Not exact matches
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.
For example, in 2010 it was predicted that cleaner air from an emissions reduction
target of 30 per cent by 2020 in the European Union would deliver
savings worth 80 billion euros a year due to reductions in the incidence of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases (associated with air pollution from burning fossil
fuels).»
A study prepared
for the European Commission reports that achieving this
target would cost less than 600 EUR per car, but
savings from reduced
fuel consumption would be twice as high over the lifetime of the car.