Sentences with phrase «began divesting»

But gradually Target began divesting itself, going from 29 races as primary in 2015 to just over 20 in 2017 to now gone entirely.

It has yet to begin divesting its # 18m - worth of fossil fuel investments in companies including Shell, BP, Chevron and Centrica.

This week the University of Dayton made news when it announced that «it will begin divesting coal and fossil fuels from its $ 670 million investment pool.»

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.

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The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

The state government has begun the tender process to find a lead financial adviser as it plans to move ahead with divesting a portion of Keystart's loan book to the private sector.

The Great Recession scared a lot of companies which quickly divested themselves of all but the most necessary employees and began outsourcing all work that they could no longer do inhouse.

Large investors, like the California State Teachers» Retirement System, began taking steps to divest from the gun maker.

Once the company realized the potential of its mobile communications products, it began to divest and sell those other operations and Nokia became what it is today - a company focused on telecommunications technology.

They began urging institutional investors, including universities, to divest their assets from companies that did business with the regime.

He would divest himself of his galoshes and topcoat, brush the snow from his disheveled hair, shuffle through his near - illegible notes for a minute, then begin:

June 1 begins the Great Hurricane Preparations here in South Florida; the time of year when I begin stocking cans and divesting myself of frozen foods.

Chinaglia quietly began to divest himself of his Italian holdings.

Beginning in 1994, the company divested its ancillary businesses (including Lehman Brothers) to focus on credit cards and travel services.

In a series of letters addressed to Dover's board of directors beginning in May 2007, Marathon articulated the concerns of Dover's shareholders: namely, the Company's weakened financial and operating position relative to its competitors and the resulting need to divest assets up to and potentially including the Company as a whole.

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

As with most of Stewen's practice, these compositions begin with a destructive process: divesting each page of its color plate so that only a sparse collection of printed titles, credits or locations remain.

In just the four months since negotiators reached the agreement, Copenhagen announced plans to divest from fossil fuels, while the influential Rockefeller Family Fund began to do the same.

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.

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.

Beginning as a movement in 2011, young people on campuses across the US were determined that their college or university should not be putting money into fossil fuels, and urged their schools to divest their endowments away from fossil fuel companies.

Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) has begun receiving inquiries from local religious communities interested in divesting from fossil fuels.

According to CEO Klaus Schäfer, Uniper's reorganization that began two years ago (when it was part of E.ON) has paid off robustly by lowering annual costs and by divesting activities not part of its core business.

Mann's employer this weekend began the shameful task of divesting itself of all inflated claims on university websites and official documentation that Mann was ever a Peace Prize recipient with Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.