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IPCC report proves fossil fuel investors wrecking our future
2014-04-11 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A forthcoming UN report will say there is still time to prevent runaway climate change, but only if investment is rapidly shifted away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy, campaigners have said. Due for publication on Sunday after a week of deliberations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Working Group III report will attempt to explain how global warming can be limited to 2C from pre-industrial levels the point above which scientists fear a number of climate...
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Desmond Tutu: divest from fossil fuels firms in apartheid-style boycott
2014-04-11 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Eminent bishop and Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called on businesses to cut ties with the fossil fuels industry, in the same way as they did with South African companies during apartheid. Writing in the Guardian, Tutu said that there were many ways people can raise their voice against companies that contribute to climate change. They can boycott sports events that they sponsor, campaign to put health warnings in their advertisements and ask for universities, religious institutions...
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Harvard academics rally for ethically responsible fossil fuels divestment
2014-04-11 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Ninety-three professors from Harvard University have signed an open letter that labels its presidents attitude towards climate change as contradictory and argues that divesting from fossil fuels is an act of ethical responsibility. The letter comes after president Drew Faust announced a new climate strategy for the university and revealed that it had signed up to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project. The signatories...
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Desmond Tutu calls for a boycott of fossil fuels
2014-04-11 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Record: "People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change. We can, for instance, boycott events, sports teams and media programming sponsored by fossil-fuel energy companies. We can demand that the advertisements of energy companies carry health warnings. We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities and cultural institutions to cut their ties to the fossil-fuel industry. We can organise car-free days and build broader societal awareness....
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McKibben: Holding Fossil Fuel Stock = Betting on Global Warming
2014-04-09 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Environmental activist Bill McKibben is asking people, institutions and governments to divest holdings of fossil fuel companies in a bid to avert the worst impacts of climate change. If companies and governments produce and burn all their reserves of coal and oil, temperatures will surpass a level many scientists say will trigger catastrophic climate change, McKibben said today in at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York. Starving fossil fuel producers of capital, he said, is...
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