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More Australian universities come under pressure to divest from fossil fuels
2014-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Pressure for the nation's leading universities to join the Australian National University and dump investments in fossil fuels will continue to mount despite the condemnation of such moves by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey. Faculty members and students at three other Group of Eight universities are preparing open letters to present to their institutions in coming weeks, demanding that the universities sell endowment investments in companies involved in fossil fuel extraction...
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BASF to Divest Global Textile Chemicals Business to Archroma
2014-10-16 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Exxon Blasts Movement to Divest From Fossil Fuels
2014-10-14 09:28:24| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil is wielding its public relations might against the fossil-fuel divestment movement, signaling that climate-change activists have struck a nerve at the world's biggest publicly traded oil and gas company. Exxon Mobil's blog, titled "Perspectives," posted a lengthy attack Friday about the divestment movement, which urges universities, churches, pension funds, and other big institutional investors to dump their shares of oil and coal companies as part of the fight against global warming.
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Exxon Blasts Movement to Divest From Fossil Fuels
2014-10-14 03:52:07| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil is wielding its public relations might against the fossil-fuel divestment movement, signaling that climate-change activists have struck a nerve at the world's biggest publicly traded oil and gas company. Exxon Mobil's blog, titled "Perspectives," posted a lengthy attack Friday about the divestment movement, which urges universities, churches, pension funds, and other big institutional investors to dump their shares of oil and coal companies as part of the fight against global warming.
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The University of Glasgow to divest from fossil fuel industry
2014-10-09 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Glasgow Guardian: The University of Glasgow Court has voted in favour of divesting from the fossil fuel industry, making it the first University in the UK to divest. The University plans to dispose of its investments in the fossil fuel industry within a period of ten years. The University is also expected to consider investment in renewable energy industries, although there is no commitment to invest in renewable energy. Court has also decided a biannual evaluation which will be put in place to assess the policys...
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