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Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political, and economic pressure for the institutional divestment of assets including stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments connected to companies involved in extracting fossil fuels.
The use of fossil fuels in the 18th and 19th century set the stage for the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuels make up the bulk of the world's current primary energy sources. In 2005, 81% of the world's energy needs was met from fossil sources. [3] The technology and infrastructure for the use of fossil fuels already exist.
As of 2019, 37% of global electricity is produced from low-carbon sources (renewables and nuclear energy). Fossil fuels, primarily coal, produce the rest of the electricity supply. [160] One of the easiest and fastest ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to phase out coal-fired power plants and increase renewable electricity generation. [136]
Clean Energy Fuels (NAS: CLNE) carries $173.4 million of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it's excessive, can foreshadow problems down the road.
Uncertain Fossil Fuels Prices. President-elect Trump is a staunch advocate for the fossil fuels industry and has advocated for boosting the production of fossil fuels, such as oil, natural gas and ...
Still, Wright pointed out that, in the six decades since he was born, hydrocarbons — the category of fossil fuels that includes both oil and gas but not solid coal — have retained their ...
Deaths caused by use of fossil fuels such as oil (areas of rectangles in chart) greatly exceed those resulting from production of renewable energy (rectangles barely visible in chart). [45] Some harmful impacts of petroleum can be limited to the geographic locations where it is produced, consumed, and/or disposed.
In 2019, 19% of responsible investment AUM has been screened for fossil fuels, growing 14 percentage points from the year before. For consumers using RIAA's Responsible Returns search and compare tool for ethical investments, the most important exclusionary screens are fossil fuels, human rights abuses and armaments.