A guest blog from Transition Network Trustee Tony Greenham, published at the RSA blog: With the benefit of hindsight, would you have wanted your pension being invested in cassette tapes, floppy discs, fax machines, Kodak or Blockbuster in 2000? Well what do you think your future self will make of your current investment in fossil fuels? Against the backdrop of the 22nd UN Climate Change summit in Marrakech (COP22), and yesterday’s news that 2016 will once again be the hottest year on record, it is worth reflecting on four reasons for all of us to take action on reducing investment in carbon intensive energy. (more…)
Invest in the Future, not the Past: 4 Reasons to Divest from Fossil Fuels
By Tony Greenham, originally published by Transition Culture
November 28, 2016
Tags: divestment from fossil fuels, ethical investments, Renewable Energy
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