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Yale committee fails to back fossil fuel divestment
2014-08-29 08:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Yale Corporations Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR) has not recommended that the Ivy League school divests from fossil fuels, despite pressure from students. Instead shareholder proxy voting guidelines on climate change will be adopted. A survey conducted last year found that 83% of students at Yale University would like the school to free its endowment from fossil fuel investment, with over half of the undergraduate population taking part. After the referendum was set up an...
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Barriers to Fossil Fuel Divestment at Tufts University
2014-07-10 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Cooper McKim is a rising junior at Tufts University fascinated by the dynamics of environmental work with policy, entrepreneurship and activism. McKim studies environmental policy and helps write a monthly newsletter for the environmental studies program. He has interned with Massachusetts Rivers Alliance, a New Jersey Congressman and the NPR affiliate station WSHU. In a liveleak video, an iPhone screen rises above the back of a chair showing a grainy image of a room full of prospective Tufts...
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Government Subsidizes Fossil Fuel Industry With $20+ Billion in Taxpayer Money Each Year
2014-07-09 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Oil Change International released a comprehensive report today on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S.--Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies Under Obama--which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas and coal. These federal and state subsidies totaled $21.6 billion in 2013. Subsidies that...
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Coal the fastest growing fossil fuel in 2013, says BP
2014-07-08 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Despite renewable energy experiencing incredible growth last year, many parts of the world are still hooked on cheap and polluting coal, according to oil giant BPs latest figures on energy consumption. BPs report says that energy from clean sources hydro, sun and wind power provided around 5.3% of global energy output and nearly 3% of primary energy consumption. This is thanks to the falling cost of technology and the greater levels of investment. Solar energy in particular was the fastest...
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Unitarians Go Fossil Fuel Free With Divestment Resolution
2014-06-30 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Following in the footsteps of the University of Dayton, the first Catholic school to divest from fossil fuels, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) announced Saturday its resolution to do the same. The faith-based organization of more than 1,000 congregations has about 2.9 percent of their $175 million investment dollars in fossil fuel companies under their UUA Common Endowment Fund (UUCEF), according to the Providence Journal. Saturday`s vote was overwhelmingly in favor of divestment....
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