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New study suggests fossil fuel demand is beginning a nosedive
2015-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Successful companies make and sell products that consumers demand, and fossil energy companies have long said demand for their products -- particularly from emerging markets -- will be strong decades from now. A group of U.K. researchers trying to debunk that notion issued its latest salvo last night. In a point-by-point analysis of population, economic, labor, energy and development trends, the authors of a report from Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London think tank that studies climate change...
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Bill Gates calls fossil fuel divestment 'false solution'
2015-10-14 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bill Gates has branded fossil fuel divestment a false solution and accused environmentalists of making misleading claims about the price of solar power. In an interview with US magazine the Atlantic, the founder of Microsoft and the Gates foundation criticised the global movement that has seen pension funds, universities, churches and local governments commit to pulling $2.6tn out of coal, oil and gas companies. If you think divestment alone is a solution, I worry youre taking whatever...
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Harvard Students Appeal Fossil Fuel Divestment Case
2015-10-08 20:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Students continued their legal fight to compel Harvard University to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies this week, filing an appeals brief for their landmark lawsuit in the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Their latest effort has garnered high-profile support in the form of amicus briefs from prominent climate scientist James Hansen and from the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF). The students also have support from the City of Cambridge, where Harvard is located. We're back in court, filing...
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Fossil Fuel Export Policy Development Process
2015-09-25 21:27:31| PortlandOnline
New Advisory Committee to provide information and perspectives on fossil fuel exports through Portland
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Fossil fuel divestment movement has grown to $2.6 trillion in assets
2015-09-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The fossil fuel divestment movement skyrocketed in the past year as hundreds of institutions and thousands of individuals committed to selling their oil, natural gas and coal holdings, according to a new report. So far, 436 institutions and 2,040 individuals representing $2.6 trillion in assets have agreed to sell their fossil fuel investments, according to a review by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based consultant that works with philanthropies. It represents a 50-fold increase from a year...
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