Sentences with phrase «over fossil fuel divestment»

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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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer say the divestment of roughly $ 5 billion in fossil fuel investments out of a total of $ 189 billion over five NYC pension funds is the largest of any municipality in the United States to date.

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.

In the case of fossil fuels, the carbon bubble effect due to stranded assets has motivated some divestment activity, in addition to the ethical / survival concerns over increasingly serious climate impacts due to fossil fuels consumption.

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.

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.

We've crossed this epic milestone just weeks ahead of the Global Divestment Mobilisation, when people all over the world will be taking action to highlight the moral urgency of cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry and pushing their institutions to divest.

Just this May during 350.org's Global Divestment Mobilization, thousands of people attended over 260 events in 45 countries on 6 continents to put pressure on institutions to break their financial ties with fossil fuel companies.

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.

Founded in 2011 across just half a dozen US college campuses, the fossil fuel divestment movement has gained remarkable traction over a relatively short period of time.

Over our years working on climate change, we've seen youth on Parliament Hill, in the streets of cities across Canada, in the halls of United Nations climate talks, and on campuses across this country organizing for fossil fuel divestment.

So news, reported over at Business Green, that Norway's government is reviewing a fossil fuel divestment plan is an extremely big deal indeed.

Faust argued that divestment from fossil fuels would hurt the bottom line for Harvard's endowment, but an Associated Press analysis showed that fossil fuel free endowments would have a better rate of return over the past decade.

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.