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Why Are You Paying To Subsidize The Fossil Fuel Industry?

October 8, 2024 admin 350.org, carbon emissions, climate change, fossil fuel subsidies, Fossil Fuels, investment, policy & politics, Sierra Club

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:14:18 +0000

How much are you willing to subsidize the government and prop up the fossil fuel industry? Governments across the world now spend a total of $2.6 trillion per year on subsidies that harm the environment, jeopardizing global climate and biodiversity targets. The public should not be paying at the pump … [continued]

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Keep It In The Ground Grassroots Campaign Is A Success Story

September 1, 2022 admin 350.org, activism, divestment, Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:00:17 +0000

Taking a look back: 350.org’s grassroots campaign “keep it in the ground” is a success story – and not yet finished. By taking a step back, sometimes solutions for complex problems seem to be surprisingly easy. If you don’t want carbon in the air, leave the raw materials that produce it in the ground. That‘s […]

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25 Climate Activists Occupy Chase Bank & Launch A Major New Campaign Targeting The Financial Industry

January 14, 2020 admin 350 seattle, 350.org, center for international environmental law, chase bank, clean power, climate change, Coal, divest ed, divest invest, earth rights international, Fossil Fuels, future coalition, giniw collective, green economy, greenpeace usa, investment, jp morgan chase, majority action, native movement, natural gas, Oil, oil change international, press releases, rainforest action network, Sierra Club, stop the money pipeline, sunrise project, the years project, transition us, union of concerned scientists

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:27:03 +0000

The “Stop the Money Pipeline” Mobilization aims to end the financing of fossil fuels and deforestation.

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2019 Divestment Year In Review

January 2, 2020 admin 350.org, amundi, Bill McKibben, blackrock, climate change, divestment, european investment bank, fossil free, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:40:54 +0000

$11 trillion in divestments! That’s the grand total movement away from fossil fuels as of end-of-year

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Police Tracking Of Climate Protesters? It’s Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine.

October 4, 2019 admin 350.org, Bill McKibben, civil rights, climate protest, coos county sheriffs office, Fossil Fuels, oregon titan fusion center, policy & politics, southwestern oregon joint task force

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:30:13 +0000

The push to criminalize climate protesters is in full view in southern Oregon where federal officials maintain surveillance of anyone who opposes a new LNG facility. Is this why we pay taxes?

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September 20 Global Climate Strike Will Be Largest Ever

September 19, 2019 admin 350.org, activism, Bill McKibben, climate change, climate protests, greta thunberg, james hansen, mark z. jacobson, michael e. mann, SCIENCE, september 20

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 04:30:14 +0000

September 20 will see millions of people around the world assemble to demand urgent and serious action on climate change. Will you be part of it?

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350.org On Challenging Facebook’s Fossil Fuel Advertising Profits

August 24, 2019 admin 350.org, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, INTERVIEWS, Media

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:40:41 +0000

As has been outlined on countless occasions, large tech conglomerates play a critical role in our day-to-day lives. Platforms like Facebook, for instance, help connect over 2.38 billion monthly active users. Thus, their social responsibility in everything from politics, news and even climate change is indisputable. Despite Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing his support for the Paris Climate Agreement, Facebook continues to take money from many fossil fuel companies via advertising

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Who Is Behind 350.org’s #FossilFreeFacebook Campaign?

August 23, 2019 admin 350.org, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, Media

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:40:41 +0000