Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel divestment campaign»

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

This October 18 - 21, thousands of students will convene in Pittsburgh for US Power Shift, a national summit dedicated to building the youth climate movement and intensifying the fossil fuel divestment campaign.

Students at Harvard and organizers with the national fossil fuel divestment campaign say that the announcement is an expected disappointment — and the signal they've been waiting for to intensify the campaign on campus and around the country.

Throughout the Barack Obama administration, McKibben was a leader in the campaign to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, the Keep It In The Ground campaign, the campaign to criminalize climate skepticism — which included collusion with the 18 Attorneys General for Clean Energy) and the #ExxonKnew attack campaign.

And all this brings increasing recognition by investors that the carbon bubble and stranded assets are serious financial risks, which in turn reinforces the growing power of NGO campaigns against coal and CSG along with their fossil fuel divestment campaign.

McKibben has used his platform as a journalist to activate a global grassroots movement, 350.org, a group he founded in 2008 that has become famous for its own fossil fuel 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.

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.

Cheaper and cheaper renewables along with the increasingly successful fossil fuel divestment campaign (which largely targets coal for being the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels) means the industry has had to reimagine itself.

We launched this new fossil fuel divestment campaign this November 7 and in less than a month campaigns have...

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

Toronto350.org's response: In his courteous response to our fossil fuel divestment campaign, Li Pan argues that the evidence for social harm from fossil fuels isn't as strong as the case that tobacco harms human health.

Energy has become a contentious and politicized topic, spurring activism, whether it be the fossil fuel divestment campaign, Keystone pipeline protests, or concern over wind turbine harm to birds.

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

The third example, the «Keep It in the Ground» fossil fuel divestment campaign, was launched in March 2015 by British newspaper The Guardian to «keep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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.

Inspired by the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, the London panelists developed a global opportunity to address the excessive use of antibiotics in agriculture.

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.

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.

We started our own campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns, and over the past few years we built CarbonWA, a Washington state grassroots organization with over 20 chapters that put forward America's first carbon tax initiative.

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.

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«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

It's the first mainstream religious organisation in the UK to threaten to withdraw money from fossil fuel companies, after various «divestment» campaigns.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

In a related On the Media segment, «The Guardian Gets Positive,» Bob Garfield examines the British paper's much - discussed campaign for divestment from fossil fuels.

With his peripatetic campus - focused campaign for divestment in stocks of fossil fuel companies and the fight to pressure President Obama to block the Keystone XL pipeline, McKibben has given new meaning to the word overdrive.

(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.

Professor Paul Ehrlich (a futurist with a rich history of failed predictions, Stanford) is campaigning for a divestment from the fossil fuel industry.

Others have been scattered: The fossil - fuel divestment campaign we launched in 2012 has been active on every continent, incorporated a wide variety of tactics, and has become the largest anticorporate campaign of its kind in history, triggering the full or partial divestment of endowments and portfolios with nearly $ 5 trillion in assets.

This year, unanimous motions supporting fossil fuel divestment passed at Unison's national conference and the Trades Union Congress, all due to the tireless campaigning of grassroots union members.

«The most important university campaign right now is the divestment of funds from the fossil fuel industry,» said Green Party leader Elizabeth May in a speech at Concordia University in Montreal.

There are already over 30 groups working for divestment, and anyone anywhere can get campaigning with their local community to kick fossil fuels out of our councils.

He is most recently the founder of the advocacy group 350.org which has led campaigns against the Keystone XL oil pipeline and on behalf of campus divestment from fossil fuel companies.

If you share a fundamental moral outrage over this absurdity, join us this summer and beyond as we use organizing, NVDA, divestment campaigns, and transformative pilot projects to stop new fossil fuel projects, shut down old ones, and build our future at the human scale, with human values, instead.

The UCL study was also propitiously timed to assist the February 13 - 14 «Global Divestment Day» campaign, which aims to pressure institutions and investment funds to divest from fossil - fuel companies.

Third, sociopolitical pressures (e.g., fossil - fuel divestment campaigns, environmental advocacy, grass - roots protests and changing public opinion) could create an environment in which carbon - intensive businesses could lose their «license to operate,» thereby stranding assets.

Join this campaign to bring people together to make divestment a more effective movement and to ensure fossil fuels are left in the ground everywhere.

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.

On 350.org's divestment website, student activists can download a campaign toolkit including sample petitions, scientific data and a list of the 200 fossil fuel companies being targeted by the group.

Divestment from fossil fuel companies is a key component of the campaign.

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

As part of the campaign, Ben & Jerry's has also said that many of its best - selling flavours are «endangered» as a result of climate change, and that fossil fuel divestment will help to sustain the production of its ice creams in the long term.

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.

Stay up to date with latest from the fossil fuel divestment movement and get support to run your own campaign!

The premise of the divestment campaign is simple: non-profit organisations must move their investments away from fossil fuels, reducing the power and influence this industry has on society.

Until UNSW pulls its funding from Santos, and other coal, oil and gas businesses, the thousands of students, staff and alumni behind the Fossil Free UNSW movement will continue to campaign for necessary climate leadership and fossil fuel divesFossil Free UNSW movement will continue to campaign for necessary climate leadership and fossil fuel divesfossil fuel divestment.

Banks and financial institutions, in particular, have become targets in these divestment campaigns because they are a substantial source of funding for fossil fuel projects such as the Dakota Access Pipeline.