An international coalition of Catholic institutions have pledged to take
their money out of fossil fuels.
In particular, I want to keep
my my money out of fossil fuel companies» pockets!
(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.
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.
Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull
its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.
KEEP IT IN THE GROUND - The Guardian launched a petition urging the world's two biggest charitable funds to move
their money out of fossil fuels.
«After 4 years of students petitioning, awareness raising, protesting and negotiations, Sussex has finally pulled it's
money out of the fossil fuel industry!
Hundreds of institutions around the world are committing to move
their money out of the fossil fuel industry.
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.»
Not exact matches
Turns
out, $ 750 million worth
of State
money is going to SolarCity to build solar panels, which will presumably be in high demand as the nation transfers away from
fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources.
This move will not only cut carbon emissions, it will keep
money in the hands
of American consumers and
out of the pockets
of the dirty
fossil fuel industry.
This would encourage conservation and development
of fossil -
fuel alternatives without taking any
money out of the private economy.
A news report coming
out of the 2010 G20 Summit reported that «Every day governments give away an estimated two billion dollars
of taxpayer
money to the
fossil -
fuel industry.»
that «Human combustion
of fossil fuels is significantly causing that climate change» is also true, then many, perhaps most, people will accept that there is a need to «reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build
out clean energy» even if it will «cost consumers
money, decrease energy security and destroy jobs».
«A group
of financial experts has set
out its vision for hardwiring sustainability goals into the European Union's financial system, calling on the 28 - country bloc to stop pouring public
money into polluting
fossil fuels and focus spending on clean energies instead.
The fight over clean energy and climate policy in California is dripping with
out -
of - state oil
money because the oil billionaires want to stamp
out the progress that has been made to move toward clean energy and energy efficiency, and keep us addicted to their
fossil fuels.
You mean, like the head
of the IPCC took
money from a
fossil -
fuel corp for the sex - book launch that emboldened him to try
out his character's best lines on real - life gals?
All those who make use
of goods and services that involve the use
of fossil fuels are helping to keep the
fossil fuel companies in business Without their
money the
fossil fuel companies would go
out of business.
A lot
of smart
money has already figured
out we need to develop substitutes for
fossil fuels.
By generating our own solar energy we can keep
money, which would normally would have been sent
out of state to support large
fossil fuels companies, in the state or in our pockets.
While the institute rejects claims it is a front group, one
of its senior fellows, coal industry veteran Fred Palmer, told DeSmog in February 2017 that he was «reaching
out to the
fossil fuel community right now and raising
money for Heartland.»
Facebook: Homegrown clean energy projects mean more jobs & revenues stay in North Carolina — and less
money flows to
out -
of - state
fossil fuel companies
Webb wrote to Davey a few days later: «[Newspaper] articles reported you backing moves that would encourage investors to think about moving their
money out of «risky»
fossil fuel assets, suggesting global emissions limits could make hydrocarbon reserves unburnable, therefore stranding assets and rendering them worthless.»