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  SAY NO TO FRACKING WAKANDA

  More than 200 different animal species in water died due to fracking in the Zaboa in 2018. Also, over 400 people in the Dizaaza kingdom were diagnose with respiratory related diseases between 2012-2018. These are evidences of the dire negative impact of fracking on human life and the environment.

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  Created by Paul Mutuku
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  Go Green

  We have no planet B to live in. It's time to divest fossil fuels and move to renewable energy.

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  Created by Asmaa Hanafi
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  Green society

  There is no planet B to live in. It's time for the bright future to divest fossil fuels.

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  Created by Asmaa Hanafi
• Fossil Free Augsburg

  Welche Gründe sprechen für ein Divestment der Stadt Augsburg? Klimapolitische Gründe für die Stadt Augsburg
: Die Nachhaltigkeitsagenda der Stadt Augsburg gibt im Unterpunkt Ökologie das umweltverträgliche, ressourceneffiziente und ressourcenschonende Wirtschaften an erster Stelle vor. Damit allein verbietet sich jegliche Unterstützung fossiler Energieträger. Der Ausstoß von Kohlendioxid (CO2) muss so schnell wie möglich drastisch gesenkt werden, da das globale Klima und die Ozeane keine weitere Erwärmung vertragen.
 Finanzielle Gründe für die Stadt Augsburg
: Die Finanzen der Stadt Augsburg müssen im Namen der Bürger nachhaltig und sicher investiert werden. Investitionen müssen sollten daher zukunftsweisend sein. Kohle-, Öl- und Gasunternehmen sind wie zuvor beschrieben überbewertet und es droht ein massiver Wertverlust. Stadtpolitische Gründe
: Die Umweltstadt Augsburg kann hier als 4. Stadt in Deutschland (neben Berlin, Münster und Stuttgart) eine klare Position beziehen und ebenfalls deinvestieren. Große Konzerne wie AXA und die Allianz, sowie der Norwegische Pensionsfond mit €800 Milliarden Investitionssumme entschlossen sich bereits zu einem (teilweisen) Divestment. Nur durch eine klare Position zum Klimaschutz kann der Umbau der Energieversorgung beschleunigt werden.

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  Created by Ludwig Peter & Christian Schön
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  1st group petition

  Because climate change

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  Created by Rachel Vuka Test
• 1st group petition

  Because climate change

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  Created by Rachel Vuka Test
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  Divest West Yorkshire Pension Fund from Fossil Fuel Investments

  Over 5% of WYPF's investments are in fossil fuel companies, including £207 million invested in BP and £171 million invested in Royal Dutch Shell. [1] Climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has encountered. Warming in excess of 2°C will have catastrophic consequences. In order to have a chance of staying below this maximum upper limit of warming 80% of known fossil fuel reserves must not be burnt. Recent research, instigated by the Carbon Tracker foundation, asserts that there are five times more fossil-fuel reserves than can be burnt if internationally agreed carbon emissions targets are to be met. The fossil fuel industry currently holds vast carbon reserves which if burnt would result in emissions 5 times larger than what it is deemed to be safe. All available evidence suggests that fossil fuel companies intend to burn the reserves within their control. In addition, companies such as Shell are actively trying to discover new reserves, often in environmentally sensitive regions. Fossil fuel equities also pose significant financial risks. As governments control carbon emissions to meet these targets a large proportion of fossil fuel reserves which companies expect to extract will become stranded assets: a “carbon bubble”. Funds which are exposed to fossil fuel equities when this bubble bursts can expect to suffer considerable losses. The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney has recently expressed concerns over climate risk, stating that the “vast majority of reserves are unburnable” if global temperature rises are to be limited to below 2C.[2] [1} WYPF Valuation March 2014 [2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/13/mark-carney-fossil-fuel-reserves-burned-carbon-bubble

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  Created by Chayley Collis
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  Divest Highlands from Fossil Fuels

  Climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has encountered. Warming in excess of 2°C will have catastrophic consequences. In order to have a chance of staying below this maximum upper limit of warming 80% of known fossil fuel reserves must not be burnt. The fossil fuel industry currently holds vast carbon reserves which if burnt would result in emissions 5 times larger than what it is deemed to be safe. All available evidence suggests that fossil fuel companies intend to burn the reserves within their control. In addition, companies such as Shell are actively trying to discover new reserves, often in environmentally sensitive regions. If it is wrong to damage the world we live in, then it is wrong to profit from that damage. Responsible investors should no longer be profiting from the destructive activities of these companies. The Highland Council are fully committed to both reducing the Highlands's contribution to climate change as well as safeguarding the Highlands against its impacts. In particular, they have developed Carbon Clever Highlands a Highland Council led initiative with a target of a carbon neutral Inverness in a low carbon Highlands by 2025. The Highland Council manages the pensions of its employees and needs to make sure these funds are transferred to investing in low carbon options rather than fossil fuels. Recent financial studies have shown that divestment from fossil fuels may have a small positive effect on investment portfolios in the short term. Moreover, in the long term these fossil fuel investments will become increasingly risky as the cost of extraction increases and international treaties restrict the use of fossil fuels. Not only does it make moral sense not to invest in the destruction of our planet, it also makes financial sense. It is illogical to allow pension funds to endanger those whose futures they seek to protect. Recent publications have highlighted the real dangers posed to Highlands from climate change, including an increased risk of flooding and storm damage. Continuing to invest in the fossil fuel industry contradicts the commitments of the Highland Council By divesting from fossil fuels, the Highland Council will join public institutions such as the British Medical Association, Glasgow University and Oxford City Council, amongst many others, in leading by example to help create a sustainable future it's citizens. So we ask: 1. The Highland Council to make a public statement supporting the principle of divestment and to commit to avoid investment in any bonds, stock or shares connected to fossil fuels. 2. The Highland Council to review their pension fund investments and - Immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, including those made by externally managed and pooled funds. - Offer a fossil free pension option to employees - Divest from the top 200 companies with the largest known carbon reserves (oil, gas and coal), and shift these funds to lower risk, ethical investments within 5 years 3. The Highland Council must be transparent about its relationship with the fossil fuel industry: - Publish full details of their financial and other ties to the fossil fuel industry - Not accept sponsorship and advertising from fossil fuel companies. - Declare their divestment from the fossil fuel industry in order to encourage other pension funds, institutions and individuals to do the same. 4. The Highland Council must do the above in a timely manner - By setting up a working group to report back on a strategy within three months from the submission of this petition

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  Created by Anne Thomas
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  Stop aux investissements financiers et économiques dans les énergies fossiles à Toulon !

  • Considérant que les engagements pris dans l'Accord de Paris adopté à l'issue de la COP21 par lequel la communauté internationale s'est engagée à maintenir le réchauffement climatique « bien en-deçà de 2°C », • considérant que le 25 novembre dernier, l'Assemblée nationale a adopté une résolution pour une « société bas carbone », dans laquelle elle « encourage les investisseurs institutionnels, les entreprises, notamment celles dont l’État est actionnaire et les collectivités territoriales à cesser d’investir dans les énergies fossiles et notamment dans le charbon », • considérant que dans son rapport « Unburnable carbon », la Carbon Tracker Initiative démontre que les entreprises du secteur des énergies fossiles exploitent ou s'apprêtent à exploiter des réserves de charbon, de gaz et de pétrole représentant 2 795 gigatonnes d'émissions potentielles de CO2, soit 5 fois ce que nous devrons émettre si nous souhaitons contenir le réchauffement sous cette barre de 2°C, • considérant que des travaux récemment publiés par la revue Nature ont montré que l'ensemble des combustibles fossiles présents dans le sous-sol, gisements exploités, en passe de l'être ou simplement identifiés, représentent 11 000 gigatonnes d'émissions potentielles de C02, soit 20 fois ce que nous devrons émettre si nous souhaitons pouvoir maintenir le réchauffement climatique sous cette barre des 2°C, • considérant la campagne lancée il y a trois ans par le mouvement 350.org de « désinvestissement du secteur fossile » qui se fonde sur le constat que certaines institutions encouragent le réchauffement climatique en détenant des investissements directs dans les entreprises du secteur des énergies fossiles, 350.org demande à ces institutions d’initier une stratégie responsable d’investissement, social et écologique pour agir en faveur du climat, • considérant que les entreprises ciblées par cette campagne appartiennent toutes à la liste des 200 entreprises qui possèdent les plus grandes réserves de charbon, de gaz et de pétrole, autrement dit les principales sources d'émissions de CO2 à venir listées par la « Carbon tracker initiative », • considérant que pour initier un réel changement, 2 principaux acteurs sont à convaincre en priorité : les fonds de pension et les banques qui gèrent des portefeuilles d’investissement très importants, • considérant que les caisses de retraites de la Fonction Publique (IRCANTEC, ERAFP, CNRAC) ainsi que le fonds de réserve pour les retraites détiennent plusieurs milliards d'actions et obligations émises par ces mêmes entreprises, • considérant que plus de 500 villes, universités, musées et autres institutions se sont d’ores et déjà engagées dans cette démarche à l’image de San Francisco ou Seattle ou encore de l’université de Stanford, du fonds souverain de Norvège, de la fondation Rockefeller Brothers, rejointes par la ville de Paris et par 34 collectivités locales françaises (parmi lesquelles les villes, Lille et Bordeaux, les régions Île-de-France et Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne), • considérant que la commune de Toulon et la métropole TPM ont la même responsabilité de protéger la vie et l'environnement de leurs administré(e)s, des conséquences du changement climatique, le groupe local « Climat / Zéro Fossile / Toulon & Environs » demande à chacune et chacun d’être « actrice / acteur » de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique en soutenant activement cette pétition, en la signant et en la diffusant le plus largement possible ! Pétition lancée à Toulon le 1er mai 2019 pour la 4ème marche pour le Climat ... Plus d'informations sont disponibles sur https://france.zerofossile.org

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  Created by Guy Cochennec
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  Divest Lewisham Council from Fossil Fuels

  Even as extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy, floods, droughts and fires threaten to overwhelm local budgets, federal inaction to solve this crisis is all but stalled. 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 institutions that care about the planet and its residents. Solving the climate crisis is the only practical choice for governments that care about their solvency.

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  Created by Katharine Lukowicz