Sentence examples for Divest from inspiring English sources

Other bills in the package included measures to push public pension plans to divest in coal companies, require cities to include climate considerations in their general plans, and a proposal to study atmospheric rivers to increase water supply reliability.

The main reason to divest from the fossil fuels is – it's simply the right thing to do.

Related: Edinburgh university rejects calls to divest from all fossil fuels There wasn't much that was black and white beyond a fundamental agreement that human activity, and as a large part of that the burning of fossil fuels for energy, was driving climate change.

The Holmes Report, which covers the public relations industry and first reported the split, said Blue would divest from Edelman and go on handling the oil lobby's advertising campaigns.

He said GMG, which owns the Guardian and Observer newspapers and website, has set a target of a "couple of years" to sell its direct fossil fuel investments, such as company shares and bonds, and five years to divest "co-mingled" funds which contained some fossil fuel assets.

The Guardian supports the fossil fuel divestment movement, and its Keep it in the Ground campaign has called on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, world's two biggest health charities, to divest from coal.

Harvard University has also resisted pressure from faculty and students to divest – although Yale has said it will look into whether renewable energy offers a better bet in the long run.

The family plans to first divest from tar sands commitments.

The Guardian Media Group pledged to divest its own $1bn fund from all fossil fuels in April.

In April of 2013, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an exhilarating unanimous (but nonbinding) resolution asking the Employee Retirement Board to divest.

A foreign investor from the UK could be the second person forced to divest an Australian residential property following the Abbott government's crackdown on home ownership rules in May.