Sentences with phrase «about divesting»

It's time for all of us to get serious about divesting from coal and transitioning to a cleaner economy, not only as a moral imperative, but as a prudent step toward avoiding financial harm.

I recently met with my financial advisor to talk about divesting my retirement savings from fossil fuels.

Antal said UCC churches across the country have reached out to him to pledge their support or learn more about divesting their endowment funds.

You can learn more about divesting from fossil fuels if you attend the meet - and - greet following this service.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the 2013 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association calls upon delegates to begin a denomination - wide conversation within their congregations about divesting from fossil fuels or exercising shareholder influence.

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Cohn and his family members held about $ 220 million in Goldman stock, which he had to divest in order to resolve possible conflicts of interest before becoming White House economic adviser.

Boston - based GE is divesting about $ 20 billion in assets in an effort to reduce costs and boost profits as part of a three - year restructuring plan under...

Boston - based GE is divesting about $ 20 billion in assets as tries to reduce costs and boost profits as part of a three - year restructuring plan under...

In any case, i have no idea about denver specifically, but if you are concerned, then you need to start divesting slowly.

In their eyes, having announced plans to divest the business National Australia Bank is probably more worried about a smooth deal rather than squeezing a P / E-point or two out of incoming investors.

Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).

But this time, it's trying to make a big decision about whether to split itself up by divesting of its consumer healthcare business, including over-the-counter (OTC) products such as Advil and Centrum vitamins.

Secularized Jews, having already divested themselves of just about everything that made them singularly Jewish, puzzled over the failure of Christians to do the same.

Perennial champions, Bayern Munich have a long tradition for divesting domestic rivals of talent and if to «Bild am Sonntag «is correct, the Bavarians are about to lure away the only two full German internationals in the «Kraichgauer» ranks: utility man, Sebastian Rudy and centre - back, Niklas Süle.

Women were divested of their innate understanding of how their own bodies worked and were informed that they didn't really know or understand much about pregnancy and birth.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Long Island with reporters on Wednesday said he wanted to back up the rhetoric about renewable energy with a push toward divesting the state's pension fund from fossil fuel companies.

Why, they're infiltrating terrorist cells in order to divest them of chitauri weaponry, and they're definitely not telling Tony about it at all.

«Everyone they put on the stage who talked about education talked about opting out, divesting from it,» she said.

The Bay State Banner reports that last week, more than 100 students and community activists... Read more about Protesters demand Harvard divest from Baupost

Furthermore, well - established authors always have an agent who is probably not enthusiastic about seeing their clients divest themselves of traditional publishing.

Raven Russia (RUSP: LN) was a holding (which I've now divested) I wrote about quite recently to illustrate my approach to fixed income.

As 2018 begins, you have the power to contribute to causes you care about and divest from those you don't.

However, the company does confirm that it has «divested» from the studio: «Our earnings statement contained a report about the divestment of Eden Studios.

Divest your rage from their bullshit and invest in listening to people who know what the fuck they're talking about.

About his work in this period, Macdonald - Wright commented, «I strive to divest my art of all anecdote and illustration and to purify it to the point where the emotions of the spectator will be wholly aesthetic, as when listening to good music... I cast aside as nugatory all natural representation in my art.

In April, The Guardian's outgoing editor - in - chief, Alan Rusbridger, told us about the paper's campaign to push the world's two largest health charities, the Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation, to divest from fossil fuels.

In the English Department where I teach, at a mid-sized Midwestern university, we have just voted virtually unanimously (there are about 40 of us in the department — there was one abstention) for our university endowment to divest from fossil fuel interests.

He was a member of the divestment movement, urging colleges and universities to pull their endowment investments out of oil and natural gas companies and tweeted about how it was a «sane» position to suggest that «Exxon's actions may have imperiled all of humanity... It's time to divest.»

On a conference call discussing the plan, Vice President for Research Maria T. Zuber said they thought «a whole lot» about targeted divestment, particularly whether to divest only from coal, but ultimately concluded that any level of divestment would hinder the ability to work with the industry on future research initiatives.

A group of 17 philanthropic groups including the Wallace Global Fund and John Merck Fund with a combined asset base of about $ 1.8 billion has vowed to divest from fossil - fuel companies and invest in clean - energy technology.

UD joins a growing list of universities choosing to divest endowments due to concerns about climate disruption and sustainability.

I think the other point — you mentioned that not all the reserves are controlled by private corporations from which we can divest — that is really the other issue that Ben alluded to, which is that for a lot of these companies (you mentioned Exxon specifically), we have data to prove that as little as about 2 years ago, Exxon was actively funding climate change deniers about a mile and a half from where I am sitting here at MIT.

While the leaders of the world talk about what to do at the U.N. and institutions like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund take positive steps to divest from fossil fuels (announced the day after the march), the movement for climate change action will have to grow, learn, and mobilize; and quickly if the 2 degree Celsius temperature increase scientists have warned about is to be averted.

The Norwegian pension fund and the Church of England divested their shares from Vedanta, citing concerns about its conduct in the Niyamgiri Hills.

15 insurance companies have already taken steps, and are collectively divesting about $ 20 billion in equities and bonds from coal companies or are ceasing to underwrite coal projects.

Over in Vermont, there's already talk about legislation to divest the state from fossil fuels.

And even if no other schools divest, it has sparked conversations on campuses across the country about a range of other ESG investment strategies.

So far, investors have divested about $ 3.4 trillion from the fossil fuel industry, and the total is growing each week, as major investors like the Rockefeller Family Fund divest from Exxon Mobil and other dirty - energy corporations.

PhD student Alex Hemingway, spokesperson for Divest UBC, felt that an institution like UBC would send a «powerful message,» about the urgency of tackling climate change and the importance of putting words into action.

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.

If you are a genuine seeker of knowledge, and you want to divest yourself of the misconceptions you clearly have about the science, then go to Skeptical Science, where there are nearly 5,000 threads dealing with the skeptics memes you propagate.

Still, this is exactly the type of divest - invest move from a major energy player which could bring about a major shift in the economics of energy markets.

Michael Quirke of Climate Change National Forum chats with Ben Franta, PhD candidate in Applied Physics at Harvard and board member of Divest Harvard, and Geoffrey Supran, MIT Energy Fellow and member of Fossil Free MIT, about the divestment movement that has gripped many of the nation's campuses this spring.

When universities divest, they send a message about where they see the future of energy going.

When cities and communities divest, they send a message about shared values and collective responsibilities.

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.

A week later at the powerful Pathway to Paris event at New York's Carnegie Hall, as Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Talib Kweli and Michael Stipe bore witness, Bill McKibben, spoke about the urgent need for New York to lead and to do so by divesting from fossil fuels.

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The Brokerage listed above has informed me that the Brokerage is required to report, at it's sole and absolute discretion, any suspicions or suspicious information it suspects about me, immediately to the Government of Canada, in the Brokerages dealings with me for the purpose of acquiring or divesting of real estate.

Next, completely divest ourselves from the stock market and invest the rest (about) 400K in various note funds, which return a minimum of 12 %.