Category:Divestment from Fossil Fuels

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Sept 21, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/heirs-to-an-oil-fortune-join-the-divestment-drive.html

John D. Rockefeller built a vast fortune on oil. Now his heirs are abandoning fossil fuels.

The family whose legendary wealth flowed from Standard Oil is planning to announce on Monday that its $860 million philanthropic organization, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is joining the divestment movement that began a couple years ago on college campuses.

The announcement, timed to precede Tuesday’s opening of the United Nations climate change summit meeting in New York City, is part of a broader and accelerating initiative. Continue reading the main story

In recent years, 180 institutions — including philanthropies, religious organizations, pension funds and local governments — as well as hundreds of wealthy individual investors have pledged to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to invest in cleaner alternatives. In all, the groups have pledged to divest assets worth more than $50 billion from portfolios, and the individuals more than $1 billion, according to Arabella Advisors, a firm that consults with philanthropists and investors to use their resources to achieve social goals.

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http://gofossilfree.org/what-is-fossil-fuel-divestment/

http://350.org/category/topic/divestment/

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/does-divestment-work

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2015/08/25/harvard-fossil-fuel-divestment/

Harvard, Ye Hypocrites On the global issue that matters most, Harvard University is losing credibility—not to mention money.

-- By Bill McKibben

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/fossil-fuel-divestment

http://www.thenation.com/article/time-big-green-go-fossil-free/

http://www.studentsdivest.org/

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