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Fiduciary Responsibility | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. The issue of ‘fiduciary responsibility’. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From which there would be no hope of recovery on any timescale relevant to human civilization. Scientists as famous and respected as Stephen Hawking. Based on this global carbon budget, the International Energy Agency ( IEA. To have a 50% chance of mee...

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Low-Hanging Fruit | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. Some have argued that divesting from the publicly-traded fossil fuel corporations is pointless, as they only own a fraction of all proven fossil fuel reserves, with the rest being managed under the auspices of their state-owned equivalents. Indeed, publicly-traded fossil fuel corporations own about 25% of all proven reserves.

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Bridge Fuel Fallacy | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. An argument that is made against fossil fuel divestment is that natural gas is a vital “bridge fuel” for transitioning into a low-carbon economy, and that consequently divestment is not apt. Indeed, natural gas contains half the carbon content of coal, and increased competition. The fact of the matter is that every dollar that goes into n...

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Engagement Instead | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. It is sometimes argued that UH University should retain its holdings in fossil fuel corporations so that it can engage with them. We believe that this argument is technically incorrect and very disingenuous when made by the UH administration itself. Technically, by retaining. We favor divestment over engagement for various reasons, but we...

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Drop In The Bucket | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. Drop In The Bucket. One argument that is made against fossil fuel divestment is that it would not accomplish anything since UH’s investments in the fossil fuel industry constitute a very tiny blip of overall market capitalization in the industry. That is beside the point. In assets under management, of which only 2 percent. Consequently, ...

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Stranded Assets | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its World Energy Outlook. No more than one-third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050 if the world is to achieve the 2 C goal. With a probability of 50%]. 8221; The IEA also stated. In spite of this, the fossil fuel industry spent. It boggles the mind to contemplate how ...

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What Would… | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. What Would a Climate-Just World Look Like? The Board of Regents has voted to divest from fossil fuel stocks. Now please Add Your Voice asking UH Foundation to do so too! Epic by Slocum Studio.

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The Issues | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. That is the motivation for the divestment campaign. Just as divestment is said to have brought down the racist apartheid system in South Africa, it can also be used to shine light on the highly immoral activities in which the fossil fuel companies are engaged. 8220;, which those who seek to maintain the status quo offer as objections.

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Climate Justice | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. To clearly address what is meant by climate justice, we will pose and answer three questions in sequence:. What is climate justice? How does fossil fuel divestment relate to climate justice? What would a climate-just world look like? Epic by Slocum Studio.

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It Would Harm the Endowment | Divest UH

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Futile Tactic or Powerful Strategy? Drop In The Bucket. It Would Harm the Endowment. Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Community & Family. Media Advisory – UH Divestment. It Would Harm the Endowment. Several studies have emerged quantifying the financial impacts of divesting from fossil fuels, and they have, in aggregate, found no evidence to suggest that a financial portfolio would incur significant risk. Another study by Advisor Partners. Which is still low when considering that the average portfolio has...