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Fossil fuel divestment: a brief history | Environment | The Guardian
Naomi Klein, the Canadian author and activist, told an audience in London on Monday that the fossil fuel divestment campaign was a key step forward in tackling climate change: "I think this is part of a process of delegitimising this sector and saying these are odious profits, this is not a legitimate business model... ... For sheer symbolism if not financial value -- only $60m (£37m) of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund was invested in fossil fuels -- it was perhaps the high point of what has become known as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
How much of the world's fossil fuel can we burn? | Environment | The Guardian
Let deforestation and other warming agents run amok, however, while also aiming for better odds of staying below 2C, and we might have as little as 300 GT left for fossil fuels -- which would be closer to a 10th of proven reserves. ... Fuel reserves and emissions data The world's fossil fuel reserves are just a tiny slice of the total fuel resource that we know exists.
'Carbon bubble' poses serious threat to UK economy, MPs warn | Environment | The Guardian
Stock markets are inflating a "carbon bubble" by overvaluing companies that produce fossil fuels and greenhouse gases, and this poses a serious threat to the economy, an influential committee of UK MPs has warned. ... Much of the world's fossil fuel resource will have to be left unburned if the world is to avoid dangerous levels of global warming, the environmental audit committee warned.
The Logic of Divestment: Why We Have to Kiss Off Big Carbon | Rolling Stone
Exxon Mobil, America's largest oil company, despite having more than 25 billion barrels of proven reserves, sunk more than $7 billion into new exploration in 2013 alone. ... By contrast, the divestment movement is targeting just 200 of the largest publicly traded fossil-fuel firms, globally -- 100 from oil and gas and 100 from coal -- ranked by the size of their proven reserves.
Mark Carney: most fossil fuel reserves can't be burned | Environment | The Guardian
The governor of the Bank of England has reiterated his warning that fossil fuel companies cannot burn all of their reserves if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change, and called for investors to consider the long-term impacts of their decisions. ... Mark Carney: most fossil fuel reserves can't be burned
IEA - Investment
This special report in the World Energy Outlook series takes up this question in a full and comprehensive update of the energy investment picture to 2035 -- a first full update since the 2003 World Energy Investment Outlook . ... With benchmark data on past investment trends and updated projections for investment at regional and global level, the report provides insights into:
US coal sector in 'structural decline', financial analysts say | Environment | The Guardian
The world's largest private coal company, Peabody Energy, lost 80% of its share price. ... A report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative found that in the past five years the US coal industry lost 76% of its value.
Leave fossil fuels buried to prevent climate change, study urges | Environment | The Guardian
Vast amounts of oil in the Middle East, coal in the US, Australia and China and many other fossil fuel reserves will have to be left in the ground to prevent dangerous climate change, according to the first analysis to identify which existing reserves cannot be burned. ... The work, using detailed data and well-established economic models, assumed cost effective climate policies would use the cheapest fossil fuels first, with more expensive fuels priced out of a world in which carbon emissions were strictly limited.
Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn't compete | Giles Parkinson | Comment is free | The Guardian
Prices were deflated throughout the week, largely because of the influence of one of the newest, biggest power stations in the state -- rooftop solar . ... State-owned generators like Stanwell are specifically blaming rooftop solar.
Solar at grid parity in most of world by 2017 : Renew Economy
One example: when the cloud blows away, your system may kill a lineman miles away, due to back feed on an open circuit (he thought it was shut off). ... When Investment banks, like Deutsche Bank, sign "All-In" hard dollar contracts with damages for non performance, in the hundreds of billions range, I will believe in grid parity solar energy.
Breakdown of Electricity Generation by Energy Source | The Shift Project Data Portal
I find your sentence "Conventional thermal electricity represents the electricity generated by an electric power plant using coal, petroleum, or gas as its source of energy" somewhat unclear: do the given numbers represent the TWh of electricity, or the TWh of thermal. ... Conventional thermal electricity represents the electricity generated by an electric power plant using coal, petroleum, or gas as its source of energy.
Fossil fuels face $30 trillion losses from climate, renewables : Renew Economy
The global fossil fuel industry faces a loss of $US28 trillion ($A30.2 trillion) in revenues over the next two decades, if the world takes action to address climate change, cleans up pollution and moves to decarbonise the global energy system. ... "This suggests, perhaps paradoxically, that there could be a real risk to the oil industry from rising oil prices under a BAU scenario, as combined with continuing reductions in the costs of renewable technologies this could drive the accelerated substitution of oil in the global energy mix over the next two decades,â it writes.
Stanwell blames solar for decline in fossil fuel baseload : Renew Economy
Stanwell Corp, the Queensland government owned electricity generator, has failed to make any money in the past year from its 4,000MW of coal and gas fired generation because rooftop solar has taken away demand and pushed down wholesale electricity prices. ... Stanwell said the past year had been the most difficult since the inception of the National Electricity Market in 1997, and the next two years would also be difficult.But it was hopeful it could generate returns of 8-10 per cent in it coal and gas fired generation business by 2017/18.
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Keep it in the Ground campaign: six things we've learned | Environment | The Guardian
Despite declaring that climate change demands that the world moves much more aggressively right now, the world's largest charitable foundation refused to comment on fossil fuel investment. ... The Wellcome Trust will not divest despite excluding some fossil fuel companies
Keep it in the ground: Guardian climate change campaign | Environment | The Guardian
Evidence shows that proven fossil fuel reserves are more than three times higher than we can afford to burn in order to stay below the generally agreed threshold for dangerous climate change. ... What they say We're not going to be able to burn it all...
UN climate envoy backs fossil fuel divestment movement
Accountability must be at the heart of the Paris climate pact 31 March Tougher climate pledges "could save millions of lives" UN climate envoy backs fossil fuel divestment movement... Mary Robinson says funds should consider the impact of their fossil fuel investments on those vulnerable to climate change Mary Robinson is a climate justice campaigner, UN special envoy and former president of Ireland
We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet | Desmond Tutu | Comment is free | The Guardian
We can press our governments to invest in renewable energy and stop subsidising fossil fuels. ... Campaign against fossil fuels growing, says study
Natalie Portman Calls on Fellow Harvard Alumni to Support Divestment
Notable Harvard alumni including Natalie Portman and RFK Jr released a letter Friday calling on their brethren to join current students in demanding that Harvard sell off stocks in companies that deal in fossil fuels. ... On Friday, lawyers for the university asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by Harvard students demanding that the school has a duty to stop financially supporting companies that contribute to climate change.
The Carbon Underground 2015 - Fossil Free Indexes, LLC
The CO 2 emissions potential of the coal, oil and gas reserves of the worldâÂÂs 200 largest public fossil fuel companies continues to grow (10.3% since year-end 2010), despite the dwindling carbon emissions budget implied by a broad government policy agreement to avoid excessive global warming. ... The Carbon Underground 200 identifies the top 100 public coal companies globally and the top 100 public oil and gas companies globally, ranked by the potential carbon emissions content of their reported reserves.
The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming an overwhelming one | Alan Rusbridger | Environment | The Guardian
When the Bank of England's deputy head of supervision for banks and insurance companies, Paul Fisher, warns, as he did this month : "As the world increasingly limits carbon emissions, and moves to alternative energy sources, investments in fossil fuels -- a growing financial market in recent decades -- may take a huge hit" ... There are two arguments in favour of moving money out of the biggest and most aggressive fossil fuel companies -- one moral, the other financial.
Fossil Free Indexes Releases "The Carbon Underground" Ranking the World's Top 200 Public Fossil Fuel Companies - Yahoo Finance
A family of broad market fossil free indexes based on the list is currently under development. ... About Fossil Free Indexes Fossil Free Indexes was founded to provide benchmarks and strategies for ethical investing with an initial focus on broad market indexes ex-fossil fuels defined exactly in line with the divestment movement.
Stanford to divest from coal companies
In the investment context, in addition to the action on coal, Stanford's existing proxy voting guidelines adopted earlier by the Board of Trustees mandate that the university vote "yes" on proxy resolutions asking companies to adopt sustainability principles, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the energy efficiency of their operations. ... The move reflects the availability of alternate energy sources with lower greenhouse gas emissions than coal.