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Petro-State Norway Signals Oil Game Is Up
Europe's largest oil producer is effectively admitting the oil game is over and promises to divest from the industry – but it wants to play to the final whistle. Can it have it both ways?
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Why Are More Cities Divesting From Big Oil? It’s Moral—and Practical
Direct divestment programs and lawsuits are products of people power – activists organizing in coalitions of aligned interest groups and working with like-minded elected officials – and they are not the only tools available to us.
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Rockefeller Family Charity To Withdraw All Investments In Fossil Fuel Companies
A fund of the multi-billion dollar Rockefeller family said it would divest from all fossil fuel holdings “as quickly as possible" – singling out ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, which it called “morally reprehensible.”
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Hundreds of Professors At University of Chicago Push For Fossil Fuel Divestment
In a symbolic show of solidarity with student activists, professors urged the elite private university to purge its $7.6 billion endowment of coal, oil and gas companies, citing the “universal and existential” threat posed by climate change.
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Copenhagen Announces Plan To Divest $1 Billion From Fossil Fuels
If the mayor's proposal is approved at a finance committee meeting Tuesday, the Danish capital will become the country’s first investment fund to sell its stocks and bonds in fossil fuels.
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Climate Movement: 500 Institutions Have Pledged $3.4 Trillion in Carbon Divestments
The list of institutions committed to ridding their portfolios of fossil fuel interests has surged in recent months, organizers said at the Paris climate summit.
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Act Out! [32] - The Sound of Science, Divest for Our future, Trade 4 People & Scream at Me
This week, it's about time we hear about climate change – but really hear it.
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Climate Movement Momentum: Carbon Divestments Top $2.6 Trillion As Hillary Rejects Keystone XL
A new report shows the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown 50-fold in one year, with more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals pledging to dump carbon stocks – news that complemented Clinton's promise to oppose the tar sands pipeline.
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University of California Divests $200 Million From Coal and Tar Sands
The UC system has sold off its endowment and pension fund holdings in coal and oil sands companies, a $200-million move that officials said Wednesday was in response to both environmental concerns and rising financial risk in those industries.
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Norway's $900 Billion Divestment From Coal Sets New Bar for Climate Action
It is the world's largest fossil fuel divestment yet, affecting 122 companies globally and marking a new success for the fast-growing climate change campaign.
