Sentences with phrase «divest london»

A spokeswoman for campaigners Divest London said the motion would force the mayor to reveal his position on fossil fuels and reinforce his intention to meet his commitment to reduce London's carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«The fourth generation is involved now, and they want to drive the group to bigger and better things,» Wynne Powell, London Air Services president (and longtime London Drugs boss), told the Vancouver Sun in 2015, by way of explaining plans to divest the seven - plane corporate charter airline.

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.

From London to Paris, Barcelona to Stockholm, we're revelling in the many powerful ways people have found this week to show that fossil fuels have no social licence: divest, defund, desponsor, disrupt!

November saw another success for the campaign, as Lloyd's of London also announced that it would be divesting from coal.

When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.

Business Green is reporting that the London Assembly has just passed a motion that calls on Mayor Boris Johnson to begin divesting the city's # 4.8 billion (about $ 7 billion) from fossil fuels.

On the risk side, divesting is about not getting stuck holding stranded fossil fuel assets that can not be burnt if the world is to adhere to a given carbon budget, a topic on which Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has expressed concerns in a landmark speech to global insurer Lloyd's of London.