Tag: divestment
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Edinburgh International Book Festival forced to cancel partnership with sponsor
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has had to end its 20-year partnership with a sponsor after being targeted by pro-Palestinian protestors who object to its investment links with fossil fuels and Israel. The festival organisers said the pressure from activists has become “intolerable“. I know a little bit about this because when I started my…
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Bill McKibben and 565 gigatons
Bill McKibben – journalist, author and environmental activist – is currently touring Australia and New Zealand with a very simple message: We can afford to emit no more than 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide if we are to stay below 2°C of warming, but fossil fuel companies have enough fuel in their reserves to emit…
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