If I wasn't leaving uni now, I would get behind the Divest-Invest campaign, which is really exciting and has a lot of potential to help divestment campaigns move forward".
What is the main purpose of the coalexit database -- as a research tool or to help investors divest?
The 25,000 items offered for sale make it the largest such event in the Western United States and one of hundreds that have sprung up nationwide in the last five years to help parents divest themselves of the expensive doodads and knickknacks that seem to be absolutely indispensable to raising a child in the 21st century.
Next door is the crystal igloo, also kept at 140 degrees, and composed of Burmese jade and Himalayan crystal, supposedly to help the body divest itself of bad energy and toxins.
Yet signs of a change are afoot in the shape of a new breed of financial adviser called a "planned giving adviser" (PGA), whose job is to help the mega-wealthy divest themselves of some of their fortune charitably.
Instead, it should be taking an inventory of revenue-producing public assets — including on-street and off-street parking systems, water systems, toll bridges, solid waste disposal plants, utilities and airports — to lease or divest with help from private partners willing to invest capital in improving them.
The challenge is to ensure poverty is ended by the large-scale deployment of clean technology, and shifting money out of fossil fuels by divesting could help that.
Designed to help climate-conscious financial players divest from the worst 120, the database identifies coal plants in 'frontier' countries.
Understanding those contexts can help you determine how and even whether to divest.
Pescanova filed for bankruptcy protection on March 1 after failing in an effort to divest some assets to help meet its debt refinancing obligations, which this year amount to about 200 million euros, or $260 million.
