
Tag: Divestment


Op-Ed: The Climate Investment Dilemma—Divestment or Decarbonization?

Maine Becomes First State to Pass Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill
The state pension fund has more than $1 billion invested in companies such as Chevron, Exxon, and ConocoPhillips.

The Exxon Vote: Pension Supporters Stay Onboard to Advance Change
CalPERS, CalSTRS, and NY Common helped push through outside directors at the oil leviathan, rather than unload its shares.

Utah Endowment Considers Realignment Toward Sustainability
University’s Academic Senate approves recommendations to shift portfolio to ‘positive sustainability investments.’

CalPERS Rejects Reinvesting in Tobacco Again
Pension plan’s investment committee votes down a second attempt from member Jason Perez to reverse its 20-year-old ban.

Endowments Embrace Net-Zero Portfolios: Is It the Future of Investment Management?
Questions remain about how to measure risks and what a proper framework looks like, but more colleges and universities are taking the plunge.

Tufts University to End Direct Investments into Coal and Tar Sands
The school will also invest up to $25 million with climate impact funds.

Two NYC Pension Funds Divesting $4 Billion from Oil Companies

Australia’s IFM Investors Targets Net Zero Goal by 2050

USS Targets Tobacco, Thermal Coal for Divestment, Exclusion
UK’s largest pension plan will shun investments, like tobacco and coal, it deems ‘financially unsuitable.’

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Profits From Divestment

Oxford University Bans Fossil Fuel Investments

Harvard Adopts Goal for ‘Net-Zero’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050
