Featherby said the EIAG would usually only recommend divestment where it saw "no genuine desire for change".
A subcommittee of the ACSR, after hearing from representatives of the group urging divestment from companies doing business with Sudan and otherwise inquiring into the circumstances, prepared a report recommending divestment from PetroChina.
Given the delicate status of our university's budget, which is balanced, but by a very fine margin, I am unwilling to recommend divestment from fossil fuel companies to our chief investment officer or to the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees.
Mason does not expect it to recommend full divestment from fossil fuel companies.
Companies that the student group is recommending for divestment include the Corrections Corp. of America, G4S, and the GEO Group.
The NSF report issued in 2012, recommending the divestment of the GBT argued that many of telescope's capabilities were duplicated by the stationary Arecibo Telescope and that NSF funding could be better used elsewhere.
The head of Shell's long-term planning team, Jeremy Bentham, recently described to Fortune an internal memo he wrote recommending the divestment.
Falk and Tilley recommended participation in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), a nonviolent worldwide movement challenging the Israeli occupation.
Divest for our Future, 350.org's divestment website, recommends "environmentally and socially responsible funds".
In a statement, Tata Steel confirmed its board had recommended exploring "all options for portfolio restructuring including the potential divestment of Tata Steel UK, in whole or in part".
So says the editor of Ethical Consumer, which describes itself as the UK's leading alternative consumer magazine, and which has this month published a personal finance guide to carbon divestment that recommends a number of best-buy products in banking, savings, mortgages and investment.
