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  Für eine sichere Landesbank Baden-Württemberg: Schluss mit Risikogeschäften auf Klimakosten

  Weltweit spielen Banken eine zentrale Rolle bei der Klimazerstörung durch fossile Energien. Erst wenn Banken ein Projekt finanzieren, kann in Kolumbien nach Kohle gegraben, in Nigeria nach Öl gebohrt oder in Kanada nach Schiefergas gefrackt werden. Lange haben die Banken Gewinne aus diesem Geschäft abgeschöpft – ohne Rücksicht auf die Schäden für die Umwelt, das Klima oder die Bevölkerung [1]. Doch mittlerweile drohen ihnen hohe Verluste: Je ernsthafter die Politik weltweit gegen den Klimawandel vorgeht, umso schneller werden fossile Energien zum Auslaufmodel. Der größte Kohlekonzern der USA, Peabody, musste bereits Insolvenz anmelden, und auch die RWE, die statt auf die Energiewende auf Kohle gesetzt hatte, steht kurz vor der Pleite – mit massiven Folgen für Anleger und Kreditgeber [2]. Die europäische Zentralbank warnt in diesem Zusammenhang bereits vor der nächsten großen Wirtschaftskrise [3]. Auch die LBBW und ihre Kunden sind über Aktienfonds an großen Öl- und Kohlekonzernen wie RWE, Royal Dutch Shell oder Total beteiligt [4]. Zusätzlich unterstützt die Bank Kohle-, Öl- und Gasförderung mit Krediten, zuletzt mit über 250 Millionen Euro im Jahr 2015 [5]. Die LBBW, die während der Finanzkrise 2009 mit öffentlichen Geldern in Milliardenhöhe gerettet werden musste, ist damit anfällig für die nächste Krise – und befeuert aktiv die Zerstörung des Klimas. Im Herbst forderten deshalb mehrere NGOs den neuen Vorstandsvorsitzenden der LBBW, Rainer Neske, in einem Brief dazu auf, seine Strategie für den Ausstieg aus der Finanzierung fossiler Energien dazulegen.[6] Eine Antwort bleibt die Bank bisher schuldig. Doch wir können die LBBW von diesem Kurs abbringen. Die Bank bemüht sich seit einiger Zeit um Nachhaltigkeit und hat im Rüstungsbereich bereits Investitionen in Streumunition und Landminen ausgeschlossen [7]. Und auf Druck der regierenden Grünen verzichtete sie 2012 auf Spekulationen mit Nahrungsmitteln [8]. Da sich die Bank in öffentlicher Trägerschaft befindet (die Stadt Stuttgart und das Land Baden-Württemberg halten über 40 Prozent der Anteile), ist sie empfänglich für Druck aus der Politik. Oberbürgermeister Fritz Kuhn und Finanzministerin Edith Sitzmann sitzen selbst im Aufsichtsrat der LBBW und können sich dort direkt für den Ausstieg aus den fossilen Energien stark machen. Die grün-schwarze Landesregierung hat sich sogar in den Koalitionsvertrag geschrieben, die LBBW bei einem solchen Ausstieg zu unterstützen [9]. Damit diesen Worten auch Taten folgen, müssen wir die Grünen in die Pflicht nehmen. Mit einem öffentlichen Appell schaffen wir Aufmerksamkeit und fordern entschiedenes Handeln. Die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg müssen dafür sorgen, dass die LBBW ihre finanzielle und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung wahrnimmt und die Finanzierung von Kohle, Öl und Gas konsequent ausschließt. [1] Kirsten Bialdiga, „Blutkohle aus Kolumbien“, RP Online, 16. 01. 2016; „Menschenrechtsorganisationen klagen Shell wegen Umweltvergiftung an“, ZEIT Online, 03. 11. 2015. [2] Claus Hecking, „Kohle ist kaputt“, ZEIT Online, 16. 04. 2016; Sebastian Baltzer, „RWE vor dem Aus“, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 06. 07. 2016. [3] Michael Bauchmüller, „Absturzgefahr im Treibhaus“, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 12. 02. 2016. [4] Jürgen Lessat, „Her mit der Kohle“, Kontext, 15. 06. 2016. [5] LBBW Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2015, S. 73. [6] Offener Brief an Rainer Neske, Vorstandsvorsitzender der LBBW, 1. November 2016. [7] Fair Finance Guide Deutschland, http://fairfinanceguide.de/ffg-d/banken/lbbw/ [8] „LBBW stellt Nahrungsmittelspekulationen ein“, ZEIT Online, 26. 06. 2012. [9] „Baden-Württemberg gestalten“, Koalitionsvertrag zwischen Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg und der CDU Baden-Württemberg, 2016, S. 15.

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  Created by Christine Langkamp
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  The People's Pension - Go Fossil Free

  Investing in the fossil fuel industry risks pension fund members' money as fossil fuel assets increasingly risk becoming stranded assets. The urgent global climate action needed will increasingly mean fossil fuels will be unburnable and need to stay in the ground. It also makes no sense for us to be saving for our future using investments that fundamentally threaten that future and security.

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  Created by Chayley Collis
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  Divest Albuquerque Academy from Fossil Fuels

  As the top college preparatory school in New Mexico, the Albuquerque Academy is educating the leadership of the future, our children. Yet by supporting their educational mission with fossil fuel monies, the school is taking away that future from its students. Removing fossil fuels in all ways from the Academy's investment portfolio sends a clear message to students and parents that the Academy cares about the world its students face and is willing to take real action to make that world a more hopeful place. Conversely, failing to take action is equivalent to condemning the school's graduates to a future of misery — subverting the education those graduates have worked for and families have paid for. We hope that the Academy sees the sense in supporting its role as a world-class educational institution by not contributing to a future in which education will not matter.

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  Created by Elizabeth Anker
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  Divest Museum of Science and Industry From Fossil Fuels

  The Museum earns investment income from companies that profit from the extraction of fossil fuels, whose role in energy production is a major contributor to global warming. This undermines public confidence in the sincerity and validity of the Museum's programs for transmitting scientific knowledge. The other major Chicago science museum, the Field Museum, announced on November 13, 2015 that it had divested from fossil fuels some time ago. It is long past time for the Museum of Science and Industry to do so as well.

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  Created by Fabrice Smieliauskas
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  Divest Hartlepool From Fossil Fuels

  Local councils invest over £14 billion in the fossil fuel industry. We know that to stop catastrophic climate change we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground and transition quickly towards a clean renewable economy. 350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. Accelerating arctic warming and other early climate impacts have led scientists to conclude that we are already above the safe zone at our current 390ppm, and that unless we are able to rapidly return to below 350 ppm this century, we risk reaching tipping points and irreversible impacts such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and major methane releases from increased permafrost melt. It’s imperative that our councils and pension funds break ties with this sector and divest from fossil fuels. By doing so, they can take necessary action to protect fund members’ pensions from risky investments, and join hundreds of public institutions worldwide in taking a stand against an industry which is causing climate chaos and endangering our future.

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  Created by Christopher Pattison
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  CalSTRS: Divest from Big Oil

  The Board of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has made several important decisions to address the effects of global warming over the last year. It divested from some thermal coal companies and initiated a $2.5 billion low-carbon index fund. It has also conducted ground-breaking discussions about the nature of fiduciary duty — the fund’s responsibility to protect the welfare of its members. This discussion has expanded the definition of fiduciary duty from the usual, purely financial terms to include a consideration of the risk of climate change. But the Board has not gone far enough. Even the numerous good-faith efforts that CalSTRS has made, over a period of many years, to engage constructively with oil and gas companies on climate risk have been unfruitful. Big Oil has not responded in any meaningful way. Therefore, it’s time for the CalSTRS Board to abandon a policy of shareholder engagement. Friendly dialogue and well-meaning resolutions with oil companies have produced no significant results. Despite decades of sustained shareholder efforts on climate change, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell have continued to flout international climate agreements, spread misinformation, and lobby against climate progress. It is time to take decisive action: to divest from all fossil fuels by 2020. Little time remains to avert catastrophe — both financial and environmental. Continued investment in the fossil fuel industry exposes CalSTRS to the risk of the deflating carbon bubble: 80 percent of coal, oil, and gas reserves are unburnable (and therefore ultimately worthless) if we are to adhere to the under-2°C Paris climate agreement target. More than 190 countries have pledged to meet the 2° target. They recognize that climate chaos would not only endanger public welfare, it would disrupt the global economy, putting all of CalSTRS’ assets at risk. Under these circumstances, divestment is the appropriate action for the Board to take as a prudent fiduciary and a cautious investment manager. You can find more information about Fossil Free California's campaigns at FossilFreeCA.org.

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  Created by Fossil Free California
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  Divest Gareth Morgan Investments Kiwisaver

  People who invest in Gareth Morgan Kiwisaver care for their futures. But those futures will be bleak indeed if fossil fuels continue to be extracted and burnt at the rate at which they are today. Kiwis love our biodiversity and we love our lifestyle. We want others to have a fair go, and we don't want to see vast fortunes being made by the few at the expense of increased droughts, desertification, floods, famines and wars. Those of us who are lucky enough to have a little money to invest in our future, want to invest it wisely. There is no economic sustainability without environmental sustainability. Let us have the choice to invest in a future without the worst excesses of global climate change. Listen to ordinary Kiwis- divest fossil fuel investments now.

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  Created by Megan Owen
• DIVEST HIRUNDO WILDLIFE TRUST FROM FOSSIL FUELS

  We must protect the Earth from global warming if we are to protect the Hirundo Wildlife Refuge for future generations of wildlife and human life.

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  Created by Dianne Kopec
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  Divest the Bronx High School of Science Endowment Fund from Fossil Fuels

  As a leading educator of future scientists, the Bronx Science endowment should not invest in companies that profit from carbon pollution. 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. Scientists 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.

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  Created by Jeremiah (Jay) Schuur
• AnsvarligFremtid

  Eksperter er enige om at menneskeskabt global opvarmning forårsaget af afbrænding af kul, gas, og olie vil fortsætte med at accelerere og intensivere tragiske klimakatastrofer. Den videnskabelige konsensus er tydelig og overvældende; det er ikke sikkert at afbrænde selv blot halvdelen af de allerede eksisterende reserver af kul, gas og olie uden at opvarme kloden katastrofalt. Den uundgåelige overgang til en kulstoffattig økonomi vil hurtigt ødelægge værdien af ​​mange af de investeringer i kul-, gas- og olieselskaber, som vores pensionsselskaber holder på vores vegne. Det er på ingen måde betryggende at vide, at vores pensionsopsparinger er sat i firmaer, som både er risikable papirer og ødelæggende for klimaet, da dette i begge henseender er et stort gamble med vores fremtid.

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  Created by Rune Johansen