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Now or Never

Chris Hall

In June, the Church of England Pensions Board (CoEPB) and Church Commissioners announced that they will divest from oil and gas firms for failing to align with climate goals. However, individual, specific, and isolated divestments do not make a significant difference due to the abundance of liquidity in the market. billion (US$13.2

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Exxon Investors Signal Growing Ill Will

Chris Hall

A stronger possibility is that more investors choose to divest from Exxon, following continued examples of climate denial and obfuscating. A study published last year found that 63-83% of Exxon scientists’ climate models and peer-reviewed studies published between 1977 and 2014 accurately projected global warming. End of the road?

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Fueling Disinformation: How Big Oil Obstructs Climate Education

Richard Matthews

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. The divestment solution. Divestment is an increasingly popular approach to combating the fossil fuel industry’s influence. The case for divestment is persuasive.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

The final agreement requests parties to come to COP27 next year in Egypt with updated plans on how to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. trillion in assets, have committed to divest. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the U.S.,