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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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• Divest the City of Evanston government from fossil fuels

  Climate change is already hurting people, plants and animals, particularly those already most vulnerable and least likely to have contributed to greenhouse gases. The purpose of this petition is to act on our values and do it stronger by doing it collectively. We can make a concrete change and send a message as Evanstonians through changing our City investments. Let's take action now to ensure a wonderful, livable world for people and all species for generations to come.

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• Wiltshire Council: divest from fossil fuel

  Wiltshire Pension Fund holds a total of £1.8 billion, of which – currently - £64 million (3.5 per cent) is invested in fossil fuel – oil, coal and gas companies. This percentage may rise and fall. Wiltshire Pension Fund operates on behalf of Wiltshire Council and a further 157 employer organisations. Investment in fossil fuel is bad news for two reasons. Firstly, experts (1) warn these investments could become 'stranded assets' and irrecoverable, when the market for fossil fuels begin to decline in the years ahead. All local authorities, including Wiltshire Council, have a duty to act in the public interest, and to take steps to reduce risk to public money. Secondly, fossil fuel investment is a matter of right or wrong. More than 80 per cent of the world’s known coal reserves need to stay in the ground to avoid dangerous climate change, recent research (2) has indicated. The scientific and political consensus is that we must not allow global warming to exceed two degrees. If all known reserves are used we will exceed this limit, and tip into runaway climate change. This means extreme weather events, sea-level rise, fires and floods. Local impacts of fossil fuel dependence The Environment Agency and Salisbury City Council are drawing up emergency plans to protect Salisbury from ‘freak floods’, noting that the city came within 1cm of a major flood last January (3). Extreme weather events will cause severe flooding in Salisbury, and knock-on effects across Wiltshire, due to, for example, impassable roads and damage to communications systems (4). A further direct impact of fossil fuel dependence is disease caused by air pollution from traffic emissions. Salisbury Clean Air Network reported in March 2015 that nitrogen dioxide was at illegal levels in ten out of 25 of SCAN’s samples. This was a higher and more widespread pollution level than Council findings. Government data (Public Health England, 2010) indicated that air pollution causes 28,000 excess deaths in the UK per annum. If it’s wrong to cause these harms, then it is wrong to profit from investing in what causes them. Wiltshire Pension Fund should sell its fossil fuel investments and Wiltshire Council should follow the example of several other local authorities who have invested in local sustainable projects such renewable energy, energy efficiency or building much needed energy-efficient social homes. References: 1. Unburnable Carbon – Are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble? Carbon Tracker Initiative, March 2012 http://www.carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Unburnable-Carbon-Full-rev2-1.pdf ‘No more than one-third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050 if the world is to achieve the 2 °C goal, unless carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is widely deployed.’ World Energy Outlook 2012, International Energy Agency ‘The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed’, David Hone, Climate Change Advisor for Shell 3 May 2013 ‘We agree that burning all known reserves would probably cause global temperatures to rise by more than 2°C – and that addressing this issue will require the efforts of governments, industry and individuals. However, we believe that the unburnable carbon approach to assessing the impact of potential climate regulation on a company’s value oversimplifies the complexity of the issue and overstates the potential financial impact’ BP webpage on climate change, accessed 17 Oct 2015 2. The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C, McGlade, C, Ekins, P, Nature 517,187–190, 8 January 2015 3. Salisbury Journal, 1 October 2015. 4. Environment Agency advice to Salisbury City Councillors and volunteer Flood Wardens, 9 November 2015.

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  Fossil Free Merseyside Local Government Divestment Campaign

  Climate change is the biggest threat to the future of our global society. Research carried out by Bill McKibben and 350.org has identified that fossil fuel companies declared reserves far exceed the amount that can be safely burned if we are to limit Co² in the atmosphere to a level that will keep projected temperature rises to within 2°C. 2°C was the “safe” level of temperature rises agreed at the Copenhagen Climate talks and that figure was based on the overwhelming scientific consensus among climate scientists. To keep temperature rises below 2°C we need to limit the amount of Co² we emit and that means that 80% of the declared reserves of the largest 200 fossil fuel companies cannot be burned. Temperature rises above 2°C will have devastating consequences for people, societies and eco-systems around the world. There are moral reasons to divest. If business as usual means investing in an industry that will have devastating effects on future generations, this is an issue of inter-generational justice. There are financial reasons. The value of the companies is based on the fossil fuel reserves which are held and their potential future profits, and given that 80% of known reserves must stay in the ground the value of these shares is vastly overestimated. The value of the shares are expected to fall dramatically in future and if we don't act quickly our investments will make a loss as 'stranded assets' when the Carbon Bubble bursts. The Merseyside Pension fund currently has £198,897,000 directly invested in fossil fuel companies and another estimated £156,298,000 indirectly invested in commingled funds that include fossil fuel companies. This means in total the pension fund has £355,195,000 invested in fossil fuels. For more information about divestment please visit http://gofossilfree.org/uk/

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• Divest Canberra from Fossil Fuels

  The ACT has Australia's most ambitious targets for emissions cuts and growing the renewable energy of the future. So why on this threatened earth does it invest in the coal, gas and oil that undermines all its good work? It's a moral shame and a big financial risk. Canberrans expect more!

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• Divest Scottish Borders Council From Fossil Fuels

  Over £23 million of the Scottish Borders Council pension fund is currently invested in Fossil Fuels. (Divest and Reinvest Scotland Report) We need our council to take an active role in protecting our environment and the health of our communities, investing in fossil fuels is out dated and contributes to continuing climate change. As well as contributing to the destruction of our planet these funds are now at risk as fossil fuels become a thing of the past - we need our council to secure these funds for their employees by investing in technologies of the future including renewable energy and investing in our communities.

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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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  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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• 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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