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WILL ONTARIO TEACHERS GIVE TARSANDS OIL A FAILING GRADE?
Teachers are thought leaders, nurturing the next generation of citizens who will be responsible for life on our commonly shared planet. Working together, teachers can demand as much as $17 billion of THEIR pension funds be re-directed to green energy projects that will employ their students and reduce carbon emissions in Canada dramatically. Teachers encourage such ethics in their students; now it's time to walk the talk. Each signature will help teachers re-direct those mighty funds in new and exciting ways that will have significant impact on Canada's carbon contribution to the Canadian environment and help give us a safer, greener country, and planet.

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Created by Lois Lockhart
AnsvarligFremtid
It is immoral to earn money from the destruction of our planet. This is why we need to divest from the big coal, oil and gas companies profiting from this desctruction.

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Created by Thomas Meinert Larsen
Raus aus fossilen Brennstoffen – keine KfW Gelder für neue Kohleprojekte!
Die internationalen Klimaverhandlungen stagnieren, während die CO2-Emissionen weiter dramatisch steigen. Dabei gehört die Nutzung von Kohle zu den größten Treibern des menschengemachten Klimawandels. Selbst die Internationale Energieagentur (IEA) warnt eindringlich, dass keine neuen Kohlekraftwerke mehr gebaut werden dürfen. Einige öffentliche Banken, darunter die Weltbank und die Europäische Investitionsbank, schränken ihre Kohleinvestitionen massiv ein – nicht jedoch die KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau). Dabei tragen alle Investitionen in Kohle und in andere fossile Brennstoffe dazu bei, dass sich eine „Kohlenstoffblase“ bildet: Die nachgewiesenen Rohstoffreserven von fossilen Unternehmen (nach denen sich ihr Börsenwert berechnet) enthalten etwa fünf mal so viel CO2 wie maximal noch in die Atmosphäre ausgestoßen werden darf, wenn die Erderwärmung auf 2°C begrenzt werden soll. Deshalb formt sich eine Bewegung, die von Universitäten, Kommunen, Banken, Pensionsfonds fordert, ihr Geld nicht mehr in fossilen Unternehmen anzulegen, also zu desinvestieren. 350.org hat nun mit dieser Arbeit in Deutschland begonnen. Gleichzeitig sind Desinvestitions-Kampagnen in Schweden, den Niederlanden, der Schweiz und in England aktiv. Der große Erfolg der Fossil Free Kampagne in den USA, Australien und Neuseeland zeigt, dass wir auf dem richtigen Weg sind. Um den Schwung der Fossil Free Europe Tour in Berlin zu nutzen, wollen wir als erstes der KfW Beine machen: Sie fördert zwar seit vielen Jahren Energieeffizienz, erneuerbare Energien sowie Umwelt- und Klimaprojekte, doch gleichzeitig konterkariert sie ihr eigenes Engagement, indem sie aktuell am Neubau von mindestens neun Kohlekraftwerken, zwei Kohleminen und mehreren Kohleinfrastrukturprojekten weltweit beteiligt ist. In Kürze will die KfW über einen Kredit für das neue Braunkohlekraftwerk Ptolemaida V in Griechenland entscheiden. Nun ist es an der Zeit für uns zu Handeln: So wie die klima-allianz deutschland und urgewald e.V. fordern wir die KfW auf, zukünftige Investitionen in Kohleprojekte zu stoppen und bei Ptolemaida V zu beginnen. Wir bitten Euch: unterzeichnet die Petition an die KfW, Investitionen in Kohle zu stoppen. Go Fossil Free.

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Created by Christine Langkamp
VANGUARD, FIDELITY, SCHWAB: WE WANT FOSSIL-FREE MUTUAL FUNDS.
I want to invest in a livable future for all of us and the generations to come. Continued dependence on fossil fuels is not environmentally sustainable. With the escalation of global warming, it has become clear that it is financially reckless and morally wrong to support business as usual in fossil fuels development.

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Created by 350.org Silicon Valley
Fossil Free NYBG
As a leader in education and science, the Garden has a responsibility to stand up to climate change polluters and show leadership by divesting from fossil fuel interests.

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Created by Robin Sleith
Divest Norway's "Petroleum fund"
The world's largest souvereign wealth fund, http://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/, is holding shares worth $37bn dollars in 146 of the 200 biggest oil and coal companies, of which total reserves represent 679 gigatons CO2 if burned. The fund's huge positions in fossil fuels also violate their own ethical guidelines (Sec. 3 c) : The Ministry of Finance may, on the advice of the Council of Ethics, exclude companies from the investment universe of the Fund if there is an unacceptable risk that the company contributes to or is responsible for: c) severe environmental damage; http://www.regjeringen.no/mobil/en/sub/styrer-rad-utvalg/ethics_council/ethical-guidelines.html?id=425277 (background material presented in Norwegian) http://www.framtiden.no/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=621&Itemid=194 By the way, the whole fund ($130 bn) is fully derived from the petroleum industri (taxes, licence fees and dividends).

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Created by Oyvind Aasbrenn
DIVEST WEST MICHIGAN from FOSSIL FUELS
Our friends, pension fund managers, churches & local governments have 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 Hurricane Sandy or other area storms will 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 all people, churches, colleges & those local 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 Rich Dykstra
Publica, nimm unser Erspartes raus aus fossilen Brennstoffen
As the climate crisis is already ravaging our planet our goverments agreed to keep global warming under 2°C in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. This means 80% of the fossil fuels we know will have to stay in the ground. The fossil fuel industry lobby is avoiding any political progress in that direction. The last choice we are left with is to take on the fossil fuel industry directly. The first step is to stop giving them money. After 34 US institutions the Norwegian pension fund "Storebrand” and the Dutch bank "Rabobank” divested from fossil fuels.

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Created by Quentin Repond
A CALL TO DIVEST AVON PENSION FUND FROM FOSSIL FUELS
There is strong evidence (1) that the impact on climate change of burning even the known reserves of fossil fuels will create an unsustainable environment for the generations to come, and untold suffering to countless living beings. This fact will impact negatively on the value of investments in the industries concerned with fossil fuel extraction. Using just the fossil fuel reserves listed on the world’s stock markets would be enough to take us beyond 2°C of global warming (2). This means that more than 80 per cent of the world's known coal reserves, 30 per cent of known oil and 50 per cent of gas reserves need to stay in the ground and drilling in the Arctic is out of the question if we're to stay below two degrees. Recent drops in the oil price add to the uncertainty surrounding fossil fuels and the financial viability of some extractions presenting opportunities to lessen our dependency on fossil fuels (3). In defiance of mainstream research evidence and international policy (4), fossil fuel companies continue to extract and burn as much carbon as possible to maximise their profits. Despite the very high probability of planetary disaster they show no intention of switching away from their core business model. Our local council has a responsibility to divest from an industry that’s destroying the very future for ourselves and for our children that personal investment in a pension seeks to enhance. Instead it should reinvest in solutions to climate change. We won’t see any political progress on climate change until we can weaken the power of the fossil fuel industry. Divestment for fossil fuel investments would also minimise the council's exposure to the financial risk of the 'carbon bubble', whereby shareholders risk being left with stranded assets (worthless fuel stocks that regulation will prevent from being burned). It is a paradox that pension funds providing income for the future should at the same time be investing in the fossil fuel industry which if left to its own devices will exploit more of the fossil fuel reserves than we can safely use! Institutions around the world including local government, universities and churches are pulling out of fossil fuel investments and moving towards a clean energy future (5) It's time to divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in clean energy now for inescapable moral and economic reasons. Bristol City Council have recently agreed to make a commitment to no direct investments in the fossil fuel industry and globally over 30 cities and municipalities have already committed to divestment. At present Bristol City Council’s funds are not directly linked to the fossil fuel industry. However, the Avon Pension Fund does have significant fossil fuel investments and so Bristol City Council would need to work with adjoining councils within the Avon Pension Fund to freeze and withdraw those investments. Shareholders (including pension funds) have started to challenge Exxon, Shell and BP to show how their business model is compatible with a 2 degree temperature rise (6). Some argue that engaging with fossil fuel companies is a more effective tactic than divestment. But Jonathon Porritt, one of the UK’s most esteemed environmentalists who spent years working on sustainability projects with BP and Shell, earlier this year said engagement was now futile because “hydrocarbon supremacists” at the companies had successfully ousted reformers wanting to diversify into green energy. Divestment, therefore, seems to be an unavoidable step to halting the damage and suffering which will ensue unless timely action is taken. 1 http://350.org/about/science/ 2 http://math.350.org/ 3 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530043.100-over-a-barrel-falling-oil-prices-and-the-environment.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029415.700-an-oil-crash-is-on-its-way-and-we-should-be-ready.html#.VNI0c9kgGc0 4 http://www.ipcc.ch/ 5 http://zerocarbonbritain.org/index.php/zcb-latest-report 6 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/21/bp-challenged-confront-climate-change-risk-by-shareholders

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Created by richard lawrence
TESOL: Divest for a Fossil Free Future
For the future of all of humankind, and for the sake of all life on the planet, we must immediately withdraw financial support from the fossil fuel interests that are contributing to a "game over for the planet," catastrophic climate change scenario.

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Created by Helen Woerner

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