Sentences with phrase «fuel divestment campaign say»
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.
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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.»
«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.
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.
We need a consumer boycott on fossil fuels says Dale Vince, founder of green electricity company Ecotricity, because the divestment campaign on its own isn't enough to end the demand for fossil fuels.