Sentences with phrase «divest from fossil fuels in»

Last month, 3 Massachusetts towns committed to divesting from fossil fuels in the space of ten days.

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Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

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.

Investing for impact in public equities can include divesting from companies considered harmful to the environment, as embodied by 350.org's fossil fuel divestment campaign.

In 2015, a group of foundations launched the DivestInvest initiative, which helps foundations, individuals and businesses divest from fossil fuels.

Divesting from fossil fuels has long been a goal of many environmental advocates, who say the state shouldn't invest in fossil fuel companies when it's working to reduce its carbon emissions.

The measure would require the pension fund to stop investing in the world's top 200 fossil fuel companies in the next five years, and divest from coal companies within one year from when the law is passed.

Updated: DiNapoli's office clarified in a statement separate from Cuomo's office that there are no immediate plans to divest from fossil fuels.

In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.

The fund is the third - largest in the nation, trailing California's two public pension systems, both of which have divested from some fossil fuel companies.

«Divesting from fossil fuel stocks doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a huge message that government and its citizens should not be investing in the type of fuel that we know increase the problems we face rather than decrease and reverse the outcome of climate change.»

There is a bill in the legislature that would require the state to divest from companies that produce fossil fuels, but it has not gained support among both majority conferences.

The New York Greens are also calling on the state Comptroller to «immediately» freeze any new investments in fossil fuels and «divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include 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.

Pratt Institute has officially announced that it will divest from its investments in fossil fuels to reinforce the Institute's overall commitment to environmental sustainability.

Artist Statement «Divesting from fossil fuels helps protect investors from trillions in financial risk from the «carbon bubble» and directs new funding to clean energy generation.

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 fuelIn 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 fuelin - 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 interestIn 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 interestin the department — there was one abstention) for our university endowment to divest from fossil fuel interests.

They also, in both cases, agreed that divesting from fossil fuels would do little to nothing to hurt my retirement.

And if the climate movement can keep pressuring the the government, banks and universities to invest in the future and divest from fossil fuels, it seems inevitable that we'll be burning less coal in the coming years, whether President Obama has officially waged a War on Coal or not.

In his Wired interview, the Revenant star urged technology players in Silicon Valley to join in the Divest - Invest movement, where individuals pledge to divest from fossil fuel holdings and invest in renewable energy technologIn his Wired interview, the Revenant star urged technology players in Silicon Valley to join in the Divest - Invest movement, where individuals pledge to divest from fossil fuel holdings and invest in renewable energy technologin Silicon Valley to join in the Divest - Invest movement, where individuals pledge to divest from fossil fuel holdings and invest in renewable energy technologin the Divest - Invest movement, where individuals pledge to divest from fossil fuel holdings and invest in renewable energy technDivest - Invest movement, where individuals pledge to divest from fossil fuel holdings and invest in renewable energy techndivest from fossil fuel holdings and invest in renewable energy technologin renewable energy technology.

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.

After looking into the growing movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions, I was convinced to make the pledge on behalf of myself and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.

At the United Nations COP21 climate conference of 2015, RBF was touting a new report that investors across the world with $ 3.4 trillion in assets have pledged to divest from fossil fuel companies.

The goal of the campaign is to convince college and university presidents and boards to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years.

We would like to urge you to take the appropriate actions in the short term to support this long - term goal, by endorsing and actively supporting the initiatives to divest the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan (OTPP) and Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) from fossil fuels.

It issued a resolution in 2007 admitting «Christian complicity in the damage human beings have caused to the earth's climate system,» and in 2013, it became the first U.S. denomination to divest from fossil fuels.

Carbon taxes are the only policy tool that, by slashing demand in a rapid, predictable way, divests our economy from fossil fuels and enables governments, business, and consumers to make investments in the transition to clean energy.

Caritas Internationalis — a confederation of 165 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories and an official institution of the Catholic Church — is among the institutions committed to divest from fossil fuels.

In this times, The Vatican must use its moral and ethical leadership and divest from fossil fuels.

Or, the present stagnation in the march to divest from fossil fuels looks like the «minor» players (or so it was alleged of them, unnamed) have defeated the «major» players (whoever they may be) in the policy aspect of the climate debate.

Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories and an official institution of the Catholic Church — is among the institutions committed to divest from fossil fuels.

Than exactly one year later, February 8, 2014, the Hilltop Monitor, published an opinion editorial I wrote in their «Sound Off» section to try to persuade the college to divest its endowment from fossil fuels.

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.

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 this regard, they invoke previous divestment campaigns, such as those targeting apartheid South Africa and the tobacco industry, and argue that divesting from fossil fuel companies is a moral act.

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.

Finally, the Divest / Invest movement employs moral sentiments to pressure like - minded foundations to divest from fossil fuels, and invest in charity or renewable proDivest / Invest movement employs moral sentiments to pressure like - minded foundations to divest from fossil fuels, and invest in charity or renewable prodivest from fossil fuels, and invest in charity or renewable projects.

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.

I then had a phone conversation with Dr. David Sallee, President of William Jewell College in August, 2013, personally asking him to do what he can to divest Jewell's endowment from fossil fuels.

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

This year, the UCC will hold a vote at its annual national meeting in June on a resolution urging its churches to divest from the 200 largest fossil fuel companies.

Says the report: «Increasingly, worldwide regulations are leaving fossil fuel investments as stranded assets with pension funds heeding the call to divest from fossil fuels and invest in green technologies.

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!

University court votes to divest # 18m from fossil fuel industry in what campaigners call «dramatic beachhead»

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 Wednesday.

Some good, decided the Rockefellers, as the family fund divests from investments in fossil fuels.

It's working — just in the last few weeks Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, announced plans to divest from fossil fuels, and the Nebraska Public Service Commission threw yet more roadblocks in front of the Keystone pipeline.

I also encourage you to disclose your climate risk, divest from fossil fuels and forge partnerships that will invest in low - emissions resilient infrastructure.

But Leonardo DiCaprio is arguably the celebrity doing the most in the climate movement: he's created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, joined the People's Climate March, spoken at the United Nations (as a UN messenger of peace), and has pledged to completely divest from fossil fuels — just to name a few activities.