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Divestment gains momentum with Rockefeller Brothers Fund announcement

by ostyx | Sep 25, 2014 | News, North America, Pollution/Health, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

The divestment movement gathered speed this week, as the day before the UN Climate Summit in New York, Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced it would divest from fossil fuel investments. The Rockefeller fortune which was founded in oil is worth $860million, 7% of which...

September 2014 – Speaking at the UN Climate Leaders Summit

by ostyx | Sep 23, 2014 | Our History

Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner speaks on behalf of civil society during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Leaders Summit in New York City. Watch the video

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner: 'We deserve to do more than just survive, we deserve to thrive'

by ostyx | Sep 23, 2014 | Features, Justice, News, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

Ban Ki-moon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore kicked off this morning’s UN Climate Leaders Summit with strong calls for climate action, but it was a mother’s poem to her six-month-old daughter that triggered a standing ovation from the United Nations General Assembly....

Live Blog: UN Climate Summit, New York

by ostyx | Sep 22, 2014 | Features, Governments, News, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

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Companies risk wasting billions expanding out-dated, risky coal

by ostyx | Sep 22, 2014 | Energy, News, Pollution/Health, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

Coal companies are on track to waste $112 billion of investors’ money on mine expansion that will be excess to requirements as China’s slowing demand for the fuel sends shockwaves across the world. That’s the warning of new analysis from the Carbon Tracker Initiative,...
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