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Norway Divests From Fossil Fuels

Page history last edited by Malcolm 8 years, 9 months ago

 

Dear friends,

It’s official and unanimous: this afternoon Norway’s parliament voted to sell its country’s pension fund shares in companies that mine and burn coal. That’s the largest divestment ever,  with a staggering $8.8bn being moved out of the dirtiest fossil fuel industry.

Now, with your help again, we can push another major pension fund to divest -- the Netherlands’s ABP fund.  Click here to tweet at ABP’s chairwoman.

Norway’s decision sends the clearest possible signal to all investors and governments worldwide --  it’s time to get out of coal and move quickly beyond fossil fuels, or you’ll be left behind.


http://act.350.org/go/7687?t=2&akid=6887.209616.bV_ZJC
Who’s going to be next? With your help, we believe we can nudge the world’s third largest pension fund, the ABP, to divest from all fossil fuels. Just last week, their Chair Corien Wortmann got a tough grilling from a popular Dutch news anchor. She was asked repeatedly to respond to the growing @ABPfossielvrij campaign calling on them to divest from fossil fuels.

Send a thank you tweet to Norway and call on the ABP pension fund to divest from fossil fuels next.

Almost 50,000 people helped to shine an international spotlight on Norway’s dirty investments and rapidly shifted all of its political parties in favour of divestment -- today’s vote was unanimous: coal is an unethical investment.  

Now let’s persuade the ABP’s Corien Wortmann that divestment is the right thing to do, right now.

It’s thanks to divestment activists and supporters like you that we’re making such impressive progress.  Well done and thank you to you all!

Nicolò

P.S.  Today is only the first (big) step in the campaign to #DivestNorway fully from fossil fuels -- it has a long way to go to divest itself fully of fossil fuel companies. But, it’s a promising victory for our movement  and we’re in it for the long-haul -- join us.


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