Divestment from fossil fuels
Moving from Fossil Fuels
Divestment movement updates:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/08/fossil-fuel-divestment-a-brief-history
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/fossil-fuel-divestment/
http://350.org/category/topic/divestment/
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/does-divestment-work
- http://justandstable.org/ Students for a Just and Stable Future
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GoFossilFree
http://gofossilfree.org/commitments/
Fossil Free has listed a growing number of institutions committing to divest from fossil fuels.
The commitments page lists a growing number of commitments from colleges and universities, cities, counties, religious institutions, and other institutions.
Visit their site and click on each name for more information -- and model language -- about the type of commitment they’re making.
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Divestment News
Highlights
October 2014
"It is, simply, a movement that is out of step with reality."
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2014/10/26/the-financial-case-for-fossil-fuel-divesting/
There’s a financial case for divesting from funds with holdings in the fossil fuel industry, according to an advisor and author on socially responsible investing, but most activists don’t make the financial case.
“They’re making a moral case, they’re making an environmental case,” Tom Nowak of Quantum Financial said at an appearance at Green Fest in Chicago Friday. “What do people respond to when it comes to money? Give me the financial case.”
The financial case, according to Nowak, derives from the increasing likelihood of a price on carbon...
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Aug 2014
- "Stranded asset" concerns
Hong Kong and London reports – Oil, gas and coal companies make up one of the world’s largest liquid asset classes, with a combined stock market valuation of nearly $5trn. In the past two years, dozens of public and private institutions have announced plans to divest their fossil fuel holdings because of environmental concerns, ethical investment strategies, or worries that assets might become “stranded” by emission regulations...
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List of Divesting Orgs
[As of November 2014]
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Colleges and Universities
College of the Atlantic
Foothill-De Anza Community College Foundation
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Green Mountain College
Hampshire College
Naropa University
Peralta Community College District
Pitzer College
Prescott College
San Francisco State University Foundation
Stanford University
Sterling College
Unity College
University of Dayton
Cities
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
Eugene, OR
Berkeley, CA
Richmond, CA
Santa Monica, CA
Boulder, CO
Santa Fe, NM
Madison, WI
Bayfield, WI
State College, PA
Ithaca, NY
Truro, MA
Provincetown, MA
Providence, RI
Cambridge, MA
Northampton, MA
Ann Arbor, MI
Boxtel, the Netherlands
New London, CT
Amherst, MA
Sudbury, MA
Concord, MA
Framingham, MA
Dunedin, New Zealand
Oakland, California
Örebro, Sweden
Oxford, United Kingdom
Eugene, OR
City of Brisbane, CA
City of Moreland, Melbourne, Australia
City of Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Ashland, OR
Counties
San Francisco, CA
Dane County, WI
Religious Institutions
United Church of Christ – National
Massachusetts United Church of Christ
Minnesota United Church of Christ
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Oregon
First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, UT
First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, MA
Portsmouth South Church Unitarian First Unitarian Church of Pittsfield, ME
First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, WI
First Presbyterian Palo Alto, CA
Uniting Church, New South Wales & ACT, Australia
Dover Friends Meeting, Dover, NH
Melbourne Unitarian Church, Australia
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst, MA
Anglican Diocese of Wellington, New Zealand
Anglican Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand
Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, New Zealand
Anglican Diocese of Waiapu, New Zealand
Anglican Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, New Zealand
Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Anglican Diocese of Perth, Australia
Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia
Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Australia
Anglican National Super, Australia
Brighthelm Church, Brighton, UK
Society for Community Work
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, MA
Maine Council of Churches, ME
Trinity St. Paul’s United Church, Toronto, Canada
Quakers in Britain
Diakonia, Sweden
Colorado Ratnashri Sangha
First Unitarian Church, Ottawa
Union Theological Seminary, New York City
First Religious Society of Newburyport, MA
Unitarian Society of Northampton & Florence, MA
Unitarian Universalist Association
Central Philadelphia Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA
Lansdowne Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA
Westtown Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA
Lehigh Valley Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA
Old Haverford Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA
Newtown Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA
Haverford Quarterly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA
Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, NY, USA
World Council of Churches
Community Friends, OH, USA
Uniting Church in Australia Assembly, Australia
Franciscan Sisters of Mary, MO, USA
Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, MA, USA
Church of Sweden
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County (UUCSC), RI, USA
First Unitarian Church of Portland, OR, USA
Mountain Vista Unitarian Universalist Congregation, AZ, USA
First Universalist Church of Pittsfield, ME, USA
Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, NM, USA Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, CA, USA
UU Fellowship of Corvallis, OR, USA
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames, IA, USA
Lake County Unitarian Universalist Church, WI, USA
First Parish (Old Ship Church), MA, USA
All Souls UU Church, MA, USA
Unity Temple UU Congregation, IL, USA
First Parish Church UU, MA, USA
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church, VA, USA
Church of England Diocese of Oxford, United Kingdom
Foundations
Divest-Invest Philanthropic Group
Sierra Club Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
Jubitz Family Foundation
The Educational Foundation of America
Park Foundation
The Russell Family Foundation
Compton Foundation
KL Felicitas Foundation
The Chorus Foundation
Singing Field Foundation
Nia Community Foundation
The John Merck Fund
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Solidago Foundation
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Granary Foundation
The Schmidt Family Foundation
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
Pax Fund
Ross Knowles Fund
Madden Sainsbury Foundation
Earth Welfare Foundation
McKinnon Family Foundation
The Hunt Foundation
Pace Foundation
Mullum Trust
NSRC Fund
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation
Other Institutions
Santa Fe Art Institute
New Progressive Alliance
Council of Canadians
Santa Clara Valley Water District
Students’ Society of McGill University (pdf)
Island Institute, Maine, US
British Medical Association
Oregon Environmental Council
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