Divestment
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The following resources about fossil fuel divestment were prepared by our partner @SriEvent. Check out website for more resources, news, #LiveTweeting, and more.
-The original report released in 2011 by Carbon Tracker that codified the concepts of "stranded assets" and "carbon bubble" from which the fossil fuel divestment movement and campaign started
- This article by Bill McKibben published on Rollingstone.com in 2012 triggered the fossil fuel divestment movement and campaign first in US college campuses and then across the world
- Pope Francis' so-called "green" encyclical that stressed the urgent need to progressively phase out fossil fuels and inspired the Catholic world to act on climate through divestment
- The law that in 2016 made Ireland the first country in the world to divest from fossil fuels
- The law that in 2021 made the Main State the first in the US to divest from fossil fuels
- The moment Harvard University, the richest on earth, in 2021 committed to divest from fossil fuels in practice after a decade of resistance to one of the longest, strongest and most iconic divestment campaigns in the world, carried out by its students
- A decade of progress towards a just climate future (released October 26, 2021)
- The database of fossil fuel divestment commitments made by institutions worldwide
- This US-based non-profit, climate activist organization was co-founded by Bill McKibben and represents the heart of the fossil fuel divestment movement and campaign ("350" stands for 350 parts per million, which is the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere considered safe by scientists)
- Formerly the Global Catholic Climate Movement. They have a great section on Divestment. This is a coalition of Catholic institutions and organizations from across the world committed to acting on climate, being inspired by Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato si', which is linked above
- A global network of organizations committed to divest from fossil fuels and (re)invest in climate solutions in order to tackle the climate crisis
- A global initiative launched in 2020 to phase out fossil fuels and support a just transition through an internationally binding treaty modeled on the historical Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons