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The fossil fuel divestment campaign has broken a new record at COP21: more than 500 institutions representing over $3.4 trillion in assets have made some form of divestment commitment...Lees verder
17 november 2015 – Fossiele beleggingen zijn niet alleen ongewenst omdat ze de verduurzaming van de energievoorziening dwarszitten, het blijken financieel ook nog eens slecht te scoren. Zo zou het ABP maar liefst 9 miljard...Lees verder
Leading economists Thomas Piketty and Tim Jackson released a letter today in the French newspaper Le Monde and The Guardian, calling on investors to divest from fossil fuels and on national governments to end fossil...Lees verder
The City of Münster has become the first German city to ban investments in coal, oil and gas companies in response to the mounting threat of climate change
Münster’s new ethical investment policy [1] requires its...Lees verder
16 oktober 2015 – Bill Gates, de oprichter van Microsoft, haalt hard uit naar de organisaties die pleiten voor het terugtrekken van investeringen in fossiele brandstoffen. ‘Dat zal echt niet leiden tot minder CO2-uitstoot’.
Het Amerikaanse...Lees verder
Yielding to pressure from campaigners across the state who spent years pushing the University of California to divest its holdings from fossil fuels, the University system’s Chief Investment Officer announced yesterday that the $91 billion...Lees verder