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The Guardian's Keep it in the Ground campaign has called on the Gates foundation to divest its $40bn endowment from fossil fuels.
Volunteers have been persistently campaigning outside the foundation's visitor centre in Seattle for a month since the city's former mayor started a campaign asking the foundation to divest.
More than 72,000 people have signed the petition calling for the foundations to divest.
In March, the Guardian launched a campaign calling on the world's two largest charitable foundations to divest from fossil fuels.
The scientific community could be the most powerful voice of all in persuading the foundations that divesting from fossil fuels is the moral and rational decision.
"We are thrilled that the Gates foundation continues to divest from fossil fuel stocks, but it's time to divest the rest.
"If the Gates foundation committed to divest, it would not only send a powerful signal to the rest of the world, but also free up money that is needed to invest in research and development of future energy solutions".
He could start by addressing his own foundation's investments: Bloomberg Philanthropies has divested its portfolios from coal but not from oil or gas.
Tutu, a Nobel peace prize-winner, joined with other Nobel laureates this week to demand that the $350m Nobel foundation fund divest from fossil fuels.
This is lost if an institution divests.
The movement is growing rapidly, with more than 200 organisations already having divested, including cities, universities, charitable foundations and the Guardian Media Group, after the Guardian's Keep it in the Ground campaign asked the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust medical charities to divest from fossil fuels.
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