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$3.4 Trillion: Fossil Fuel Divestment Commitments Break New Record
2015-12-02 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The fossil fuel divestment campaign has broken a new record at COP21: More than 500 institutions representing more than $3.4 trillion in assets have made some form of divestment commitment according to 350.org and Divest Invest, two organizations coordinating the growing movement. The new numbers are another impressive leap for the divestment effort, although campaigners are quick to point out that some of the commitments are only partial divestments and the $3.4 trillion represents the total...
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How the US started to break its fossil fuel addiction 12 steps in 50 years
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 1965: The White House first acknowledges the risks of climate change, just a few weeks after Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes president. This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, Johnson tells Congress on 8 February 1965. That November, he tells Congress the burning of coal, oil and gas is adding 6bn tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. Global...
Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies will reduce carbon emissions by 12%
2015-11-20 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Sandrine Dixson-Declve, the director of the Cambridge Universitys Institute for Sustainability Leadership says that Europe needs to eliminate fossul fuel subsidies and create an energy system based around renewables or will face becoming increasingly uncompetitive. Speaking in Paris yesterday at the European Wind Energy Conference where Ecotricitys launched their groundbreaking new windmill, the Britwind H15, Dixson-Declve warned that fossil fuel subsidies are harming the poor and are based...
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Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr. Mock Fossil Fuel Industry in Funny or Die Video
2015-11-20 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The League of Conservation Voters and comedy video website Funny or Die have teamed up to produce a video with the help of two huge stars, Ed Begley Jr. and Jeff Goldblum. The video mocks the fossil fuel industry`s opposition to President Obamas Clean Power Plan. The hilarious segment is set in a boardroom with nine utility executives, who are furious that they have to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) new carbon rule for power plants. People are convinced our coal-fired...
How will fossil fuel stance affect city?
2015-11-19 17:49:32| PortlandOnline
Editorial Board in the Portland Tribune, November 19, 2015
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