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title: "Beyond Norway: The Faces Behind the Investments"
date: 2015-05-27T15:58:12Z
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Today in Oslo – 44,000 petition signatures were delivered urging Norwegian politicians to [divest their Global Pension Fund from fossil fuels](https://gofossilfree.org/norway/), starting with companies mining and burning coal. Coal investments make up only 1.2% of the fund’s US$867bn investment portfolio, yet this is enough to make the fund one of the ten largest coal investors in the world.

[![10841877_10153300892312708_8248759881830957119_o](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/10841877_10153300892312708_8248759881830957119_o.jpg)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/10841877_10153300892312708_8248759881830957119_o.jpg)**This is about more than Norway though.** This is about all the communities impacted by coal. The fund’s investments are not just numbers on a spreadsheet. Today during the petition delivery, messages from people around the world were projected onto screens.

Hopefully Norway will listen and choose a renewable future — for everyone.

**UPDATE:** Just hours after a coalition of groups delivered the signatures and a worldwide Twitterstorm to #DivestNorway, the Norwegian parliament issued a unanimous recommendation to divest its country’s sovereign wealth fund from the coal industry. [>>](https://gofossilfree.org/norway-will-make-coal-history/)

\[[View the story “Divest Norway Stories” on Storify](//storify.com/350dotorg/divest-norway-stories)\]