Time for divestment and oil subsidy campaigns to join forces?
Investors are less likely to divest if governments continue to prop up the sector with rampant subsidies, aid and investments
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Risky bet: Does divestment slow or speed green growth?
Head of France’s top public pension fund says engagement on climate change within companies can deliver results
Saudi minister warns oilmen: ignore divestment at your peril
NEWS: Fossil fuel industry must show it is ‘force for good’ says Al-Naimi in face of campaign to blacklist polluting assets
Smog, divestment, Keystone: The stories that defined 2015
IN REVIEW: No country was left untouched by the shifting climate and energy geopolitical plates in the last 12 months. Here’s our roundup.
Fossil fuel divestment accelerates as pledges pass $2 trillion
NEWS: Scale of ditched assets enters trillions of dollars, smashing expectations as private firms lead charge, study says
EU ex-climate chief Hedegaard backs fossil fuel divestment
NEWS: Shifting funds out of coal, oil and gas could make “a very important contribution” to Paris deal, says Connie Hedegaard
Divestment campaign swells as 100 trusts worth $5bn sign up
NEWS: Roddick and Sainsbury dynasty latest to make low carbon pledge, as fund managers say movement is now “mainstream”
Fossil fuel companies “underestimating” divestment movement
NEWS: Top polluters are failing to appreciate scale of “rapid” campaigns around world and size of investors involved
Activists split on Oxford University partial divestment
NEWS: Reactions to university rejection of coal and tar sands range from “great leadership” to handing back degrees in disgust
Church of England announces fossil fuel divestment plans
NEWS: Religious body to withdraw £12 million from coal and tar sands as it opts for new ‘ethical’ low-carbon policy
London academics rise in support of divestment campaign
NEWS: Staff at SOAS and UCL write to governing bodies urging them to ditch nearly £20 million in oil, gas and coal holdings
UN climate envoy backs fossil fuel divestment movement
NEWS: Mary Robinson says funds should consider the impact of their fossil fuel investments on communities vulnerable to climate change
Oxford University delays fossil fuel divestment decision
NEWS: Campaigners disappointed as University Council puts off decision on future of £3.8bn endowment until May
UN climate change body backs fossil fuel divestment campaign
GUARDIAN: Climate convention lends ‘moral authority’ to campaign to get investors to ditch fossil fuel investments
Global Divestment Day – in pictures
BLOG: From Berlin to Mumbai to the Marshall Islands, photographers captured the weird and wonderful divestment day protests
Glasgow divestment helped spawn a European climate movement
COMMENT: When Glasgow University ditched dirty energy investments, it gave the movement new momentum, says Sophie Beaumert
What has the divestment movement achieved so far?
ANALYSIS: Fossil fuel companies are feeling the pressure from a climate campaign that started in 2011. What has got them spooked?
Coal lobby plays down divestment fears
NEWS: World Coal Association admits that divestment is a concern for the industry, but says it won’t dent growth
Stanford professors call for full fossil fuel divestment
NEWS: California university was the wealthiest to cut ties with coal companies last May; 295 academics want oil and gas to go next
Harvard and UCL students ramp up divestment campaigns
NEWS: From a lawsuit in Boston to a “die-in” in London, campaigners are raising pressure on universities to drop fossil fuel ties
Divestment campaigners set their sights on UK banks
NEWS: Activists put pressure on banks to pull out of fossil fuel companies in demonstrations outside HSBC, Barclays and RBS this week
Divestment campaign signs up first Swedish city
NEWS: Örebro has committed to drop its investments in coal, oil and gas companies, in line with a goal to go fossil-free by 2050
Divestment campaign spreads to New Zealand
NEWS: Dunedin becomes first city in New Zealand to stop investing in fossil fuels
Stanford University divestment is a warning to coal industry
ANALYSIS: Stanford’s divestment from the coal industry could mark beginning of a new wave of investor action on climate change