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Australia: Environmental activist campaigns against fossil fuel industry
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY JONES, PRESENTER: On the eve of his Australian tour, the renowned US environmentalist Bill McKibben is urging Australians to do the math. That's the catchphrase of his US roadshow and media campaign highlighting what he describes as the terrifying consequences of CO2 emissions. Mr McKibben puts a figure on how much more CO2 can go into the atmosphere to avoid catastrophic climate change. It's one-fifth of the remaining fossil fuel reserves in the world. But how can Australians do the math when...
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Fossil fuel divestment campaign's victory in Australia will be a moral one
2013-05-21 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben is in Australia in June on his epic Do The Math tour, which aims to highlight the danger of fossil fuel company oil and coal reserves and encourage divestment. The tour was kick started by McKibben's Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, which argued that in order to stay below the 2C warming limit, the global economy has a budget of less than 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies have reserves...
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Can Fossil Fuel Divestment Prevent The Carbon Bubble From Bursting?
2013-04-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: Could the same movement that brought down Apartheid be the key tactic in convincing America to go fossil fuel free and preventing a new financial crisis? If you ask activists at the more than 400 colleges, cities and states, and religious institutions who have answered 350.orgs call to push for fossil fuel divestment, the answer is a resounding yes and San Francisco just gave the campaign its biggest win to date. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution...
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San Francisco Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Takes Its First Steps Against Big Oil
2013-04-25 19:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday urging managers of the city's public employee retirement system to withdraw the approximately $580 million they have invested in major fossil fuel producers. "The Retirement Board can divest responsibly without affecting the fund's security or yield," Supervisor John Avalos told the San Francisco Chronicle. "This is a great time to make a statement about how we can hold the fossil fuels companies accountable." While...
IMF Rejects Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Calls for Reform
2013-04-22 03:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Fossil fuel subsidies provided by both rich and poor countries to keep their citizens happy are holding back the world economy, accelerating climate change and damaging the health of current and future generations, according to the International Monetary Fund. The worst offender of all is the United States, which allows annual subsidies of $502 billion on fossil fuels. China with $279 billion and Russia at $116 billion are the two next largest offenders. The IMF researched 176 countries to...
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