Sentences with phrase «divestment campaign»

Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.

Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.

Thousands of divestment campaigns around the world are helping shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the moral urgency of climate action.

Driven by the devastation of mountaintop removal they witnessed in neighboring communities in Appalachia, and inspired by the leadership and persistence of activists there, students kicked off a fossil fuel divestment campaign on cmapus.

divested — the only news agency in the world to do so so far — and ran their own divestment campaign targeting the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began in the US, where 35 educational institutions have joined, but it has now been overtaken.

The Conservative Party said as much in a press release, labelling the proposal a response to the «spread of militant divestment campaigns against UK defence and Israeli firms.»

The Guardian divested — the only news agency in the world to do so so far — and ran their own divestment campaign targeting the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust.

(05/01/2013) The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government.

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.

And then we were part of this snowball effect that Ben described — this roll - out of divestment campaigns around the country — that highlighted this incompatibility.

Companies targeted by divestment campaigns — whether against firms involved in South Africa under apartheid, Darfur conflicts or this current carbon struggle — historically have responded that divestment does not affect their bottom lines.

The South African divestment campaign helped break the back of the Apartheid government and usher in an era of democracy and greater equality.

Local authority divestment campaigns were a central part of the anti-Apartheid movement and an effective response to Margaret Thatcher's failure to act on the systematic racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa.

Now, media outlets like The Guardian are calling it «The fastest growing divestment campaign ever.»

After a year long divestment campaign, student and community leaders successfully pressured Baltimore City and other public entities across the region to officially end their support for the incinerator.

There are also divestment campaigns running in health institutions, faith groups, charities and workplaces across the UK.

The worldwide fossil fuel divestment campaign got a huge boost this week when Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger boldly thrust his paper into the fray.

South Africa's historic divestment campaign — the one that helped topple Apartheid and enshrined divestment as a tool against oppression — was paired with a UN-sponsored boycott of South African goods.

The Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is the first citizens» effort in the country to appeal directly to voters to hold Israel accountable for violations of international law and human rights.

In line with the current rise in carbon divestment campaigning, we also look at where banks stand on fossil fuels and renewables.

They come at a vital time because for every major city like New York or Paris moving huge amounts of money and using their political power to take on Big Oil, we need dozens of successful divestment campaigns on our campuses, and hundreds of grassroots organisers to win arguments in our communities.

Fossil Free started in 2012 as a campaign to push institutions to divest from fossil fuels, building on the work of student - led university divestment campaigns.

The momentum behind divestment campaigns and other forms of protest against coal highlight that burning fossil fuels without regard for the consequences will not be tolerated much longer.

What COA's one week divestment campaign shows is that we are not demanding the impossible of our Colleges».

They launched a massive divestment campaign.

(05/07/2014) The fossil fuel divestment campaign won a major victory today as Stanford University announced it would drop coal companies from its massive $ 18.7 billion endowment, the fourth largest of any American university.

Those facts are piling up quickly, from Pope Francis's encyclical on climate change, to the crackdowns on coal in China and the United States, to an expanding global divestment campaign that — if nothing else — has alerted investors to the growing risks of banking on oil and coal stocks, for both the planet and their portfolios.

The campaign is modeled after the 1980s South Africa divestment campaign, which helped pressure the government to enter negotiations that eventually led to the end of apartheid.

By contrast, an influential climate science study that stoked the climate divestment campaign received 262 citations between April 2009 and February 2013.

The announcements have only energized the student divestment campaign.

has called for an anti-apartheid-style boycott and divestment campaign against the fossil fuel industry for driving global warming

A study by Oxford University last autumn found that it had grown faster than any previous divestment campaign, including those relating to apartheid, armaments and tobacco.

Fossil fuel companies, which spent $ 650bn (# 422bn) in 2013, searching for more reserves are also under attack from a fast - growing divestment campaign, which has persuaded over 180 groups to dump their fossil fuel stocks.

This guide will help provide some resources and guidance to get stuck in and set up your own divestment campaign, as well as how to make it as powerful and effective as possible.

The campaign quickly spread to many parts of the world, and by 2015 thousands of divestment campaigns were underway, helping shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the moral urgency of climate action.

In the UK there are over 30 divestment campaigns targeting local councils and the pension funds they manage.

It's been really exciting to follow the fossil fuel divestment campaign at Harvard as it gains steam — and national...

Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.