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Search Results for: divestment

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Jun 23, 2016
Comment

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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May 12, 2016
Finance

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
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Feb 24, 2016
Energy

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
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Dec 30, 2015
Energy

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.
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Sep 22, 2015
Energy

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
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Aug 14, 2015
Finance

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
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Jul 6, 2015
Finance

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”
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Jun 1, 2015
Finance

Fossil fuel companies “underestimating” divestment movement

NEWS: Top polluters are failing to appreciate scale of “rapid” campaigns around world and size of investors involved
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May 18, 2015
Finance

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
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Apr 30, 2015
Finance

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
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Apr 20, 2015
Energy

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
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Mar 20, 2015
Finance

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
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Mar 16, 2015
Finance

Oxford University delays fossil fuel divestment decision

NEWS: Campaigners disappointed as University Council puts off decision on future of £3.8bn endowment until May
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Mar 16, 2015
Finance

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
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Feb 16, 2015
Finance

Global Divestment Day – in pictures

BLOG: From Berlin to Mumbai to the Marshall Islands, photographers captured the weird and wonderful divestment day protests
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Feb 13, 2015
Comment

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
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Feb 13, 2015
Finance

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?
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Jan 20, 2015
Energy

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
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Jan 12, 2015
Finance

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
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Nov 28, 2014
Finance

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
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Oct 22, 2014
Finance

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
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Oct 14, 2014
Energy

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
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May 14, 2014
Finance

Divestment campaign spreads to New Zealand

NEWS: Dunedin becomes first city in New Zealand to stop investing in fossil fuels
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May 7, 2014
Comment

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
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