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  Divest UofT

  █████████████████████████████ ➽➽➽ Burning fossil fuels causes CLIMATE DESTABILIZATION ➽ Stocks in fossil fuels are OVER-VALUED & UNSUSTAINABLE ➽➽ Divestment makes FINANCIAL + ETHICAL sense for U of T █████████████████████████████ To avoid dangerous climate destabilization the world needs to urgently move from carbon-intensive fossil-fuel production to carbon-neutral energy production. Fossil fuel companies have more than five times the reserves of carbon than can safely be burned, yet they continue to search for more reserves and increase their emissions. The high stock value of fossil fuel companies also rests on the dubious assumption that all of these fuels will be burned. In a world where fossil fuel production and consumption must be curtailed these stocks are significantly over-valued and divestment makes both financial and ethical sense. The University of Toronto is heavily invested in fossil-fuel companies, with a significant portion of its ~$1.5 billion endowment devoted to this unsustainable industry. The danger of climate destabilization obliges us to transition away from fossil fuels in the very near future.

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  Created by Stuart Basden
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  TOGO 100 FOSSILE 2030

  Participons au developpement durable de nos communautés

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  Created by Esso Pedessi
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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 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
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  Divest Vallejo from Fossil Fuels

  We hold the future of our children and grandchildren in our hands. In the words of Seattle's Mayor McGinn, "We’re the first generation to see the effects of climate change, and the last generation who can do anything about it. To refuse to use every tool at our disposal in this fight – to embrace inaction – is to endorse a trajectory that will lead to suffering, privation, and calamity" The world leaders agreed in the Copenhagen Climate Summit that raising the global temperature more than 2 degrees Celsius would be devastating for civilization. If we continue to burn fossil fuels at current rates we will surpass this target within 12 to 15 years. Today we are already witnessing the effects of accelerated climate change: increased global temperatures have caused more extreme weather, food and water shortages, resource conflicts, climate refugees, and negative health impacts which have been felt disproportionately by coastal and impoverished communities. This is not a partisan issue, it is an ethical issue. Ethical financing is a statement that we will not support the profits of fossil fuel companies while millions of poor people around the globe bear the brunt of climate change as they experience famine, mass emigration and civil unrest as a result. The burning of fossil fuels is the major contributor to the greenhouse gas build-up which causes global climate change. To prevent climate chaos, the fossil fuel industries have to keep 80% of their reserves underground. They will not do this willingly. However, as a community, we have the power to convince them by divesting from fossil fuels. Divestment from fossil fuel companies can: a) drive public awareness of the incalculable damage being done by the fossil fuel industry as it generates huge immediate profits in exchange for an uninhabitable future;  b) build public recognition of the urgent need to drastically and rapidly reduce humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels;  c) call widespread attention to the consequences of continuing a “business as usual” approach to extracting, marketing and burning fossil fuel;  d) lead to inspiring and urgent, accelerated and popular commitment to leave untapped 80% of the known carbon reserves,while developing renewable energy resources capable of meeting humanity’s needs – thus making it possible that life as we have known it might continue on earth. You can read the Carbon Tracker list at http://www.carbontracker.org/ You can review fossil fuel and fossil free investments at https://fossilfreefunds.org/

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  Created by Richard Fisher