Fossil fuel divestment
News and analysis on carbon and fossil fuel divestment
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Former archbishop of Canterbury says the university should withdraw its £5.8bn fund from from oil, coal and gas on ethical and financial grounds
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Editorial: It was a spectacular signal of global intent on Friday when more than 170 governments signed up to the Paris deal. But it’s just the start of a long, hard road
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Earth Day will see calls on college campuses to pull funds from carbon-producing fuels but activists should consider positive ways to change energy policy
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Tory London mayoral candidate supports pulling City Hall’s fund out of oil, coal and gas companies if elected
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From coffee shortages to Leonardo DiCaprio’s filming nightmares, put your extreme weather knowledge to the test
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Amid dire warnings for the future of coal, the lenders signed off on $5.5bn worth of deals for the sector in 2015, according to analysis by activist group
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Climate Home: Fossil fuel industry must show it is a ‘force for good’ in face of campaign to blacklist polluting assets, Ali Al-Naimi tells oilmen
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AGL boss Andrew Vesey wants to bring the energy company into the future, with plans to digitise domestic electricity services and for at-home micro power plants
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More than 250 professors at the former home of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders sign petition, but university resists over tradition
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The mayor of Denmark’s capital launches a push to withdraw the city’s £700m investment fund out of coal, oil and gas holdings
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Tom Swann, a researcher at the Australia Institute, says anyone exposed to the fossil fuel energy sector has lost money in the past three years
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Environmentalists say move puts health research funding charity ‘on the wrong side of history’
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Guardian Sustainable Business launches in Australia today. We’ve asked a group of leading experts to advise us on our work in this field, and here some of them explain what sustainability means to them, and why everybody should be thinking about it
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Guardian Environment Network Universities of Newcastle and Southampton join fossil fuel divestment push