Tag: divestment
Student demands for divestment are not new
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and genocide. Today’s campus protests against Israel are building on that movement.
Public pension funds have lost billions on their fossil fuel investments:...
“[Fossil fuel] divestments are able to create a win-win situation with higher financial returns and lower carbon footprints.”
How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel...
The activists represented a broad coalition of grassroots organizations that had come to Malvern to stage an intervention over Vanguard’s $300 billion investments in fossil fuels.
The divestment movement’s big month
The pressure and devolving social license have even started to influence business leaders’ decisions.
University of Cambridge announces divestment from fossil fuels after five-year student,...
The University of Cambridge announced it will "remove all direct and indirect investments in the fossil fuel industry from its £3.5 billion endowment fund by 2030."
What Norway’s big divestment decision means for fracking, tar sands and...
It appears it’s just cutting its losses on money-losing endeavors like fracking in America, tar sands oil production in Canada, and frontier exploration by U.K. companies in Africa and South-East Asia.
Indigenous women’s delegation takes fossil fuel divestment demands to New York...
The call from the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation is for rights and environmental violations to be more thoroughly reflected in the rating scores given to fossil fuel extraction companies.
Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of...
Divestment debates are forcing colleges and universities to reconsider how to contribute to a more resilient and sustainable future.
Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end...
While Ireland is making history, many emphasized the need for the rest of the world to follow the Irish's lead.
As new pipelines get built, more people are standing in the...
Despite the overwhelming evidence that pipelines are unreliable and prone to leaks, energy companies continue to treat their bottom line as the only factor when making decisions.
POPULAR
Texas zoo makes history with repeated breeding success of critically endangered gharial crocodile
The Forth Worth Zoo is the only institution in North America to have breeding success of this critically endangered species.
‘The first live-streamed genocide’: Al Jazeera exposes war crimes filmed by Israeli troops themselves
We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speak to two of the journalists involved in its production, director Richard Sanders and Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed.
10 worst things about the Trump presidency
We cannot afford to forget just how terrible Trump’s time in the White House was for this nation.
Earth on the brink: 25 of 35 vital signs reach record extremes, scientists warn...
These findings emphasize the severity of the climate crisis and outline a global emergency that requires immediate action to avert catastrophic consequences.
Whitehouse report reveals Trump White House manipulated FBI Kavanaugh investigation, ignored 4,500 tips
According to the report, the FBI was directed by the White House to conduct only a small number of interviews, focusing on a limited group of witnesses.