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Republicans use Putin as an excuse to push fossil-fuel projects
2014-03-06 07:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The hallmark of a Republican policy proposal is that it can be adapted to virtually any circumstance. Just as George W. Bush advanced tax cuts as the appropriate response to both budget surplus and deficit, congressional Republicans believe that fossil fuel promotion is the appropriate response to, well, everything. And so they have looked at the vexing problem of Russias invasion of Ukraines Crimea region and come up with a carefully calibrated answer: Drill, baby, drill! First, Sen. Lisa...
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U.N. climate chief calls for fossil-fuel divestment
2014-01-17 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Take your money out of dirty energy and put it into clean energy. No, that`s not 350.org talking (not this time, at least) - that`s from Christiana Figueres, chief of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. On Wednesday, Figueres called on big firms that manage trillions of dollars of investments to dump fossil fuel stocks in favor of greener alternatives, arguing that such a shift would help the firms clients as well as the climate. The pensions, life insurances and nest eggs of...
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Santa Clara Valley Water District votes to divest from fossil-fuel companies
2013-08-30 01:23:03| Energy - Topix.net
Joining a movement based on the 1980s push to divest from South African companies in a protest against apartheid, the Santa Clara Valley Water District board has decided to pull investments out of companies believed to contribute to global warming.
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Santa Clara Valley Water District votes to divest from fossil-fuel companies
2013-08-29 08:23:13| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Joining a movement based on the 1980s push to divest from South African companies in a protest against apartheid, the Santa Clara Valley Water District board has decided to pull investments out of companies believed to contribute to global warming.
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World Banks Kim Urged to Stop Financing Fossil-Fuel Projects
2013-04-03 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who yesterday vowed to boost the lenders contribution to easing the effects of climate change, was urged by non-profit organizations to stop financing fossil-fuel projects. In a letter sent to Kim today, a group of more than 50 organizations, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, welcomed his commitment to countering global warming and asked him to translate his pledge into action. The World Bank cannot meaningfully address climate change unless...