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Harvard feels the heat on fossil-fuel divestment
2015-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
In These Times: Divestment goes beyond simply sounding the alarm about climate change to naming a culprit: the fossil fuel industry. The goal is not to hurt companies bottom lines--which a loss of shareholders wont readily accomplish--but to shift popular opinion against the fossil fuel industry and, ultimately, remove its social license to operate. "Push back. Use social media, use the Internet.' That was the advice on climate change that former Vice President Al Gore gave to a packed auditorium at South...
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Auriga expects to close the divestment of Cheminova A/S in mid-April
2015-04-02 12:38:53| Chemicals - Topix.net
Monday, September 8, 2014, Auriga Industries A/S entered into a conditional share purchase agreement with FMC Corporation regarding the sale of Cheminova A/S, CVR no. 12 76 00 43 , a wholly owned subsidiary of Auriga.
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Fighting fossil fuels: divestment movement continues to grow
2015-03-27 01:00:00| Power Technology
In 2012, a new campaign was formed in the US to spearhead the movement to divest in fossil fuels. Fossil Free, a project of 350.org, has since grown exponentially, claiming last year that organisations - ranging from healthcare, religious groups, uni
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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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