How You Can Support the #NoDAPL Fight No Matter Where You Are
This blog was written by Becca Krasky. Becca is from Minneapolis, MN and organizes for fossil fuel divestment at Macalester College. I don’t have words powerful enough to describe my experience at the Red Warrior Camp on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. I care deeply about this fight so I’m going attempt... (More...)
September 12, 2016
5 Ways to Take Your Campus Divestment Campaign to the Next Level
By Katie McChesney Last spring, we watched as fossil fuel divestment organizers across the country took unwavering action catapulting the movement to new heights. Four years ago, as the movement was first picking up steam, student campaigners were faced with their first experience of rejection from college and university administrations. Decision makers from Middlebury to... (More...)
September 9, 2016
Of one mind and vision
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela. The following months after the signing of the Paris Agreement has been a challenging time for the East Asia region The fossil fuel industry is still active with a host of projects on the ground and are still bent on expanding dirty energy development... (More...)
September 9, 2016
Keep it in the ground! Just how much exactly?
Pretty much every government on the planet committed in Paris last year to hold global temperature rise ‘well below 2 °C’, aiming for 1.5 °C. We already know that there is a massive gap between these goals and governments’ actual plans for action. But what would need to happen to meet these goals and avoid... (More...)
August 23, 2016
Fellowship Stories: Building Resilient Communities In Fairbanks, AK
As a part of the 350.org Fossil Free Fellowship, divestment leaders Kengo Nagaoka and Tristan Glowa returned home to Fairbanks, Alaska to send the summer working with the Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition. Today Alaska is in a moment of crisis. As the Arctic warms twice as fast as the rest of the world, wildfires, melting permafrost,... (More...)
August 15, 2016
The New 200
They did it again! The smart people at Fossil Free Indexes published the new 2016 Top 200 fossil fuel companies by size of reserves — click The Carbon Underground 200. This is the list used by most divestment campaigns as the point of departure for the discussion of how to define fossil fuels when considering... (More...)
August 4, 2016
Stuttgart pulls out of fossil fuels
Stuttgart, capital of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of Germany, decided today to pull its funds out of fossil fuels in response to the mounting threat of climate change. The new investment criteria will see the city drop about 75 Stoxx-Europe listed companies engaging in coal, oil and unconventional gas or fracking... (More...)
July 20, 2016
Calling on the Vatican to divest, youth are reclaiming their future
by Karina Alvarez I open this blog with a confession: for longer than I’d care to admit, I was a firm climate denier. Later, after my first environmental science class I felt the weight of the climate crisis resting heavily on my shoulders, and I was overwhelmed. I set out to make up for time... (More...)
July 19, 2016
Stranded assets risk assessment now mandatory for EU pensions
EU institutions have just reached a deal on a reform of the IORPs (Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision) Directive that affects pension funds holding assets worth EUR 3.2 trillion on behalf of around 75 million citizens of the Union. The changes include a clear requirement for EU pensions to consider climate and risks related to... (More...)
June 30, 2016
Berlin votes to divest
Berlin’s parliament has just voted to divest from oil, coal and gas companies. Today Berlin joins other European capitals like Stockholm, Paris, Copenhagen and Oslo in making a powerful, public rejection of the fossil fuel industry. The Berlin House of Representatives decided to blacklist investments in companies that are incompatible with the German capital’s goal of... (More...)
June 23, 2016
Divest for Paris
The divestment movement is challenging institutions, individuals and governments to show climate leadership and align their investments with their values by divesting from fossil fuels ahead of the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris.
Global Divestment Day
Together, we will show that we are a truly global and growing force to be reckoned with. As the fossil fuel industry throws more money at fossil fuel expansion, we will turn up the volume of our divestment movement. And we won’t stop until we win.
Join us for Global Divestment Day on February 13 and 14 and together, let’s make fossil fuels history.
Divest the Vatican
With the ear of 1.2 billion Catholics and the respect of Christians and non-Christians alike, Pope Francis is uniquely positioned to add both his voice and the unique moral power of his office to the divestment movement. The tide is turning. Now it’s time to divest the Vatican.
Société Genérale: kick your coal habit
With banks publicly stating they will reduce their investments in coal, it is now time for private banks such as Société Générale to make this pledge as well.
Ban Divestment? No way.
Coal companies in Australia are pushing the government to make our fossil fuel divestment campaign illegal. We need your help to push back!
Fossil Free
The Fossil Free campaign is building a global movement to divest from fossil fuels. If it’s wrong to wreck the climate, it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage.
