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  Für ein klimafreundliches Kiel - Abzug aller öffentlichen Finanzmittel aus der fossilen Industrie

  Ein ungebremster Klimawandel wird die Lebensqualität unserer nachfolgenden Generationen sehr stark beeinträchtigen und weltweit unseren wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand gefährden mit negativen sozialen Folgen. Fast alle der bislang veranschlagten fossilen Vorkommen müssen in der Erde bleiben, wenn das von allen 195 Staaten in Paris vereinbarte Ziel einer globalen Dekarbonisierung bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts erreicht werden soll. Die Weltgemeinschaft darf also nur einen verschwindend geringe Menge an CO2 ausstoßen, um die globale Erwärmung auf unter 2° C zu begrenzen. Divestment hat deshalb nicht nur der Umwelt wegen, sondern auch aus ökonomischen Gründen eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Legitimation erlangt, da Unternehmen der Öl-, Kohle- und Gasindustrie mehr Rohstoffvorkommen in ihre Bilanzen aufgenommen haben, als sie überhaupt noch fördern und verbrennen dürfen. Es bildet sich eine sogenannte Kohlenstoffblase. Aus diesem Grund gelten die Unternehmenswerte dieser Industrie als überbewertet und stellen für alle Arten von Finanzanlagen ein erhebliches Risiko dar. Seit 2012 haben über 500 Städte, Universitäten, Kirchen, Banken und Stiftungen offiziell ihr Divestment aus Kohle, Öl und Gas erklärt und damit dem fossilen Sektor eine Summe von 3,4 Billionen Dollar entzogen. Dazu gehören u.a. die Städte Berlin, Stuttgart, Münster, Melbourne in Australien, Uppsala in Schweden und Institutionen wie die Kirche von England, der Rockefeller Brothers Fund, die Stanford Universität und die British Medical Association. Gerade als Standort der bekannten Forschungseinrichtungen wie dem Geomar Institut und dem Institut für Weltwirtschaft, die einen großen Beitrag zu einer zukunftsfähigen, nachhaltigeren Wirtschaftsweise leisten, sollte sich Kiel in besonderem Maße dafür einsetzen, die natürliche Lebensgrundlage zu erhalten, die jungen und zukünftigen Generationen zusteht.

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  Created by Katharina Sander
• Divest Newham from Fossil Fuels

  The London Borough of Newham has multiple investments in the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuels contribute to the rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Scientists agree that we must reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in order to halt excessive global warming. Climate change has already resulted in more instances of extreme weather, rising sea levels and melting ice glaciers. The Paris Climate agreement of 2015 committed to keeping the global temperature increase to below 2 degrees celsius (above pre-industrial levels). In order to honour this agreement, we must move the flow of finance away from fossil fuel industries, one of the highest contributors of carbon emissions. Taking money out of these companies will make it much more difficult for them to continue damaging the environment.

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  Created by Louis Martin
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  Malmö Stad - Join Fossil Free

  Malmö Stad har en viktig föregångsroll som miljöförebild i Sverige och bör därför självklart divestera även sina stiftelsers pengar ur kol, olja och gas.

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  Created by Olov Källgarn
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  Fossil Free Lund

  Today fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) stand for the biggest amount of negative impact on our climate and planet by far measures. 95% of the world's researchers have reached a consensus on the fact that climate change is mainly due to human activity. Therefore, change can happen and needs to happen now. And we need to be a vital part of that change which is the national movement Fossil Free Sweden; hence be a part of the solution for a more sustainable world. There is already a Fossil Free Lund University Campaign launched and we need to make this change happen on all levels.

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• Divest Taos From Fossil Fuel

  The people of Taos are being effected by climate change now in the form of severe droughts, extreme forest fires, invasive species, death of trees and plants and loss of top soil to increased wind, ect.

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  Created by Richard Green
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  Divest Camden

  We believe divestment from fossil fuels to be not only ethically and environmentally correct, but also financially prudent. We are very aware of the importance of and legal obligation to secure the highest possible returns, and believe divestment to provide this in the post Paris Climate Agreement world. The committment to maintaining global temperature rise well below 2 degrees, in line with the agreement, would see much of the current assetts of fossil fuel companies becoming stranded. This has been supported by various financial institutions, including the Bank of England. Camden Council has a proud history of divesting from the apartheid regime in South Africa, and considering the significant size of its fossil fuel investments (£100 million), could honour this heritage through securing a divestment committment that would resonate on a national scale.

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• Divest Munich from Fossil Fuels

  Divestment ist unabdingbar für den Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. Wenn wir die katastrophalen Auswirkungen der globalen Erwärmung verhindern wollen, darf ein Großteil der bisher bekannten Reserven an Kohle, Öl und Gas nicht gefördert werden. Durch den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien werden die Entwicklung grüner Technologien gefördert, neue Arbeitsplätze geschaffen, lokale Wirtschaftszweige gestärkt und die Abhängigkeit von Energieimporten reduziert. Die Landeshauptstadt München trägt die moralische Verantwortung, ihr Kapital aus einer Industrie abzuziehen, die die Zukunft ihrer Bürger*innen zerstört. Deutschland nimmt im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel eine Vorreiterolle ein. München darf beim Klimaschutz nicht hinterherhinken. Divestment is essential for the fight against climate change. Most of the world’s coal, oil and gas known reserves must remain in the ground, if we are to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. With the support of renewabel energy systems the development of green technologies must be promoted. This wil create new jobs, strengheten the local economy, as well as reduce our energy import. The city of Munich has a moral responsibility to divest from an industry that is destroying the future of its citizens. Germany is a world leading figure in the fight against climate change and Munich should not lag behind.

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  Divest East Sussex Pension Fund from Fossil Fuels

  Our local authority has a responsibility not to invest local people's funds in outdated, polluting industries, such as fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas), that are damaging the balance of our climate and threatening our way of life. Already, we are seeing a greater frequency of extreme weather events, such as the floods of 2013/14 – the wettest winter in England and Wales since 1776 - which caused severe flooding in East Sussex and exposed our coast to very high storm surges from the sea. Investments in fossil fuels are also financially risky. Global temperature targets agreed by world leaders can only be met if most of the existing fossil fuel reserves remain unburned and we quickly move to cleaner technology. This means that investments in fossil fuel companies could soon become ‘stranded assets’. Indeed, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that investors face 'potentially huge' losses from climate change action that could make vast reserves of oil, coal and gas 'literally unburnable' For reasons of both public responsibility and financial prudence, a growing number of major institutions across the world - including the cities of Oslo, Seattle, and Oxford, Glasgow University, and the World Council of Churches - have already decided to move their funds out of fossil fuels. Several UK local authorities, including Haringey Council and the South Yorkshire Pension Fund, are now taking similar steps. The East Sussex Pension Fund has an estimated £172 million of local people's pensions invested in fossil fuels. The Fund is administered by East Sussex County Council. On 13 April 2016, Labour and Conservative Councillors on Hastings Borough Council – a member of the Pension Fund - joined forces to pass a unanimous motion calling on East Sussex County Council to divest the Fund from fossil fuels. It's time for East Sussex County Council to divest local people's pensions from these dirty, damaging and financially risky industries.

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  Created by Divest East Sussex
• City of Santa Barbara: Support Fossil Fuel Divestment!

  Whereas, the most conservative scientific consensus says that a 2 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures must be prevented , which means we cannot burn more than 565 gigatons within the next 50 years [1a] [2], Whereas, the fossil fuel industry has 2,795 gigatons in its reserves in the form of oil, coal and natural gas [2], Whereas, if these companies were to carry out their plans in the name of their shareholders, this would cause catastrophic and extremely dangerous climate change [2a], Whereas, instead of attempting to reduce emissions, fossil fuel companies are investing in exploration and enhanced extraction techniques that are increasing reserves and accelerating emissions, and that this constitutes a “carbon bubble.” [2] Whereas, non-conventional extraction techniques could also result in dangerous local pollution impacts such as fugitive methane emissions [3], water contamination [3a] and increased seismic activity and earthquakes according to both the U.S. Army and U.S. Geological Survey [3b], Whereas, the Koch Brothers have spent over $67 million since 1997 to fund climate denial front groups and ExxonMobil has hired the same tobacco industry public relations personnel who created misinformation about the health effects of cigarette smoking to spread doubt and confusion about climate change [4][5], Whereas, the Natural Gas Industry has been using military psychological warfare tactics and personnel on U.S. communities since at least 2009 in order to confuse and misinform local communities about the dangers of natural gas extraction techniques [6], Whereas, Santa Barbara is the birthplace of the environmental movement in the United States [7], Whereas, the City Charter explicitly states that no company may explore and extract hydrocarbon fuel sources within city limits, Whereas, there are hundreds of fossil fuel divestment initiatives gaining momentum across universities, cities, churches and other institutions across the United States [8], Whereas, the student Senates of both UCSB and SBCC voted in a clear majority for fossil fuel divestment this year, Whereas, the following letter signed by 49 UCSB faculty was delivered to the mayor of Santa Barbara on May 14, 2013 [9], Whereas, on May 30 2013, the University of California Santa Barbara Faculty Legislature voted in favor of the divestment resolution, We, the signees of this petition, believe that if it is wrong to wreck the climate, it is wrong to profit from that wreckage. We have a moral responsibility to find out where our monies are tied into these companies, and to remove that money as quickly as possible. [1] For the full list of companies the California State Treasury invests in see http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/pmia-laif/investments/bonds.pdf [1a] http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/cop15/eng/11a01.pdf page 5 [2] http://www.carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/08/Unburnable-Carbon-Full1.pdf page 4 page 4 [2a] http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.full.pdf+html [3] http://www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/news/attachments/Howarth-EtAl-2011.pdf [3a] http://www.propublica.org/article/scientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking [3b] http://www.nasdaq.com/article/us-government-confirms-link-between-earthquakes-and-hydraulic-fracturing-cm101994 [4] http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/ [5] http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html [6] http://www.desmogblog.com/gas-fracking-industry-using-military-psychological-warfare-tactics-and-personnel-u-s-communities [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill [8] www.gofossilfree.org [9] http://www.noozhawk.com/article/060513_letter_to_editor_ucsb_support_fossil_fuel_divestment

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• Dortmund raus aus RWE und anderen klimaschädlichen Investitionen - Bürgerbrief

  Sehr geehrter Herr Oberbürgermeister, sehr geehrte Mitglieder des Rates der Stadt Dortmund, wir Menschen in Dortmund sind mit RWE und dem Kohleabbau groß geworden, aber wir sehen heute: Kohle-Tagebaue berauben Menschen ihrer Heimat und zerstören die Natur - hier bei uns und in den Ländern, aus denen wir Kohle importieren. Kohlekraftwerke heizen den Klimawandel an und gefährden unsere Gesundheit mit Feinstaub und Quecksilber. Trotzdem verfeuert RWE weiterhin jede Menge Braun- und Stein-Kohle und verursacht derzeit 88,2 Mio. Tonnen klimaschädigendes Kohlendioxid (C02) pro Jahr. RWE ist auf Platz 15 der weltweit größten C02-Emittenten durch Kohleverbrennung, investiert aber weiter in Kohlekraftwerke. Damit muss endlich Schluss sein! Wir fordern Sie als Oberbürgermeister und alle Ratsmitglieder der Stadt Dortmund auf: Tragen Sie die Kohle-Investitionen von RWE nicht länger mit. Verkaufen Sie die ca. 23,6 Millionen RWE-Aktien, die die Stadt Dortmund bzw. ihre Tochtergesellschaft EVV für uns Bürgerinnen und Bürger hält. Dies sind knapp 30 Aktien pro Einwohner. Außerdem möchten wir, dass die Stadt Dortmund Anlagerichtlinien festlegt, die bereits bestehende und zukünftige Investitionen in Kohle-, Öl- und Gasunternehmen durch die Stadt konsequent ausschließt. Der kürzlich bekannt gewordene Verkauf von RWE - Aktien durch Herrn Terium (Erlös lt. Presseberichten rund 300.000 Euro) sollte doch ein deutliches Signal auch für Dortmunder Entscheidungsträger sein. Investieren Sie den Erlös in klimaschonende Bereiche, zum Beispiel: • Stromerzeugung durch erneuerbare Sonnen- und Wind-Energie in der Region oder • Energieeffizienz durch LED-Straßenbeleuchtung in Dortmund oder • Verbesserung des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs in Dortmund. So werden zukunftsfähige Arbeitsplätze geschaffen bzw. gesichert und gleichzeitig das Klima geschont. Handeln Sie jetzt, bevor das Klima noch mehr durch RWE geschädigt wird und die Aktien des Konzerns im Niedergang nichts mehr wert sind. Mit erwartungsvollen Grüßen, DEW kommunal gemeinsam mit der Fossil-Free-Bewegung

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