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Students Occupy Swarthmore College Demanding Fossil Fuel Divestment
2015-03-19 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Early this morning, Swarthmore Mountain Justice launched a sit-in for fossil fuel divestment at Swarthmore College. Students at this Quaker college in Pennsylvania helped launch the campus divestment movement, which is now active at hundreds of universities across North America, Europe and Australia. The 37 students and six alumni are asking the Swarthmore Board Investment Committee chair Chris Niemczewski and board chair Gil Kemp to return to the negotiating table and agree to end the colleges...
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Students occupy Swarthmore college fossil fuel divestment protest
2015-03-19 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Student activists have occupied a historic hall at Swarthmore College, the alma mater of the United Nations climate chief, demanding the university cut its ties to fossil fuels. The sit-in at the liberal arts college in Pennsylvania launches a new wave of protests by campus divestment campaigners across the US that will culminate in an old-style teach-in at Harvard on 13 April. Some 37 students and six alumni entered the finance and investment office of the university at about 9am on Thursday....
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Climate change: UN backs fossil fuel divestment campaign
2015-03-15 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UN organisation in charge of global climate change negotiations is backing the fast-growing campaign persuading investors to sell off their fossil fuel assets. It said it was lending its moral authority to the divestment campaign because it shared the ambition to get a strong deal to tackle global warming at a crunch UN summit in Paris in December. We support divestment as it sends a signal to companies, especially coal companies, that the age of burn what you like, when you like cannot...
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Fossil fuel industry caught taking a page out of the tobacco playbook
2015-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last week, Willie Soon was caught failing to disclose conflicts of interest in his climate research and congressional testimony after having received over $1.2 million in funding from fossil fuel companies. This revelation raised alarms in Congress, with Rep. Grijalva sending letters to the universities of seven other scientists who have provided climate-related testimony, and Senators Markey, Boxer, and Whitehouse sending inquiries to 100 fossil fuel companies, trade groups, and NGOs. Senator Markey...
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Harvard faces court over fossil fuel divestment
2015-02-20 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Harvard, the worlds richest university, is set to appear in court over calls to divest from fossil fuels, Harvard is asking the court to dismiss the case against it. A group of students filed a lawsuit against Harvard for mismanagement of charitable funds. The suit, filed by seven students, argues that fossil fuel investments are damaging to the universitys reputation and its students future prospects. The group also accuses Harvard of putting profit ahead of the threats that climate change...
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