Referring to investors who won't divest and continue to own fossil fuel stocks, Liebreich pointedly said that the market was "divesting through value destruction" -- in other words, cutting their holdings in traditional, polluting energy companies by slashing their value.
The Government has been accused of launching a "direct attack on local democracy" by preparing to slip through Parliament an unprecedented curb on councils divesting from trade and investments they regard as unethical.
In the last year it has raised £27.9 billion ($39.7 billion) by divesting itself of companies it inherited through its purchase of Mannesmann of Germany.
One way we can do this is through the ethical investing in sustainable energy and divesting from carbon-based energy companies.
Our main innovations are to cut through the BBC's pattern of anti-competitive behaviour by divesting production and all commercial businesses, and to align funding policy with digital switchover policy.
Today, on the anniversary of the agency's creation on April 30 , 1921 the Port Authority has begun divesting itself of the trade center's twin towers through a 99-year lease to a private real estate concern signed last week.
I could see it quite clearly, as I had seen it one day, while waiting in his kitchen for a sun shower to pass, rays of sun alighting on it, divesting it of its sheath of brown dust, the red ripples flowing through it, so that it seemed to liquefy, as if it were being newly blown.
Divesting is a daunting process.
What will you be divesting?
A Harvard spokesman, Kevin Galvin, added, "The university has traditionally maintained a strong presumption against divesting stock for reasons unrelated to investment purposes," preferring that the college make its "distinctive contributions to society" through its "research and educational activities".
