2018 Divestment Paris Agreement 
Chris Hall
JANUARY 3, 2024
Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.
Chris Hall
AUGUST 8, 2024
Divest or wind down? Rio Tinto , meanwhile, sold its last coal mines – both thermal and metallurgical – in 2018, and now produces no fossil fuels. The company said it would continue the “responsible decline of its thermal coal operations over time”. BHP sold its oil and gas business to Woodside in 2022 in an all-share deal.
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Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. Our future can be coal-free.
Richard Matthews
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. The divestment solution. Divestment is an increasingly popular approach to combating the fossil fuel industry’s influence. The case for divestment is persuasive.
Richard Matthews
JANUARY 4, 2022
The final agreement requests parties to come to COP27 next year in Egypt with updated plans on how to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. trillion in assets, have committed to divest. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the U.S.,
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