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  Santa Clara University: divest from fossil fuels!

  Fossil Free SCU is a student coalition working to pressure Santa Clara University to pull their investments from the top 200 oil extraction companies. We formed in October 2013 because we oppose our school’s financial support of an industry that perpetuates an oppressive system, one that marginalizes the poor and disenfranchised communities our Jesuit values call us to protect. To fund this extractive economy is to perpetuate an unjust world and profit from the wreckage.

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  Created by Blair Libby
• Divest in Fossil Fuel

  Global Climate Change is real and is happening now. People here in Bisbee are being effected negatively now. At the same time people here in Bisbee are investing in their own and others suffering due to all the ways climate change effects us. It is no longer a question of the environment, it is a question of survival. If we don't stop global climate change now, our future and our childrens future will forever be worse. Please divest in the destructive fossil fuel industry.

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  Created by Richard Green
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  Divest Salmon Idaho from Fossil Fuel

  The planet is at risk; we have to fix it now, before it is too late, if it is not already too late.

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  Created by Calvin Leman
• Divest Scarsdale from Fossil Fuels

  I grew up in Scarsdale, and now my children are growing up in Scarsdale. It's always been a place known for its excellent schools and beautiful community. Now, Scarsdale has an opportunity to protect its citizens and its future -- and to set a positive example for other towns -- by divesting from the destructive and dangerous fossil fuel industry and reinvesting in solutions to climate change. During Hurricane Sandy, my family was lucky. We experienced a week-long power outage but were happy to be safe. Still, this sort of extreme weather event is becoming "the new normal," and though these events threaten to overwhelm local budgets even in affluent communities like Scarsdale, our federal government shows no signs of acting to solve this crisis. We won’t see any real progress until we can weaken the power of the fossil fuel industry. To that end, I am writing on behalf of my family, neighbors, and village to say that divestment is Scarsdale's ethical and practical responsibility if we want to preserve our community.

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  Created by Lauren Porosoff
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  Divest Denver From Fossil Fuels

  Climate change is ravaging our state, nation, and planet with more wildfires, drought, higher food prices and extreme weather events. Hurricane Sandy relief exceeded $50 billion and in Colorado alone insurers estimated wildfire damage exceeded $450 million to personal property by July 2012. Not only are the economic costs of climate change becoming more prevalent, but the moral implications are more apparent. While climate change is severely impacting our quality of life now, it is young people whose future ability to thrive - and even survive - on our planet will be most impacted. Denver has a moral obligation to address climate change and divestment is a critical step in taking a stand for our city’s future, our children, and our planet. We now know that the majority of proven fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground. The math is simple: 1) almost every government in the world agrees we must keep global warming below 2 degrees to avoid catastrophic climate change, 2) to stay below 2 degrees we can only add about 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and 3) current proven fossil fuel reserves (fossil fuels already slated for extraction) equal about 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide, or five times more than we can release to maintain only 2 degrees of warming. Fossil fuel divestment is a financially and socially responsible way Denver can take action on climate change. Fossil fuel divestment is financially responsible. Climate change is negatively impacting our local economy via effects such as increased wildfire frequency and intensity as well as decreased snow fall threatening our agriculture and tourism sectors. Therefore, it is in Denver’s economic interest to divest from an industry that contributes to costly climate disasters and extreme weather. Additionally, fossil fuel investments themselves are increasingly bad investments. While some argue divestment from fossil fuels could harm their portfolios, a recent analysis conducted for The Associated Press shows the opposite. The research firm S&P Capital IQ found that by one measure, endowments would have been better off had they divested 10 years ago. An investment in fossil fuels is a bet that the world will do nothing about climate change, that it'll stand idly by and watch events like the droughts, wildfires, and super storms of 2012 and not take any serious action. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. puts it, "at some point, we have to acknowledge that, either we are going to destroy the planet or the oil stocks are over-valued." Fossil fuel divestment is also socially responsible. As the urgency of taking action on climate change heightens, many communities, educational institutions, religious institutions, and other municipalities are joining the fossil fuel divestment movement today just as they did in the 1980’s during the anti-apartheid movement. Cities including Seattle and San Francisco have already pledged to divest from fossil fuels. As a responsible and respected leader in our region, Denver should divest from fossil fuels because, if it is wrong to cause catastrophic climate change, it is also wrong to profit from its causes. The bottom line is this: divestment is the only moral choice for governments that care about their citizens. Solving the climate crisis is the only practical choice for governments that care about their solvency.

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  Created by Roberta Traverso-Estes
• Divest Oregon From Fossil Fuels!

  Here are 10 Reasons why Oregon needs to Divest from Fossil Fuels: 1. If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, than it’s also wrong to profit from that wreckage. 2. We shouldn't be investing in companies that are spending millions of dollars lobbying against clean energy solutions and millions more funding climate denial and anti-science think tanks. 3. The fossil fuel industry’s business plan is to burn five times more carbon dioxide than scientists say we can safely emit and still keep global warming below the 2°C tipping point. 4. Companies like Chevron, Exxon, and Peabody Coal are polluting our land, air, and water, putting our communities and children at risk. 5. Big Oil likes to say that it’s greening its operations, but that’s just PR: no major oil company is investing a significant part of its profits into renewable energy research. 6. Divestment can have a major political impact by taking away the social license of the fossil fuel industry, turning Big Oil into Big Tobacco, an industry that no politician wants to be seen with. 7. Divestment campaigns have made a big impact before, including in the fight against apartheid in South Africa. 8. Divestment doesn't pose a serious financial risk to a portfolio and opens the door for more sustainable investments that not only get a good return but also help our communities and the planet. 9. Investing in the fossil fuel industry is increasingly risky: financial analysts are now warning us about a “carbon bubble” that could result when government’s decide to regulate greenhouse gas emission and fossil fuel companies are forced to leave their coal, oil and gas reserves underground, tanking their share price. 10. There’s a growing fossil fuel divestment movement that can amplify all of our individual actions: over 300 campuses and 100 cities and states have joined the campaign — and we’re just getting warmed up.

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  Created by Matthew Noland
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  Divest Central Connecticut State University From Fossil Fuels

  Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on Central Connecticut State University to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of Central Connecticut State University will not only be a sound decision for our institution's financial portfolio, but also for the wellbeing of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos.

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  Divest the City of Bakersfield from Fossil Fuels

  Our local government has a responsibility to divest from an industry that’s destroying our future, and reinvest in solutions to climate change. We can not count on the federal government, even as extreme weather events like the record rain fall in the Duluth area last Spring overwhelm local budgets. We have the solutions, but we won’t see any political progress on the issue until we can weaken the power of the fossil fuel industry. The bottom line is this: divestment is the only moral choice for governments that care about their citizens. Solving the climate crisis is the only practical choice for governments that care about their solvency. It's time to divest from fossil fuels now!

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  Created by James Columbia
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  Divest Newport Beach from Fossil Fuels!

  Newport Beach is the blessed home to nearly 100,000 people many of whom have been very successful in business, and who are caring, intelligent, They care very much about their legacy and want to do all they can to insure that those that follow enjoys the benefits they've become accustomed to.

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  Divest University of Oslo from fossil fuels

  Verden har gått sammen om at den globale oppvarmingen bør holdes godt under 2 grader og helst begrenses til 1,5 grader. For å klare det må vi styre energibruken vår i en retning som tar innover seg klimaendringer. Vi trenger en bred overgang mot et bærekraftig og fornybart energisystem. Første skritt på denne veien er å ikke lete etter mer fossilt brensel, kutte ned bruken og finne alternative løsninger. For at det skal være mulig kan ikke enorme kull-, olje-, og gasselskaper få lov til å fortsette sine utforskninger og utbygginger. For at disse selskapene skal innse dette kan vi ikke legge våre penger igjen hos dem. UiO har som Norges største universitet et ansvar om å vise vei for en samfunnsutvikling som er i tråd med forskningen. Deinvester nå! * * * The world has now united over the 2°C-target. To reach this goal, we need a society-wide overhaul to a sustainable and renewable energy system. The first steps are to stop fossil fuel exploration, reduce consumption and find alternative solutions. To do this, the fossil fuel industry must not be allowed to continue its exploration and expansion, but this will never happen as long as we continue to invest our savings in them. As Norway's largest university, UiO has a responsibility to lead the way to sustainable development in line with what research has shown us. Divest now!

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  Created by Perolina Klanderud