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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.

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.»

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Building on these efforts and achievements of various anti-coal campaigning initiatives, there is a strong need to take the struggle to a higher level with a clear call and direction in dismantling the power of the fossil fuel industry through divestment.

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 campaigin 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 campaigIn 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.

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».

Gain a better understanding of the possibilities and limits in fossil fuel divestment and litigation campaigns;

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.

Vince, who has received an OBE for his services to the environment, adds that in addition to the divestment campaign and a consumer boycott we must eliminate government fossil fuel subsidies.

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

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.