Thousands came together for Global Divestment Mobilization to call on institutions and individuals to do what is necessary for climate action
by divesting from fossil fuels.
«This proposal lays out a roadmap for New York's $ 200 billion Common Fund to take responsible steps to
divest from its fossil fuel holdings, leading to a more secure retirement fund for countless New Yorkers while also helping to achieve the state's clean energy goals.»
Seven schools committed to
divest from fossil fuels over the last year, but this fall semester, a number of colleges across the country, such as Vassar, Pomona, and Middlebury, have been rejecting student requests to dump their fossil fuel stocks.
Koenig added that Yasuni's possible revival dovetails with the emerging #keepitintheground movement that is pushing nations to leave fossil fuels buried and urging institutions and foundations to
divest from fossil fuels because of the harm they cause the planet.
Fossil fuel divestment - Calling on New York State Common Retirement Fund to cease all new investment in entities with significant fossil fuel - related activities and develop a decarbonization plan
for divesting from fossil fuels.
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Divesting from fossil fuels helps protect investors from trillions in financial risk from the «carbon bubble» and directs new funding to clean energy generation.
Many philanthropic organisations have
already divested from fossil fuels, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund whose wealth derives from Standard Oil, which went on to become ExxonMobil.
But Leonardo DiCaprio is arguably the celebrity doing the most in the climate movement: he's created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, joined the People's Climate March, spoken at the United Nations (as a UN messenger of peace), and has pledged to
completely divest from fossil fuels — just to name a few activities.
Not content with granting the rights of personhood to rivers, or having its
cities divest from fossil fuels, New Zealand is building on its already impressive green energy record by breaking up with coal power once and for all.
Cambridge, MA — In a letter released today, Harvard President Drew Faust announced that the school's governing board, the Harvard Corporation, wo
n't divest from fossil fuels.
«For us, the science is really clear; we need to keep 80 percent of the world's gas, oil and coal reserves within the ground if we are going to have any chance of keeping the rise in climate to within 2degC, so we
think divesting from fossil fuels is very much a pertinent issue of the age, and we need to start acting now.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has come under significant pressure from environmental campaigners to
divest from fossil fuels in recent years.
BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to
divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.
In his Wired interview, the Revenant star urged technology players in Silicon Valley to join in the Divest - Invest movement, where individuals pledge to
divest from fossil fuel holdings and invest in renewable energy technology.
A week later at the powerful Pathway to Paris event at New York's Carnegie Hall, as Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Talib Kweli and Michael Stipe bore witness, Bill McKibben, spoke about the urgent need for New York to lead and to do so
by divesting from fossil fuels.
Elected officials from across the state are strengthening their calls for the state pension system to
divest from fossil fuels.