Resources

Press

• San Diego Tribune carries Story on UC Divestment Campaign, June 3rd, 2019

Shareable Materials

• Download a PDF of the poster to display HERE.

Divestment from Fossil Fuels: A Movement

• Divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry, 2018.
• 2015: The Year Divestment Hit the Mainstream. Inside Climate News, Dec. 31, 2015.
• The Rise and Rise of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement. The [UK] Guardian, May 19, 2015. 
• California passes bill forcing biggest pension funds to divest from coal. The [UK] Guardian, Sept. 2, 2015.
• The real impact of companies divesting from fossil fuels:It’s not about the money. Huffpost College, Sept. 10, 2015.

UC Divestment

• UC sells off $200 million in coal and oil sands investments. LA Times, Sept. 9, 2015. 
• UCSB Associated Student Sentate Passes Resolution to Divest from Fossil Fuels with Landslide Vote, February 14, 2013. 
• UCSB Academic Senate Resolution, May 2013. 
• Fossil Free UC Davis, Spring 2013. 
• Fossil Free UCLA Divestment Campaign.
• UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council Resolution, UCLA, May 7, 2013.
• UCSC’s Student Union Assembly Passes Divestment from Fossil Fuels Resolution, April 9, 2013.
• UCSC Academic Council Resolution brought to the floor on May 29, 2015, but failed, due to lack of quorum.
• [UCSD] Associated Student Council Votes to Pull Funds from Fossil Fuels, February 20, 2013. 

Carbon Bubble Materials

• Carbon Bubble. 
• G20: Fossil fuel fears could hammer global financial system. The [UK] Telegraph, April 29, 2015.
• CalPERS, CalSTRS took big losses on energy investments, report says. LA Times, Aug. 13, 2015. 
• Climate change will wipe $2.5 trillion off global financial assets: study. The Guardian, April 4, 2016
• Climate value at risk’ of global financial assets, Nature Climate Change, April 4, 2016.

The Urgency for Climate Action

• James Hansen on the possible dire consequences of 2 degrees C global temperature rise.
• WHO calls for urgent action to protect health from climate change.
• Cities and Climate Change: An Urgent Agenda.
• The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here.
• Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes.
• Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago. Scientific American, Oct. 26, 2015.
• What Exxon Knew About Climate Change. The New Yorker, Sept. 18, 2015. 

Religious Call for Action

• Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home.
• Jewish Climate Change Campaign.
• Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change. 
• Climate Change, An Evangelical Call to Action. 

Divestment Movement Successes

• Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Harnesses the Power of Shame. New York Times, June 13, 2015. 
• UC system divests $30 million in prison holdings amid student pressure. LA Times, Dec. 26, 2015.
• Whether it’s apartheid or fossil fuels, divestment is on the right side of history. The [UK] Guardian, April 27, 2015.
• Outside Opinion: Skeptics were wrong; South Africa divestment worked. Chicago Tribune, Dec. 15, 2013.

Miscellaneous

• Massive oil industry lobbying in California.
• Miscellaneous useful resources at Go Fossil Free.
• The Quest for Carbon Capture and Storage. Corporate Knights, Jan. 6, 2016.
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