Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

Since early 2018, the West’s six biggest oil majors have disposed of US$44 billion in predominantly fossil fuel assets. Pressure to divest is commonly applied by ESG-conscious investors who no longer want to be associated with these companies or fund them.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

Divest or wind down? Rio Tinto , meanwhile, sold its last coal mines – both thermal and metallurgical – in 2018, and now produces no fossil fuels. The company said it would continue the “responsible decline of its thermal coal operations over time”. BHP sold its oil and gas business to Woodside in 2022 in an all-share deal.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 31, 2023

Building youth power and the infrastructure that supports it is an investment in a more equitable and just future. Drawing from both research and lived experience, we discuss what makes youth organizing groups successful in building the power to influence policy making and brighten the futures of young people of color.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This follows actions against Southern Water and Thames Water in 2018-19, which resulted in £257 million (US$339 million) in penalties and rebates. Thames Water, the country’s largest water and wastewater services company has made the headlines this year – not just for leaks and sewage spills, but also for its financial problems.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

Australia introduced a Modern Slavery Act in 2018 that requires entities with an annual consolidated revenue of more than A$100 million to report annually on the risks of modern slavery in their operations and supply chains, and actions to address those risks.

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Chris Hall

MAY 25, 2022

It confirms the material importance of divesting from fossil fuels and decarbonising real estate.” . Under the 2018 revision to the EED, the EU set a target for reducing energy consumption by at least 32.5% compared to 2007 levels by 2030.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Rasmussen expects the scheme to meet its target – self-imposed, but in line with the protocol set by the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) – to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its listed equities and corporate bonds by 45% by the end of 2024, from a 2018 base.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 In 2018, Transocean (yes, the folks who brought you the BP oil spill) charged Chevron $830 million ($445,000 a day) for one rig for five years. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Renting one isn’t cheap, either.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House. Finding herself the only Black person in the student divestment group, everything clicked. "I

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But coal is already in terminal decline in both the US and the EU, all that is needed is a little push: Bloomberg New Energy Finance has confirmed this month that US coal plant retirements are nearing an all-time high, with at least 16 gigawatts (GW) worth of coal-fired plants already retired in 2018. A moral imperative.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Photo of Mark Jacobson and Stacy Clark, August 1, 2018. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org My most memorable visit was a 2018 tour of Jacobson’s fully renewable, emissions free home, where his electric cars are also powered by the sun. Momentum for a clean energy transition is growing.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

In March 2020, a coalition of 32 organisations spanning 17 countries wrote to the world’s biggest asset manager BlackRock, calling for the firm to divest its 5% stake in Drax, citing carbon intensity of woody biomass. . Drax first launched a BECCS pilot project in 2018 and aims to have the technology fully operational by 2027. .

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 3, 2022

According to the US SIF Foundation , $12 trillion in assets under management using ESG strategies at the beginning of 2018 grew to $17.1 trillion in 2018 and $22.8 ESHG-minded Investors can leverage their financial power by divesting from companies that aren’t doing healthy business.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2024

Since 2018, 19 states have increased the ambition of their renewable or clean energy targets. Public criticism of new exploration projects and oil and gas operations generally are growing more common – divestment campaigns being one example. An executive order for the U.S. 100% zero-emission vehicle acquisitions by 2035.

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Jon Hale

JUNE 3, 2022

Why Did Companies Take So Long to Divest from White Supremacy? —?—?—?—?— The only meaningful policy enacted by the Trump administration and Republican Congress in 2017–2018 was the giant corporate tax cut, bought and paid for by corporate donors.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Last February, four student activists at Manhattan’s New York University got the meeting they’d been waiting for: a chance to tell the school’s board of trustees why the university should divest the fossil fuel stocks in its US$5-billion endowment. It was a big win. Focused, imaginative and relentless action can achieve unexpected victories.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The fossil fuels divestment movement continues to grow and as indicated in a recent report by DivestInvest, 1,500 investment institutions, responsible for $39.2 trillion in assets, have committed to divest. Student divestment movements have succeeded in removing fossil fuels from a number of universities in 2021.

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Foley & Hoag

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

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