Listed below are all articles tagged with "divestment"

 

  • ClimateCast Logo over NY marchers

    Marchers pack NY streets; loud calls to price carbon

    Rockefeller family foundation to divest from the very fuels that built their fortune, U.S. Navy orders 100 million gallons of biofuels, novices build a wind generator from scratch, and more stories of the week in clean energy.

     

  • ClimateCast Logo over bike trailer hauling coal in Beijing

    China plans carbon market, banks tout green power

    Banks predict transformation for electric utilities, blunt warnings ahead in the IPCC report, power companies and regulators look for new pricing schemes, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.

     

  • ClimateCast Logo over boreal fires

    Australia dumps carbon tax

    Carbon pollution is once again free Down Under, Minnesota cuts coal use by more than a third, boreal fires in Canada add fuel to climate change, Appalachia looks to a future beyond coal, and more.

     

  • ClimateCast Logo over graph of solar and wind power production

    Utility bonds downgraded on promise of rooftop solar with storage

    Renewables gain market share as prices drop, Royal Dutch Shell rebuffs 'stranded asset' worries, California cap-and-trade laid bare, and much more

     

  • Divest. Separate. Win.

    Divestment is more than a tactic in the climate battle. In a broad sense, it’s the whole game. Because, by itself, the fossil fuel industry does not have enough money or power to stop climate solutions. It only wins by continuously taking our money, and our power, and using them against us.

     

  • ClimateCast Logo over Schwarzenegger in Years of Living Dangerously

    Clamor mounting for climate action

    Royal Dutch Shell joins Trillion-Ton Communiqué calling for timetable to zero net carbon; Kitimat, B.C., rejects oil terminal; IPCC calls for climate-conserving measures to start ASAP, and more.

     

  • Toward a Common Cause

    The financial tools being put to use are the divesting of fossil fuels and investing in renewable energy / sustainable alternatives.  The goal is to redirect financing, fuel innovation, and accelerate the shift to a lower carbon economy—which in the popular vernacular might literally “Save the World.”

     

ClimateCast Logo over boreal fires

Australia dumps carbon tax

Carbon pollution is once again free Down Under, Minnesota cuts coal use by more than a third, boreal fires in Canada add fuel to climate change, Appalachia looks to a future beyond coal, and more.

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Divest. Separate. Win.

Submitted by KC Golden on

Divestment is more than a tactic in the climate battle. In a broad sense, it’s the whole game. Because, by itself, the fossil fuel industry does not have enough money or power to stop climate solutions. It only wins by continuously taking our money, and our power, and using them against us.

Read More

ClimateCast Logo over Schwarzenegger in Years of Living Dangerously

Clamor mounting for climate action

Royal Dutch Shell joins Trillion-Ton Communiqué calling for timetable to zero net carbon; Kitimat, B.C., rejects oil terminal; IPCC calls for climate-conserving measures to start ASAP, and more.

Read More

Toward a Common Cause

Submitted by Richard Woo on

The financial tools being put to use are the divesting of fossil fuels and investing in renewable energy / sustainable alternatives.  The goal is to redirect financing, fuel innovation, and accelerate the shift to a lower carbon economy—which in the popular vernacular might literally “Save the World.”

Read More