Sentence examples for commitments to divest from inspiring English sources
The actual divestments and commitments to divest fossil fuel stocks by various institutions ranging from the city of Seattle to the British Medical Association are striking.
In total, more than 220 institutions – from pension funds to faith organisations to foundations – have now made similar commitments to divest as part of a global campaign started by 350.org.
Since the campaign started, other key institutions have made a commitment to divest from fossil fuels.
Other universities who have made a commitment to divest include Glasgow, Bedfordshire and the New School in New York.
With the global campaign to move money out of fossil fuels gaining momentum, the Church of England's commitment to divest for the first time from the most polluting forms of energy is being seen as a significant step.
Henri de Castries, CEO of AXA, announced his company's commitment to divest from the remaining €500 million of coal investments between now and the end of the year -- an enormous step.
Globally, the organisers of the campaign claim that around 200 institutions with a combined asset size of over $50bn have committed to divest, although the small print of commitments leaves wriggle-room in some cases.
Trump has not committed to divesting his fortune.
350.org founder Bill McKibben seems pretty happy: Following a 10-day occupation protest, students at Edinburgh university are celebrating a fresh commitment by the university to divest from three of the world's biggest fossil fuel producers within six months.
ViVOtech has not ceased operations but is in the process of restructuring operations and has reduced its team to a smaller group with the goals of maintaining customer relationship and core contract work, and to address our supplier relationships and commitments, as the company completes plans to divest the reader business and focus on the Software Business.
Formalists, in general, wish to divest themselves of any commitment to these domains which do, indeed, seem hard to fit into a thoroughly naturalistic conception of reality.
