Divestment Movement Hits Major Milestone As World Leaders Debate Climate Action In Paris

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By Mike GaworeckiDec 2, 2015, 6:28 am78 pts
More than 500 institutions that manage $3.4 trillion in assets have now committed to divesting holdings in fossil fuels, divestment campaign groups announced today in Paris. As recently as September 2014, just 181 institutions managing $50 billion in assets had made some sort of divestment commitment.350.org…

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