Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Spreads to Europe

Jamie Henn, Huff Post - Green, October 17,2013

The fast growing fossil fuel divestment campaign is headed to Europe.

This Oct. 27 to Nov. 1, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben and allies like Greenpeace International's executive director Kumi Naidoo will lead a speaking tour to five cities in Europe to help spark a continent-wide divestment effort.

The tour is modeled on 2012's successful "Do The Math" tour which sold out venues in 21 cities across the United States and jumpstarted the fossil fuel divestment movement that has now spread to over 300 colleges and universities, 100 cities and states, and dozens of religious institutions across America.

Last June, 350.org replicated the tour in Australia and New Zealand (where they called it "Do the Maths"), helping launch a divestment campaign down-under. The tour there was equally successful, garnering national media attention and quickly scoring a few early victories, with a number of large churches committing to divestment and the New Zealand Greens adopting the goal.

Since the first Do The Math tour over a year ago, the case for divestment has only grown stronger as the movement grows. The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reiterated the math which the tour helped to bring to light: that the fossil fuel industry has five times more carbon in its reserves than we can safely burn and still keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. That bombshell was first elucidated by the Carbon Tracker Institute in the UK and has subsequently been backed up by reports from the World Bank, HSBC, International Energy Agency, and more....

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