UPDATE (1/3/18, 3:00 p.m. EST): Today’s State of the State Address made only one brief comment on divestment, when Gov. Cuomo stated: “We call to an end to any investment in fossil fuel related activities in the pension fund. The future of the environment, the future of the economy and future of our children is …
A new study just released by the Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees (AME) raises serious concerns about proposals by New York political leaders to divest the state pension from fossil fuels. If the pension were to do so, the report finds that it would lose $2.8 billion over 20 years. The report’s analysis found …
Just hours after announcements from Governor Cuomo pushing — and New York State Comptroller DiNapoli again not committing to – divestment, the New York City Comptroller’s Office released an announcement previewing future divestment action by the funds. The New York City Comptroller’s office is led by Scott Stringer on behalf of the city’s five public …
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — – the office in charge of running the state pension fund on behalf of over 1 million New Yorkers — responded last night to divestment calls from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week, once again noting that he does not have plans to divest. The Governor’s announcement …
This week, the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) held its monthly meeting to discuss committee reports and initiatives underway, providing Twitter updates for the public throughout. One admission from the meeting: divestment goes strictly against the fund’s fiduciary duty to its members and beneficiaries. In addition to the $8.5 …
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) just announced it is “divesting” from thermal coal, but with so many caveats included in the decision, one must wonder if the school will actually end up doing any divesting at all. The Board of Trustees voted last week to cease buying stocks and bonds of companies that “produce coal for …
There was a fury of divestment activity on the NYU campus this past week, but at the end of the day, the school’s policy remains the same. First, students began occupying the administrative elevator in the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Friday to protest the school’s investments in fossil fuels. But students then called off …
Headlines continued last week about Norway’s sovereign wealth and its proposed idea to sell off its oil and natural gas holdings. As usual, activists like 350.org’s Bill McKibben over-exaggerated the news to prematurely claim it as a victory for the divestment movement, but a closer look behind tells a different story. Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign …
Last week, Fossil Free CU, the student divestment group at the University of Colorado at Boulder, announced it was ceasing operations in a Facebook post. It’s a somewhat ironic development based on the fact that CU Boulder is typically ranked among the nation’s “greenest” campuses each year—but it’s a reflection of where the divestment movement …
The state of Ohio has never been a hotbed for campus divestment activity, but a few students at Ohio University are attempting to reverse that trend. Earlier this week, the Ohio University student senate passed a bill that serves as a “call for the creation of a plan for divestment in fossil fuels.” According to …
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