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Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies Now and Bring In Carbon Tax, Says World Bank Chief
Jim Yong Kim predicts that putting taxes on the use of carbon would trigger a wave of clean technology to lift people out of poverty in the developing world while preventing global temperatures from rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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Guardian Media Divests £800 Million from Fossil Fuels; Syracuse U. Dumps $1.18 Billion
The Guardian Media Group became the largest fund yet known to pull out of coal, oil and gas companies, while Syracuse University announced it too was divesting its billion dollar portfolio of fossil fuels.
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Gates Foundation Faces Pressure To Divest $1.4 Billion In Fossil Fuels
The Guardian's "Keep It In the Ground" campaign, which launched last week and already has 136,000 supporters, is asking the world's largest charity to dump its investments in firms "dedicated to finding and burning more oil, gas and coal."
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California Calls On Pension Funds Worth $500 Billion to Divest From Coal In Climate Push
“With coal power in retreat, and the value of coal dropping, we should be moving our massive state portfolios to lower carbon investments and focus on the growing clean-energy economy,” said California senate leader Kevin de Leon.
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How the Oil-Price Plunge Is Helping Fuel the Divestment Movement
The recent dive in oil prices gives new ammunition to the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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Climate Change Economics and the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
As of September 19, 181 institutions and local governments and 656 individuals representing over $50 billion in assets have pledged to divest from fossil fuels.
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State of the Climate Movement: Rowdy and Getting Rowdier
Marches around the country last week showed diversity among a new and growing cohort of activists taking climate justice to new levels of resistance.
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Beyond Divestment: Declaring Eminent Domain To Keep Fuels In the Ground
How are we going to realistically induce resource owners to leave these reserves untapped? It’s not a question enough people are asking.
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11 U.S. Cities Push to Dump Fossil Fuel Investments
Mayors and city councils in nearly a dozen cities announced their interest in withdrawing municipal investments from fossil fuel companies.
