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Bringing Age of Fossil Fuels to an End
2015-05-15 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dissident Voice: Unprecedented assembles evidence that carbon emissions from fossil fuels are pushing humankind to unprecedented crises. Weather events are becoming more severe. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, storms are more frequent. Ice caps and glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Oceans are becoming more acidic. A professor emeritus of philosophy and religion, David Ray Griffin discusses in his book, Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the Co2 Crisis? (Clarity Press, 2015), human-caused climate...
United Kingdom: Why Univ of Edinburgh will not divest from all fossil fuels
2015-05-12 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: How universities invest their endowment funds is not normally headline news. But universities have found themselves in an unaccustomed spotlight over the last few months as student campaigners have called on them to withdraw their investments from companies involved in the extraction of fossil fuels. That spotlight can feel harsh when media debate takes an easy, black and white line: are they divesting, or are they not? When we looked at this over the last few months at the University of Edinburgh...
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United Kingdom: Edinburgh University refuses to divest from fossil fuels
2015-05-12 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Student campaigners at Edinburgh University have accused staff of being in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry after the University Court refused to divest from fossil fuels, despite recommendations to pull the plug on investments in coal and tar sands. The university court, the highest decision making body in the university, was criticised on Tuesday by students, who say that it has ignored calls from students, staff and alumni to divest from fossil fuel companies. Students also accused...
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How to get your pension fund to divest from fossil fuels
2015-05-09 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As part of the Guardians Keep it in the ground campaign, which is urging the worlds largest charitable foundations to move their money out of fossil fuels, we look at personal divestment and how you can encourage your pension scheme to shift its portfolio or offer divestment options. What you need to know 1. Can I make my pension scheme entirely divest from fossil fuels? There are no legal barriers to a pension fund selling out of fossil fuel investments. The fidicuiary duty of trustees...
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UPS enters agreement with Clean Energy Fuels for renewable natural gas (biomethane) in the US
2015-05-05 17:55:41| Green Car Congress
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