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Divest The Open University from fossil fuelsTo support the speediest conversion to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, encourage politicians to get serious themselves, and to be a consistent part of the solution rather than a part of the problem.682 of 800 SignaturesCreated by Simon Barton
Die Uni Heidelberg soll sich zu einem klimafreundlichen Finanz- und Anlagemanagement bekennen.Begründung: Der globale Klimawandel und seine Folgen stellen eine greifbare Gefahr für unsere Gesellschaften dar. Schon heute sind die Konsequenzen des globalen Temperaturanstiegs zu spüren. Dazu gehören vermehrte extreme Hitzeperioden in europäischen Städten genauso wie die "Jahrhundertfluten", die inzwischen alle 10 Jahre auftreten und verheerende Folgen haben. So waren von der "Jahrhundertflut" 2013 neun Bundesländer betroffen, in 55 Landkreisen musste Katastrophenalarm ausgerufen werden und zehntausende Menschen mussten für Wochen ihre Wohnungen verlassen. Die weltweiten Folgen des Klimawandels, vom Schmelzen der Gletscher bis zu vermehrt auftretenden extremen Wetterereignissen wie Dürren und Hurrikanen sind so zahlreich, dass sie hier nicht alle genannt werden können. Nahezu alle Regierungen der Welt stimmen überein, dass eine Erwärmung um mehr als 2°C sehr gefährlich wäre und durch katastrophale Rückkopplungen dazu führen könnte, dass auf unserem Planeten menschliches Leben unmöglich wird. Die Zahlen sprechen für sich: Aktuell steuern wir darauf zu, fünfmal so viele fossile Brennstoffe zu verbrennen wie laut vorsichtiger Schätzungen tragbar wäre. Wenn wir den Temperaturanstieg unter 2°C halten wollen, müssen wir also dafür sorgen, dass 80% der bekannten Vorkommen fossiler Brennstoffe unter der Erde bleiben. Erdöl-, Kohle- und Gaskonzerne erschließen aber weiterhin ohne Rücksicht auf unsere Lebensgrundlagen und auf junge Generationen in alarmierendem Tempo die bestehenden Vorkommen und geben Milliarden aus, um noch mehr fossile Brennstoffe zu finden. Dabei schrecken sie auch nicht vor hochriskanten und umweltzerstörenden Methoden wie Fracking, Mountain Top Removal, Tagebau, Offshore Drilling und dem Abbau von Teersanden zurück. Als Konsequenz sollten alle Investitionen in diese Industrien schnellstmöglich eingestellt werden. Dabei sind nicht nur private Investoren gefragt, sondern insbesondere öffentliche Institutionen und große Organisationen wie Städte, Kommunen, Universitäten, Kirchen, Stiftungen oder auch Finanzinstitute. Zum einen sind gerade diese Akteure in besonderer Weise dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet und müssen sich vor ihren Bürgerinnen und Bürgern, ihren Mitgliedern und vor der Gesellschaft verantworten. Zum anderen haben sie einen Vorbildcharakter in unserer Gesellschaft und können dadurch weit mehr bewirken als ihr eigenes Investmentpotential zunächst vermuten lässt. Unsere öffentlichen Gelder sollten in eine lebenswerte Zukunft investiert werden, nicht in eine Industrie, die dabei ist, unseren Planeten unbewohnbar zu machen. Es ist an der Zeit, dass sich die Universität Heidelberg getreu ihres Mottos "Zukunft seit 1386" öffentlich und verbindlich zu einem klimafreundlichen Finanz- und Anlagemanagement bekennt. Aktuelle Informationen auch unter www.facebook.com/fossilfreeheidelberg89 of 100 SignaturesCreated by LIsa-Marie Zoller- Royal Holloway University of London Fossil Fuel DivestmentIt will prove that Royal Holloway is a leading educational institution, dedicated to its mission of 'agenda-setting research, which is addressing some of the world’s biggest cultural, social, scientific and economic challenges in innovative and impactful ways and distinctive range of programmes that are relevant to lifelong employment needs combine to provide real value for students, both while they are studying and in the opportunities that their Royal Holloway degree will bring them now and throughout their lives.' 200 publicly-traded fossil fuel companies hold the vast majority of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas reserves. Those are the companies we are asking Royal Holloway to break their links with These companies hold five times more carbon in their fossil fuel reserves than we can safely afford to burn to stop runaway climate change. Fossil fuel companies cause huge environmental and human devastation in the process of extracting and burning fossil fuels. Withdrawing Royal Holloway’s financial and moral backing for this climate-wrecking industry is crucial to tackling climate change.269 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Nik Wakefield
I ♥ BC Fossil FreeIt is simple: if it is wrong to destroy the planet, then it is wrong to profit from that destruction. Divesting from fossil fuel and tar sands companies supports Broward College's vision to "stand at the leading edge of technological and environmentally sound innovation." Divesting from fossil fuels also supports two of Broward College's core values: a commitment to sustainability by "ensuring efficient use of college resources while implementing fiscally sound practices and environmentally sustainable initiatives that can be modeled in collaboration with our community," and integrity "by fostering an environment of respect,dignity, and compassion that affirms and empowers all its members while striving for the highest ethical standards and social responsibility." In addition, Broward College's divestment from fossil fuel and tar sands companies also supports the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission six core values: Integrity Continuous Quality Improvement Peer Review/Self-regulation Accountability Student Learning Transparency By divesting from the fossil fuel industry, Broward College can help to discredit the fossil fuel companies so that they loose their influence over our government. By joining the growing number of education institutions, churches, towns, and states across the country, Broward College can help bring pressure to bear on government and industry to act now to slow climate change and rising sea-levels which threaten the security of our land, food supply, drinking water, health, property values and the overall future of our planet.50 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Giovanni Bonelli
Divest Imperial from Fossil FuelsClimate change has been described as the most serious challenge of our generation. Under the United Nations Copenhagen Accord, countries have agreed to limit warming to 2 degrees to prevent dangerous climate change. Moreover, investing in fossil fuels poses a serious financial risk. According to recent research led by Professor Lord Stern at LSE, two-thirds of current fossil fuels reserves are unburnable if climate change is to be kept to the globally-agreed limit of 2 degrees of warming [3]. In this regard, we call upon the Endowment Fund Board to issue explicit guidance to ensure the funds are divested away from fossil fuels, for the sake of current and future generations. References: [1] FOI Request [2] People & Planet, Platform, 350.org: http://peopleandplanet.org/dl/fossil-free/knowledge-power-report.pdf [3] Carbon Tracker Initiative Report (Carbon Tracker & The Grantham Research Institute, LSE) : http://www.carbontracker.org/wastedcapital1,827 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Tara Clarke
Let's renew the Politecnico di Milano - stop fossil fuels!We want that our university, the most important eningeering university in Italy, to focus (during our education) most on renewable energy, not only on fossil fuels energy. Now the biggest part of the education program is based on "traditional" sources of energy, such as gas and coal. We need to teach to the future of our Country the importance of the renewable energy! As signed in Paris in 2015, we MUST change our vision of energy for the future. We ask to the Politecnico di Milano to increase the time and the quality of the renewabe energy teaching. We are the future, and we demand to teach the future in our university. 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 $50 billion 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.64 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Michele Argenta
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELSFossil fuel companies’ current reserves of oil, coal and gas hold 5 times more carbon than the world’s atmosphere can safely handle. Their business plan will cause climate chaos for billions of us, yet UK universities still collectively invest £5.2 billion in fossil fuel companies (1). The University of Cambridge and Colleges have an overall endowment that equates to almost £5 billion (Ibid.). Without an ethical policy (unlike universities such as Oxford, UCL and St. Andrews), this money is invested in companies without consideration of their catastrophic environmental impact. At a global and local level, the impacts of these investments contradict the University’s positive contributions to society, through research and education. Over the past two years the global divestment movement has shown the very real path to a sustainable, fossil-free future. Regarding fossil fuels, the divestment campaign is the fastest growing climate justice campaign in history. So far, $2.6 trillion has been divested from fossil fuels by 456 institutions (Ibid.). It is recognised across the world that global temperatures must remain no more than 2°C higher than in pre-industrial times if climate change is not to destroy our entire way of life (Ibid.). For this to happen, study after study has demonstrated that 80% of currently known fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground (Ibid.). This view is endorsed by mainstream elements of society, from Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, to the United Nations. Companies like BP and Shell – and the University’s investments in them—are not part of a sustainable future, no matter how they, or the University, might pretend otherwise. Small investments in renewables are far outweighed by the catastrophic impacts of continued oil extraction. In universities around this country and the world, divestment is denying these companies their moral acceptability – Cambridge needs to catch up. In the University’s “Dear World...” Campaign, it has positioned itself as the driving force for a better future. If it wants anyone to respect that, it needs to demonstrate moral leadership and distance itself from the fossil fuel industry. Fortunately, the working group on investment recently set up by the University presents the perfect opportunity, just a month before the historic climate summit in Paris. All moral and financial arguments point to the same thing – divestment from fossil fuels. References: (1) People and Planet (2013). Knowledge and Power: Fossil Free Universities Report. https://peopleandplanet.org/dl/fossil-free/knowledge-power-report.pdf2,399 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by Zero Carbon Cambridge
Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Go Fossil Free!As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on Southern Illinois University Carbondale 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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale 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.653 of 800 SignaturesCreated by Patricia Walker
Divest money from fossil fuels Loughborough University!Loughborough's endowment fund (http://alumni.lboro.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=1062), with one part funded by alumni to benefit generation upon generation of students through the interest the fund earns, should not do so at the expense of our planet. If it is wrong to wreck the climate, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage. Too many UK universities support the fossil fuel industry directly through their research, their endowments and investments and their partnerships with some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in the world like BP and Shell. UK students have decided to take on the fossil fuel industry by getting our universities to go Fossil Free. People & Planet is joining forces with the 350.org campaign that has been sweeping across North American campuses. We believe that our educational institutions should serve the public good and live up to their promises to tackle climate change. No UK university in their right mind would accept funding from or invest their funds in tobacco companies these days - it’s inconsistent with their research on cancer. The same holds true for fossil fuel companies causing climate change and yet most universities still do not recognise this. That’s about to change! 200 publicly-traded companies hold the vast majority of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas reserves. Those are the companies we’ll be asking our institutions to break their links with. Together they hold five times more carbon in their fossil fuel reserves than we can safely afford to burn to stop runaway climate change. It’s that simple…if you do the maths. From Canada’s dirty tar sands to Arctic drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) for shale gas - the fossil fuel industry is scraping the bottom of the barrel and causing huge environmental and human devastation in the process. Withdrawing our institutions’ financial and moral backing for this climate-wrecking industry is crucial to tackling climate change.1,015 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by LSU Ethics and Environment
Malmö University: Divest from fossil fuelsFör svensk översättning, se nedan _____________________ Although Malmö University prides itself on being committed to sustainability, they invest in non-sustainable energy companies using non-renewable resources. Burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil create greenhouse gases which produce carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide which are polluting our air. Other consequences of greenhouse gases are rising temperatures, climate change, melting glaciers and increased water levels. The time has come for Malmö University to put their money where their mouth is by breaking any ties with fossil fuels. _____________________ Trots att Malmö universitet utmärker sig själva som hållbara investerar de i ohållbara energiföretag som använder icke förnybara energikällor. Att bränna fossila bränslen som kol, naturgas och olja skapar växthusgaser som producerar koldioxid och kväveoxid som förorenar vår luft. Andra konsekvenser av växthusgaser är stigande temperaturer, klimatförändringar, smältande glaciärer och stigande vattenhöjd. Tiden är inne för Malmö universitet att sätta sina pengar där deras vision ligger genom att bryta alla band till fossila bränslen. For more information e-mail: fenix@karen.mah.se42 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Fenix Miljöförening