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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
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  Sparkasse Aachen - Raus aus RWE

  Sehr geehrter Herr Herpers, Der kürzlich veröffentlichte neuste Bericht des Weltklimarats spricht eine deutliche Sprache. Wenn wir den Klimawandel auf unter 2º Celsius begrenzen wollen, darf der Großteil der fossilen Energiereserven wie Kohle, Öl und Gas nicht verbrannt werden. Alles andere würde eine Destabilisierung des Klimas mit katastrophalen Folgen für Mensch und Natur nach sich ziehen. Laut Weltklimarat, müssen Investitionen in fossile Energieträger jährlich um $30 Milliarden reduziert werden, während Investitionen in kohlenstoffarme Energiegewinnung um $147 Milliarden steigen müssen. Außerdem ist damit zu rechnen, dass Unternehmen im fossilen Sektor in den kommenden Jahren stark an Wert verlieren werden, weil sie ihre Rohstoffvorkommen nicht mehr fördern und verkaufen können. Die Finanzwelt spricht von einer Kohlenstoffblase, die kurz davor ist zu platzen. Damit stellen Investitionen öffentlicher Gelder in fossile Energien ein hohes finanzielles Risiko dar. Die jüngsten Entwicklungen von RWE und Eon verstärken den Eindruck, dass das Geschäftsmodell des fossilen Sektors nicht zukunftsfähig ist. Studien der Internationalen Energieagentur, der Universität Oxford sowie verschiedener Großbanken wie HSBC oder Citi warnen vor Investitionen in diesem Sektor. Der Vorstandsvorsitzende der RWE AG Peter Terium hat zwar angekündigt, RWE im kommenden Jahr in zwei Konzerne aufzuspalten, die mittelfristigen Entwicklungen für das Unternehmen lassen sich allerdings noch nicht abschätzen. Energieexperten wie Claudia Kemfert sehen den Schritt von RWE eher als kurzfristige Marketingstrategie, denn als substantielle Lösung. Fakt ist aber, dass die CO2-Emissionen im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier seit 1990 nicht abgenommen, sondern noch einmal um 9% zugelegt haben. Und RWE hat auch nach den letzten Verlautbarungen keinen Kurswechsel eingeläutet und plant weiterhin in Niederaußem ein neues Braunkohlekraftwerk zu bauen. Um die NRW-Klimaschutzziele 25 Prozent Treibhausgas-Reduktion und die deutschen Klimaschutzziele minus 40 Prozent Treibhausgas-Reduktion bis 2020 einhalten zu können, müssen weitere Kohlekraftwerke abgeschaltet werden. Überall auf der Welt beginnen daher Städte, Gemeinden, Kirchen, Universitäten, Stiftungen und andere Institutionen ihre Investments aus den 200 größten Kohle-, Erdöl- und Erdgasunternehmen abzuziehen. Ein solches Divestment erreicht zweierlei: Einerseits schützt es vor den Gefahren zukünftiger Wertverluste und sichert so nachhaltig die finanzielle Stabilität Ihrer Stadt. Andererseits entzieht es klimaschädlichen Unternehmen die gesellschaftliche Zustimmung und trägt so zu Wandel bei, der aufgrund der Klimakrise notwendig geworden ist. In den Vereinigten Staaten haben bereits 25 Städte verbindlich beschlossen ihre Anteile an Unternehmen des fossilen Sektors zu verkaufen. Darunter sind Großstädte wie San Francisco oder Seattle. In den Niederlanden hat sich die Stadt Boxtel Ende 2013 als erste europäische Stadt verbindlich Divestment verschrieben. Im November 2015 beschloss Münster für ihre Finanzanlagen einen Kriterienkatalog, der sogar über die Forderungen von Fossil Free hinausgeht. Mit Ihrer Hilfe kann die Sparkasse Aachen nun in Deutschland die erste Sparkasse sein, die zeigt, dass eine nachhaltige Finanzpolitik mit Rücksicht auf Natur und zukünftige Generationen möglich ist. Wir möchten hiermit an Sie appellieren, die oben genannten Forderungen bei der Erstellung eines neuen Kriterienkataloges für die Finanzanlagen der Sparkasse Aachen zu berücksichtigen. Für Rückfragen stehen wir Ihnen gerne zur Verfügung unter: DivestAachen@gmx.org Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Gary Evans Divest Aachen

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  Created by Gary Evans
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