CTA educators urging CalSTRS to do what's financially & environmentally responsible: divest our pension from fossil fuels. #WeAreCTA #ClimateJustice
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CTA Divest is an org of #WeAreCTA Members that believes a CalSTRS fossil fuel divestment exit strategy is the most responsible financial and environmental decision for the stability of our pensions & the well-being of our students & communities. Join us! ctadivest.org
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The CIO of @CalPERS talks up just transition and climate solutions investments but neglects to mention that the USA's largest state public pension has huge investments in likes of Exxon and dozens of other fossil fuel companies to tune of 10s of billion $.
#PRIinPerson #divest
"Days before a key committee hearing this week, its Chair, @AsmTinaMcKinnor, presented the bill's author w a lengthy list of non-negotiable amendments. The demands...read like a wish list written by the bill’s opponents, including the oil industry"
We see you, @TinaMcKinnor1. 🤨
What do you when you have a setback in a climate campaign? You get the @latimes editorial board to come out swinging for communities and climate, naming names.
We know who delayed the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act in #California. We will return.
#SB252
latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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What do you when you have a setback in a climate campaign? You get the @latimes editorial board to come out swinging for communities and climate, naming names.
We know who delayed the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act in #California. We will return.
#SB252
latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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Almost 2,000 children die every day from air pollution, report finds | Air pollution. Tiny particles called PM2.5 can enter the bloodstream and have been found to affect organs throughout the body. @WHO @HEISoGA @UNICEF theguardian.com/environment/…
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Well, this sounds suboptimal
New study finds climate change likely to do $38 trillion in economic damage a year by 2050.
(Total current world gdp is $101 trillion)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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This should bolster arguments and give even more strength to efforts to divest big state pension funds like #NewYork, #California, #Vermont and #Oregon
Wdyt? @NYSComptroller @TreasurerRead @fionama @SenGonzalez_33 @CalPERS @MikePieciak
Breaking: €238bn Dutch pension fund @PFZWnieuws has sold all but seven of its 94 remaining oil and gas cos including @bp_plc, #Exxon @Shell & @TotalEnergies. The holdings were valued at €2.8bn.
All have weak or no transition plans.
#divest #oilandgas
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Very much in the spirit of @pontifex Francis, the San Diego Catholic diocese becomes the first in the country to divest from fossil fuels! @LaudatoSiMvmt @greenfaithworld @OperationNoah
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Breaking: As #COP28 winds up, another pension fund announces it will divest from fossil fuels - saying they have no long term future.
Congratulations to the $3 billion Wiltshire Pension Fund - Thank you for your leadership
@BrunelPP @peopleandplanet
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It doesn't matter your zip code, your tax bracket, or the color of your skin. Everyone needs air that's clean to breathe and water that's safe to drink. These are not luxuries reserved for the very rich.
Read @BarbaraLeeForCA's climate agenda here: barbaraleeforca.com/a-future…
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.@BarbaraLeeForCA is standing alongside her fellow Californians to reject #BigOil's shameful attempt to repeal SB 1137 and resume their deadly poisoning of families, schoolchildren, and nursing home residents.
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It is not a radical idea to suggest that clean drinking water and clean air should be the right of all Californians—regardless of their income or the color of their skin.
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Catastrophic wildfires. Devastating floods. Brutal droughts.
This is only the beginning of the horrors we will witness if the government continues to fail to act on the climate crisis.
President Biden must declare a climate emergency. Now.
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“It makes no sense that on one hand California is suing five major oil companies for climate-related damages to the state, while at the same time our state public pension funds are investing over $4 billion in these same companies. We should divest.”
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ALT Graphic. Imagery at top includes a page from the lawsuit, a cutout of the shape of California, and the logo for Fossil Free California. Text reads, “The state of California is suing ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP. But California’s public pensions currently have over $4.3 billion* invested in these same 5 companies. The time to go fossil free is now. Let’s pass Senate Bill 252. fossilfreeca.org/join #SB252. At bottom right is a yellow sticky note with handwriting font that reads, “*The state of California’s public pensions literally have $4,384,815,563 dollars invested in ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, & BP.”
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Breaking: @NewYorkUni, one of the biggest private universities in the USA, divests $5 billion endowment from fossil fuels.
Big win for those who fought so long for this climate finance action. Congrats especially to @SunriseMvmtNYU !
#divest #Climate
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So true! @WeAreCTA has an incredible opportunity to help limit the power of fossil fuel companies by supporting SB252 (Fossil Fuel Divestment Act). Pls encourage UTLAers to sign petition in support of SB252 here: fossilfreeca.org/sb-252-lett… Thx! @CtaDivest @FossilFreeCA
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Important message from @ClimateHuman calling for Biden to declare a climate emergency. Listen to science
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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"You know you’re in trouble when the @churchofengland beats you to the progressive punchline." The Church divests from Big Oil but pensions like @Calpers @Calstrs believe that staying invested and talking oil execs is more impactful.
It's not.
#sb252
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The Climate Clock is ticking and now tracking the growth of the movement and also how much big pensions like @CalPERS & @CalSTRS & @OregonTreasury @ColoradoPERA have lost by not divesting from fossil fuels a decade ago. [$21 billion!]
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ALT Photo Credit: @TheClimateClock
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Breaking: Climate Clocks Worldwide Now Tracking Progress on Fossil Fuel Divestment
1592 institutions with assets totalling more than $40.51 trillion and growing have committed to divest from fossil fuels.
@theclimateclock #ClimateClock #Divestment
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