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First Nations women have met with European banks to push for fossil fuel divestment as the United Nations releases a model for banks to account for climate change.

Representing more than 121,000 active members and 50,000 retirees, DC 37 considers environmental justice a union issue, and today's forum approached fossil fuel divestment as a strategy to achieve climate justice.

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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.

Alongside such approaches as faith - based investing or fossil - fuel divestment, gender diversity investing has emerged as another option for investors.

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.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

This comes as a report reveals the global fossil fuel divestment movement has doubled in size in the last year.

The bill contains a «safety valve,» similar to successful divestment bills passed in other states, that would permit the Comptroller to cease divestment if he can convincingly demonstrate that the fund has lost significant value as a direct result of fossil fuel divestment.

Panels focused on current efforts to tackle climate change, ranging from local environmental initiatives to the global Paris climate agreement, as well as how divestment from fossil fuels can be a tool for climate justice and curbing the impacts of climate change.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

We do not expect divestment to have a financial impact on fossil fuel companies, as President Faust implied.

As the fossil fuel divestment movement grows increasingly mainstream — even BlackRock recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to launch an «equity global index series that will exclude companies linked to exploration, ownership or extraction of carbon - based fossil fuel reserves» — the smart long - term investment money would seem to be on divestment.

Fossil Free Southwark's first members met one another in February 2015 underneath the letter «N» whilst spelling out the words «Divest London» in front of Tower Bridge as part of a Global Divestment Day event calling on City Hall to take its money out of fossil fuels.

As Matthew Yglesias articulated last year in a thoughtful piece on Slate, divestment by socially responsible investors, universities and even governments won't starve capital flows to fossil fuel corporations anytime soon.

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.

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.

I expect those who advocate divestment themselves continue to use fossil fuels as their main sources of energy in their day - to - day lives — automobiles, trains, planes, electricity, petrochemicals, thermoplastics, modern pharmaceuticals... and the list goes on.

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.

In this case, MIT's approach to the fossil fuel divestment question offers several valuable lessons for other research universities as they weigh similar choices.

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 terAs 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 teras a result of climate change, and that fossil fuel divestment will help to sustain the production of its ice creams in the long term.

As conservatives, we must hope that Bill McKibben's master plan for obliterating the U.S. fossil fuel industry via protests, divestment, and phony lawsuits falls flat.

Religious leaders called on faith communities to take concrete action against the fossil fuel industry through divestment, as a way to «put the money where our mouth is.»

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

Environmental activists such as Greenpeace and 350.org founder Bill McKibben have long advocated for the divestment of fossil fuels as a way to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

A passion for empowering people to effectively campaign on climate change issues such as fossil fuel divestment

(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.

Last September, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced its pledge to divest its fossil fuel holdings as part of a larger divestment movement that aims to deprive the industry of up to $ 50 billion (U.S.).

The fossil fuel divestment movement recognizes that as well, and argues that by taking money away from polluting industries and redirecting it toward renewables, then businesses, universities and non-profits can help jump - start the energy revolution.

As was reported by Karl Mathiesen in The Guardian, 2014/07/30, «dozens of cities, institutions and investors are taking their money out of fossil fuel companies after the launch of the divestment campaign in the US around 18 months ago.»

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.

McKibben is considered the father of the «divestment» movement — defined as applying pressure on universities and corporations to end all investments in fossil fuel companies or other industries that contribute significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Top Catholic institutions worth billions divest from fossil fuels as part of the continuing momentum for the global divestment movement

By the sounds of things, they have some significant support as Steve Grossman, MA state treasurer and chair of the PRIM board, recently announced his support for fossil fuel divestment.

The article is published as part of the newspaper's Keep it in the Ground campaign against fossil fuel companies, encouraging big capital investors to move their interests out of brown energy — «divestment».

3) The divestment movement has always been as much about symbolism as it has finances — by tarnishing the image of fossil fuels, we undermine their moral license to operate.

But with mainstream banks questioning the competitiveness of fossil fuels, and with the Governor of the Bank of England describing most fossil fuels as unburnable, divestment (or at least diversification into clean energy investment) is looking less - and-less like gesture politics, and more like a sound plan to protect ourselves from future shocks.

As The Guardian notes, research suggests fossil fuel divestment has grown more rapidly than both the tobacco and apartheid divestment movements that are — to some degree — providing a model for campaigners.

That would also include institutional initiatives such as carbon taxes or permitting plans, policies of divestment from fossil fuel investments, direct political pressure, and the ending of fossil fuel subsidies around the world.

The motion was brought by members of the BMA's Retired Members Forum as well as several local committees and follows an editorial published in the British Medical Journal in March that called for divestment from fossil fuels because of the «scale and immediacy of the threat to human survival, health and wellbeing» posed by unmitigated climate change.