Divestment has reached an all-time peak in 2017, with religious, higher education, wealth fund, and other institutions joining in to end the fossil fuel infrastructure and transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
Investor engagement and activity stemming from a desire to mitigate and minimize climate risk is surging, according to a recent report from Fossil Free Indexes. Published earlier this week, the third annual report from the Fossil Free Indexes, The Carbon Underground 2016, revealed that the total potential carbon dioxide emissions from the … [continued]
As if we needed any more convincing of how harmful pollution from tar sands oil production is, a new finding has indicated that the potential climate change emissions have increased by 5 times for the top 20 public companies working in that sector. Processing tar sands produces quite a bit … [continued]
The first-ever Global Divestment Day will bring the surging fossil fuel divestment movement to an international stage with action on five continents.
Late June, the Fossil Free Indexes US was launched by investing research company Fossil Free Indexes. The move come at a time when investors are not only looking to invest in clean technologies, but want to be investing in companies which are themselves not reliant upon fossil fuels. “FFIUS is … [continued]
