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Academics to draw up fossil fuel plan
2015-03-21 04:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate scientists at leading universities are joining forces to discuss the basis of a set of principles governing investment in fossil fuels. They include academics at Oxford, Imperial College London and Harvard. Prof Myles Allen, of Oxford University, said the move was similar to principles governing investment in South Africa under apartheid in the 1980s. "This is a challenging question being put to universities," he told BBC News. "We have the opportunity here to think about the...
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The Guardian is declaring war on fossil fuels
2015-03-20 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: After 20 years at the helm of one of the United Kingdom`s most influential newspapers, Alan Rusbridger is about to step down as editor of the Guardian. He`s not going quietly: In an op-ed a couple weeks ago, Rusbridger pledged to use his waning weeks to launch a full-out war on climate change: So, in the time left to me as editor, I thought I would try to harness the Guardian`s best resources to describe what is happening For the purposes of our coming coverage, we will assume that the scientific...
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Revealed: Gates Foundation $1.4B in Fossil Fuel Investments
2015-03-20 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The charity run by Bill and Melinda Gates, who say the threat of climate change is so serious that immediate action is needed, held at least $1.4bn (1bn) of investments in the worlds biggest fossil fuel companies, according to a Guardian analysis of the charitys most recent tax filing in 2013. The companies include BP, responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko Petroleum, which was recently forced to pay a $5bn environmental clean-up charge and Brazilian...
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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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