De Blasio expressed support for cutting ties with the banks behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, New Yorkers will gather to call on City Comptroller Scott Stringer to #DeFundDAPL and divest from risky coal, oil and gas stocks.

Moreover, as recently as January, the New York City teacher pension fund divested holdings in five publicly traded firearms manufacturers, for investments valued at $ 13.5 million.

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

New York City has become the first major public pension system in the nation to fully divest from private prisons...

«For - profit prisons create a perverse incentive to lock away our citizens, especially from traditionally underserved minority communities, and today's announcement that our city's pension system will divest from this predatory industry is welcome.»

Following his election as MP for the Cities of London and Westminster in June 2001 he divested himself of his business interests to a consortium led by his former business partner.

De Blasio said Friday that New York City pension funds have divested with the exception of the police, fire and education departments.

Recently, after over five years of community campaigning for New York to divest from fossil fuels, City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Governor Andrew Cuomo each released separate proposals to freeze all current fossil fuel investments, divest New York's public pension -LSB-...]

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer sCity Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer scity's largest pension fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer sCity Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

Comptroller Scott Stringer said Thursday that New York City's pension funds had divested its investments in private prison companies, calling it the first such move by a major U.S. cCity's pension funds had divested its investments in private prison companies, calling it the first such move by a major U.S. citycity.

So that's terrific, and the state comptroller should do that, just as New York City has announced it will do, but you can't say that as governor you want to divest in fossil fuels and then give tens of millions of dollars to the New York Power Authority to invest in fracked gas in downtown Albany.

«It's unacceptable for a health care company to put life - saving medicine out of people's reach by jacking up prices,» said Stringer, although he stopped short of saying the city pension funds would divest from Mylan.

Comptroller John Liu called the anti-immigration law approved in Arizona the «new apartheid» this afternoon, and said the city should explore divesting in companies based there.

One example cited several times was Mr. de Blasio's proposal for New York City to divest its pension funds from coal, a top priority for environmentalists nationwide.

This comes just two days before 350.org and allied groups gear up to issue a new challenge to New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer to divest the City and State pension funds from all fossil fuels.

As part of a worldwide campaign, 350NYC wants the City of New York to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership of any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years.

Credico says his group is also working on getting New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer to divest from private prisons, as well.

DiCaprio attended a meeting of the Divest - Invest Coalition in New York City Tuesday, where he pledged to end his personal and his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation's investments in the fossil fuel sector.

Maintaining the momentum, and not forgetting where we started out, we rejoined with our Divest London friends at the beginning of 2016 with a sea - shanty / flooding themed event at City Hall, and celebrated a short while later when all four leading candidates for Mayor of London committed to work to phase out London - wide fossil fuel investments.

Fossil Free Southwark's first members met one another in February 2015 underneath the letter «N» whilst spelling out the words «Divest London» in front of Tower Bridge as part of a Global Divestment Day event calling on City Hall to take its money out of fossil fuels.

This May (5 - 13), during Global Divestment Mobilisation (GDM), we along side Fossil Free South Africa, are under the Go Fossil Free banner calling on Cape Town to become a C40 champion by standing with nearly 100 other cities and local governments that have committed to divest from fossil fuels.

We just acted, and I want to urge every city, every county, every state to do the same — divest.

After more than five years of inspiring and creative campaigning from the climate movement, the New York City and State pensions are moving forward to freeze new investments in fossil fuels and divest.

In addition to this effort, I authored the legislation creating the District's first Climate Change and Resiliency Commission; I led the fight to have the District's retirement and pension funds divest from carbon and fossil fuel investment holdings; I wrote several bills to expand opportunities for solar installation; and I led the effort to name 2018 as the Year of the Anacostia River to celebrate and bring attention to the river on the eastern half of our city.

In June 2017, we helped persuade the City of Cape Town to become the first city in an African or developing country to divCity of Cape Town to become the first city in an African or developing country to divcity in an African or developing country to divest.

For a stable climate, fewer wars, healthy children, clear air & water, a switch to wind & solar energy, green jobs, stable energy costs and energy independence, cleaner governance, more land for food and forests, sound investments and quieter cities, it's time to divest from fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.

After more than five years of inspiring and creative campaigning from the climate movement, the New York City and State pension funds have committed to divesting their fossil fuel holdings from coal, oil, and gas.

Since November, divestment campaigns have spread to 210 universities in the United States and Canada, and to the city of Seattle, the first municipality seeking to divest its $ 1.9 billion pension fund.

Globally, more organisations are divesting from fossil fuel related investments, including New York city's plans to divest from fossil fuels and sue the fossil fuel industry for the costs of climate impacts on the metropolis, and San Francisco's plan for divestment created early this year.

At least one big - city mayor, Mike McGinn of Seattle, said he planned to investigate how the city could divest its pension - fund holdings.

Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant said, «In Seattle, Indigenous activists, the NoDAPL movement, 350 Seattle, socialists and I came together to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline and forced the City Council to divest $ 3 billion from Wells Fargo.

Dana Arviso, Executive Director of Potlach Fund said, «Potlatch Fund is joining the thousands of Tribes, cities, businesses, and individuals collectively divesting billions of dollars from banks by ending our relationships with both Wells Fargo and US Bank.

Add that to the cities and communities divesting from fossil fuels and the picture really starts to get interesting.

Major cities such as Sydney and Cape Town, as well as many European capitals such as Berlin, Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm have already committed to divest fossil fuels.

New York City is suing five of the largest oil companies over the billions of dollars it spends protecting the city from the effects of climate change, and it plans to divest its pension funds» $ 5 billion in assets involving fossil fuel producers, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced WednesCity is suing five of the largest oil companies over the billions of dollars it spends protecting the city from the effects of climate change, and it plans to divest its pension funds» $ 5 billion in assets involving fossil fuel producers, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednescity from the effects of climate change, and it plans to divest its pension funds» $ 5 billion in assets involving fossil fuel producers, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.

350Africa, together with partners, is building on the call started by Divest - Invest to establish a local group to ramp up pressure on the City of Cape Town to shift its investments and stand proud with nearly 100 other cities and local governments that have committed to divest from fossil Divest - Invest to establish a local group to ramp up pressure on the City of Cape Town to shift its investments and stand proud with nearly 100 other cities and local governments that have committed to divest from fossil divest from fossil fuels.